| 1984-05-07 | Agent Orange Settlement - Chemical Companies Pay $180 Million to Veterans Without Admitting Liability - Victims Receive Average $3,800 Dow Chemical Company · Monsanto Company · Vietnam Veterans · +2 | 5 | |
| 1984-03-01 | Empire Savings Failure Exposes Land Flip Fraud Networks Empire Savings · Edwin Gray · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · +3 | 6 | |
| 1984-02-01 | Charles Keating Purchases Lincoln S&L: Systematic Fraud Network Charles Keating · American Continental Corporation · Lincoln Savings and Loan · +2 | 5 |
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| 1984-01-22 | First Fully Privatized Prison Opens in Houston Under CCA Contract with Immigration and Naturalization Service Corrections Corporation of America · Immigration and Naturalization Service · T. Don Hutto · +1 | 4 |
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| 1984-01-01 | ALEC Corporate Membership Explodes as Major Corporations Overwhelm Organization with Requests for Legislative Access American Legislative Exchange Council · Kathleen Teague · Edison Electric Institute · +7 | 10 |
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| 1984-01-01 | Drexel Burnham Lambert Raises $100 Million Blind Pool for Nelson Peltz Corporate Raids Michael Milken · Nelson Peltz · Drexel Burnham Lambert · +1 | 4 | |
| 1984-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Organizational Profile: Urban Policy Infrastructure and CIA-Connected Think Tank Manhattan Institute · William J. Casey · Antony Fisher · +7 | 10 |
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| 1983-12-20 | Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein as Reagan Special Envoy to Iraq Donald Rumsfeld · Saddam Hussein · Ronald Reagan | 3 |
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| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed Rita Lavelle · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Aerojet-General Corporation · +2 | 5 |
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| 1983-11-02 | Greyhound Strike Ends in Permanent Replacement Victory, PATCO Pattern Spreads to Private Sector Greyhound Lines · Amalgamated Transit Union · Fred Currey | 3 | |
| 1983-10-09 | James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends James Watt · Ronald Reagan · Department of Interior · +1 | 4 |
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| 1983-07-01 | South Dakota abolishes Rule Against Perpetuities, enabling dynasty trusts and tax haven status South Dakota Legislature | 1 |
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| 1983-06-30 | Phelps Dodge Breaks Copper Strike Using Permanent Replacement Workers, Destroying Union Phelps Dodge Corporation · United Steelworkers · Arizona miners · +1 | 4 |
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| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · +3 | 6 |
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| 1983-04-26 | A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization National Commission on Excellence in Education · Secretary of Education Terrel Bell · Ronald Reagan · +1 | 4 |
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| 1983-04-20 | Medicare Adopts DRG Prospective Payment System Creating Hospital Profit Incentives for Reduced Care Ronald Reagan · Richard Schweiker · American Hospital Association · +1 | 4 | |
| 1983-03-09 | Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed Anne Gorsuch Burford · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 |
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| 1983-01-28 | Corrections Corporation of America Founded in Nashville, Launching Modern Private Prison Industry Thomas W. Beasley · Robert Crants · T. Don Hutto · +3 | 6 |
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| 1983-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Expands to 100+ Staff with $10 Million Budget During Reagan Administration Peak Influence Heritage Foundation · Edwin Feulner · Ronald Reagan · +3 | 6 | |
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism Securities and Exchange Commission · John Shad · Ronald Reagan | 3 |
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| 1982-11-01 | RNC Signs Consent Decree Banning Voter Intimidation After Armed Ballot Security Task Force Republican National Committee · Democratic National Committee · Dickinson R. Debevoise | 3 | |
| 1982-10-15 | Reagan Signs Garn-St Germain Act: Massive Thrift Deregulation Ronald Reagan · Jake Garn (R-UT) · Fernand St Germain (D-RI) · +4 | 7 | |
| 1982-10-14 | Reagan Declares Intensified War on Drugs: Federal Drug Enforcement Budget Skyrockets as Incarceration Becomes National Policy Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · Edwin Meese · +1 | 4 |
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| 1982-10-06 | Josemaria Escriva Beatified Despite Controversies Pope John Paul II · Josemaria Escriva · Vatican | 3 | |
| 1982-09-20 | Bamford's The Puzzle Palace Published, First Book-Length Public History of NSA After 30 Years of Denial James Bamford · National Security Agency · Houghton Mifflin · +1 | 4 |
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| 1982-09-16 | Reagan Supports Philippine Dictator Marcos Despite Massive Kleptocracy Ronald Reagan · Ferdinand Marcos · Imelda Marcos · +1 | 4 |
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| 1982-09-03 | Reagan Signs TEFRA Reversing Much of ERTA - Largest Peacetime Tax Increase Raises $100 Billion After Revenue Collapse Ronald Reagan · Robert Dole · Jack Kemp · +2 | 5 | |
| 1982-06-30 | Equal Rights Amendment Defeated After Schlafly's Decade-Long Campaign, Establishing Conservative Movement Model Phyllis Schlafly · STOP ERA · Eagle Forum · +2 | 5 | |
| 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 · +3 | 6 |
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| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | 4 |
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| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · +3 | 6 |
