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Dan Delivers
FIGHTING FOR AMERICAN JOBS
- Authored and passed legislation that will produce a strategy for generating American manufacturing jobs and strengthening national security
- Wrote bill to require government to buy American – not foreign - products, creating
jobs at home
- Worked for law to spur small business job creation
OPPOSING WASTEFUL SPENDING
- Fought new health care law which will add to debt
- Voted against hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts and spending
- Authored legislation to take away tax breaks for advertising and promotion by drug and health insurance companies
- Wrote law saving hundreds of millions in government energy costs
DELIVERING FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
- Secured over $30 million for critical local projects such as Metra station repair, environmental clean-up, children’s health, and veterans
- Helped 30 communities obtain funding support for police and fire
- Brought weekend service to Metra’s Southwest Service Line
- Secured over $131 million for projects to improve daily commutes
HELPING MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES
- Worked to enact bipartisan bill to make college more affordable
- Fought to protect and clean up the Great Lakes - and prevent BP from dumping in Lake Michigan
- Fighting to lower health care costs by requiring price transparency by drug companies, hospitals, and insurance companies
SUPPORTING SENIORS & HONORING VETERANS
- Opposed health care bill and over $400 billion in Medicare cuts
- Fighting against risky Social Security privatization
- Helped provide biggest funding increase for veterans’ programs
- Prompted Pentagon action to recover remains of WWII heroes
HOLDING WALL STREET ACCOUNTABLE
- Only Democrat in Chicagoland to oppose the Wall Street Bailout
- Fought to get law passed stopping bank bailouts by ending TARP
- Fought for pay limits for bailed-out executives
- Pushed for law to protect consumers and rein-in Wall Street excesses
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