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PolitiFact tracked 533 campaign promises made by Barack Obama on our Obameter. Browse the library of promises below or see the final report card and special interactive report.

Promise Kept

47%

Compromise

27%

Promise Broken

23%

Stalled

0%

In the Works

0%

Top 5 Promises

Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center

"As president, Barack Obama will close the detention facility at Guantanamo."

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Restrict warrantless wiretaps

"Barack Obama opposed the Bush Administration's initial policy on warrantless wiretaps because it crossed the line between protecting our national security and eroding the civil liberties of American citizens. As president, Obama would update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to provide greater oversight and accountability to the congressional intelligence committees to prevent future threats to the rule of law."

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Secure the borders

Will support "additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry."

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Reform mandatory minimum sentences

"Will immediately review (mandatory minimum) sentences to see where we can be smarter on crime and reduce the ineffective warehousing of nonviolent drug offenders."

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Sign a "universal" health care bill

"I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president ... ."

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Latest Obameter Promises

Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers

Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center

Create a prison-to-work incentive program

Create a National Health Insurance Exchange

Reduce the Veterans Benefits Administration claims backlog

Expand eligibility for Medicaid

Create a public "Contracts and Influence" database

Increase the supply of affordable housing throughout metropolitan regions

Establish regulations to secure chemical plants

Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study of federal cancer initiatives

Fix problems of voter access such as long lines on Election Day and on early voting days

Support improved weather prediction program

Advance the biomedical research field

Provide at least $2 billion for services to Iraqi refugees

Phase out incandescent light bulbs

Extend Production Tax Credit to encourage renewable energy

Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels

Require more disclosure and a waiting period for earmarks

Require automatic enrollment in IRA plans

Make permanent the Research & Development tax credit

Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq

Create a specialized military advisers corps

Help victims of superstorm Sandy 'rebuild their lives'

Create a new trade enforcement unit that will address China's trade practices

Walk with picketers when collective bargaining rights are threatened

Increase the number of high school students taking college-level courses

Mandate standards for securing personal data

Include environmental and labor standards in trade agreements

Double federal funding for basic science research over 10 years

Require utilities to reduce electricity demand

Invest $50 billion in auto manufacturing facilities for fuel efficient vehicles

Develop a comprehensive cyber security and response strategy

Expand the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity

Increase penalties against North Korea if it continues developing nuclear weapons

Make sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon

Make buildings more energy efficient

Oppose efforts to privatize Social Security

Double American exports over the next five years

Work to renew the assault weapons ban

Better enforce gun laws

Reduce oil consumption by 35 percent by 2030

Ban racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies

Train and equip the Afghan army

Overhaul the corporate tax code and reduce the rate for manufacturing companies

End tax deductions for companies that offshore

Create a new tax credit for companies that bring jobs to the United States from overseas

Cut another $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion in spending

Make the Veterans Administration a national leader in health reform

Require drilling on current oil and gas leases

Establish a small business initiative for rural America

Set a standard for utilities that 80 percent of U.S. electricity comes from clean sources by 2035

Work with UN on climate change

Invest $150 billion to encourage "green" business sector

Safeguard the right to privacy

Restrict warrantless wiretaps

Lead the world in college graduates by 2020

Create a veterans job corps

Create 1 million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016

Reduce energy consumption in federal buildings

Require all schools of education to be accredited

Create 5 million "green" jobs

Improve high school graduation rates

Reduce federal aid to colleges that don't keep costs down

Create a voluntary national performance assessment for educators

Create Teacher Residency Programs that will send teachers to high-need schools

Create a secretary of business and consolidate nine goverment agencies on business into one

Increase protections for whistleblowers

Mandate insurance coverage of autism treatment

Give the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Board subpoena power

Revise the Patriot Act to increase oversight on government surveillance

Enact the Buffett rule

Support college credit initiatives

Provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants

Cut the growth of college tuition and fees in half over the next 10 years

Double funding for Federal Charter School Program and require more accountability

Fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

End the war in Afghanistan in 2014

Recognize the Armenian genocide

Create a tax credit of $500 for workers

Crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants

Help restore Gulf Coast wetlands that protect against hurricanes

Restore housing in New Orleans

Direct revenues from offshore oil and gas drilling to increased coastal hurricane protection

Improve transportation in New Orleans

Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area

Strengthen the levees in New Orleans

Rebuild hospitals in New Orleans

Rebuild schools in New Orleans

Support repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws

We will crush al-Qaida

Sign a "universal" health care bill

Support network neutrality on the Internet

Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba

No signing statements to nullify instructions from Congress

Encourage videotaping of interrogations in capital cases

Give annual "State of the World" address

Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps

Offer states waivers to No Child Left Behind if they meet requirements

Equip troops to respond to new tactics

Extend the American Opportunity Tax Credit

Create loan sanctions to stop private creditors from lending to repressive regimes

Prevent corporate cyber-espionage

Ensure New Orleans locals can get recovery jobs

Shake loose federal money for rebuilding the Gulf Coast

Work to end NATO restrictions on forces in Afghanistan

Require that health plans utilize disease management programs

Include humanitarian international missions in long-term budgeting

Increase participation in cancer-related clinical trials

Accelerate the development of new medicines, vaccines, and production capabilities

Toughen enforcement for Internet exploitation of children

Provide incentives to draw employers into areas hardest-hit by Katrina

Help low-income areas get phone and Internet service

Encourage community service through online outreach and social networking

Prioritize security investments in refineries, pipelines and power grids

Eliminate all oil and gas tax loopholes

Require publicly traded financial partnerships to pay the corporate income tax

Expand the earned income tax credit

Close loopholes in the corporate tax deductibility of CEO pay

Extend child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes

Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes

Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes

Tax carried interest as ordinary income

Freeze the 2009 estate tax law

Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch

Phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners

Restructure and streamline USAID

Fully fund debt cancellation for heavily indebted poor countries

Better integrate efforts of federal agencies with the military through new Mobile Development Teams

Revise regulations for export of aerospace technology

Improve communications systems for first responders

Modernize ships and invest more in small vessels

Expedite oil and gas drilling from domestic shale formations

Enforce pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budget rules

Improve port security through better radiation detection

Limit Guard and Reserve deployments to one year for every six years

Spend $5 billion over three years on cooperative programs with foreign intelligence agencies

Review weapons programs

Make security part of new infrastructure design

Eliminate caps on damages for discrimination cases

Establish standards of care for traumatic brain injury treatment

Create a rural revitalization program

Increase commercialization benefits from technology

Seek more information sharing on security between feds and localities

Hold hospitals and health plans accountable for disparities in care

Partner with landowners to conserve private lands

Modernize the nation's electricity grid and use "smart grid" practices

Restore habeas corpus rights for "enemy combatants"

Set a national goal to provide re-screening for all 2-year-olds for developmental disorders

Cut federal contracts

Work to persuade the European Union to end credit guarantees to Iran

Work for the release of international dissidents

Call for a consultative group of congressional leaders on national security

Invest in transitional jobs and career pathway programs

Require full disclosure of company pension investments to employees

Improve recruitment of public health workers

Create clean coal partnerships

Send first-time nonviolent drug offenders to rehab if appropriate

Enhance drug courts

Attract more doctors to rural areas

Press China to end its support for regimes in Sudan, Burma, Iran and Zimbabwe

Provide easy-to-understand comparisons of the Medicare prescription drug plans

Reform the Small Business Administration's ability to respond after disasters

Offer prizes for advances in consumer technology

Close loopholes to discourage energy speculation

Phase in requirements for health information technology

Sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

End the use of extreme rendition

Phase out highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the civil sector

Amend the Medicare "homebound" rule to allow some travel without loss of benefits

Ensure that stem cell research is conducted ethically and with vigorous oversight

Modernize public health buildings

Secure nuclear weapons materials in four years

Strengthen federal environmental justice programs

Invest in electronic health information systems

Limit subsidies for agribusiness

Strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Support wetlands protection

Create a national catastrophe insurance reserve

Strengthen anti-monopoly laws to favor independent farmers

Give tax incentives to new farmers

Expand the YouthBuild program, a youth education and housing program.

