U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress is named in 239 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1791 to 2026.
U.S. Congress on the timeline
239 events · 1791–2026 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-11 | Trump Calls Iran Ceasefire 'On Life Support' as War Hits Week 10; Pentagon Comptroller Reveals $29 Billion U.S. Cost
6 src Donald Trump · Department of Defense · Iran · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-03 | Trump Requests Record $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget for FY2027, Largest Year-Over-Year Increase Since WWII
6 src Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Trump Publicly Champions Crypto Industry in Stablecoin Battle While Family Firm Profits from Same Rules
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · World Liberty Financial · U.S. Congress · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | Analysis Shows Congress Rejected Nearly All DOGE Spending Cuts in FY2026 Budget
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-03 | Congress Passes Bipartisan HHS Funding Bill Blocking RFK Jr.'s Proposed 25% Budget Cuts
2 src U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Expire, Premiums Double for 22 Million Americans
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Repeals 1991 and 2002 Iraq AUMFs — First War-Authorization Repeal Since 1971 Serves as Cover for Capture-Relevant Bundle
4 src U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Tim Kaine · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 1085 Eliminates Congressional Notification for AUKUS Defense Trade, DDTC Final Rule Effective December 30
4 src U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 8335 Codifies EO 14033 Western Balkans Sanctions, Creates Regulatory Frame Around Kushner Belgrade/Sazan Architecture
12 src U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jeanne Shaheen · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 8366 Establishes Nuclear Export Working Group, Builds Bureaucratic Infrastructure for U.S.-Saudi Civil Nuclear Agreement
4 src U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Sections 1651-1652 Codify Trump Golden Dome Missile Defense Policy, Lock In 2,440-Vendor Ecosystem Including SpaceX $2B Satellite Constellation
4 src U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-15 | Congress Repeals Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act via FY 2026 NDAA Language After Al-Khayyat Brothers' Trump-Adjacent Lobbying Campaign
4 src Moutaz Al-Khayyat · Ramez Al-Khayyat · Mohamad Al-Khayyat · U.S. Congress · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-10 | Judge Berman Orders Release of Epstein 2019 Grand Jury Records, Reversing Earlier Decision
3 src Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, but Active Investigation Loophole May Enable Redactions
4 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Budget Chief Russell Vought Seizes Congressional Spending Authority
2 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts
2 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Freezes $88 Million for Human Trafficking Survivors
2 src Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | OMB Director Russ Vought Uses Shutdown to Execute Mass Federal Purges
3 src Russ Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | Trump Notifies Congress of 'Non-International Armed Conflict' with 'Unlawful Combatants' in Caribbean
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Jack Reed | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-24 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Set to Expire, Threatening 20M with 114% Premium Increases
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns of Job Cuts After Congress Halves Funding Cap
3 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | OMB Director Russell Vought Inserts Political Conditions Into 100+ Budget Accounts, Blocking Congressional Appropriations
2 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Trump Invokes 'Pocket Rescission' to Claw Back $4.9 Billion in Congressionally Approved Foreign Aid
3 src Trump · State Department · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-07-18 | GENIUS Act signed - first major pro-crypto legislation benefiting Trump holdings
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | OBBBA Signed — $45B ICE Detention + $29.85B Enforcement Appropriations Through FY2029 Fund $38.3B Detention Reengineering Initiative
7 src Donald Trump · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Into Law: $911 Billion in Medicaid Cuts, 11.8 Million Projected to Lose Coverage
6 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs "One Big Beautiful Bill" Slashing $863 Billion from Medicaid, Devastating US Territories
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | House Proposes Nearly 50% Budget Cut for GAO
4 src U.S. House of Representatives · Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | Trump systematically dismantles post-Watergate institutional safeguards
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics
4 src Senate Judiciary Committee · John Roberts · U.S. Marshals Service · Supreme Court Justices · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Federal Courts Reach Impasse on Presidential Emoluments Enforcement
3 src Department of Justice · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization
3 src Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Northern Mariana Islands in "Very Dire" Fiscal Crisis as Tourism Collapse and Federal Aid Ends
2 src Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-05 | Puerto Rico Votes 58.6% for Statehood in Non-Binding Referendum as Congress Ignores Colonial Status
3 src Jenniffer González-Colón · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine
4 src Joe Biden · Pentagon · U.S. Congress · Ukraine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | 90/10 Rule Loophole Closes, Ending For-Profit Colleges' Predatory Targeting of Veterans by Counting GI Bill and Military Tuition Assistance as Federal Aid
19 src U.S. Department of Education · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · For-Profit College Industry · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-23 | Bipartisan Inspector General protections enacted
4 src U.S. Congress · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-25 | FCC bans Huawei and ZTE as national security threats while Carbyne operates unchecked
4 src Federal Communications Commission · Huawei · Brendan Carr · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction
3 src U.S. Congress · KKR · Private Equity Industry | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-27 | PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates
3 src Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-16 | Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution to End U.S. Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Protecting MBS After Khashoggi Murder
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · U.S. Congress · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight
3 src Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress on Cambridge Analytica and Russian Interference
3 src Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Congress · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-01 | Facebook Admits Russians Bought $100,000 in Ads to Influence 2016 Election
4 src Facebook · Internet Research Agency · U.S. Congress · Russian Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
3 src Mylan · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis
5 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-29 | NSA Officially Ends Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Under USA Freedom Act
4 src National Security Agency · U.S. Congress · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-19 | Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases
4 src Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Johnson & Johnson · AstraZeneca · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-16 | Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization
