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The Senate finally joined the House to submit the Seventeenth Amendment to the states for ratification, nearly ninety years after it first was presented to the Senate in 1826. [ 34 ] By 1912, 239 political parties at both the state and national level had pledged some form of direct election, and 33 states had introduced the use of direct ...
House agreed to Senate amendment on July 11, 1940 (Agreed) Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 19, 1940 The Two-Ocean Navy Act , also known as the Vinson–Walsh Act , was a United States law enacted on July 19, 1940, and named for Carl Vinson and David I. Walsh , who chaired the Naval Affairs Committee in the House and ...
The decision of which ratification method will be used for any given amendment is Congress' alone to make, as is the decision to set a ratification deadline. [3] Only for the 21st amendment was the latter procedure invoked and followed. Upon being properly ratified, an amendment becomes an operative addition to the Constitution. [4]
House agreed to Senate amendment on March 21, 2010 Signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (or CLASS Act ) was a U.S. federal law, enacted as Title VIII of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act .
In the Senate, the bill faced numerous amendments made by the Republicans, which failed. Republicans struck two provisions dealing with Pell Grants from the bill due to violations of budget reconciliation rules, forcing the bill to return to the House. [12] The two provisions were the fourth paragraph of Sec. 2101(a)(2)(C) and Sec. 2101(a)(2)(D).
The Court decided that the law was a valid exercise of Congress's enforcement power under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because it was aimed at remedying state-sponsored discrimination, despite an earlier court finding that a literacy test was not in and of itself a violation of the 14th Amendment.
House agreed to Senate amendment on October 12, 1988 (agreed voice vote) Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 1, 1988 The Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 was a United States federal law concerning the illegal dumping of body tissues, blood wastes and other contaminated biological materials.
The Origination Clause, sometimes called the Revenue Clause, [1] [2] is Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.The clause says that all bills for raising revenue must start in the U.S. House of Representatives, but the U.S. Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as in the case of other bills.