Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, who co-wrote the Hatch-Waxman Act, has been very vocal in arguing that a law Congress intended to help reduce the cost of prescription medicines has been hijacked by the drug industry to do the opposite.
The proposal was fleshed out in a white paper - Policing in the 21st Century - and enacted in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, which became law in 2011.
Seventy-eight years ago, on April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act became law in the United States, making it legal to manufacture and sell alcohol for the first time in 14 years.
The Dodd-Frank financial law broadened the rules instituted in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which gave companies the power to recoup pay from top executives after a financial restatement or certain misconduct.
Instead, the judge said, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which sets forth basic privacy protections in non-credit reporting situations, is the relevant federal law and it does allow states to enact more stringent privacy controls.
The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 health reform law, is on life-support.
Naral Pro-Choice Washington, a group that has advocated for the legislation, says its attorneys have highlighted a provision in the Affordable Care Act that says the federal law cannot pre-empt state laws that prohibit or require abortion coverage.
The whole controversy arises from the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law in which Congress cleverly shoved the question of whether generics could compete with entrenched patentholders in front of the courts.
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The RESTORE Act, which was signed into law as part of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law 112-141), established a mechanism for providing funding to the Gulf region to restore ecosystems and rebuild local economies damaged by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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The founders clearly show by this Act, that the law they applied was with-in the constitutional jurisdiction of the government.
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The court struck down other provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold law, passed by Congress in 2002.
Just 44% of marketers surveyed believe their organizations were in compliance with the CAN-SPAM act, a law that requires marketers to request permission to send email messages, disclose the messages' source and offer an opt-out function.
The signing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act into law is a long-awaited victory for the 31 million students who participate in federal school meal programs.
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More recently, U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona has filed an Internet-specific anti-gaming bill called the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, expected to be signed into law in the U.S. later this year.
In 1995, he represented Acorn in a key case upholding the new Motor Voter Act -- the very law whose mandated postcard registration system Acorn workers use to flood election offices with bogus registrations.
The report, Achieving and Sustaining Earth Observations: A Preliminary Plan Based on a Strategic Assessment by the U.S. Group on Earth Observations, was requested by Congress in the 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 111-117).
Gensler was also an instrumental player in the Sarbanes-Oxley act, and remember what a great job that law did in preventing financial strife?
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In 2002, Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, usually called the McCain-Feingold law, after its original sponsors.
The 2001 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was mandated by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-398).
And former President Bill Clinton, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week saying he now believes the law is unconstitutional.
Such an investment was in violation of U.S. law under the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.
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The Patriot Act has also been successful in updating anti-terrorism and criminal laws to bring law enforcement up to date with technology.
The Strike Force was strengthened by the enactment of nation wide anti-stalking law in 1996 as part of the Violence against Women Act.
The America Invents Act, signed into law in September, will transition the patent application process from the first-to-invent system, to the new first-to-file system.
Congress added a splash of impunity to the mix in 1996, when it passed a pro-Internet law known as the Communications Decency Act.
Nevertheless, the court's ruling further smudges the already blurred line between discrimination on the basis of sex, which is what is actually outlawed by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (the primary source of sexual-harassment law), and mere incivility or, in Mr Oncale's case, criminal assault.
Braley cited the Hatch Act, the federal law that bars partisan "team-building, " as he said, in federal workplaces.
The analog-to-digital switch was actually mandated by an act of Congress in 2005 and signed into law early last year.
Across the aisle, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO) have offered their own amendment to the PATRIOT Act, in an effort to make the law less opaque.
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When the Civil Rights Act was being debated in 1963, she wrote to Robert Kennedy, the attorney-general, to ask whether the prospective law would make it easier for her to go home.
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