4 src Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-06 | Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress
3 src John McCain · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-27 | Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow
3 src Jamie Dimon · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
3 src Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity
3 src U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-09-15 | Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door
3 src U.S. Congress · Public Citizen | confirmed | |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Humana · U.S. Congress · Big Pharma | confirmed | |
| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers
3 src Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse
3 src Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest
3 src George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-27 | Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: 25-Year Extension Passes with Bipartisan Supermajority Before Conservative Legal Assault
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · John Lewis · John Conyers | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure
4 src Dubai Ports World · Dennis Hastert · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists
3 src Public Citizen · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-17 | Intelligence Reform Act Creates DNI, Accelerates Contractor Dependence
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-05 | Scott Bloch Dismisses 1,000+ Whistleblower Cases at OSC
3 src Office of Special Counsel · U.S. Congress · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Bush Administration Hides 39B Medicare Part D Cost from Congress
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program
3 src U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-28 | NSA Officer Kwiatkowski Documents OSP-WHIG Intelligence Corruption as Whistleblower
3 src Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Michael Maloof · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-16 | WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception
3 src George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · U.S. Congress · Constitutional Framework · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-02-14 | Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-15 | Post-9/11 Intelligence Budget Surge Begins, Contractor Spending Will Triple by 2007
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-07 | Higher Education Act Reauthorization Loosens Regulations, Enables For-Profit College Explosion
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · University of Phoenix | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-01 | 287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement
3 src U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-01 | Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Program Reaches $44 Billion Total Cost
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Financial Industry Spends $300 Million on Deregulation Lobbying and Campaign Contributions
4 src Banking industry · Democratic Party · Republican Party · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1996-09-30 | Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1996-04-24 | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1996-02-08 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 Eliminates Radio Ownership Caps and Raises TV Limits, Triggering Massive Media Consolidation
10 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · Clear Channel Communications · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Federal Three Strikes Law Mandates Life Imprisonment for Third Violent Felony
3 src Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1993-05-20 | National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter): Expands Registration Access Despite Republican Opposition and Implementation Resistance
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Republican Governors · League of Women Voters | confirmed | |
| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry
3 src Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1990-11-29 | Immigration Act of 1990 Expands Legal Immigration, Creates Diversity Visa Lottery
3 src George H.W. Bush · Edward Kennedy · Alan Simpson · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1990-01-01 | S&L Crisis Lessons Documented But Ignored: Stage Set for 2008 Repeat
3 src U.S. Congress · Banking industry | confirmed | |
| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud
4 src George H.W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Resolution Trust Corporation · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1988-11-18 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Creates "Aggravated Felony" Category, Merging War on Drugs with Deportation
3 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1988-08-04 | WARN Act Passes with Corporate Loopholes, Toothless Plant Closing Protection
3 src U.S. Congress · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · AFL-CIO | confirmed | |
| 1987-11-18 | Iran-Contra Minority Report: Cheney, Addington Lay Groundwork for Unitary-Executive Doctrine That Shapes Bush II and Trump II
3 src Dick Cheney · David Addington · Henry Hyde · Orrin Hatch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1986-11-06 | Immigration Reform and Control Act Grants Amnesty to 3 Million, Employer Sanctions Fail
3 src Ronald Reagan · Alan Simpson · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-27 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Corporate Lobbying Secures Massive Rate Reductions
3 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1983-03-09 | Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Neil Gorsuch | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-29 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982: Results Test Adopted, Section 2 Strengthened After Reagan Opposition
3 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Bob Dole · Edward Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | Reagan Deficit Explosion: National Debt Triples From $1T to $3T in Eight Years
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Office of Management and Budget · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs ERTA: Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Begin Inequality Explosion
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Jack Kemp · William Roth | confirmed |
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Donald Trump
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Department of Justice
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George W. Bush
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Ronald Reagan
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Harry Truman
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Harry S. Truman
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Andrew Jackson
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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National Association of Manufacturers
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Woodrow Wilson
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119th Congress
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Bill Clinton
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Henry Clay
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House Armed Services Committee
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Jimmy Carter
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National Security Agency
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Richard Nixon
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Senate Armed Services Committee
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Abraham Lincoln
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Calvin Coolidge
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Federal Reserve
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