Program Success Barack Obama Special Edition - Page 16

On the first anniversary of the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, President Barack Obama greets
Gerard Contee during a mentee lunch in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Feb.
27, 2015.

OBAMA’STOP 50

A CCO MPLIS H M EN T S
1.

Passed Health Care Reform:

2.

Passed the Stimulus:

3.

Passed Wall Street Reform:

4.

Ended the War in Iraq:

5.

Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan:

6.

Eliminated Osama bin laden:

7.

Turned around U.S. Auto Industry:

8.

Recapitalized Banks:

After five presidents over a century failed to create
universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care
Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans
beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental
measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one
cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems.

Signed $787 billion American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid
greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks
after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began
to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began
producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued
to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of
nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.

Harvard student Saheela Ibraheem looks back at President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle
Obama in the Green Room as she prepares to enter the East Room of the White House to introduce them at a reception celebrating Black History Month, Feb. 26, 2015.

Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial
sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The
new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and
other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on
clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks
provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their
ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit,
and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive
lending products and companies.

Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last
troops left on December 18, 2011.

From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011, U.S.
forces are now down to 91,000, with 23,000 slated to leave
by the end of summer 2012. According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the combat mission there will be over
by next year.

President Barack Obama works with Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic
Communications, and Terry Szuplat, Senior Director for Speechwriting, on remarks prior to the
White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, in the Oval Office, Feb. 18, 2015.

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