Obama Administration Policies

This list will track accomplishments, policies and campaign promises (sticking to kept, broken & now adding stuff in the works to keep things interesting) for the Obama Administration. Ranked by importance.

Obama Administration Policies

Obama overturns Bush-era policy on embryonic stem cell research

End the use of torture

Executive salary caps for top executives at companies receiving bailout money

Eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups

Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center

Double federal funding for basic science research over 10 years

Expand eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)

Allow five days of public comment before signing bills

Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan

Create a $60 billion bank to fund roads and bridges

Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq

Establish independence for federal science policies and programs

Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming

Work with UN on climate change

Expand loan programs for small businesses

Freedom of Choice Act

Release presidential records

Weatherize 1 million homes per year

Require more energy-efficient appliances

Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq

Expand Pell grants for low-income students

End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000

Create 5 million "green" jobs

Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees

End the "Stop-Loss" program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments

Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars

End the use of extreme rendition

Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials

Raise fuel economy standards

Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs

Create a tax credit of $500 for workers

Develop a comprehensive cyber security and response strategy

Develop an alternative to President Bush's Military Commissions Act on handling detainees

Obama Federal Banking Regulatory Reform Plan

Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear

Appoint at least one Republican to the cabinet

Employee Free Choice Act

Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners

Go "line by line" over earmarks to make sure money being spent wisely

Change standards for determining broadband access

Create White House performance team and chief performance officer

Encourage community service through online outreach and social networking

Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits

Mexico City Policy Rescinded

Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions

Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage

Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009

Appoint an American Indian policy adviser

Create a White House Office on Urban Policy

Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit to offset college costs