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| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Steven Calabresi · +11 | 14 |
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| 1982-04-22 | Berkeley Pit Mine Closes on Earth Day, Pumps Shut Off, Creating Toxic Lake Superfund Site Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · +2 | 5 |
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| 1982-03-23 | Guatemala Military Coup Brings Ríos Montt to Power with Reagan Support Ronald Reagan · Efraín Ríos Montt | 2 |
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| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · +3 | 6 |
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| 1982-01-08 | AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · +1 | 4 |
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| 1982-01-01 | Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · +3 | 6 |
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| 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 · +1 | 4 |
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| 1982-01-01 | S&L Deregulation Creates Moral Hazard: Recipe for Systematic Fraud Ronald Reagan · Savings and Loan industry · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · +1 | 4 |
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| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-12-01 | CNP Completes "Three-Legged Stool" with Heritage and ALEC - Coordination Infrastructure Operational Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · +1 | 4 |
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| 1981-11-13 | Lee Atwater's Recorded Confession Explains Evolution of Racial Dog Whistle Politics Lee Atwater · Alexander Lamis · Republican Party | 3 | |
| 1981-09-29 | Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial Ronald Reagan · U.S. Coast Guard · Immigration and Naturalization Service · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) - Top Rate Slashed from 70% to 50%, Corporate Tax Cuts Total $150 Billion Over Five Years Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · William Roth · +5 | 8 | |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs ERTA: Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Begin Inequality Explosion Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Jack Kemp · +1 | 4 |
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| 1981-08-03 | Reagan Fires PATCO Strikers: Union-Busting Era Begins Ronald Reagan · Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization · PATCO · +1 | 4 | |
| 1981-06-05 | AIDS Epidemic Begins: Reagan Administration Maintains Years of Deadly Silence Ronald Reagan · Centers for Disease Control · C. Everett Koop · +1 | 4 |
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| 1981-05-18 | Council for National Policy Founded with Schlafly as Founding Member, Creating Elite Conservative Network Phyllis Schlafly · Council for National Policy · Tim LaHaye · +6 | 9 | |
| 1981-05-01 | Council for National Policy Founded - Secret Conservative Coordination Network Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · Nelson Bunker Hunt · +3 | 6 |
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| 1981-05-01 | Tim LaHaye Founds Council for National Policy: The Shadow Network That Coordinates the American Right Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · +3 | 6 |
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| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-04-01 | Epstein leaves Bear Stearns amid SEC insider trading investigation Jeffrey Epstein · Bear Stearns · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-04-01 | Jack Welch Becomes GE CEO, Launches 'Shareholder Value' Era and Mass Layoffs Jack Welch · General Electric | 2 |
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| 1981-01-28 | Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture Ronald Reagan · James Watt · Mountain States Legal Foundation · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · +5 | 8 |
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| 1981-01-01 | ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism American Legislative Exchange Council · Ronald Reagan · Paul Laxalt · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-01-01 | Corporate Tax Avoidance Explosion: Reagan Loopholes Slash Corporate Revenue Ronald Reagan · Corporate America · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | 4 |
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| 1981-01-01 | Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" Becomes Reagan Administration Blueprint Heritage Foundation · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Meese · +2 | 5 | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Administration Muzzles Surgeon General Koop on AIDS for Five Years C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | 3 |
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| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections Ronald Reagan · Anne Gorsuch · James Watt · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Era Wage Stagnation: Real Wages Decline as Inequality Accelerates Ronald Reagan · American workers · Labor unions · +1 | 4 |
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| 1981-01-01 | Supply-Side Economics Failure: Empirical Evidence Debunks Trickle-Down Theory Ronald Reagan · Arthur Laffer · David Stockman · +2 | 5 |
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| 1981-01-01 | Wealth Inequality Explodes: Reagan Policies Accelerate Income Gap Ronald Reagan · Top 1% earners · Middle class · +1 | 4 |
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| 1980-12-11 | Superfund Law Passes But Industry Successfully Builds In Weaknesses and Delays Jimmy Carter · Chemical Manufacturers Association · American Petroleum Institute · +2 | 5 |
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| 1980-11-05 | Edward Seaga Defeats Michael Manley in Jamaica Election, Immediately Re-Engages IMF Structural Adjustment Edward Seaga · Michael Manley · International Monetary Fund · +2 | 5 | |
