Landmark Legislation 1774-2022
Landmark Legislation 1774-2022

Author: Stephen W. Stathis

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 1030

ISBN-13: 1071920758

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Landmark Legislation 1774-2022, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress. This updated edition includes landmark legislation from the last five Congresses (2013-2022) on issues like climate change, criminal justice, education, and more. It features carefully selected acts and treaties with historical significance and has an updated index and bibliography for easy access. A must-have for public and academic libraries with American history or political science collections.

Congress of the United States
Congress of the United States

Author: N. O. Kura

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781560729143

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The new millenium has been ushered in by an astonishing sequence of events in the U.S.: the Florida election debacle; a new presidene\t who actually lost the popular vote; a Senate divided exactly 50/50 and a House in turmoil as well. The importance of Congress in such a period of turbulence cannot be overstated. This outstanding new book brings clarity to the organization and functioning of the COnrress of the U.S.

Landmark Legislation
Landmark Legislation

Author: Stephen W. Stathis

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1452267448

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Documents Congress's most momentous accomplishments in determining the national policies to be carried out by the executive branch, in approving appropriations to support those policies, and in fulfilling its responsibility to ensure that such actions are being implemented as intended.

Landmark Legislation 1774-2012
Landmark Legislation 1774-2012

Author: Stephen W. Stathis

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2014-01-17

Total Pages: 1095

ISBN-13: 1483386252

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The Second Edition of this renowned treasure trove of information about the most important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress now deepens its historical coverage and examines an entire decade of new legislation. Landmark Legislation 1774-2012 includes additional acts and treaties chosen for their historical significance or their precedential importance for later areas of major federal legislative activity in the over 200 years since the convocation of the Continental Congress. Brand new chapters expand coverage to include the last five numbered Congresses (10 years of activity from 2003-2012), which has seen landmark legislation in the areas of health insurance and health care reform; financial regulatory reform; fiscal stimulus and the Temporary Asset Relief Program; federal support for stem cell research; reform of federal financial support for public schools and higher education; and much more. Features & Benefits: Each chapter covers one of the numbered Congresses with a historical essay, followed by the major acts of that Congress arranged in chronological order of passage – with each act summarized. A Finder’s Guide summarizes all of the acts and treaties into approximately 40 separate topical policy areas. The work’s extensive bibliography has been expanded and updated. This one-volume resource is a must-have for any public or academic library, especially those with strong American history or political science collections.