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Rosa's Law [1] is a United States law which replaced several instances of "mental retardation" in law with "intellectual disability".The bill was introduced as S.2781 in the United States Senate on November 17, 2009, by Barbara Mikulski (D-MD).
As president, Obama signed a renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2010. [104] Obama then signed another renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2011 while on a trip in Europe. [105] [106] In 2015, Obama signed the USA Freedom Act which, along with reinforcing the powers of the NSA, included the renewal of certain parts of the USA PATRIOT Act. [107] [108 ...
Passed the Senate on March 10, 2016 (94-1 Roll call vote 34, via Senate.gov) Passed the House on May 13, 2016 (400-5 Roll call vote 193 , via Clerk.House.gov) Reported by the joint conference committee on July 6, 2016; agreed to by the House on July 8, 2016 (407-5 Roll call vote 399 , via Clerk.House.gov) and by the Senate on July 13, 2016 (92 ...
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Barack Obama sponsored 147 bills from January 4, 2005 until November 16, 2008. Two became law. [1] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006.
In a 2016 review, Barack Obama claimed that from 2010 through 2014 mean annual growth in real per-enrollee Medicare spending was negative, down from a mean of 4.7% per year from 2000 through 2005 and 2.4% per year from 2006 to 2010; similarly, mean real per-enrollee growth in private insurance spending was 1.1% per year over the period ...
There were a number of different health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration.Key reforms address cost and coverage and include obesity, prevention and treatment of chronic conditions, defensive medicine or tort reform, incentives that reward more care instead of better care, redundant payment systems, tax policy, rationing, a shortage of doctors and nurses, intervention vs ...
On February 4, 2013, President Obama signed into law the "No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013", which suspended the U.S. debt ceiling through May 18, 2013. The bill was passed in the Senate one week previously by a vote of 64–34, with all "no" votes from Republican senators, [ 13 ] who were critical of the lack of spending cuts that accompanied an ...