Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Major Legislation passed by Congress

Here are a few lists: 

- The Top 10 Middle-Class Acts of Congress.

- - Homestead Act of 1862
- - Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862
- - Glass-Steagall Act of 1933
- - National Housing Act of 1934
- - Social Security Act of 1935
- - National Labor Relations Act of 1935
- - Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
- - G.I. Bill (the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944)
- - Social Security Act of 1965.
- - Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- - Higher Education Act of 1965.
- - Affordable Care Act of 2010.


- Ten Bills That Really Mattered.

- - Civil Rights Act (1964)
- - Voting Rights Act (1965)
- - Medicare and Medicaid acts (1965)
- - Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)
- - Economic Recovery Tax Act (1981)
- - National Defense Education Act (1958)
- - Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
- - Amendments to Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)
- - Clean Air Act Amendments (1970)
- - Gun Free School Zones Act (1990)


The Top 10 Pieces of Legislation of the 2010s.

- - The SPACE Act (2015)
- - The Trans-Pacific Partnership (2015)
- - Every Student Succeeds Act (2015)
- - Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act (2016)
- - Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (2014)
- - USA Freedom Act (2015)
- - Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t tell (2010)
- - Small business Jobs Act (2010)
- - Dodd-Frank Act (2010)
- - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

- Major Enacted Tax Legislation.