Things Obama Has done Since He Entered office?
Won approval of the second $350 billion in TARP funds *before* taking office.
• VP Biden already
made his first foreign trip *before* taking office.
• Ordered the closing of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, with
16 retired generals and admirals standing behind him in support.
• Ordered a pay freeze of his top staff.
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Ordered stricter controls on lobbyists in government.
• Ordered compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
• Confined interrogation techniques to those in the Army Field Manual
• Ordered a review of auto emissions
standards.
• Met with GOP leaders of both Houses of Congress to improve the stimulus package.
• Did an
interview with Al Arabiya TV, improving our reputation in the Arab/Muslim world.
• Talked to every leader in the
Middle East.
• Named George Mitchell special envoy to the Middle East. Mitchell is already on the scene.
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Got most of his cabinet confirmed.
• Made family planning advice more available to women in Africa.
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Met with top business leaders, who endorsed his stimulus plan.
• Geithner put limits on lobbying from bank who receive
TARP money (something Paulson could have easily done.)
• Signed equal pay legislation
• Condemned Wall
Street bonuses
• Ordered federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change, and made it
more difficult for federal contractors to discourage union activities.
• Released federal aid to fix power outages
in Kentucky.
• Provided healthcare to 4 million poor children.
• Created a Middle Class Task Force, led
by Joe Biden (www.whitehouse.gov/strongmiddleclass/)
