The folks at the St. Petersburg Times' PolitiFact.com have created the "Obameter" -- a handy list of President-elect (one more day) Barack Obama's 510 campaign promises. PolitiFact.com will
... rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
Promises include:
1: Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers
No. 2: Eliminate all oil and gas tax loopholes
No. 8: Include environmental and labor standards in trade agreements
No. 43: Sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize
No. 59: Invest in electronic health information systems
No. 80: Mandate insurance coverage of autism treatment
No. 126: Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq
No. 177: Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
No. 234: Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
No. 280: Increase funding for progams that conserve lands and habitat for select species such as the Osceola turkey
No. 288: Provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
No. 300: Reform mandatory minimum sentences
No. 502: Get his daughters a puppy
PolitiFact notes that promise No. 502 is still "in the works."
Go here for the whole list.
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