From the Texas Democratic Party Handbook:
What has the Democratic Party done for you lately?
- The Democratic Party has been so successful in improving our lives, that sometimes people forget what we have accomplished that makes life better.
- The Democratic Party members are the people who brought you a minimum wage and the promise of prevailing local wages, 8-hour workday in a safe environment, unemployment benefits, and workers compensation when things go wrong.
- The Democratic programs of the Federal Home Loan Program, Water Quality Act, and Rural
- Electrification Act brought ownership of a home with utilities within reach of most of us.
- Democrats awarded veterans G. I. student benefits, home loans, and health care they so richly
- deserve.
- Democrats created plans, such as Head Start, Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Guaranteed
- Student Loan Program have helped us raise and educate our children.
- Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Securities and
- Exchange Act help us enjoy a secure old age.
- Democrats brought many of us our very right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Amendment and
- Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- We must continue to fight groups who are trying to destroy all of these benefits that we take for granted now.
A List of Democratic Accomplishments:
- 8-Hour Workday
- Social Security
- Minimum Wage Law
- G.I. Bill of Rights
- Marshall Plan
- NATO
- Peace Corps
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Operation Head Start
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Water Quality Act
- Clean Air Act
- First Man on the Moon
- Women's Suffrage Amendment
- Workers Compensation Act
- Unemployment Compensation Act
- Rural Electrification Act
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Home Loan Program
- Securities & Exchange Act
- Guaranteed Student Loan Program
- Family and Medical Leave Act
- School Lunch Program
- Motor Voter Act
- 100,000 New police on U.S. streets
- Balanced budget in 1998 as a result of the
- Balanced Act 1993
- Davis-Bacon Act
