110th Congress Accomplishments

ACCOMPLISHED

• Largest veterans’ health care funding increase in history
• First minimum wage increase in a decade
• Tax cuts for 23 million middle-class families
• Largest college aid expansion since the GI Bill in 1944
• Securing our borders by adding 3,000 new border patrol agents and $1.2 billion for fence construction
• A pay raise of 3.5% for our brave men and women in uniform
• Passing the Wounded Warriors Act to clean up the scandal of inadequate care for our wounded soldiers
• Providing Family Medical Leave for families wounded in combat
• Protecting seniors’ access to their doctors
• Innovation Agenda promoting 21st century jobs
• First increase in fuel economy standards in 30 years
• Implementation of 9/11 Commission recommendations to protect America from terrorism
• Most sweeping lobby and ethics reform in a generation, hailed by reform groups as “landmark reform” and “a sea of change”
• Vigorous Congressional oversight restored after six years, saving billions of taxpayer dollars and exposing corruption and incompetence
• Improvements and explanation of Head Start preschool program
• Aid to the Gulf Coast recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

VETOED BY PRESIDENT

• Health care for 10 million children
• Timetables to responsibly redeploy troops from Iraq
• Expansion of life-saving medical research on stem cells

NEXT UP ON THE AGENDA

• Guarantee our veterans receive all earned bonuses
• Ensure children’s toys are safe and free from hazardous materials
• Additional tax relief for military service members and their families
• Small businesses guaranteed fair access to federal contracts
• Incentives for small business innovation to compete globally
• Stronger consumer protection for mortgages and mortgage lending practices
• Address China’s continued disregard for U.S. trade law
• Improve benefits for workers laid off as a result of trade
• Reform and strengthen the nation’s higher education programs
• Reauthorize No Child Left Behind
• Farm Bill that shifts priorities to family farmers, crop diversity, nutrition, and biofuels

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