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Watch live as Robert F Kennedy Jr is grilled in a Senate hearing as he looks to be approved as Donald Trump's health secretary on Wednesday, 29 January. The 71-year-old would take control over a ...
It was officially proposed by the Congress to the states when the Senate passed the resolution by a vote of 47 to 8 the next day, December 18. [9] The amendment and its enabling legislation did not ban the consumption of alcohol outright but prohibited the sale, manufacture and distribution of alcohol in the United States.
United States military reservations are exempt under federal law from state, county, and locally enacted alcohol laws. Class Six stores in a base exchange facility, officers' or NCO clubs, as well as other military commissaries which are located on a military reservation, may sell and serve alcoholic beverages at any time during their ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday morning to consider legislation that would permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled ...
The Volstead Act implemented the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). The act defined "intoxicating beverage" as one with 0.5 percent alcohol by weight. Numerous problems with enforcement [1] and a desire to create jobs and raise tax revenue by legalizing beer, wine, and liquor [2] led a majority of voters and members of Congress to turn against Prohibition by late 1932.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning was set to probe President-elect Trump’s plan to execute the largest deportation of migrants in U.S. history when he returns to office. The ...
The Senate has sent a stopgap government funding bill to President Biden’s desk, averting a shutdown. The bill passed the House earlier in the day, wrapping up a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill ...
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (23 U.S.C. § 158) was passed by the United States Congress and was later signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 17, 1984.