1978
18 verified events recorded in 1978.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC
3 src 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
3 src Jimmy Carter | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · Birch Bayh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
5 src Howard Jarvis · Paul Gann | confirmed | |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations
3 src 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
2 src Jude Wanniski · Arthur Laffer · Wall Street Journal | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Founded by CIA Director William Casey - Intelligence-Policy Crossover
3 src William J. Casey · Antony Fisher · Charles Murray · George Kelling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power
3 src Robert Bork · Aaron Director · University of Chicago · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed |