| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Budget Surges to $10 Million - Think Tank Infrastructure Expansion American Enterprise Institute · William Baroody Sr. · Gerald Ford · Howard Pew Freedom Trust · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1976-09-14 | National Emergencies Act: Congress Attempts to Catalogue and Constrain 470 Executive Emergency Powers Frank Church · Charles Mathias · Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1976-03-10 | Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations Edward H. Levi · Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Clarence Kelley · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1975-11-20 | Church Committee Interim Report on Assassination Plots Documents CIA Foreign-Leader Targeting Frank Church · Church Committee · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins Gerald Ford · William Simon · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1975: Expands Protection to Language Minorities Including Latino, Asian, and Native American Voters Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress · Barbara Jordan · Edward Roybal · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-07-16 | Pike Committee Investigation: House Intelligence Findings Suppressed After CIA and White House Obstruction Otis Pike · CIA · Gerald Ford · Daniel Schorr · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-04 | Ford Creates Rockefeller Commission on CIA Activities to Pre-Empt Congressional Investigation Gerald Ford · Nelson Rockefeller · Dick Cheney · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era Harold Hughes · Leo Ryan · Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations Seymour Hersh · The New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-09-08 | Ford Issues Full Pardon to Nixon for All Watergate Crimes, Ensures No Criminal Accountability Gerald Ford · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts Gerald Ford · Jimmy Hoffa | | confirmed |
| 1974-08-09 | Richard Nixon Becomes First U.S. President to Resign, Gerald Ford Sworn In as 38th President Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Spiro Agnew | | confirmed |