Healthcare:
Affordable Care Act (Barack Obama 2010)
Veterans:
- Increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10 percent.(Barack Obama)
- Signed new GI bill offering $78 billion in tuition assistance over a decade.(Barack Obama)
- Provided multiple tax credits to encourage businesses to hire veterans.(Barack Obama)
Environmental Protection
- Clean Water Act (100th Congress, over President Reagan’s Veto)
- Clean Air Act (John F. Kennedy)
Foreign Affairs:
- United Nations (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- League of Nations (Woodrow Wilson)
- Atlantic Charter (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Marshall Plan (Harry Truman)
- Monroe Doctrine (James Monroe)
- Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty (John F. Kennedy)
- NATO (Harry Truman)
- Truman Doctrine (Harry Truman)
- Peace Corps (John F. Kennedy)
- Louisiana Purchase (Thomas Jefferson)
- Camp David Accord (Jimmy Carter)
- Ended the War in Iraq (December 18, 2011) (Barack Obama)
- Death of Osama Bin Laden (Abbottabad, Pakistan May 2, 2011) (Barack Obama)
- Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) (Toughest Sanctions ever imposed on Iran) (Barack Obama)
Labor:
- Creation of a Cabinet Level Labor Department (Woodrow Wilson)
- The 8 Hour Workday and Overtime (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- National Labor Relations Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Minimum Wage Law (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Unemployment Compensation Law (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Civilian Conservation Corp (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- The Full Employment Act for Labor (Harry Truman)
- Family and Medical Leave Act (Bill Clinton)
- Worker’s Compensation (Woodrow Wilson)
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay (Barack Obama)
Civil and Political Rights:
- Women’s Suffrage Amendment (Woodrow Wilson)
- VISTA (John F. Kennedy)
- Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Lyndon Johnson)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Lyndon Johnson)
- National Voter Registration Act (Bill Clinton)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (101st Congress)
- Repealed “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (Barack Obama)
- Stopped Torture -Two days after taking office, nullified Bush-era rulings that had allowed detainees in U.S. custody to undergo certain “enhanced” interrogation techniques considered inhumane under the Geneva Conventions.(Barack Obama)
The Economy:
- Largest Deficit Cutting Plan in History (Bill Clinton)
- Federal Reserve Bank Act (Woodrow Wilson)
- Clayton Anti-Trust Act (Woodrow Wilson)
- Securities & Exchange Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Barack Obama)
- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) (Barack Obama)
- Saved the US Auto Industry $62 billion in federal money to Save GM and Chrysler and 1,000,000 jobs (Barack Obama)
Education:
- Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act (Woodrow Wilson)
- Fulbright-Hays Scholarship (Harry Truman)
- Creation of the Education Department (Jimmy Carter)
- National School Lunch Program (Harry Truman)
- Guaranteed Student Loan Program (Lyndon Johnson)
- Head Start (Lyndon Johnson)
- Ameri-Corp (Bill Clinton)
- GI Bill of Rights (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Student Loan Reform Act (Bill Clinton)
- School-to-Work Opportunities Act (Bill Clinton)
- Race to the Top (Barack Obama)
Senior Citizens:
- Social Security Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Older Americans Act (Lyndon Johnson)Medicare (Lyndon Johnson)Medicaid (Lyndon Johnson)Consolidation of Older Americans Act (Jimmy Carter)Successful Defense of Social Security (Democratic Minority of the 109th Congress
- Affordable Care Act- Stopped Older Americans from falling through Prescription Doughnut hole and extended the life of medicare. (Barack Obama)
Rural/Farm Issues
- Farm Loan Bank Act (Woodrow Wilson)
- Federal Crop Loan Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Rural Electrification Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Farmer’s Home Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Soil Conservation Service (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Rural Telephone Act (Harry Truman)
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Cooperative Extension Service (Woodrow Wilson)
- Farm Loan Housing Act (Harry Truman)