Promote lifelong retraining

Reduce dependence on foreign oil

Increase research opportunities for college students

Work with Latin American leaders to develop a hemispheric crime strategy

Require companies to disclose personal information data breaches

Dedicate more resources to fight employment discrimination against military reservists

Enact measures to prevent nuclear fuel from becoming nuclear bombs

Regulate pollution from major livestock operations

Seek treaty to control fissile materials

Seek safe disposal of nuclear waste

Expand service-learning in schools

Stop al Qaida prison recruitment

Double U.S. spending on foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012

Strengthen the African Growth and Opportunity Act

Establish a Global Education Fund

Encourage diversity in media ownership

Improve emergency response plans

Improve and prioritize student science assessments

Simplify the application process for financial aid

Fully fund the Combating Autism Act and Federal Autism Research Initiatives

Encourage contests and programs to interest students in science

Appoint a Chief Financial Officer to oversee the rebuilding following national disasters

Help students and their families become aware of college readiness

Direct rebuilding efforts from the White House after a catastrophe

Convene a summit on preventing nuclear terrorism

Strengthen Proliferation Security Initiative aimed at stopping spread of weapons of mass destruction

With the G-8, launch Health Infrastructure 2020

Issue a "best practices" report for states on reducing domestic violence

Create scholarships to recruit new teachers

Fully fund the COPS program

Work with schools to create more healthful environments for children

Establish a Global Energy Corps to promote green energy in developing countries

Commission a study on students with disabilities and their transition to jobs or higher education

Clarify legal status for defense contractor personnel

Require 25 percent renewable energy by 2025

Strengthen the State Department's ability to respond to conflict

Increase the size of the foreign service

Create a Civilian Assistance Corps that would organize private sector professionals to help

Create a system of incentives and penalties for defense contracts

Set standards for when the government should hire defense contractors

Fund proposals to help fish and game survive climate change

Launch a new 'America's Voice Corps'

Educate business about the benefits of flexible work schedules and telecommuting

Create an office to help improve nonprofits

Streamline the Social Security disability approval process

Institute electronic record-keeping for the Veterans Benefits Administration

Strengthen international rules against commercial whaling

Strengthen International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and double its budget in the next 4 years

Expand Early Head Start and Head Start

Launch a Children's First Agenda

Address the dropout crisis by giving schools incentives for more dropout prevention

Create a Presidential Early Learning Council

Restore the Great Lakes

Bring Democrats and Republicans together to pass an agenda

Secure the borders

Cut the cost of a typical family's health insurance premium by up to $2,500 a year

Require production of more biofuels

Devote federal resources to promote cellulosic ethanol

Provide tax credits for automakers to build fuel-efficient cars

Cap interest rates on payday loans and improve disclosure

Require new federal fleet purchases to be half plug-in hybrids or electric vehicles

Upgrade nation's infrastructure through new partnership with state and local government

Establish a low carbon fuel standard

Provide $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS

Sign the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act into law

Double federal program to help "reverse" commuters who go from city to suburbs

Speed up development of the next-generation space vehicle

Sign the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act

Support tax deduction for artists

Expose Special Interest Tax Breaks to Public Scrutiny

Establish transparency standards for military contractors

Seek independent watchdog agency to investigate congressional ethics violations

Conduct regulatory agency business in public

Make White House communications public

Push for a college football playoff system

Require energy conservation in use of transportation dollars

Create a fund for international small and medium enterprises (SME)

Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act

Support funding and reform for Amtrak

Create youth service corps

Pressure Sudan to end violence in Darfur

Work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers

Restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees

Increase funding for organic and sustainable agriculture

Create an international tax haven watch list

Vigorously pursue hate crimes and civil rights abuses

Sign the Freedom of Choice Act

Create a Homeowner Obligation Made Explicit (HOME) score for mortgage comparisons

Increase non-military aid to Afghanistan by $1 billion

Create a $60 billion bank to fund roads and bridges

Increase funding for progams that conserve lands, habitat for species like Osceola turkey

Lift the payroll tax cap on earnings above $250,000

Create a retirement savings tax credit for low incomes

Require health care providers to report preventable medical errors

Require providers to report measures of health care costs and quality

Create a mortgage interest tax credit for non-itemizers

Support regional innovation clusters

Provide option for a pre-filled-out tax form

Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices

Make military deployments predictable for troops and families

Expand broadband's reach

Improve water quality

Attract more students to science and math

Update copyright and patent law

If you want new insurance, you'll be able to choose a new plan on a health insurance exchange

Expand public/private partnerships between schools and arts organizations

Attract foreign art talent

Improve climate change data records

Open new consulates "in the tough and hopeless corners of the world"

Expand teacher mentoring programs and provide incentives for more planning time

Prevent drug companies from blocking generic drugs

Centralize ethics and lobbying information for voters

Implement and fund proven health intervention programs

Promote innovative ways to reward good teachers

Reduce the number of middle managers in the federal workforce

Create White House performance team and chief performance officer

Work to build natural gas pipeline from Alaska

Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Seek to negotiate a political agreement on Cyprus

Require automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans

Mandate flexible fuel vehicles by 2012

Require more flex-fuel cars for the federal government

Promote more pre-school education

Provide $30 billion over 10 years to Israel

Launch a supportive services-housing program for veterans to prevent homelessness

Make National Guard leader a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Strengthen antitrust enforcement

Require Cabinet officials to host Internet town hall meetings

Expand Veterans Centers in rural areas

Increase special operations forces and civil affairs

End the use of torture

Urge China to stop manipulation of its currency value

Reform the patent system

Increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps

Launch robust diplomatic effort with Iraq and its neighbors

End the "Stop-loss" program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments

Restore the government's ability to manage contracts by rebuilding our contract officer corps

Expand federal bioforensics program for tracking biological weapons

Expand housing vouchers program for homeless veterans

Provide the CDC $50 million in funding to determine effective approaches for cancer patient care

Modernize air traffic system

Provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave

Increase efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy

Create a consumer-friendly credit card rating system

Protect American intellectual property abroad

Reform No Child Left Behind

Double federal funding for cancer research

Expand the Family Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence or sexual assault

Require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year

Reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act

Double funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a program for manufacturing efficiency

Create a best practices list for private businesses in accommodating workers with disabilities

Launch educational initiative for employers on tax benefits of hiring employees with disabilities

Develop an alternative to President Bush's Military Commissions Act on handling detainees

Create incentives for tree planting and promote carbon sequestration

Reproductive health care will be "at the heart" of health care reform.

Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour

Secure ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Fully fund federal contribution to the preservation of the Everglades

Use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration

Promote economic development in Mexico

Work with Russia to move nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert

Stop the development of new nuclear weapons

Organize successful Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010

Create a community college partnership program

Require more energy-efficient appliances

Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy

Require 10 percent renewable energy by 2012

Restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups

Release oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve

We will kill bin Laden

Sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize

Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners

Enact windfall profits tax for oil companies

Appoint federal-level coordinator to oversee all federal autism efforts

Allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court

Forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses

Reinstate special envoy for the Americas

Open "America Houses" in Islamic cities around the globe

Form international group to help Iraq refugees

Limit term of director of national intelligence

Create a National Commission on People with Disabilities, Employment, and Social Security

Create a military families advisory board

Require plug-in fleet at the White House

Eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups

Help states and localities address sprawl

Consider "smart growth" in transportation funding

Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles

Support airline service in small towns

Will seek more accommodations of bicycles and pedestrians

Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty

Expand the child and dependent care credit

Change rules so small businesses owned by people with disabilities get preferences for contracts.

