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1. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, makes it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform equal work.
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2. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provided hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure, research and job creation.
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3. Saved the American auto industry and its hundreds of thousands of jobs from disappearing by preventing Chrysler and GM from going bankrupt.
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4. Overturned Bush Administration restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research.
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5. The Matthew Shepard Act, expands hate crime definitions to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability.
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6. Has created over 2 million private sector jobs in the last 14 months.
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7. The Credit Card Bill of Rights, outlaws hidden fees and deceptive lending practices from credit card companies.
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8. The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act, allows gay soldiers to serve openly in the United States military.
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9. Student loan reform, significantly expands access to affordable government loans and Pell Grants for college.
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10. The Affordable Care Act, will establish universal health care for the first time in the history of the United States.
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11. New START Treaty, will reduce by half the nuclear missile stockpiles of Russia and the United States.
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12. Overturned Bush Administration "global gag rule," allows American aid to international health organizations who provide family planning, including abortion counseling.
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13. The Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, dramatically expands federal efforts into finding a cure for paralysis, as well as increasing support for care and rehabilitation.
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14. Removed all combat troops from Iraq.
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15. Appointed Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the first Latina to ever serve on the bench.
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16. Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, provides health care to 11 million children who live in poverty.
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17. The Food Safety Modernization Act, for the first time gives the FDA a mandate to prevent, rather than simply respond to, contamination of the food supply.
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18. Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, overhauls the financial markets to prevent another economic crisis and establishes a new consumer protection bureau.
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19. Killed pirates, in particular three Somali pirates who were holding an American ship hostage in 2009.
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20. Killed Osamas, in particular one Osama bin Laden who had taken America hostage in 2001.
