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Tracked Metric	Type	Start Date	Start Value	Latest Value	Improvement	Years
NASDAQ Composite	Stock Index	1/20/2009	1,520.76	2,927.23	% 92.48	0
S&P 500	Stock Index	1/20/2009	849.64	1,351.95	% 59.12	0
Dow Jones Industrial Average	Stock Index	1/20/2009	8,279.63	12,890.46	% 55.69	0

Date	Accomplishment	Category	Beneficiary	Rank
01/21/09	Use of torture by CIA and military to interrogate prisoners prohibited.	Torture
01/29/09	Employers prompted to review, develop and update their criteria on employee compensation to ensure they are applied consistently and uniformly.	Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act	Women & Women's Rights
01/29/09	Statute of limitations on filing equal-pay lawsuits eased by setting period to start from the date of the most recent paycheck.	Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act	Women & Women's Rights
01/29/09	Pay discrimination based on gender, race, color, national origin, age and disability prohibited.	Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act	Women & Women's Rights
02/04/09	4 million more children insured under SCHIP in addition to the 6.6 million already covered	Children's Health Insurance Progra...	Children
02/17/09	2010 real GDP increased by about 3.4% due to stimulus spending	2009 Stimulus Bill	Businesses & Improving the Economy
02/17/09	Tax credit of $400 per worker ($800 per couple) for middle income workers for 2009 & 2010 totaling $116 billion	2009 Stimulus Bill	Middle Class & Workers
02/17/09	$82.2 billion in aid for low income workers, unemployed and retirees (including job training)	2009 Stimulus Bill	Poor & Unemployed
02/17/09	$70 billion in tax relief for middle class workers by patching the Alternative Minimum Tax for one year	2009 Stimulus Bill	Middle Class
02/17/09	$155 billion in health care assistance for the poor & unemployed primarily for Medicaid, health information technology and insurance premium subsidies	2009 Stimulus Bill	Poor & Unemployed
02/17/09	$100 billion in education aid to prevent lay-offs, modernize schools, award Pell grants and help low income children & special education programs	2009 Stimulus Bill	Middle Class & Poor
02/17/09	$48.1 billion in investments for highway, bridge, high-speed rail & other transportation projects	2009 Stimulus Bill	Improving Infrastructure
04/01/09	Deeper recession or depression averted in 2009 and beyond with the help of stimulus bill provisions	2009 Stimulus Bill	Improving Economic Stability
04/01/09	Approximately 2.7 million jobs added to US payrolls and unemployment rate kept 1½ percentage points lower due to Stimulus spending	2009 Stimulus Bill	Workers & Businesses
04/11/09	Maersk Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips rescued during operation in which U.S. Navy Seal snipers kill three Somali Pirates holding him for ransom aboard lifeboat	Somali Civil War	Combating Terrorism
04/13/09	Restrictions eased on Cuba travel, money transfers, and cellular telephone/satellite service.	International Relations
04/21/09	250,000 volunteers by 2017 for community service programs in low income neighborhoods	Serve America Act	Volunteering & Community Organizers
04/21/09	Community volunteer program expanded to address the education, health care, energy and veterans needs of low income communities	Serve America Act	Volunteering & Community Organizers
04/21/09	Disadvantaged youth job opportunites enhanced by community service to gain skills/experience and earn education grants and stipends	Serve America Act	Volunteering & Community Organizers
05/20/09	Homeowners' foreclosures avoided by improved terms for loan modification and restructuring of their debt	Helping Families Save Their Homes	Home Owners
05/20/09	Lenders incentivized to reduce foreclosures by loss mitigation guarantees, compensation and lender protection from lawsuits by investors holding the loans	Helping Families Save Their Homes	Home Owners
05/20/09	$2.2 billion appropriated to help communities address the homeless crisis.	Helping Families Save Their Homes	Homeless
05/20/09	Financial Crisis Inquiry commission created to examine and report on the domestic and global causes of the 2008 - 2009 financial and economic crisis	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	Mortgage lending businesses added to list of financial institutions subject to Federal criminal law in fraudulent lending practices	Fraud Enforcement Act	Home Owners
