- Voluntary disclosure of White House visitors for the first time in US history
- Appointed first Latina to the US Supreme Court
- Promoted social responsibility through creation of serve.gov, a national database of volunteer opportunities
- Reversed 'global gag rule', allowing US aid to go to organizations regardless of whether they provide abortions
- Signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, giving the FDA the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of tobacco for the first time
- Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia
- Increased average fuel economy standards from 27.5mpg to 35.5mpg, starting in 2016
- Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers
- Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB
- Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base
- Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse
- Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans
- Signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids -- 4 million of whom were previously uninsured
- Issued executive order to repeal Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
- Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis
- Developed stimulus package, which includes approx. $18 billion for nondefense scientific research and development
- Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system
- Issued executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay
- Ended Bush administration's CIA program of 'enhanced interrogation methods' by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations
- Increased minority access to capital
- Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers
- Health Care Reform Bill, preventing insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition
- Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage
THE PRESIDENT SUCCESS PART 2