Congress had a busy year.

As part of its annual list of "Dids and Didn'ts," CQ Weekly compiled a dozen highlights of the first session of the 111th Congress.

The list includes a few major domestic initiatives as well as a few smaller pieces of legislation you may have missed:

• Inject $787 billion into the economy, principally for projects intended to save or create jobs, in a bid to stimulate an end to the deepest recession since the 1930s.

• Give the Food and Drug Administration broad authority to regulate the contents and marketing of tobacco products.

• Impose a range of new regulations and restrictions on the credit card industry, including limits on interest rate increases.

• Confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice ever on the Supreme Court.

• Appropriate $218.6 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing their combined cost to more than $1 trillion.

• Boost domestic discretionary spending about 10 percent, the biggest such increase this decade.

• Set conditions on the movement of wartime detainees and the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

• Allocate $3 billion in cash incentives for consumers to trade in their cars and purchase more energy-efficient vehicles.

• Add new layers of oversight for Pentagon procurement practices.

• Broaden the federal hate crimes statute to include acts based on disdain for people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

• Expand federal national and community service programs.

• Increase funding and expand eligibility for the health insurance program for low-income children.

-- Ryan Teague Beckwith, Congress.org