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Dan Delivers
PROTECTING AND CREATING AMERICAN JOBS
- Wrote bill to strengthen “Buy American” laws so taxpayer dollars create jobs at home
- Helped write transportation bill to provide 17 million jobs fixing roads and public transportation
- Authored and passed legislation promoting traditional and high-tech manufacturing jobs
SUPPORTING SENIORS AND HONORING VETERANS
- Helped pass bill to lower Medicare premiums for seniors in 2010
- Co-sponsor of bill to give 2010 Social Security increase without adding to deficit
- Successfully fought to provide biggest funding increase ever for veterans’ programs
HELPING MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES
- Successfully worked to enact bipartisan bill to make college more affordable
- Effectively fought to protect and clean up the Great Lakes
- Fighting to lower health care costs by requiring transparency and accountability by health care providers
DELIVERING FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
- Secured over $30 million for critical local projects such as community centers, environmental clean-up, children’s health, Metra stations, veterans services, and water infrastructure
- Helped over 25 communities obtain funding for police and firefighters
- Brought about first-ever weekend service on Metra’s Southwest Service Line
- Delivered over $131 million for local transportation projects to improve daily commutes
HOLDING WALL STREET ACCOUNTABLE
- Only Chicagoland Democrat to vote against the Wall Street Bailout three times
- Co-sponsored and helped pass pay limits for bailed-out executives
- Helped pass reform to protect consumers and rein-in financial industry
CURBING WASTEFUL FEDERAL SPENDING
- Voted against hundreds of billions in wasteful bailouts and other giveaways
- Wrote law saving hundreds of millions of dollars in government energy costs
- Helped pass bill to require any new federal programs to be paid for (“Pay as you go”)
- Authored bills to take away tax breaks for advertising and promotion by drug and health insurance companies
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