1978
18 verified events recorded in 1978.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate Lobbying Industry · Lewis Powell · Fortune 500 Leadership | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-09 | Natural Gas Policy Act Begins Energy Sector Deregulation Jimmy Carter | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy Business Roundtable · Reginald Jones · Corporate PAC Committee · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Birch Bayh · Church Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · Birch Bayh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform Jimmy Carter · Theodore Hesburgh · U.S. Congress · Alan Simpson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-08-22 | IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization Internal Revenue Service · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Bob Jones University · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-08-11 | American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites U.S. Congress · President Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes | confirmed | |
| 1978-08-07 | Love Canal Disaster Exposes Decades of Corporate Toxic Dumping Cover-Up Hooker Chemical Company · Occidental Petroleum · Niagara Falls Board of Education · Lois Gibbs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-06 | Proposition 13 Passes, California Tax Revolt Spreads Nationally Howard Jarvis · Paul Gann | confirmed | |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · First National Bank of Boston · Francis X. Bellotti · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-03-06 | DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations Clark Clifford · Robert Altman · Bert Lance · Agha Hasan Abedi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Jude Wanniski Publishes "The Way the World Works," Supply-Side Economics Manifesto Jude Wanniski · Arthur Laffer · Wall Street Journal | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Founded by CIA Director William Casey - Intelligence-Policy Crossover William J. Casey · Antony Fisher · Charles Murray · George Kelling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power Robert Bork · Aaron Director · University of Chicago · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed |