- Extended child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes
- Created an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
- Required economic justification for tax changes
- Implemented “Women Owned Business” contracting program
- Changed standards for determining broadband access
- Established a credit card bill of rights
- Expanded loan programs for small businesses
- Extended the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes
- Extended the 2007 Alternative MinimumTax patch
- Closed the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan
- Expanded the Senior Corps volunteer program
- Required insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
- Gave tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums
- Required large employers to contribute to a national health plan
- Required children to have health insurance coverage
- Expanded eligibility for Medicaid
- Expanded eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
- Required health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care
- Established an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information
- In non-competitive markets, forced insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
- Eliminated the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
- Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
- Increased funding to expand community based prevention programs
- Reinstated executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
- Increased the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals
- Expanded the Veterans Administration’s number of “centers of excellence” in specialty care
- Appointed a special adviser to the president on violence against women
- Fully funded the Violence Against Women Act
- Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq
- Began removing combat brigades from Iraq
- Created a military families advisory board
- Ended the abuse of supplemental budgets for war
- Made U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
- Opened “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe
- Allocated Homeland Security funding according to risk
- Created a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
- Increased funding for local emergency planning
- Extended monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty
- Appointed a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
- Initiated a grant and training program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime
- Improved relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
- Launched an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
- Created a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
- Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
- Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
- Established an Energy Partnership for the Americas
- Expanded the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
- Required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
- Provided affordable, high-quality child care
- Recruited math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
- Reduced subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers
- Encouraged water-conservation efforts in the West
- Increased funding for national parks and forests
- Increased funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
- Encouraged farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient
- Expanded Pell grants for low-income students
- Pursued a wildfire management plan
- Removed more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires
- Expanded access to places to hunt and fish
- Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
- Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
- Restored funding to the EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
- Reformed mandatory minimum sentences
- Created a White House Office on Urban Policy
- Fully funded the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
- Established program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders
- Established ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty
- Worked toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system
- Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps
- Created a Social Investment Fund Network
- Bolstered the military’s ability to speak differentlanguages