| 1999-11-12 | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall
6 src Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-02-12 | Senate Acquits President Clinton on Both Impeachment Articles
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 1998-12-19 | House of Representatives Impeaches President Clinton on Perjury and Obstruction Charges
4 src Bill Clinton · House Republicans · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1998-10-27 | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Disney Lobbying Creates 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act,' Extending Corporate Rent Extraction by 20 Years
4 src Bill Clinton · Viacom |
| confirmed |
| 1998-10-01 | Electronic Industries Alliance Blacklisting - K Street Project Enforcement
3 src Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1998-09-01 | Federal Reserve Grants Citigroup Temporary Waiver for Glass-Steagall Violation
10 src Federal Reserve · Alan Greenspan · Citicorp · Sandy Weill · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-05-07 | Brooksley Born's Derivatives Regulation Warning Systematically Suppressed
4 src Brooksley Born · Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-05-07 | Coordinated Regulatory Opposition Suppresses CFTC Derivatives Oversight Inquiry
4 src Brooksley Born · Alan Greenspan · Robert Rubin · Arthur Levitt · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-05-01 | ALEC Adopts Paycheck Protection Act to Defund Democratic Party by Restricting Union Political Activity
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Scott Walker |
| confirmed |
| 1998-03-24 | Dobson Letter to GOP: Evangelical Base Demonstrates Veto Power Over Republican Agenda
3 src James Dobson · Focus on the Family · Tom DeLay · Republican Party · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-02-07 | James Dobson Threatens to Lead Evangelical Exodus from GOP: Focus on the Family Demonstrates Political Leverage
2 src James Dobson · Focus on the Family · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-17 | Monica Lewinsky Affair Becomes Public as Clinton Issues Denial
3 src Bill Clinton · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-01 | ALEC's 'Economic Impact Statement Act' Uses Cost-Benefit Analysis to Kill Environmental Regulations
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · State Legislatures |
| 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 | Felon Disenfranchisement Expansion: States Tighten Voting Bans as Prison Population Explodes
16 src State Legislatures · American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican Governors |
| 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 |
| 1996-09-21 | Clinton Signs DOMA: Christian-Right Marriage-Defense Coalition Wins First Federal Culture-War Legislative Victory
3 src Bill Clinton · Christian Coalition · Focus on the Family · James Dobson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-22 | Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act Ends Welfare Entitlement
4 src Bill Clinton · Newt Gingrich · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-22 | Welfare Reform Imposes Five-Year Lifetime Limit on Cash Assistance
3 src Bill Clinton · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-22 | Welfare Reform Mandates Work Requirements After Two Years of Assistance
3 src Bill Clinton · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-18 | Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" Exposes CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Connection
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1996-04-26 | Prison Litigation Reform Act Strips Prisoners' Access to Courts: Constitutional Rights Made Practically Unenforceable
3 src Newt Gingrich · Republican Congress |
| 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 |
| 1996-02-26 | Lincoln Bedroom Fundraising Scandal Reveals White House Donor Access Program
3 src Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | Abramoff-Norquist-DeLay Network Defeats Native American Casino Tax Bill
3 src Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist · Tom DeLay · Ralph Reed · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Business Plan to "Function More Like a Business" - Formalizes Pay-to-Play Corporate Legislative Model
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-04 | Tom DeLay Elected Majority Whip - Creates K Street PAC Tracking System
4 src Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Criminal Justice Task Force Promotes Truth-in-Sentencing Model Legislation Written by Private Prison Industry
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate funders |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Environment Task Force Passes 100+ Anti-Regulation Bills Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | K Street Project Systematically Transforms Washington Lobbying Infrastructure
3 src Tom DeLay · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1994-11-08 | Christian Coalition Distributes 33 Million Voter Guides, Powers Republican Revolution: Evangelical Electoral Machine at Peak Capacity
3 src Ralph Reed · Pat Robertson · Christian Coalition · Newt Gingrich · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-09-26 | Clinton Healthcare Reform Dies After Insurance Industry Lobbying Campaign
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Health insurance industry · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-09-13 | Crime Bill Allocates $8.7 Billion for Prison Construction With Truth-in-Sentencing Requirements
3 src Bill Clinton · State Governors |
| 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 |
| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Fuels Mass Incarceration
4 src Bill Clinton · Joe Biden |
| confirmed |
| 1994-08-05 | Kenneth Starr Replaces Robert Fiske as Whitewater Independent Counsel
4 src Kenneth Starr · Bill Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-12 | Whitewater Investigation Launches Under Special Counsel Robert Fiske
3 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Janet Reno |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | ALEC Passes Three Strikes Model Legislation Co-Sponsored by Private Prison Industry and NRA
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · National Rifle Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | Jack Abramoff Joins Preston Gates - Launches Tribal Lobbying Practice
3 src Jack Abramoff · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Implementation Begins Manufacturing Job Hemorrhage
4 src Bill Clinton · George H.W. Bush · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · AFL-CIO |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Takes Effect as Zapatista Uprising Protests Privatization of Indigenous Lands
4 src Mexican Government · Bill Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 1993-12-08 | Clinton Signs NAFTA Creating Corporate Tribunals to Override National Laws
4 src Bill Clinton · Al Gore · Robert Rubin · Mexican Government |
| confirmed |
| 1993-06-01 | $25 Million Corporate Lobbying Blitz Drives NAFTA Passage Despite Labor Opposition
4 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · Mexican Government · +1 |
| 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 |
| 1993-01-01 | Grover Norquist Wednesday Meetings Begin - Conservative Coordination Hub
3 src Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform |
| confirmed |
| 1992-12-24 | Bush Pardons Six Iran-Contra Officials on Christmas Eve, Completing Cover-Up
