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Upon his election, he became the fifth African-American Senator in U.S. history, the third to have been popularly elected. As a Senator, Obama served on a variety of committees and chaired the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs. His bill sponsorship and voting records indicates that he was a loyalist to the ...
February 24, 2009: President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress; April 28, 2009: Senator Arlen Specter switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party. [10] September 9, 2009: President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to promote health care reform, which Representative Joe Wilson (R) interrupted by shouting at ...
With Jones' support, Obama helped shepherd through a sweeping law that banned most gifts from lobbyists and personal use of campaign funds by state legislators. [25] During his first years as a state senator, Obama was a co-sponsor of a bill that restructured the Illinois welfare program into the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF ...
Keyes attacked Barack Obama for voting against a bill that would have outlawed a form of late-term abortion. [42] Race became an issue in the contest between the two black candidates when Keyes claimed that he, not Obama, was the true "African-American". The black voters of Illinois voted 92% for Obama. [43] [44]
Hanson went on to become a senator in Liberia. Working with the America Colonization Society in the late 1850s, a Black photographer named Augustus Washington captured portraits of Liberia’s ...
Presiding over this joint session was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by Joe Biden, the vice president in his capacity as the president of the Senate. During his speech, President Obama discussed the recently passed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as well as the ...
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.
Obama addressing Congress. United States President Barack Obama delivered a speech to a joint session of the 111th United States Congress on February 24, 2009. [14] It was not an official State of the Union address. [15] Obama's first State of the Union Address was the 2010 State of the Union Address.