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--PA 90-0249: Public Aid Amendment

This required sending public aid recipients to rehab rather than cutting the benefits "where clinically appropriate substance abuse treatment capacity is available."

--PA 90-0474: Job Training and Economic Development

Added a section for a grant program for organizations trying to help poor people get jobs.

--PA 90-0141: Criminal Procedure

Added a motion for convicted defendants to get DNA or fingerprint analysis done to try to prove their innocence.

--PA 92-0156: Emergency Contraception Law

Provides that emergency contraception shall be provided by hospitals that provide services to sexual assault survivors and requires rules to be developed by each hospital to conform with the law.

--PA 92-0088: Medical Care

Added grants for new community health centers.

--PA 90-0017: Public Aid Rules

This amendment changed the rules for who is ineligible for Illinois Public Aid by adding a person violating a condition of probation or parole to the list. It also added that people who have tried to get public aid from two states by misrepresenting their residency status is ineligible. People convicted of drug crimes don't get cash assistance but can get food stamps. There are numerous other changes please read them if interested.

In addition, here are a few examples of what Obama's accomplished in his short term in the U.S. Senate:

--Authored, with Sen. **** Lugar (R-IN), the Lugar-Obama nonproliferation initiative (signed into law by the president), expanding U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department's ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.

--Eliminated gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and required disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the "Honest Leadership and Open Government Act," which was signed into law in September 2007.

--Sponsored the "Iran Sanctions Enabling Act" supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran's oil and gas industry.

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