| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform
3 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress · Alan Simpson |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-11 | American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites
3 src U.S. Congress · Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1977-12-28 | International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Carter-Era Statute Becomes Principal Modern Instrument of Unilateral Economic Action
3 src Jimmy Carter · Clement Zablocki · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Organizational Profile: Transforming Industry Lobby into 'Scholarly' Think Tank
4 src American Enterprise Institute · Dick Cheney · Paul Ryan · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Jack Kemp and William Roth Introduce Tax Cut Bill, Translating Supply-Side Theory to Legislation
2 src Jack Kemp · William Roth · Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski |
| confirmed |
| 1976-09-14 | National Emergencies Act: Congress Attempts to Catalogue and Constrain 470 Executive Emergency Powers
3 src Frank Church · Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform
3 src Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Francis Schaeffer's "How Should We Then Live?" Convinces Evangelicals That Political Engagement Is Christian Duty
3 src C. Everett Koop · Jerry Falwell · Tim LaHaye |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1975-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1975: Expands Protection to Language Minorities Including Latino, Asian, and Native American Voters
3 src Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1975-07-16 | Pike Committee Investigation: House Intelligence Findings Suppressed After CIA and White House Obstruction
3 src CIA · Gerald Ford · Henry Kissinger · CBS |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-26 | Church Committee Exposes Systemic Intelligence Agency Abuses
3 src Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses
3 src Frank Church · U.S. Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities
4 src Frank Church · Church Committee · Seymour Hersh · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Becomes First Director of ALEC, Consolidating State Legislative Strategy
3 src Paul Weyrich · American Legislative Exchange Council · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Perfects Direct Mail Fundraising - Conservative Grassroots Infrastructure
3 src Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Terry Dolan · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era
3 src Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1974-10-28 | Equal Credit Opportunity Act and RESPA Pass After Industry Lobbying Weakens Enforcement
3 src U.S. Congress · Gerald Ford · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |
| 1974-10-15 | FECA Amendments Enable Corporate PAC Formation, Triggering 1,600% Growth
2 src U.S. Congress · Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Enacted, Establishing Federal Preemption of State Employee Benefit Regulation
3 src U.S. Congress · Gerald Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1974-07-12 | Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Congress Strips Nixon's Unilateral Authority to Withhold Appropriated Funds
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Sam Ervin · Edmund Muskie |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations
2 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis F. Powell Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Clement Zablocki |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-15 | DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-01 | American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Founded as Systematic State-Level Corporate Influence Platform
3 src Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1973-05-08 | New York Passes Rockefeller Drug Laws: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Template for Mass Incarceration
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism
4 src Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures
3 src 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
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization
2 src 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
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power
3 src Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1971-03-08 | COINTELPRO Exposed - FBI's Secret War on Civil Rights and Dissent Revealed
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1968-04-11 | Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption
3 src Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · General Dynamics · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1965-10-03 | Immigration and Nationality Act Abolishes National Origins Quota System After Defeating Conservative Opposition
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Emanuel Celler |
| confirmed |
| 1965-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance
6 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · Richard Russell |
| confirmed |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation
4 src 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
3 src National Association of Manufacturers |
| confirmed |
| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying
3 src John F. Kennedy · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance
3 src 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
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Labor · Labor unions |
| confirmed |
| 1957-09-09 | Civil Rights Act of 1957: First Federal Voting Rights Law Since Reconstruction Passes Despite Southern Filibuster
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Lyndon B. Johnson · Strom Thurmond · Richard Russell · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1957-03-01 | Indiana Passes Right-to-Work Law, So Unpopular It's Repealed Within Eight Years
3 src Republican Party · Democratic Party · National Right to Work Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1953-02-09 | Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network
4 src Roy Cohn · Joseph McCarthy · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1947-06-23 | Taft-Hartley Act Severely Restricts Union Power, Enables State Right-to-Work Laws
3 src Robert Taft · Republican Party · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1947-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Drafts Taft-Hartley Act "Sentence by Sentence, Paragraph by Paragraph"
3 src National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Taft · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 1946-02-20 | Employment Act of 1946 Gutted, Full Employment Guarantee Abandoned
3 src 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
3 src Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1944-11-07 | Arkansas and Florida Become First States to Pass Right-to-Work Laws Through Racist, Anti-Semitic Campaign
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1943-06-25 | Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Mine Workers · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Democratic Party |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · National Labor Relations Board · American workers |
| confirmed |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Ferdinand Pecora |
| confirmed |
| 1910-03-19 | Insurgent Republicans Revolt Against Speaker Cannon: 29-Hour Session Strips Autocratic Powers, Splits GOP
4 src William Howard Taft |
| confirmed |
| 1903-10-29 | Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
| confirmed |
| 1901-05-21 | Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement
3 src Alabama Legislature · Democratic Party |
| confirmed |
| 1898-11-10 | Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens
3 src Democratic Party |
| confirmed |
| 1887-02-08 | Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers
3 src U.S. Congress · Grover Cleveland · Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| confirmed |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval
3 src U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption
3 src U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1873-01-06 | House Launches Credit Mobilier Investigation
3 src U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1872-09-04 | Credit Mobilier Scandal: The Birth of the Gilded Age
5 src |
| confirmed |
| 1868-02-24 | Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction
4 src Andrew Johnson · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1819-03-03 | Civilization Fund Act Authorizes Federal Funding for Indigenous Assimilation Schools, Laying Groundwork for Boarding School System
3 src U.S. Congress · James Monroe · Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| confirmed |