Bush, Obama timeline

2000

• GWB wins election

• FL Secretary K Harris announces vote recount because low victory margin

• Bush and Gore campaign controvery: recount votes, resolve voting errors

• SC stops FL recount, GB wins 5-4

• electors vote

2001

• Bush inaugural address

• $1 trillion tax cut

• 9/11

• speech addressing 9/11: Bin Laden is enemy, Homeland Security

• Enduring Freedom Address: war in Afghanistan

• Enron Corp. bankrupcy

• expands trade status w/ China

2002

• NCLB Act

• D of Justice addresses treatment of Al-Qaeda + Taliban detainees

• Axis of Evil state of union address

• Press shares events leading to 9/11

• US and Russia nuclear arms reduction treaty

• address about proposes D of Homeland Security

• Looking for new Palestinian leader

• Wants congress approve military in Iraq, asks UN signs congressional resolution

• Iraq still violating resolution —> US and Hussein regime tensions

2003

• another tax cut

• finds out NK developing nuclear weapons

• Address to Iraq: “must leave”

• Iraqui people life after Hussein videotapes

• “mission accomplished in Iraq address

• UN lifts sanctions against Iraq

• report proves evidence of Iraq mass destruction weapons maybe false

• US kills Hussein’s sons

• interim report: haven’t found weapons

• some medical shit

• capture Hussein

2004

• interim const. for new Iraqi gov transition

• US abusing Iraqi prisoners photos

• Ashcroft testifying about arguments for bans on ways of torturing terrorists

• Iraq formal occupation end announced

• Bin-Ladin takes credit for 9/11

• GWB defeats Kerry

• US launch assault Fallujah Iraq

2005

• Schiavo medical case?

• Hussein will be tried for war crimes

• meets w/ SK president to discuss NK denuclearization

• Energy policy Act

• Hurricane Katrina remarks

• Iraq/war on terror address: make Iraq model for democracy in MidEast

• Appropriations bill: limits cruel treatment of military prisoners

2006

• Congressional leaders call NSA “domestic spying”

• reauthorization of Patriot Act

• Moussaoui life sentenced prison

• Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld: decides al-Qaida trial in Afghanistan in front of military tribune illegal

• defends detention/ “enhanced interrogation techniques” at Guantanamo

• Secure Fence Act?

• Hussein executed

2007

• Nancy Polesi

• more troops in Iraq announced

• vetoes bill demanding schedule for troop withdrawal

• NSA 2007: air/ sea cargo screening, $ to antiterrorism in at risk states

• Dow Jones??

• ME peace conference w/ I & P

• Energy Independence & Security Act

2008

• Proposes economic growth package

• detainees charged for 9/11 Guantanamo Bay

• Economic Stimulus Act

• Fed Reserve bail out Bear Stearns

• vetoes Food conserve. / Energy Act —> Farm bill

• McCain is Repub nominee

• US treasury takeover Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac —> helps more than half US mortgages

• Lehman Bros fails

• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: giant bailout

• Obama elected

• Treas. + FR buy debts so can provide lend programs/ loans to consumers

2009

• Executive Order 13491: lawful interrogations

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: stimulus package

• Obama joint session address: focus on long-term effects

• Cairo ME situation speech

• Healthcare reform address

2010

• Afghanistan speech: more troops to fight Al-Qaeda Taliban

• Signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

• Midterm election redwave

• Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010

• Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010

• Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010

2011

• Resumed Military Trials for Guantanamo Bay Detainees

• Address: Describes US actions and presents a justification for US intervention in internal conflict in Libya

• Announces plan to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by summer of 2012.

• Budget control Act, proposes American Jobs Act

• Iraq troop withdrawl announced

2012

• Executive Order 13599: freeze Iranian assets

• Nuclear Security Summit, meetsw w/ many leaders

• SC: National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, upholding the central features of the Affordable Care Act

• renomination

2013

Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012;

• remarks on immigration reform

• Remarks on Signing the Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013

• Executive Order 13653—Preparing the United State for the Impacts of Climate Change

2014

• Signs Executive Order 13658 -minimum wage raised

• More LGBTQ+ rights stuff

• Utility Air Regulatory Group vs. EPA SC decision

• Address to the Nation on US Strategy to Combat Islamic State

• Midterm electrons —> more Repub

• Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform.

2015

• Obergefell v. Hodges —> a constitutional right to same-sex marriage

• Nuclear Deal w/ Iran

2016

• Deal: Iran is to delay action on developing nuclear weapons;  the US will reduce economic sanctions

• Announces increase in troop presence in Syria