05/20/09	Crime of major fraud against the United States amended to include Federal grants made to stimulate economic recovery for fiscal years 2009 and 2010	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	Securities fraud definition amended to include fraud related to commodities futures and derivatives fraud	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	$140 million in special funding for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate fraud in financial institutions	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	$100 million in special funding for the offices of the United States Attorneys to investigate and prosecute fraud in financial institutions	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	$80 million in special funding to the criminal, civil and tax divisions of the Dept of Justice to investigate and prosecute fraud in financial institutions	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	$60 million in special funding for the Postal Inspection Service to investigate financial institutions for fraud	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	$60 million in special funding for Inspector General's Office at the U S Dept of Housing and Urban Development to investigate financial institutions for fraud	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	$40 million in special funding for the Secret Service to investigate financial institutions for fraud	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/20/09	$42 million in special funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate securites fraud in financial institutions	Fraud Enforcement Act	Consumers
05/22/09	Dept of Defense systems analysis, engineering and developmental testing processes overhauled to reduce high rates of failure on defense acquisitions	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Defense Dept ordered to evaluate the technological maturity and product knowledge of critical weapons' technologies before letting defense contracts	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Independent cost assesessment director initiated to ensure that cost estimates for major Defense contracts are fair, reliable, and unbiased	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Defense oversight council required to seek input from combat commanders in evaluating proposed weapons system capabilities and needs	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Defense contractors prohibited from participating in both the systems engineering and the development /construction phases of the weapon systems	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Oversight and audit required of those major defense programs experiencing cost overruns to determine if the programs are essential and cost-effective	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Funding provided to hire and retain highly skilled specialists to assess the cost, schedule and applicability of proposed Defense Dept weapons systems	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Annual awards program established to recognize individuals and teams making significant contributions to improving efficiency of defense aquisition programs	Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform	Improving Govt Efficiency
05/22/09	Credit cardholders protected against arbitrary interest rate increases, hidden and excessive fees, and due date gimmicks	Credit Card Act	Consumers
05/25/09	Sonya Sotomayor nominated and approved as Supreme Court justice		Women & Hispanics
06/29/09	First-ever reception at the White House honoring Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered, Bisexual Pride Month hosted by the President and First lady	Discrimination	LGBT
08/05/09	U.S. drone attack killed Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud in Pakistan	Pakistani Taliban	Combating Terrorism
08/29/09	Co-founder of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Tohir Yo‘ldosh killed by U.S. drone attacks	Terrorism	Combating Terrorism
09/04/09	White House voluntary disclosure of visitor logs		Improving Govt Transparency
09/14/09	Operation Celestial Balance: Navy Seals Kill Somalian Al-Qaeda leader Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan in raid	Al-Qaeda
09/14/09	Somalian Al-Qaeda leader Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan killed by U.S. raid	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
10/28/09	Federal hate crime law expanded to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.	Matthew Shepard Act	LGBT
10/28/09	Existing hate crime laws strengthened with funding to investigate and prosecute those crimes	Matthew Shepard Act	LGBT
10/30/09	People with HIV/AIDS no longer prohibited from entering the United States	Discrimination	Immigrants & LGBT
12/08/09	Al-Qaeda Operational Commander Saleh al-Somali killed in U.S. drone attack	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
12/17/09	Al-Qaeda Operational Commander Abdallah Sa’id killed in U.S. drone attack	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
2009	Liquidation of General Motors and Chrysler avoided through government mandated restructuring plans and conditional investment and loan programs	Business & Economy	Businesses & Workers
2009	115,000 jobs created at General Motors and Chrysler since government financing and restructuring implemented	Jobs	Workers & Creating Jobs
2009	1.45 million American jobs saved overall by government financing and restructuring of GM and Chrysler to avoid liquidation	Jobs	Workers & Saving Jobs
2009	$96 billion in personal income losses avoided by government financing and restructuring of GM and Chrysler to avoid liquidation	Labor	Workers & Improving the Economy