3 src George H.W. Bush · Caspar Weinberger · Robert McFarlane · Lawrence Walsh |
| confirmed |
| 1992-06-16 | Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Indicted on Five Iran-Contra Felonies
3 src Caspar Weinberger · Lawrence Walsh · Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1991-06-04 | Minnesota Enacts First Charter School Law, Creating Template for Education Privatization
3 src |
| 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 |
| 1990-11-15 | Clean Air Act Amendments Pass with Industry-Preferred Market Mechanisms Over Direct Regulation
3 src George H.W. Bush · Environmental Defense Fund · Edison Electric Institute · American Petroleum Institute · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1990-03-27 | Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Creates First Publicly-Funded Private School Vouchers
3 src Bradley Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1990-02-16 | Reagan Testifies "I Don't Recall" Repeatedly in Iran-Contra Deposition
3 src Ronald Reagan · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | CNP Membership Includes Reagan Cabinet Officials - Meese and North Join Elite Network
2 src Council for National Policy · Edwin Meese · Oliver North |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | S&L Crisis Lessons Documented But Ignored: Stage Set for 2008 Repeat
3 src U.S. Congress · Banking industry |
| confirmed |
| 1989-09-25 | Christian Coalition Founded - Grassroots Religious Right Electoral Infrastructure
3 src Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition |
| confirmed |
| 1989-04-14 | Lincoln Savings Collapse: $3.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout
5 src Charles Keating · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Resolution Trust Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1989-04-14 | Senate Ethics Committee Opens Keating Five Investigation
3 src John McCain · John Glenn · Alan Cranston · Donald Riegle · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1989-01-01 | Global Climate Coalition Formed to Coordinate Industry Climate Denial Campaign
17 src ExxonMobil · Chevron · Ford Motor Company · General Motors · +3 |
| 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 |
| 1987-05-06 | CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role
3 src William Casey · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1987-05-05 | Televised Iran-Contra Congressional Hearings Begin, Riveting Nation
3 src Oliver North · John Poindexter · George Shultz · Caspar Weinberger |
| confirmed |
| 1987-04-01 | Keating Five Senators Pressure FHLBB to Halt Lincoln Investigation
4 src Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · John Glenn · John McCain · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-02-26 | Tower Commission Report Released, Criticized as Whitewash of Iran-Contra
3 src Ronald Reagan · Edmund Muskie · William Casey |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Budget Reaches $14.3 Million - Scale of Corporate Policy Investment
3 src Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Richard Mellon Scaife · Edwin Feulner |
| confirmed |
| 1986-11-25 | Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public
3 src Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1986-11-21 | Oliver North Begins Systematic Destruction of Iran-Contra Evidence
3 src Oliver North · John Poindexter |
| 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 |
| 1986-09-26 | Reagan Vetoes Apartheid Sanctions, Congress Overrides in Historic Rebuke
3 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1986-01-01 | State Policy Network (Madison Group) Founded - State-Level Think Tank Coordination
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heartland Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1985-12-04 | NSC Running Shadow Foreign Policy Through McFarlane and Poindexter
3 src Robert McFarlane · John Poindexter · Oliver North · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1985-10-02 | Rock Hudson Dies of AIDS: Reagan Forced to Finally Acknowledge Crisis
4 src Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · C. Everett Koop |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-31 | Idaho Legislature Overrides Veto to Impose Right-to-Work Law, Devastating Labor Movement
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Bradley Foundation Transformation - Coordinated Conservative Infrastructure Funding
3 src Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society · American Enterprise Institute · American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | CNP Establishes Three-Times-Yearly Meeting Schedule at Secret Locations
2 src Council for National Policy |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature
3 src Ronald Reagan · American workers |
| confirmed |
| 1984-10-12 | Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras
3 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1984-02-01 | Charles Keating Purchases Lincoln S&L: Systematic Fraud Network
6 src Charles Keating · Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
| confirmed |
| 1984-01-01 | ALEC Corporate Membership Explodes as Major Corporations Overwhelm Organization with Requests for Legislative Access
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Edison Electric Institute · Eli Lilly · Donald Rumsfeld |
| confirmed |
| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| 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 |
| 1982-10-14 | Reagan Declares Intensified War on Drugs: Federal Drug Enforcement Budget Skyrockets as Incarceration Becomes National Policy
3 src Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · Edwin Meese |
| confirmed |
| 1982-09-16 | Reagan Supports Philippine Dictator Marcos Despite Massive Kleptocracy
3 src Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan |
| 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 |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness
4 src William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure
4 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-03-23 | Guatemala Military Coup Brings Ríos Montt to Power with Reagan Support
3 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1981-12-01 | CNP Completes "Three-Legged Stool" with Heritage and ALEC - Coordination Infrastructure Operational
2 src Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich |
| 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 |
| 1981-06-05 | AIDS Epidemic Begins: Reagan Administration Maintains Years of Deadly Silence
4 src Ronald Reagan · C. Everett Koop |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections
3 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Department of Interior |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Era Wage Stagnation: Real Wages Decline as Inequality Accelerates
4 src Ronald Reagan · American workers · Labor unions · Corporate America |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Wealth Inequality Explodes: Reagan Policies Accelerate Income Gap
4 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 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 |
| 1980-07-01 | Carter Signs Motor Carrier Act, Completing Bipartisan Transportation Deregulation
2 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Corporate Political Mobilization Accelerates Following Powell Memo and Business Roundtable Formation
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-02 | Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure
3 src |
| confirmed |