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#Federal-Legislation

Events indexed under #Federal-Legislation — 9 entries in the record.

9 events From Mar 2, 1807 To Jul 27, 2006 Open in filter view →
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1807 · 1 event1957 · 1 event1960 · 1 event1970 · 1 event1975 · 1 event1982 · 1 event1993 · 1 event2002 · 1 event2006 · 1 event18072006
DateEventLanesStatus
2006-07-27Voting 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
2002-10-29Help America Vote Act Signed: Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, and Electronic Voting Vulnerabilities
George W. Bush · U.S. Election Assistance Commission
 confirmed
1993-05-20National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter): Expands Registration Access Despite Republican Opposition and Implementation Resistance
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Republican Governors · ACORN · +1
 confirmed
1982-06-29Voting 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
1975-08-06Voting Rights Act Extension of 1975: Expands Protection to Language Minorities Including Latino, Asian, and Native American Voters
Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress · Barbara Jordan · Edward Roybal · +1
 confirmed
1970-06-22Voting 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
1960-05-06Civil 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
1957-09-09Civil 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
1807-03-02Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Signed After Constitutional 20-Year Protection Expires
Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · Joseph Bradley Varnum
confirmed