2009	$28.6 billion net public benefit in income taxes and social security taxes paid because liquidation of GM and Chrysler avoided	Taxes	Businesses & Improving the Economy
01/01/10	Discrimination based on gender identity banned in federal workplaces	Discrimination	LGBT
2010 FEB	Militant commander Muhammad Haqqani killed by U.S. drone attacks	Terrorism	Combating Terrorism
02/24/10	Al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Fedayeen-i-Islam leader Qari Zafar killed in US airstrike	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
2010 MAR	Al-Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni killed by U.S. drone attack in Pakistan	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
03/18/10	Social Security payroll tax credits in 2010 for employers that hired people who have been unemployed for 60+ days	Hire Act	Unemployed & Businesses
03/18/10	Tax credits to employers who keep new hires for 52 weeks to encourage retention of new hires	Hire Act	Unemployed & Businesses
03/18/10	$17.5 billion in tax cuts, business credits and subsidies for state and local construction bonds to stimulate business investment and hiring	Hire Act	Unemployed & Businesses
03/18/10	$20 billion to the highway trust fund for spending on highway and transit programs.	Hire Act	Unemployed & Improving Infrastructure
03/18/10	Encourages job creation by expanding investments in schools and clean energy projects	Hire Act	Unemployed
03/18/10	Offsets costs through a 30 percent withholding tax on income from certain U.S. financial assets held by foreign banks who have not agreed to disclosures.	Hire Act	Unemployed
03/23/10	People with a pre-existing condition cannot be denied health coverge by an insurance company starting in 2014	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Consumers & Improving Health & Wellness
03/23/10	$143 billion in deficit reduction estimated between 2010-2019 from health care reform law provisions	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Reducing Debt\Deficits
03/23/10	People denied coverage for a pre-existing condition given access to a temporary high risk health insurance plan	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Consumers & Improving Health & Wellness
03/23/10	Children under 19 can no longer be denied coverage or benefits for a pre-existing condition	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Consumers & Children
03/23/10	Young adults can stay on parent's insurance plan up until age 26	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Young Adults & Consumers
03/23/10	$250 rebate for those in the Medicare Prescription drug "donut hole" during 2010	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Senior Citizens & Improving Health & Wellness
03/23/10	50% discount on prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare "donut hole" starting in 2011	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Senior Citizens & Improving Health & Wellness
03/23/10	Health care insurance plans prohibited from putting a lifetime limit on the benefits you receive	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Consumers
03/23/10	Annual dollar limits on health benefits restricted and phased out by 2014	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Consumers & Improving Health & Wellness
03/23/10	Insurers selling to groups of 50 or more employees must spend 85% of premiums on medical care and quality improvement	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Consumers & Improving Health & Wellness
03/23/10	Consumers guaranteed the right to choose the primary care doctor or pediatrician from their health plan’s provider network	2010 Health Care Reform Act	Consumers & Improving Health & Wellness
03/30/10	$68 billion to expand Pell grants & make it easier for students to repay outstanding loans after graduation through savings in the federal student loan program	Student Aid Act	College Students & Improving Education
03/30/10	$2 billion investment to laid off workers for education and career training programs in community colleges over four years starting in 2010	Student Aid Act	Unemployed & Improving Education
04/18/10	Joint American and Iraqi operation killed Al-Qaeda leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
05/05/10	Family caregivers of veterans granted eligibility to VA counseling and mental health services	Caregivers & Veterans Health Servi...	Veterans & Women
05/05/10	Health care services improved and expanded for women veterans at Veterans care facilities	Caregivers & Veterans Health Servi...	Veterans & Women
05/05/10	Counseling and care enhanced for military women victims of sexual trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	Caregivers & Veterans Health Servi...	Veterans & Women
05/05/10	Care options expanded for veterans living in rural areas that lack the necessary VA medical facilities	Caregivers & Veterans Health Servi...	Veterans & Improving Health & Wellness
05/05/10	Housing and care options expanded for homeless veterans living in care shelters	Caregivers & Veterans Health Servi...	Veterans
