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Rescued the country from the Great Recession, cutting the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7% over six years
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Signed the Affordable Care Act which provided health insurance to over 20 million uninsured Americans
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Ended the war in Iraq
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Ordered for the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden
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Passed the $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act to spur economic growth during the Great Recession
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Supported the LGBT community’s fight for marriage equality
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Commuted the sentences of nearly 1200 drug offenders to reverse “unjust and outdated prison sentences”
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Signed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals allowing as many as 5 million people living in the U.S. illegally to avoid deportation and receive work permits