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President Obama addressing Congress regarding health care reform, September 9, 2009. Tea Party protests in front of the U.S. Capitol, September 12, 2009. President Obama delivering the 2010 State of the Union Address, January 25, 2010. President Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, March 23, 2010.
Within minutes of Obama's taking office, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, issued an order suspending last-minute regulations and executive orders signed by his predecessor George W. Bush. [11] Some of the first actions of Obama's presidency focused on reversing measures taken by the Bush administration following the September 11 attacks. [12]
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama from his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009, to December 31, 2009. For his time as president-elect, see the presidential transition of Barack Obama; for a detailed account of his first months in office, see first 100 days of the Barack Obama presidency; for a complete itinerary of his travels ...
Barack Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, was elected president of the United States on November 4, 2008 and was inaugurated as the nation's 44th president on January 20, 2009. . Re-elected on November 6, 2012, his second inauguration was on January 20, 2013, and his presidency ended on January 20, 2017, with the inauguration of Donald Tru
The 2010 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 2, 2010, as part of the 2010 midterm elections during President Barack Obama's first term in office. Voters of the 50 U.S. states chose 435 U.S. Representatives to serve in the 112th United States Congress .
In the first month of the newly Democratic controlled 110th Congress, Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D–WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, which was signed into law in September ...
Shortly after he passed, Congress pursued and eventually passed the 22nd Amendment, which formally barred any president from serving more than two terms in office. Related: 44 iconic photos of ...
Confederate States Congress: Won: Died before he could take office (had served in unelected Provisional Congress). [12] Only former president to ever run for an office outside the United States. Andrew Johnson: 1865–1869: Denied nomination by his party: 1872: U.S. House of Representatives: Lost: Ran as an Independent and finished 3rd in the ...