05/21/10	Al-Qaeda’s number three commander Sheik Saeed al-Masri killed in U.S. drone attack	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
06/02/10	Federal benefits extended to same sex partners of workers through memorandum by Obama administration	Gay Rights	LGBT & Federal Employees
06/29/10	U.S. drone attack killed 7 known terrorists, most notable Al-Qaeda operative from Egypt Hawza al Jawfi	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
07/22/10	Financial Stability Oversight Council established to identify and monitor excessive risks to the U.S. financial system	Wall Street Reform Act	Improving Economic Stability
07/22/10	Future economic downturns minimized with new rules and transparency regarding bank trading in credit default swaps and derivatives including the "Volker Rule"	Wall Street Reform Act	Improving Economic Stability
07/22/10	Risk in the financial system reduced with new SEC Office of Credit Ratings (OCR) to monitor credit rating agencies for conflict of interests & inaccuracies	Wall Street Reform Act	Improving Economic Stability
07/22/10	FDIC bank deposit insurance increased from $100,000 to $250,000	Wall Street Reform Act	Consumers & Improving Economic Stability
07/22/10	Transparency of Federal Reserve improved with additional government oversight and new audits to be performed by the GAO	Wall Street Reform Act	Improving Govt Transparency
07/22/10	Consumer Financial Protection Bureau established to promote fairness and transparency for mortgages, credit cards, and other consumer financial products	Wall Street Reform Act	Consumers
07/22/10	Borrowers protected from bad loans with rules and penalties requiring that lenders verify that they are able to repay the loans that they issue	Wall Street Reform Act	Home Owners & Consumers
07/22/10	Long-term economic stability improved through new FDIC powers to liquidate failing financial firms such as insurance companies and non-bank financial companies	Wall Street Reform Act	Improving Economic Stability
08/03/10	Large disparity in jail sentences reduced for crack cocaine related offenses that disproportionately affected African Americans	Fair Sentencing Act	African Americans
09/27/10	$12 billion in assistance for small businesses through eight separate tax cuts	Small Business Jobs Act	Small Businesses
09/27/10	$30 billion lending program created for community banks with incentives to increase small business lending	Small Business Jobs Act	Small Businesses & Improving the Economy
10/14/10	$10 million in job training, counseling, placement services, and child care services for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children	Veterans' Benefit Act	Veterans & Women
10/14/10	Disabled veterans provided improved independent assisted living services, automobile adaptive equipment and allowances for automobile purchase	Veterans' Benefit Act	Veterans
10/14/10	Service members receiving relocation orders protected from early termination fees for certain contracts and residential leases	Veterans' Benefit Act	Military Personnel
10/14/10	On-the-job training opportunities expanded for veterans by reimbursing energy sector employers for training costs.	Veterans' Benefit Act	Veterans & Creating Jobs
10/14/10	Insurance policy amounts and terms enhanced for severely disabled veterans	Veterans' Benefit Act	Veterans & Improving Health & Wellness
10/14/10	Veteran work-study programs expanded to include congressional offices, state agencies and institutions of higher learning	Veterans' Benefit Act	Veterans & Creating Jobs
12/08/10	$1.5 billion awarded to some 75,000 black farmers who were victims of discrimination in applying for farm loans from 1983 to 1997	Claims Resolution Act	African Americans & Farmers
12/08/10	$3.4 billion settlement for Native Americans against the US government arising from incorrect accounting for royalties on mineral leases	Claims Resolution Act	Native Americans & Improving Govt Efficiency
12/13/10	Number of eligible children enrolled in school meal programs increased by approximately 115,000 students	Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act	Children & Improving Health & Wellness
12/13/10	Schools and communities provided resources to utilize local farms and gardens to provide fresh produce for school food programs.	Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act	Children & Improving Health & Wellness
12/17/10	$186 billion in tax relief for all tax payers by extending the Bush income tax cuts for 2010 & 2011	2010 Tax & Jobs Compromise	Workers & Consumers
12/17/10	$136 billion in tax relief for 21 million middle class households through patch to the Alternative Minimum Tax for 2010 & 2011	2010 Tax & Jobs Compromise	Middle Class & Workers
12/17/10	$111 billion in tax relief for workers by a reducing social security payroll tax from 6.2% to 4.2% for 2011.	2010 Tax & Jobs Compromise	Workers & Improving the Economy
12/17/10	Unemployment benefits extended for 13 months at a cost of $56 billion	2010 Tax & Jobs Compromise	Unemployed & Improving the Economy
12/17/10	$40 billion in tax credits for college students and lower income families with children	2010 Tax & Jobs Compromise	Poor & Students