Implement "Women Owned Business" contracting program

Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming

Invest $10 billion per year in early intervention educational and developmental programs

End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war

Introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year

Eliminate disparity in sentencing for crack and cocaine

Provide an annual report on "state of our energy future"

Re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council

Seek code of conduct for space-faring nations

Reinstate order to hire 100,000 more federal employees with disabilities within five years.

Create new financial regulations

Reimburse employer health plans for a portion of catastrophic costs

Force non-competitive insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care

Require health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care

Change standards for determining broadband access

Weatherize 1 million homes per year

Fully fund the Veterans Administration

Fully fund the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)

Require economic justification for tax changes

Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs

Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers

Expand the Veterans Administration's number of "centers of excellence" in specialty care

Establish 'Promise Neighborhoods' for areas of concentrated poverty

Promote cultural diplomacy

Fully fund the Violence Against Women Act

Strengthen antitrust laws to prevent overcharging for malpractice insurance

Allow imported prescription drugs

Establish an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information

No family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase."

Eliminate the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans

Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan

Increase the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals

Reduce subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers

Raise fuel economy standards

Expand Pell grants for low-income students

Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty

Create a small business tax credit to help with health premiums

Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums

Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions

Close the "doughnut hole" in Medicare prescription drug plan

Create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange.

Require children to have health insurance coverage

Double the Peace Corps

Support human mission to moon by 2020

Work with international allies on space station

Support commercial access to space

Conduct robust research and development on future space missions

Increase spending to prepare for longer space missions

Establish school programs to highlight space and science achievements

Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan

Initiate a grant and training program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime

Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit

Increase funding for land-grant colleges

Double federal spending for research on clean fuels

Restore funding to EEOC and Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

Create job training programs for clean technologies

Create a 'Green Vet Initiative' to promote environmental jobs for veterans

Spend $25 million a year on programs to raise awareness of college financial aid

Create clean technology venture capital fund

Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage

Make greater investment in advanced military air technology

Provide affordable, high-quality child care

Establish program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders

End no-bid contracts above $25,000

More controlled burns to reduce wildfires

Encourage more public service by college students

Create a Social Investment Fund Network

Increase funding for local emergency planning

Create more public-private business incubators for poor communities

Protect forest service lands from more roads

Seek more funding for transportation security

Create a national declassification center

Create a national cyber adviser to coordinate security of electronic infrastructure

Require states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption

Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies

Encourage farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient

Ensure the Guard and Reserves can meet their homeland security missions

Significantly increase funding for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan

Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk

Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)

Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity

Repeal law that limits the sharing of gun-tracing data

Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West

Double funding for afterschool programs

Expand access to places to hunt and fish

Provide more funds to educate young hunters and anglers

Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds

Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries

Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security

Equalize tax breaks for driving and public transit

Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program

Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession

Work toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system

No permanent bases in Iraq

Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes

Bolster the military's ability to speak different languages

Champion the importance of arts education

Increase minority access to capital

Share enviromental technology with other countries

Create an artist corps for schools

Give Al Gore a key role on global warming

Reform mandatory minimum sentences

Pursue a wildfire management plan

Provide grants to early-career researchers

Increase funding for national parks and forests

Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency

Increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund

Push for Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation

Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as 'must-pass' legislation

Allow all veterans back into the Veterans Administration

Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts

Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station

Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud

Use the International Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research

Explore whether International Space Station can operate after 2016

Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women

Raise the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009

Invest in public transportation

Use the private sector to improve spaceflight

Enhance earth mapping

Add another Space Shuttle flight

Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas

Appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer

Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN

Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs

Appoint an American Indian policy adviser

Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials

Allow five days of public comment before signing bills

Establish a credit card bill of rights