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**Morageort** · 12-30-2010, 05:49 AM

Bloomberg: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ongress23.html

However history judges the 535 men and women in the House and Senate the past two years, one thing is certain: The 111th Congress made more laws affecting more Americans than any other since the "Great Society" legislation of the 1960s.

For the first time since President Theodore Roosevelt began the quest for a national health-care system more than 100 years ago, the Democratic-led Congress took the biggest step toward achieving that goal by giving 32 million Americans access to insurance. Wall Street rules were rewritten in the most comprehensive way since the Great Depression. Consumers were given protections against the credit-card industry. Lawmakers spent more than $1.67 trillion to revive an economy on the verge of a depression, including tax cuts for most Americans, jobs for more than 3 million, construction of roads and bridges and investment in alternative energy; ended an almost two-decade ban against openly gay men and women serving in the military, and on Wednesday ratified a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia.
Before adjournment, a bill was passed to help rescuers and cleanup crews suffering from illnesses linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, wreckage in New York.

12-30-2010, 05:49 AM	#2
Morageort Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 454 Senior Member	Bloomberg: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ongress23.html However history judges the 535 men and women in the House and Senate the past two years, one thing is certain: The 111th Congress made more laws affecting more Americans than any other since the "Great Society" legislation of the 1960s. For the first time since President Theodore Roosevelt began the quest for a national health-care system more than 100 years ago, the Democratic-led Congress took the biggest step toward achieving that goal by giving 32 million Americans access to insurance. Wall Street rules were rewritten in the most comprehensive way since the Great Depression. Consumers were given protections against the credit-card industry. Lawmakers spent more than $1.67 trillion to revive an economy on the verge of a depression, including tax cuts for most Americans, jobs for more than 3 million, construction of roads and bridges and investment in alternative energy; ended an almost two-decade ban against openly gay men and women serving in the military, and on Wednesday ratified a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia. Before adjournment, a bill was passed to help rescuers and cleanup crews suffering from illnesses linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, wreckage in New York.
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