Poor Count Chocula needs his blood sugar checked! Saved the US auto industry; Overhauled the food safety system; Approved the Lily Ledbetter "Equal Pay" for women rule; Ended "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" discrimination in the military; Passed the Hate Crimes bill in Congress; Appointed two progressive women to the U.S. Supreme Court including the first Latina; Pushed through the Affordable Health Care Act, outlawing denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions, extending until age 26 health care coverage of children under parent's plans, steps toward "Medicare for All;" Expanded the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) health care for children; Pushed through a $789 economic stimulus bill that saved or created 3 million jobs and began task of repairing the nation's infrastructure; Overhauled the credit card industry, making it more consumer friendly; Established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and used a recess appointment to keep it on track in the face of GOP attempts to derail it; Also outmaneuvered GOP in naming two members of the National Labor Relations Board blocked by the Republicans in their attempt to shut down the NLRB; Won two extensions of the debt ceiling and extensions of unemployment compensation in the face of Republican threats to shut down the U.S. government; Pulled troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Poor Count Chocula needs his blood sugar checked!
ReplyDeleteSaved the US auto industry;
Overhauled the food safety system;
Approved the Lily Ledbetter "Equal Pay" for women rule;
Ended "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" discrimination in the military;
Passed the Hate Crimes bill in Congress;
Appointed two progressive women to the U.S. Supreme Court including the first Latina;
Pushed through the Affordable Health Care Act, outlawing denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions, extending until age 26 health care coverage of children under parent's plans, steps toward "Medicare for All;"
Expanded the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) health care for children;
Pushed through a $789 economic stimulus bill that saved or created 3 million jobs and began task of repairing the nation's infrastructure;
Overhauled the credit card industry, making it more consumer friendly;
Established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and used a recess appointment to keep it on track in the face of GOP attempts to derail it;
Also outmaneuvered GOP in naming two members of the National Labor Relations Board blocked by the Republicans in their attempt to shut down the NLRB;
Won two extensions of the debt ceiling and extensions of unemployment compensation in the face of Republican threats to shut down the U.S. government;
Pulled troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.