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2010
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January 2010
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With versions passed by the House and Senate during December 2009, both
houses attempt to reconcile the Health Care Reform and expansion into a
bill that can pass both houses. The legislation, which would
be
the most sweeping change in health care law since Medicare, has been a
priority for the Obama administration despite the disproval
from
the majority of the public to the specific plans involved.
January 19, 2010 - Scott Brown, a Republican reformer from
Massachusetts, stuns the nation with an upset win for the special
election Senate seat. He is the first Republican elected to
the
Senate from the state since 1972 and only Republican member of the
Massachusetts Democratic congressional delegation. His
election
puts a halt to the 60 seat Demoractic super majority in the Senate and
will prevent President Obama and the Democratic leadership from pushing
legislation in future votes past a Republican filibuster.
March 25, 2010 - The U.S. House of Representatives finalizes the Health
Care legislation approved by the Senate, extending health benefits and
insurance to most Americans. The legislation, passed on a
partisan basis by the Democratic Majority, has caused a significant
rift within the public, who disapproves of the bill, and is expected to
test the Democratic Party's hold on both houses of Congress during the
mid-term elections in November.
April 20, 2010 - A British Petroleum deep water oil rig explodes in the
Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest oil spill in the history of the
United States, killing eleven workers, and devastating the envirnoment.
It also severely damaged the fishing and tourism industries
of
gulf states.
November 2, 2010 - With an impetus from the Tea Party movement to
restore fiscal sanity to Congress and various state houses, Republican
candidates win the majority of elections, taking control of the U.S.
House of Representatives with a net gain of 63 seats, reducing the
majority of Democrats in the Senate, and taking over many governorships
and other legislative bodies. This tide was the biggest
turnaround in Congressional seats since 1948, and many attribute the
election to disfavor of Obama administration spending practices,
including the Health Care legislation passed in March.
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2011
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April 14, 2011
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Congress votes to pass the 2010-2011 budget after six months of
negotiations, including $38 billion in fiscal year cuts. This
vote was one of the first measures that showed the new dynamic of a
U.S. House of Representatives in Republican hands that was focused, due
to Tea Party member goals, to get the burgeoning federal deficit
under control.
April 30, 2011 - Osama Bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11, 2001 attacks
on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and other locations and leader
of the terrorist group, Al-Queda, is killed after ten years of pursuit
by United States and coalition forces during a raid by U.S. Navy Seals
on his hideout location in Pakistan.
July 21, 2011 - The final shuttle flight lands at the Kennedy Space
Center, signifying the end of the NASA shuttle space program. The
program, which began in 1981 and included 135 missions, was completed
when the Shuttle Atlantis completed its final mission to the
International Space Station.
September 17, 2011 - The first of many Occupy Wall Street protests
begin in New York City, protesting the big money interests on Wall
Street and their relationship to the recession and world economy.
December 15, 2011 - The war in Iraq is delcared over when President Obama orders the last combat troops to leave the country.
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