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During his tenure in the United States Senate, Barack Obama co-sponsored the 2007 Senate version of the Freedom of Choice Act (S. 1173). Responding to a question regarding how he would preserve reproductive rights in a speech given to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, Obama declared, "The first thing I'd do, as president, is ...
An original co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act, Obama urged his Senate colleagues to pass the bill during a 2007 motion to proceed: I support this bill because in order to restore a sense of shared prosperity and security, we need to help working Americans exercise their right to organize under a fair and free process and bargain for ...
Establishing a White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers June 23, 2009 June 26, 2009 June 23, 2009 74 FR 30903 E9-15368 [49] [50] 22 13510: Waiver Under the Trade Act of 1974 With Respect to the Republic of Belarus July 1, 2009 July 6, 2009 July 1, 2009 74 FR 32047 E9-16034 [51] 23 13511: Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory ...
The Obama family in the White House Rose Garden on Easter Sunday 2015. In the book, the former first lady acknowledged that "even two committed go-getters with a deep love and a robust work ethic ...
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
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President Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, said in March 2009 that the DEA would only raid medical marijuana suppliers which violated both state and federal laws. [64] However, by April 2012, the Obama administration was exceeding the Bush administration 's number of raids on medical marijuana, including a high-profile raid of Oaksterdam ...
While campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Obama had promised an executive order banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. [3] On the basis of his campaign statement's, LGBT activists had long expected President Obama to issue an executive order prohibiting government contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. [4]