Promise Posts – Page 13

Barack Obama

Support increased funding for the NEA

Obama signs stimulus bill with NEA funding | February 17, 2009

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Offer prizes for advances in consumer technology

Challenge.gov doles out prize money for myriad ideas | December 4, 2012

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Promote cultural diplomacy

An increase over 2009 | April 23, 2010

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Support commercial access to space

Obama budget promotes commercial space efforts | February 15, 2010

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Add another Space Shuttle flight

Obama works to add one more space shuttle flight | August 27, 2009

Barack Obama

Use the private sector to improve spaceflight

Stimulus funding boosts private-sector spaceflight | September 2, 2009

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Work with international allies on space station

Obama budget would extend life of International Space Station | February 15, 2010

Barack Obama

Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station

NASA reaches out to industry, academia for space station projects | October 5, 2009

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Establish program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders

Obama used the stimulus bill to advance this goal | January 6, 2010

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Help low-income areas get phone and Internet service

FCC enacted most of what candidate Obama promised | January 4, 2013

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Create a Homeowner Obligation Made Explicit (HOME) score for mortgage comparisons

New standards included in Dodd-Frank | May 24, 2012

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Establish ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty

$10 million appropriation gets program underway | May 17, 2010

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Push for Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation

Obama signs hate crimes bill | October 28, 2009

Barack Obama

Invest in transitional jobs and career pathway programs

A variety of programs established in several cabinet departments | December 8, 2012

Barack Obama

Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws

Obama has promoted marriage equality, adoption rights | June 29, 2015

Barack Obama

Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to end Sept. 20 | July 22, 2011

Barack Obama

Support repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

SCOTUS ruling means last vestige of DOMA falls | June 29, 2015

Barack Obama

Vigorously pursue hate crimes and civil rights abuses

A new law and more enforcement | June 8, 2012

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Restore funding to EEOC and Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

Funding levels restored | January 8, 2010

Barack Obama

Reform mandatory minimum sentences

Defense bill includes review of sentencing guidelines | November 23, 2009

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