12/22/10	Gays and lesbians allowed to serve openly in the military	Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act	LGBT & Military Personnel
12/22/10	$193 million saved over five years by eliminating recruiting and retraining costs of replacing soldiers discharged due to DADT	Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act	Military Personnel & Reducing Debt\Deficits
12/22/10	US sponsored measure to include “sexual orientation” in the definition of human rights adopted by the UN General Assembly, 122- 0.	Discrimination	LGBT
01/04/11	Safety of imported food improved with new FSVP & VQIP programs that helps ensure it is safe, unadulterated and not misbranded	Food Safety Modernization Act	Consumers & Improving Govt Efficiency
01/04/11	Safety of U.S. grown food improved with requirements for large factory farms to register all food handlers and maintain records relating to food safety	Food Safety Modernization Act	Consumers
01/04/11	Small family farms selling locally exempted from federal regulations such as traceability and record keeping	Food Safety Modernization Act	Farmers & Improving Govt Efficiency
02/05/11	Number of US and Russian nuclear warheads deployed reduced by two-thirds by 2017	New START Treaty	Combating Nuclear Proliferation
02/05/11	Number of US and Russian strategic nuclear missile launchers reduced in half by 2017	New START Treaty	Combating Nuclear Proliferation
02/23/11	Defense of Marriage Act declared unconstitutional and no longer defended in federal courts by the Obama Administration	Defense of Marriage Act	LGBT
05/02/11	US Forces Kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
2011 JUN	6 senior Al-Qaeda figures killed in U.S. Air Strike	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
06/03/11	Al-Qaeda Commander Ilyas Kashmiri Killed in U.S. Predator Strike	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
06/07/11	East Africa's Al-Qaeda senior leader Harun Fazul killed at security checkpoint in Somalia	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
08/22/11	Al-Qaeda No. 2 Atiyah Abd al-Rahman Killed in Pakistan by CIA predator drone strike	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
09/06/11	U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of suspected Chief Al-Qaeda Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
09/11/11	Al-Qaeda's operations chief for Pakistan Abu Hafs al Shahri reported killed in U.S. Predator strike	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
09/16/11	Entrepreneurs and businesses benefited by reduced average wait time for patent approvals from 3 years to 1 year.	America Invents Act	Entrepreneurs
09/16/11	Patent litigation costs reduced through tightened patent standards, quality and processes to expedite challenges.	America Invents Act	Entrepreneurs
09/30/11	Senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen by a CIA-led U.S. drone strike	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
09/30/11	$700 million annual funding for child protection, child abuse prevention, family support and adoption promotion through 2016	Child and Family Services Improvem...	Foster Children & Orphans
12/06/11	US government international campaign initiated to build respect for the human rights of LGBT persons worldwide	Discrimination	LGBT
12/17/11	War in Iraq ended with last American troops crossing border into Kuwait	2003 Iraq War	U.S. Citizens
2012 JAN	Senior Al-Qaeda figure Aslam Awan killed in U.S. drone strike	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
01/30/12	U.S. drone attack in Yemen killed 12-15 militants, including at least four Al-Qaeda leaders	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
02/09/12	Pakistan Al-Qaeda leader Badar Mansoor killed by U.S. drone attacks	Al-Qaeda	Defeating Al Qaeda
02/22/12	Employee social security payroll tax reduction from 6.2% to 4.2 % extended through 2012	Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Cr...	Workers & Improving the Economy
02/22/12	Self-employed social security payroll tax reduction from 12.4% to 10.4 % extended through 2012	Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Cr...	Entrepreneurs & Improving the Economy
02/22/12	Federal unemployment benefits programs extended an additional 13 to 20 weeks	Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Cr...	Unemployed & Improving the Economy
02/22/12	Cuts in Medicare physician payment rates averted with extension of existing rates through 2012	Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Cr...	Doctors & Retirees
04/04/12	Members of Congress and certain government employees prohibited from using non-public information for personal profit, including insider trading.	STOCK Act	U.S. Citizens & Reducing Govt Fraud\Corruption
05/09/12	Barack Obama becomes the first President to publicly support the legalization of same sex marriage	Defense of Marriage Act	LGBT
05/19/12	Agreement negotiated and completed to allow blind Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng, to study in USA	International Relations	Compassion & Freedom of Speech