{"id":2537,"date":"2014-12-29T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2014-12-29T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:00:33","slug":"big-things-obama-did-in-2014-despite-republican-stonewalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/big-things-obama-did-in-2014-despite-republican-stonewalling\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Things Obama Did In 2014 Despite Republican Stonewalling"},"content":{"rendered":"

…from our friends at TPM (the full text is at the link<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Big Things Obama Did In 2014 Despite Republican Stonewalling<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"ObamaPresidentialSeal\"The 2014 elections were about as brutal for Democrats as they could have imagined. But it wasn’t such a bad year for the party otherwise. President Barack Obama gave up on working with Republicans on big issues, and instead relied on his executive authority to implement a slew of important reforms.<\/p>\n

Here are five big things he did this year without the help of Republicans.<\/p>\n

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  1. Sweeping changes to immigration enforcement<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Actual progress on climate change<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Remaking the federal courts for a generation<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Beginning to transform U.S. relationships with Iran and Cuba<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Greater protections for federal contractors<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"coal-plant\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n