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The bill was first introduced by Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona in the 113th Congress on April 26, 2013. [7] The bill passed the House on June 18, 2013 by a vote of 228–196. [8] [9] It was introduced in the Senate in November 2013 by Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. [10] Franks re-introduced the bill in the 114th Congress on January 6 ...
First Lady Hillary Clinton at her presentation on health care in September 1993. According to an address to Congress by then-President Bill Clinton on September 22, 1993, the proposed bill would provide a "health care security card" to every citizen that would irrevocably entitle them to medical treatment and preventative services, including for pre-existing conditions. [2]
Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill extending funding for the Freedmen's Bureau (editorial cartoon by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, April 14, 1866) [1]. The Freedmen's Bureau bills provided legislative authorization for the Freedmen's Bureau (formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands), which was set up by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 as part of the United States ...
Introduced by Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Garret Graves, R-La., the bill was passed by the House in a 327-75 vote late Tuesday night, after a last-ditch effort to derail it by members of ...
The House passed a large defense bill Friday evening that included a provision that would automatically enroll young men between the ages of 18 and 26* for the Selective Service.
The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country during the 1960's and was driven in part by the military draft held during the Vietnam War. The draft conscripted young men between the ages of 18 and 21 into the United States Armed Forces, primarily the U.S. Army, to serve in or support military combat operations in ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is telling his “origin story” in his own words with the memoir Source Code, being released on Feb. 4 "My parents and early friends put me in a position to have a ...
United States, Oklahoma: A heartbeat bill (SB 1274) was signed into law by then-Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin in 2012 that required an abortion provider to offer a woman the opportunity to hear the conceptus' pulse before ending the pregnancy, and applied when the conceptus was at least eight weeks old. The bill took effect later in 2012. [255]