U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress is named in 230 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1791 to 2026.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-03 | Trump Requests Record $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget for FY2027, Largest Year-Over-Year Increase Since WWII Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act 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 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 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 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 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 U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Tim Kaine · Todd Young · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 1085 Eliminates Congressional Notification for AUKUS Defense Trade, DDTC Final Rule Effective December 30 U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 8335 Codifies EO 14033 Western Balkans Sanctions, Creates Regulatory Frame Around Kushner Belgrade/Sazan Architecture U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jeanne Shaheen · +14 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 8366 Establishes Nuclear Export Working Group, Builds Bureaucratic Infrastructure for U.S.-Saudi Civil Nuclear Agreement U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +6 | 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 U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-15 | Congress Repeals Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act via FY 2026 NDAA Language After Al-Khayyat Brothers' Trump-Adjacent Lobbying Campaign Moutaz Al-Khayyat · Ramez Al-Khayyat · Mohamad Al-Khayyat · Power International Holding · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-10 | Judge Berman Orders Release of Epstein 2019 Grand Jury Records, Reversing Earlier Decision Judge Richard M. Berman · Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, but Active Investigation Loophole May Enable Redactions Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Budget Chief Russell Vought Seizes Congressional Spending Authority 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 CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Freezes $88 Million for Human Trafficking Survivors Trump Administration · Trafficking Survivor Organizations · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | OMB Director Russ Vought Uses Shutdown to Execute Mass Federal Purges 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 Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Jack Reed | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-24 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Set to Expire, Threatening 20M with 114% Premium Increases Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Kaiser Family Foundation | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns of Job Cuts After Congress Halves Funding Cap 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 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 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 Donald Trump · 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 Donald Trump · JD Vance · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | House Proposes Nearly 50% Budget Cut for GAO US House of Representatives · Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | Trump systematically dismantles post-Watergate institutional safeguards Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics Senate Judiciary Committee · Chief Justice John Roberts · U.S. Marshals Service · Supreme Court Justices · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Federal Courts Reach Impasse on Presidential Emoluments Enforcement D.C. Circuit Court · 4th Circuit Court · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule Donald Trump · Mike Carey · Ways and Means Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine 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 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 U.S. Department of Education · Veterans Education Success · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Holly Petraeus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-23 | Bipartisan Inspector General protections enacted U.S. Congress · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-25 | FCC bans Huawei and ZTE as national security threats while Carbyne operates unchecked Federal Communications Commission · Huawei · ZTE Corporation · Jessica Rosenworcel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-27 | PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates 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 Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · U.S. Congress · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis 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 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 Johns Hopkins University · Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Roche · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-16 | Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization Senator Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Insurance Companies | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-27 | Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission · Phil Angelides · Lloyd Blankfein · Jamie Dimon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2007-09-15 | Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door U.S. Congress · K Street · 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 Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · Regent University · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · David Iglesias · Carol Lam · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest President George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · Moody's Investors Service · Standard & Poor's · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-27 | Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: 25-Year Extension Passes with Bipartisan Supermajority Before Conservative Legal Assault George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · James Sensenbrenner · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Bob Ney · Tom DeLay · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists Public Citizen · U.S. Congress · K Street | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-17 | Intelligence Reform Act Creates DNI, Accelerates Contractor Dependence George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · 9/11 Commission · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-05 | Scott Bloch Dismisses 1,000+ Whistleblower Cases at OSC Scott Bloch · Office of Special Counsel · Whistleblower Groups · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Bush Administration Hides 39B Medicare Part D Cost from Congress Thomas Scully · Richard Foster · George W. Bush · Charles Rangel · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-28 | NSA Officer Kwiatkowski Documents OSP-WHIG Intelligence Corruption as Whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski · Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-16 | WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · U.S. Congress · Constitutional Framework · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-02-14 | Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations George W. Bush · Louise Jordan · Roberta Gross · Sean O'Keefe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-15 | Post-9/11 Intelligence Budget Surge Begins, Contractor Spending Will Triple by 2007 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 President Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · University of Phoenix · Career Education Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-01 | 287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Local law enforcement agencies | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-01 | Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Program Reaches $44 Billion Total Cost 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 Banking industry · Insurance Industry · Securities Industry · Democratic Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1996-09-30 | Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1996-04-24 | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review 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 Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · Clear Channel Communications · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Federal Three Strikes Law Mandates Life Imprisonment for Third Violent Felony 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 Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Republican Governors · ACORN · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress · Pharmaceutical companies | confirmed | |
| 1990-11-29 | Immigration Act of 1990 Expands Legal Immigration, Creates Diversity Visa Lottery 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 Financial regulators · U.S. Congress · Banking industry · Economics profession | confirmed | |
| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud 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 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 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 Dick Cheney · David Addington · Michael Malbin · Henry Hyde · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1986-11-06 | Immigration Reform and Control Act Grants Amnesty to 3 Million, Employer Sanctions Fail Ronald Reagan · Alan Simpson · Romano Mazzoli · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-27 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Corporate Lobbying Secures Massive Rate Reductions Ronald Reagan · Corporate lobbyists · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed Rita Lavelle · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Aerojet-General Corporation · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1983-03-09 | Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed Anne Gorsuch Burford · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-29 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982: Results Test Adopted, Section 2 Strengthened After Reagan Opposition Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Bob Dole · Edward Kennedy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | Reagan Deficit Explosion: National Debt Triples From $1T to $3T in Eight Years 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 Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Jack Kemp · William Roth | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Corporate Tax Avoidance Explosion: Reagan Loopholes Slash Corporate Revenue Ronald Reagan · Corporate America · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1980-07-01 | Carter Signs Motor Carrier Act, Completing Bipartisan Transportation Deregulation Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1980-03-17 | Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Corporate lobbying groups · Reagan administration | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · Birch Bayh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform Jimmy Carter · Theodore Hesburgh · U.S. Congress · Alan Simpson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-08-11 | American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites U.S. Congress · President Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes | confirmed | |
| 1977-12-28 | International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Carter-Era Statute Becomes Principal Modern Instrument of Unilateral Economic Action Jimmy Carter · Jonathan Bingham · Clement Zablocki · U.S. Congress | 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 |
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Donald Trump
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Department of Justice
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Ronald Reagan
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George W. Bush
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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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National Association of Manufacturers
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119th Congress
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Henry Clay
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House Armed Services Committee
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National Security Agency
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Senate Armed Services Committee
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Abraham Lincoln
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Bill Clinton
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Calvin Coolidge
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Federal Reserve
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George Washington
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Jimmy Carter
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Office of Management and Budget
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Richard Nixon
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