Conservatives are always going on and on about how President Obama has done nothing, which could not be further from the truth.
This list has all been fact-checked and, in fact, is an abbreviated version of the list of promises that President Obama has kept fromĀ http://www.politifact.com/.
- Add another Space Shuttle flight
- Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
- Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women
- Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
- Appoint an American Indian policy adviser
- Appoint an assistant to the president for science and technology policy
- Appoint at least one Republican to the cabinet
- Appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer
- Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity
- Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as ‘must-pass’ legislation
- Attract more students to science and math
- Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees
- Bolster the military’s ability to speak different languages
- Centralize ethics and lobbying information for voters
- Champion the importance of arts education
- Change standards for determining broadband access
- Close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan
- Conduct robust research and development on future space missions
- Consider “smart growth” in transportation funding
- Create a best practices list for private businesses in accommodating workers with disabilities
- Create a community college partnership program
- Create a consumer-friendly credit card rating system
- Create a ‘Green Vet Initiative’ to promote environmental jobs for veterans
- Create a Homeowner Obligation Made Explicit (HOME) score for mortgage comparisons
- Create a military families advisory board
- Create a national declassification center
- Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
- Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
- Create a Social Investment Fund Network
- Create a White House Office on Urban Policy
- Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
- Create an artist corps for schools
- Create an international tax haven watch list
- Create job training programs for clean technologies
- Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
- Create new financial regulations
- Create White House performance team and chief performance officer
- Create youth service corps
- Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
- Double federal spending for research on clean fuels
- Eliminate the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
- Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
- Encourage farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient
- Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West
- End the “Stop-loss” program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments
- End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war
- End the use of torture
- Enhance earth mapping
- Equalize tax breaks for driving and public transit
- Establish a credit card bill of rights
- Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas
- Establish an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information
- Establish program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders
- Establish ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty
- Establish school programs to highlight space and science achievements
- Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area
- Expand access to places to hunt and fish
- Expand eligibility for Medicaid
- Expand eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
- Expand federal bioforensics program for tracking biological weapons
- Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
- Expand housing vouchers program for homeless veterans
- Expand loan programs for small businesses
- Expand Pell grants for low-income students
- Expand public/private partnerships between schools and arts organizations
- Expand teacher mentoring programs and provide incentives for more planning time
- Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
- Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program
- Expand the Veterans Administration’s number of “centers of excellence” in specialty care
- Expand Veterans Centers in rural areas
- Explore whether International Space Station can operate after 2016
- Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
- Extend child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes
- Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty
- Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
- Fully fund federal contribution to the preservation of the Everglades
- Fully fund the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
- Fully fund the Veterans Administration
- Fully fund the Violence Against Women Act
- Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps
- Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration
- Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums
- Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
- Help states and localities address sprawl
- If you don’t have insurance, or don’t like the insurance you have, you’ll be able to choose a new plan on a health insurance exchange
- Implement “Women Owned Business” contracting program
- Implement and fund proven health intervention programs
- Improve climate change data records
- Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
- Improve water quality
- In non-competitive markets, force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
- Increase efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
- Increase funding for land-grant colleges
- Increase funding for local emergency planning
- Increase funding for national parks and forests
- Increase funding for programs that conserve lands and habitat for select species such as the Osceola turkey
- Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
- Increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
- Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs
- Increase minority access to capital
- Increase non-military aid to Afghanistan by $1 billion
- Increase special operations forces and civil affairs
- Increase spending to prepare for longer space missions
- Increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps
- Increase the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals
- Initiate a grant and training program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime
- Invest in all types of alternative energy
- Invest in public transportation
- Launch a supportive services-housing program for veterans to prevent homelessness
- Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
- Launch educational initiative for employers on tax benefits of hiring employees with disabilities
- Make greater investment in advanced military air technology
- Make military deployments predictable for troops and families
- Make National Guard leader a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
- More controlled burns to reduce wildfires
- No permanent bases in Iraq
- Open “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe
- Open new consulates “in the tough and hopeless corners of the world”
- Organize successful Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010
- Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station
- Promote cultural diplomacy
- Promote innovative ways to reward good teachers
- Promote more pre-school education
- Protect American intellectual property abroad
- Provide $30 billion over 10 years to Israel
- Provide affordable, high-quality child care
- Provide grants to early-career researchers
- Provide grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes
- Pursue a wildfire management plan
- Push for a college football playoff system
- Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
- Raise fuel economy standards
- Raise the small business investment expense limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009
- Rebuild schools in New Orleans
- Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
- Reduce subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers
- Reform mandatory minimum sentences
- Reform No Child Left Behind
- Reform the patent system
- Reinstate executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
- Release oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- Release presidential records
- Remove more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires
- Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
- Reproductive health care will be “at the heart” of health care reform.
- Require 10 percent renewable energy by 2012
- Require Cabinet officials to host Internet town hall meetings
- Require children to have health insurance coverage
- Require economic justification for tax changes
- Require health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care
- Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
- Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan
- Require more energy-efficient appliances
- Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
- Require states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption
- Restore funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
- Restore funding to the EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
- Reverse restrictions on stem cell research
- Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles
- Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
- Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
- Share environmental technology with other countries
- Sign a “universal” health care bill
- Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty
- Stop the development of new nuclear weapons
- Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries
- Strengthen antitrust enforcement
- Strengthen the levees in New Orleans
- Support airline service in small towns
- Support commercial access to space
- Support funding and reform for Amtrak
- Support high-speed rail
- Support increased funding for the NEA
- Support network neutrality on the Internet
- Support regional innovation clusters
- Use the International Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research
- Use the private sector to improve spaceflight
- Vigorously pursue hate crimes and civil rights abuses
- We will kill bin Laden
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