Rank President Obama's Enacted Policies

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In an election year there is a lot of debate about what the candidates have done. Here is a list of what President Obama has done his first three (3) years in office. Vote up the policies mattered the most in your opinion, and vote down the policies you think were less important do did the least to help America. These policies were chosen because they have been the most talked about, and or are found to be most popular on the preliminary voting polls. The list is titled by what the bill did and the name of the bill can be found in the description. More information on some of these policies can be found here.

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1

Up 545

Down 233

Sought Verifiable Reductions In Nuclear Stockpiles

“ New Start Treaty „
2

Up 615

Down 295

Repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell

“ Bill: S.4023 „
3

Up 444

Down 235

Restricted Warrantless Wiretaps

“ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act „
4

Up 548

Down 320

Ended Use Of Torture in Interrogations

“ Executive Order 13491 „
5

Up 393

Down 238

Reformed Mandatory Minimum Sentences

“ National Defense Authorization Act of 2010 Sec. 4713 „
6

Up 367

Down 221

Strengthened Antitrust Enforcement

“ Antitrust Initiative „
7

Up 454

Down 289

Created New Financial Regulations

“ American Financial Stability Act of 2010 „
8

Up 606

Down 397

Sign A Universal Health Care Bill

“ Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872) „
9

Up 338

Down 241

Created A Tax Credit For Workers

“ Obama wanted a $500 credit but passed the bill at a slightly lesser $400 credit. Making Work Pay tax credit „
10

Up 306

Down 224

More Disclosure, Waiting Period For Earmarks

“ Transparency and Integrity in Earmarks Act „
11

Up 464

Down 368

The Stimulus

“ Obama passed an $825 Billion Stimulus but failed to keep unemployment under 8% as promised. „
12

Up 346

Down 346

Path To Citizenship For Undocumented Immigrants

“ DREAM Act „
13

Up 253

Down 276

Small Business Jobs Act of 2010

“ The tax cut compromise in this policy extends the rates only temporarily, and with the same limitations as before. HR 4583 „
14

Up 271

Down 356

Created 225,000 "Green" Jobs

“ But failed to reach the 5 million that the bill was created for. Green Jobs Bill „
15

Up 246

Down 352

Added Additional Security To The Borders

“ Immigration Reform „
16

Up 198

Down 365

Trained And Equipped The Afghan Army

“ Authorized approximately 4,000 additional trainers, who were expected to be in place in Afghanistan by the end of September, bringing the total authorized training force to about 6,500. „
17

Up 199

Down 398

Ordering Guantanamo To Be Shut Down Within The Year

“ Guantanamo still remains open and operating. Executive Order 13492 „
18

Up 60

Down 222

Suspend Select Deportations

“ Stopped deportation proceedings against hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants between the ages of 16-30 who had no criminal offenses and had been in the country more than 5 years. (Executive Order) „
19

Up 95

Down 481

Signed National Defense Authorization Act

“ There was controversy over this bill because it could or could not be used to indefinitely detain US citizens domestically, it is written to allow the detention of US citizens abroad as well as foreigners without trial. „

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Jeffry Booty
Rank President Obama's Enacted Policies at 12/01/2012 9:30 AM

this isn't a bad thing to write about Obama Policies, ranker.
Rivka Fassino
Rank President Obama's Enacted Policies at 8/12/2012 5:30 PM

this isn't a bad thing to write about Obama Accomplishments, my friend.

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