| 1980-12-11 | Superfund Law Passes But Industry Successfully Builds In Weaknesses and Delays
3 src Jimmy Carter · Chemical Manufacturers Association · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1980-10-01 | INS Opens Krome Avenue Detention Center on Decommissioned Nike Missile Site, Locking In Detention as Default Immigration Response
4 src Immigration and Naturalization Service · Jimmy Carter · Ronald Reagan · Haitian refugees |
| confirmed |
| 1980-07-01 | Carter Signs Motor Carrier Act, Completing Bipartisan Transportation Deregulation
2 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1980-04-21 | Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained
3 src Jimmy Carter · Haitian refugees · Immigration and Naturalization Service | | confirmed |
| 1980-03-17 | Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-07 | Carter Signs Chrysler Bailout, Corporate Welfare Precedent Set
3 src Jimmy Carter | | confirmed |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins
3 src Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1978-11-09 | Natural Gas Policy Act Begins Energy Sector Deregulation
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance
3 src Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Church Committee · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform
3 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress · Alan Simpson |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-11 | American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites
3 src U.S. Congress · Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-07 | Love Canal Disaster Exposes Decades of Corporate Toxic Dumping Cover-Up
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1977-12-28 | International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Carter-Era Statute Becomes Principal Modern Instrument of Unilateral Economic Action
3 src Jimmy Carter · Clement Zablocki · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1977-10-12 | Community Reinvestment Act Passed to Combat Redlining, Banking Industry Resists
3 src Jimmy Carter · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve · FDIC |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |