1976
15 verified events recorded in 1976.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission | confirmed | |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1976-09-14 | National Emergencies Act: Congress Attempts to Catalogue and Constrain 470 Executive Emergency Powers Frank Church · Charles Mathias · Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-06-23 | Supreme Court Miller Decision Holds Bank Records Have No Fourth Amendment Protection, Creates Third-Party Doctrine Lewis Powell · William Rehnquist · Thurgood Marshall · William Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-05-24 | Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Brennan · Warren Burger · Byron White · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1976-05-19 | Senate Creates Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, First Institutional Legislative Oversight of U.S. Intelligence Agencies U.S. Senate · Frank Church · Daniel Inouye · Howard Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Potter Stewart · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Chicago Housing Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-03-10 | Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations Edward H. Levi · Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Clarence Kelley · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · James Buckley · Eugene McCarthy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-27 | Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story Ronald Reagan · Linda Taylor | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Francis Schaeffer's "How Should We Then Live?" Convinces Evangelicals That Political Engagement Is Christian Duty Francis Schaeffer · C. Everett Koop · Jerry Falwell · Tim LaHaye | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Joseph Coors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation British American Tobacco · Philip Morris · RJ Reynolds · Imperial Tobacco | confirmed |