Asked By: Garsh - 3/10/2012

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Best-most seen by public eyes:
He employed over 700k Americans or something like that
He was the current president when Osama was killed by a seals squad
He sent troops to get Kony in Africa
He allowed the passing of gay marriage in multiple states
He dismissed the laws blocking the internet as we know it

Good:
1.Appointed nation's first Chief Technology officer
2.Signed financial reform law establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the interests of everyday Americans
3.Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants' credit history, income, and employment status
4.Signed financial reform law prohibiting banks from engaging in proprietary trading (trading the bank's own money to turn a profit, often in conflict with their customers' interests)
5.Signed financial reform law allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay
6.Cut prescription drug cost for medicare recipients by 50?
7.Provided $12.2 Billion in new funding for Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
8.Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees
9.Appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in US history (duh treats them like they are HUMAN)
10.The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: a $789 billion economic stimulus plan
11.Created more private sector jobs in 2010 than during entire Bush years
12.Voluntary disclosure of White House visitors for the first time in US history
13.Appointed first Latina to the US Supreme Court
14.Promoted social responsibility through creation of serve.gov, a national database of volunteer opportunities
15.Signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, giving the FDA the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of tobacco for the first time .
16.Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia
17.Increased average fuel economy standards from 27.5mpg to 35.5mpg, starting in 2016
18.Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers
19.Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB
20.Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base
21.Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse
22.Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans
23.Signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids -- 4 million of whom were previously uninsured
24.Issued executive order to repeal Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
25.Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis
26.Developed stimulus package, which includes approx. $18 billion for nondefense scientific research and development
27.Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system
28.Issued executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay
29.Ended Bush administration's CIA program of 'enhanced interrogation methods' by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations
30.Increased minority access to capital
31.Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers
32.Health Care Reform Bill, preventing insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition
33.Health Care Reform Bill, allowing children to remain covered by their parents' insurance until the age of 26
34.Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage
35.Tax credits for up to 29 million individuals to help pay for health insurance

Answered By: Chaython Meredith - 3/10/2012