Chen zhi kai biography of barack obama

Gulf of Mexico oil spill

On April 20, 2010, an explosion destroyed an offshore drilling rig at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, causing a major sustained oil leak. He also signed into law the Car Allowance Rebate System, known colloquially as "Cash for Clunkers," that temporarily boosted the economy.

His father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., hailed from a small village in Kenya, where he was raised in the Luo ethnic group.

Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian class at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.^[8][9] The couple married on February 2, 1961,^[10] separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964.^[8] Obama Sr.

remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971.

A compromise deal with the Congressional Republican leadership including a temporary, two-year extension of the 2001 and 2003 income tax rates, a one-year payroll tax reduction, continuation of unemployment benefits, and a new rate and exemption amount for estate taxes allowed the resulting $858 billion Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to pass with bipartisan majorities before Obama signed it on December 17, 2010.^[57]

When Obama took office in January 2009, unemployment was at 7.8 percent and had been rising since the summer of 2008.

This milestone brings him national attention and establishes him as a rising figure in legal and political circles.

1991

Barack graduates magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Retrieved May 16, 2021.

Debate and controversy over "Obamacare" did not end with the signing of the bill into law. Members of his Cabinet included Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State, Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary, and Eric Holder as Attorney General; Robert Gates, who had assumed the office of Secretary of Defense in 2006, under then-President George W.

Bush, was retained in that position. With an unprecedented turnout and support from diverse demographics, Obama’s campaign reshaped the political landscape for years to come. He created a campaign committee, began raising funds, and lined up political media consultant David Axelrod by August 2002, and formally announced his candidacy in January 2003.

In 2000, he lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.^[22] In 2002 he began his campaign for the U.S. Senate, winning his seat in November, 2004. Following the convention, he won his first U.S. Senate seat, becoming the third African American senator since Reconstruction.

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2020

Barack publishes his memoir, A Promised Land, offering an in-depth look at his early life, political career, and first term as President. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively.