Year of record

1976

15 verified events recorded in 1976.

15 events From Jan 1, 1976 To Dec 31, 1976 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
1976-12-31Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era 4 src
Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission
 confirmed
1976-09-30Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement 4 src
Gerald Ford · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice
 confirmed
1976-09-14National Emergencies Act: Congress Attempts to Catalogue and Constrain 470 Executive Emergency Powers 3 src
Frank Church · Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress
 confirmed
1976-06-23Supreme Court Miller Decision Holds Bank Records Have No Fourth Amendment Protection, Creates Third-Party Doctrine 3 src
Lewis Powell · William Rehnquist · Thurgood Marshall
 confirmed
1976-05-24Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision 3 src
Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Warren Burger · Byron White · Thurgood Marshall
confirmed
1976-05-19Senate Creates Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, First Institutional Legislative Oversight of U.S. Intelligence Agencies 3 src
U.S. Senate · Frank Church · Howard Baker
confirmed
1976-04-20Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
confirmed
1976-03-10Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations 2 src
Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice
confirmed
1976-02-18Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute 3 src
Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community
 confirmed
1976-02-18Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform 3 src
Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee
 confirmed
1976-01-30Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo 7 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Byron White
confirmed
1976-01-27Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story 4 src
Ronald Reagan
confirmed
1976-01-01Francis 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
1976-01-01Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor 3 src
Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Edwin Meese III
 confirmed
1976-01-01Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation 3 src confirmed