| 1980-11-04 | Ronald Reagan Elected President, Conservative Infrastructure Achieves Powell Memo Goals Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · +4 | 7 |
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| 1980-08-03 | Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site Ronald Reagan · Republican Party | 2 | |
| 1980-07-01 | Carter Signs Motor Carrier Act, Completing Bipartisan Transportation Deregulation Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress | 2 |
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| 1980-07-01 | Reagan Aide Edwin Meese Coordinates with Heritage on "Mandate for Leadership" Edwin Meese III · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Feulner · +2 | 5 |
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| 1980-06-30 | Schlafly and Falwell Joint Rally Demonstrates Religious Right Coalition Unity Phyllis Schlafly · Jerry Falwell · Eagle Forum · +2 | 5 | |
| 1980-06-20 | Powell creates Central Hudson test expanding corporate commercial speech rights Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation · +1 | 4 |
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| 1980-04-21 | Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained Jimmy Carter · Fidel Castro · Cuban refugees · +3 | 6 | |
| 1980-03-24 | U.S. Backs El Salvador Death Squad Government Through 12-Year Civil War Ronald Reagan · Roberto D'Aubuisson · Oscar Romero | 3 |
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| 1980-03-17 | Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 |
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| 1980-01-07 | Carter Signs Chrysler Bailout, Corporate Welfare Precedent Set Jimmy Carter · Lee Iacocca | 2 | |
| 1980-01-01 | Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act Major commercial banks · Banking lobbyists · Federal regulators · +3 | 6 |
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| 1980-01-01 | Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm founded, nicknamed 'Torturers' Lobby' Charlie Black · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone | 3 |
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| 1980-01-01 | Charles Heatherly Produces "Mandate for Leadership" Outline, Assembling 300 Contributors Charles Heatherly · Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation | 3 |
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| 1980-01-01 | Claim: Epstein and Maxwell Alleged Intelligence Operation (Unverified) Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Robert Maxwell · +4 | 7 | |
| 1980-01-01 | Corporate Political Mobilization Accelerates Following Powell Memo and Business Roundtable Formation Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · +2 | 5 |
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| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Corporate lobbying groups · +1 | 4 |
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| 1979-12-27 | Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion Central Intelligence Agency · ISI Pakistan · General Zia ul-Haq · +3 | 6 |
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| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter | 2 |
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| 1979-06-01 | Falwell and Weyrich Found Moral Majority, Fusing Religious Right with Corporate Agenda Jerry Falwell · Paul Weyrich · Ed McAteer · +4 | 7 |
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| 1979-06-01 | Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare Paul Weyrich · Jerry Falwell · Richard Viguerie · +4 | 7 |
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| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence Lawyer Victor Yannacone · Dow Chemical Company · Monsanto Company · +3 | 6 |
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| 1979-01-02 | Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure John Tanton · Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) · Pioneer Fund · +2 | 5 |
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| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence American Legislative Exchange Council · Tobacco Institute · ALEC Executive Director | 3 |
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| 1979-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition Edwin Feulner · Jack Eckerd · Robert Krieble · +1 | 4 |
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| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork | 2 |
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| 1979-01-01 | Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses American workers · Corporate management · Federal Reserve · +1 | 4 |
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| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate Lobbying Industry · Lewis Powell · +1 | 4 |
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| 1978-11-09 | Natural Gas Policy Act Begins Energy Sector Deregulation Jimmy Carter | 1 |
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| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy Business Roundtable · Reginald Jones · Corporate PAC Committee · +1 | 4 |
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| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Birch Bayh · +3 | 6 |
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| 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 · +3 | 6 |
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| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · +1 | 4 |
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| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform Jimmy Carter · Theodore Hesburgh · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 |
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| 1978-08-22 | IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization Internal Revenue Service · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · +2 | 5 | |
| 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 · +1 | 4 |
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