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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 ...
Gerald Ford became president upon the resignation of Richard Nison and took the oath of office on Aug. 9, 1974. ... He previously served in the Illinois State Senate and the U.S. Senate. Obama ...
Obama won the election, gaining a seat previously represented by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. In 2008, Obama entered the Democratic primaries for the U.S. presidential election. Numerous candidates entered initially, but over time the field narrowed down to Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton from New York. The contest was highly competitive ...
Hanson went on to become a senator in Liberia. ... The white John Hanson served as a delegate in the Continental Congress in the early 1780s under the Articles of Confederation, America’s ...
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]
After mostly staying on the sidelines for most of the campaign season, former President Barack Obama stepped into the spotlight as part of Democrats’ closing pitch to voters ahead of the midterms.