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Message: <blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1350460" data-attributes="member: 33372">A LONG List Of President Obama’s Accomplishments (With Citations)What follows is a PARTIAL list of Obama’s accomplishments so far. Unlike many such lists, there is a link to a citation supporting every single one.Legislative Prowess.Despite the characterizations of some, Obama’s success rate in winning congressional votes on issues was an unprecedented 96.7% for his first year in office.  Though he is often cited as superior to Obama, President Lyndon Johnson’s success rate in 1965 was only 93%.Fiscal Responsibility.Within days after taking office, Obama signed an Executive Order ordering an audit of government contracts, and combating waste and abuse.Created the post of Chief Performance Officer, whose job it is to make operations more efficient to save the federal government money.On his first full day, he froze White House salaries.He appointed the first Federal Chief Information Officer to oversee federal IT spending.He committed to phasing out unnecessary and outdated weapons systems, and also signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Actto stop waste, fraud and abuse in the defense procurement and contracting system.Through an executive order, he created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.Improving the Economy, Preventing Depression.Obama pushed through and signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as “the stimulus package,” despite the fact that not one Republican voted for that bill. In addition, he launched recovery.gov, so that taxpayers could track spending from the Act.In his first year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created and sustained 2.1 million jobs and stimulated the economy 3.5%.Obama completed the massive TARP financial and banking rescue plan, and recovered virtually all of its costs.He created the Making Home Affordable home refinancing plan.Obama oversaw the creation of more jobs in 2010 alone than Bush did in eight years.He oversaw a bailout of General Motors that saved at least 1.4 million jobs, and put pressure on the company to change its practices, resulting in GM returning to its place as the top car company in the world.Obama also doubled funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership which is designed to improve manufacturing efficiency.He signed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act giving  the federal government more tools to investigate and prosecute fraud in every corner of the financial system. It also created a bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to investigate the financial fraud that led to the economic meltdown.Obama signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act, which was designed to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive credit card practices.He increased infrastructure spending after years of neglect.Obama signed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, expanding on the Making Home Affordable Program to help millions of Americans avoid preventable foreclosures. The bill also provided $2.2 billion to help combat homelessness, and to stabilize the housing market.Through the Worker, Home Ownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, Obama and Congressional Democrats provided tax credits to first-time home buyers, which helped the U.S. housing market recovery.He initiated a $15 billion plan designed to encourage increased lending to small businesses.Obama created business.gov, which allows for online collaboration between small businesses and experts re managing a business. (The program has since merged with SBA.gov.)He played a lead role in getting the G-20 Summit to commit to a $1.1 trillion deal to combat the global financial crisis.Obama took steps to improve minority access to capital.He created a $60 billion bank to fund infrastructure improvements such as roads and bridges.He implemented an auto industry rescue plan, and saved as many as 1 million jobs.  Many are of the opinion that he saved the entire auto industry, and even the economy of the entire Midwest.Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Obama saved at least 300,000 education jobs, such as teachers, principals, librarians, and counselors that would have otherwise been lost.Obama dismantled the Minerals Management Service, thereby moving forward to cut ties between energy companies and the government.He provided funding to states and the Department of Homeland Security to save thousands of police and firefighter jobs from being cut during the recession.He used recovered TARP money to fund programs at local housing finance agencies in California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan.Obama crafted an Executive order establishing the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability to assist in financial education for all Americans.Wall Street Reforms and Consumer Protection.Obama ordered 65 executives who took bailout money to cut their own pay until they paid back all bailout money.He pushed through and got passed Dodd-Frank, one of the largest and most comprehensive Wall Street reforms since the Great Depression.Dodd-Frank also included the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection BureauObama made it so that banks could no longer use YOUR money to invest in high-risk financial instruments that work against their own customers’ interests.He supported the concept of allowing stockholders to vote on executive compensation.Obama wholly endorsed and supported the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009 that would close offshore tax avoidance loopholes.He made a deal with Swiss banks that permits the US government to gain access to the records of criminals and  tax evaders.He established a Consumer Protection Financial Bureau designed to protect consumers from financial sector excesses.Obama oversaw and then signed the most sweeping food safety legislation since the Great Depression.</blockquote>

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