Legislative Capture
The Legislative Capture capture lane traces 658 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses Senator Frank Church · Senator John Tower · US Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities Senator Frank Church · Church Committee · Mike Mansfield · Seymour Hersh · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Becomes First Director of ALEC, Consolidating State Legislative Strategy Paul Weyrich · American Legislative Exchange Council · Henry Hyde | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Perfects Direct Mail Fundraising - Conservative Grassroots Infrastructure Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Morton Blackwell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era Harold Hughes · Leo Ryan · Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-10-28 | Equal Credit Opportunity Act and RESPA Pass After Industry Lobbying Weakens Enforcement U.S. Congress · President Gerald Ford · American Bankers Association · Mortgage Bankers Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1974-10-15 | FECA Amendments Enable Corporate PAC Formation, Triggering 1,600% Growth U.S. Congress · Federal Election Commission | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Enacted, Establishing Federal Preemption of State Employee Benefit Regulation U.S. Congress · President Gerald Ford | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-12 | Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Congress Strips Nixon's Unilateral Authority to Withhold Appropriated Funds Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Sam Ervin · Al Ullman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · Lewis F. Powell Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Jacob Javits · Clement Zablocki · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-15 | DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Founded as Systematic State-Level Corporate Influence Platform Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-08 | New York Passes Rockefeller Drug Laws: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Template for Mass Incarceration Nelson Rockefeller · New York State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | R.J. Rushdoony Publishes "The Institutes of Biblical Law": Intellectual Foundation for Christian Dominionism Rousas John Rushdoony · Gary North · Chalcedon Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1972-10-18 | Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power Clifford Case · Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-03-08 | COINTELPRO Exposed - FBI's Secret War on Civil Rights and Dissent Revealed Federal Bureau of Investigation · J. Edgar Hoover · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI | confirmed | |
| 1971-01-01 | Corporate Lobbying Expansion Begins, Growing From 175 to 2,500 Firms by 1982 U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate America | confirmed | |
| 1970-06-22 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1970: Nationwide Literacy Test Ban and Voting Age Lowered to 18 Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · Attorney General John Mitchell | confirmed | |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians President Richard Nixon · National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger · Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird · Secretary of State William Rogers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1968-04-11 | Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · National Association of Real Estate Boards · National Association of Realtors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption RMK-BRJ consortium · Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1965-10-03 | Immigration and Nationality Act Abolishes National Origins Quota System After Defeating Conservative Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator Philip Hart · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator James Eastland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1965-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · Southern Democratic Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation President Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-01 | Business-Industry Political Action Committee Founded as First Corporate PAC Business-Industry Political Action Committee · National Association of Manufacturers · BIPAC | confirmed | |
| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying Cecil R. King · Clinton Anderson · John F. Kennedy · Wilbur Mills · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democrats · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1959-09-14 | Landrum-Griffin Act Imposes Federal Restrictions on Union Internal Operations U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Labor · Labor unions · Phil Landrum · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1957-09-09 | Civil Rights Act of 1957: First Federal Voting Rights Law Since Reconstruction Passes Despite Southern Filibuster Dwight D. Eisenhower · Lyndon B. Johnson · Strom Thurmond · Richard Russell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1957-03-01 | Indiana Passes Right-to-Work Law, So Unpopular It's Repealed Within Eight Years Indiana General Assembly · Republican Party · Democratic Party · Indiana labor unions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1953-02-09 | Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network Roy Cohn · Joseph McCarthy · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-06-23 | Taft-Hartley Act Severely Restricts Union Power, Enables State Right-to-Work Laws Robert Taft · Fred Hartley · Republican Party · Harry Truman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1947-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Drafts Taft-Hartley Act "Sentence by Sentence, Paragraph by Paragraph" National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Taft · Fred Hartley · Donald O'Toole · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1946-02-20 | Employment Act of 1946 Gutted, Full Employment Guarantee Abandoned U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-06 | Truman 21-Point Program Defeated, Corporate Backlash Against New Deal Begins Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1944-11-07 | Arkansas and Florida Become First States to Pass Right-to-Work Laws Through Racist, Anti-Semitic Campaign Vance Muse · Christian American Association · Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation · Southern oil companies · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1943-06-25 | Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs Howard W. Smith · Tom Connally · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Congress of Industrial Organizations · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Business community · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Electric utility industry · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining Franklin D. Roosevelt · Robert Wagner · U.S. Congress · National Labor Relations Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Ferdinand Pecora · Richard Whitney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1910-03-19 | Insurgent Republicans Revolt Against Speaker Cannon: 29-Hour Session Strips Autocratic Powers, Splits GOP Joseph Cannon · George William Norris · President William Howard Taft · Progressive Republicans | confirmed | |
| 1903-10-29 | Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes Amalgamated Copper Company · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · F. Augustus Heinze · Judge William Clancy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-05-21 | Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement John Knox · Alabama Legislature · Democratic Party · Black Belt Planters | confirmed | |
| 1898-11-10 | Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens Alfred Moore Waddell · Furnifold Simmons · Red Shirts · Wilmington Black Community · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1887-02-08 | Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers Senator Henry L. Dawes · U.S. Congress · President Grover Cleveland · Bureau of Indian Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Lakota people · President Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant · Elihu Washburne | confirmed | |
| 1873-01-06 | House Launches Credit Mobilier Investigation U.S. House of Representatives · Oakes Ames · James Brooks (Congressman) · Poland Committee | confirmed | |
| 1872-09-04 | Credit Mobilier Scandal: The Birth of the Gilded Age Oakes Ames · Schuyler Colfax · Union Pacific Railroad · Credit Mobilier of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1868-02-24 | Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction Andrew Johnson · Edwin Stanton · U.S. House of Representatives · Radical Republicans · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1819-03-03 | Civilization Fund Act Authorizes Federal Funding for Indigenous Assimilation Schools, Laying Groundwork for Boarding School System U.S. Congress · President James Monroe · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Religious missions · +2 | confirmed |