Other legislation includes one on food safety and another, due for approval within the next few hours, will provide financial help for police, fire officers and others suffering respiratory problems from the 9/11 attack on New York.
On top of the health reform legislation earlier this year, the legislation passed in the so-called lame-duck Congress, the session between the 2 November election and the new Congress in January, traditionally a dead zone, provides Obama with a substantial legacy less than two years into his presidency.
He described the legislation passed in the last few weeks as the most productive post-election period weve had in decades.
He expressed regret over the Dream Act, a bill aimed at allowing the children of illegal immigrants a route to citizenship, had failed to secure enough votes but described himself as persistent and vowed he would keep at it.
He said the Start treaty was important for US national security but also for maintaining good relations with Russia.
The treaty will reduce strategic nuclear warheads deployed by each country to 1,550 within seven years. Deployed missile launchers would be cut to 700.
John Kerry, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, said: This historic Senate vote makes our country safer and moves the world further away from the danger of nuclear disaster. The winners are not defined by party or ideology. The winners are the American people, who are safer with fewer Russian missiles aimed at them, and who benefit knowing that our co-operation with Russia in curbing Irans nuclear ambitions and supplying our troops in Afghanistan can be strengthened.
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