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Economy |
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Increased defense R&D spending |
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Accelerated the cleanup of brownfields |
3 |
Prescription drug benefits in Medicare |
4 |
Ordered renovation of military housing |
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Signed Medicare Reform |
6 |
Allowed disabled people to use up to a year’s worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes |
7 |
9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding |
8 |
Increased budget deficit to Eisenhower levels (% of GDP) |
9 |
New Health Savings Accounts |
10 |
Increased the limit of Education IRA from $500 to $2,000 |
11 |
Didn’t fix economy hurt by housing crisis |
12 |
Allowed mortgage crisis |
13 |
Initiated 3 separate raises for US military personnel |
14 |
Increased the Defense Department’s base budget more than 70 percent since 2001 |
15 |
Pushed through 2 separate income tax custs |
16 |
Reduced the number of homeless veterans by 40% |
17 |
Fixed economy inherited in 2000 and hurt in 2001 attacks |
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International
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18 |
Killed the old US/USSR ABM Treaty |
19 |
Paid off US debt to UN |
20 |
Signed the largest nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia |
21 |
10 ABM silos in Alaska |
22 |
Prematurely declares “Mission Accomplished” regarding Iraq |
23 |
Doubled foreign assistance |
24 |
Forced Syra to leave Lebanon |
25 |
Condemned the Russian attack on Georgia |
26 |
Allows Secretary of State to go to UN with false evidence regarding Iraq |
27 |
Won support for three U.N. Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran |
28 |
Increased the number of free trade agreements from 3 to 14 |
29 |
Designated Iraq, Iran and North Korea as “Axis of Evil” |
30 |
Implemented President’s Malaria Initiative in Africa |
31 |
Increased money for medicine for AIDS suffering in Africa |
32 |
Setup the Afghanistan government |
33 |
Halved the nuclear weapon stockpile |
34 |
Secured a commitment from N. Korea to end its nuclear weapon program |
35 |
Watched as Israel attacked Lebanon |
36 |
Iraq invasion |
37 |
Massively increased aid to Africa |
38 |
Got Libya to give up nukes |
39 |
Tried to get Europe to deal with Iran |
40 |
Watched as Israel attacked Gaza |
41 |
Set up new government in Iraq |
42 |
Forced N. Korea to work with multi-national panel |
43 |
Dealt with China and the US spy plane |
44 |
Remove Saddam Hussein |
45 |
Afghanistan occupation |
46 |
Afghanistan invasion |
47 |
Gave Pakistan billions of dollars |
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Policy
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48 |
Watched passively as Katrina hit New Orleans |
49 |
Denied knowing Ken Lay from Enron |
50 |
Created Project Safe Neighborhood |
51 |
Lifted the Executive Ban on drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf |
52 |
Kept reading children’s books on 9/11 |
53 |
Was elected in 2000 |
54 |
Made changes to allow necessary clean up of national forests to reduce fire damage |
55 |
Reduced H1B visas from 195K per year to 66K per year |
56 |
Substantially Increased Funding for the Great Lakes |
57 |
Federal Energy and Carbon Sequestration Programs |
58 |
Mandated a Cut in Mercury Emissions |
59 |
Nuclear Power 2010 program |
60 |
Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes |
61 |
Established Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument |
62 |
Put polar bear on endangered species list |
63 |
Eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops |
64 |
Tried to privatize Social Security |
65 |
Reduced drug use among teens by 25% |
66 |
Killed Kyoto Global Warming Treaty |
67 |
issued an executive order that limits access to Presidential papers |
68 |
Ethanol production has quadrupled from 1.6 billion gallons in 2000 to an estimated 6.5 billion gallons in 2007 |
69 |
Created the Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors |
70 |
National Space Policy |
71 |
Was re-elected in 2004 |
72 |
Created USA Freedom Corps |
73 |
Appointed Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito |
74 |
Appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts |
75 |
Stopped funding of new stem cells for research purposes |
76 |
Reversed the requirement of parental consent for abortions |
77 |
Issued an executive order regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual’s wishes |
78 |
Challenged UN to not be the League of Nations |
79 |
Stopped US involvement in International Criminal Court |
80 |
Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court’s Olmstead ruling |
81 |
Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative |
82 |
Started the USA Freedom Corps |
83 |
Supported the Law of the Sea treaty |
84 |
Strengthen the National Health Service Corps |
85 |
Ordered a 5 year plan to restructure each agency |
86 |
Reorganized the intelligence agencies into the Department of Homeland Security |
87 |
Put hundreds of thousands of government jobs up for bid |
88 |
Banned partial birth abortions |
89 |
Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health |
90 |
Enacted the Do Not Call list |
91 |
No child left behind |
92 |
Signed Teacher Protection Act |
93 |
Interstate Air Quality Rule |
94 |
Clear Skies Initiative to reduce air pollution |
95 |
Prohibited federal fund for groups providing abortions |
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Terrorism
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96 |
Detained foreign citizens in prison without due process |
97 |
Increased border security and interior enforcement funding more than 110 percent |
98 |
Attacked Al Qaida |
99 |
Implemented a wire-tapping scheme to detect conversations with terrorists |
100 |
Allowed torture of suspect terrorists |
101 |
Told American’s to shop after 9/11 |
102 |
Dealt with anthrax scare |
103 |
Signed the Patriot Act |
104 |
Created Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) to monitor foreign students |
105 |
Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies |
106 |
Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. |
107 |
Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. |
108 |
Told Americans that Islam was a religion of peace |
109 |
Created the TSA |
110 |
Created a new air monitoring system to detect harmful airborne agents |
111 |
Signed 2 bills that arm pilots with handguns in the cockpit |
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