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  2. List of acts of the 118th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    The 118th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2023, and will end on January 3, 2025, has enacted 82 public laws and zero private laws. [1] [2]In contrast with previous Congresses, which generally enacted their first laws no later than January or February, the 118th Congress's first law was enacted on March 20. [3]

  3. Public Law 118-50 - Wikipedia

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    Signed into law by President Joe Biden on April 24, 2024 Public Law 118-50 (referred to as the National Security Act, 2024 in drafts) is an appropriations bill enacted by the 118th Congress and signed into law by president Joe Biden on April 24, 2024.

  4. List of acts of the 117th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    The 117th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2021, and ended on January 3, 2023, enacted 362 public laws and 3 private laws. [1] [2] Donald Trump, who was the incumbent president for the Congress's first seventeen days, did not enact any laws before his presidential term expired.

  5. Raise the Wage Act - Wikipedia

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    The first federal minimum wage was created as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but declared unconstitutional. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at $0.25 an hour ($5.19 in 2022 dollars).

  6. Social Security Fairness Act - Wikipedia

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    The Social Security Fairness Act is a proposed United States law that would repeal the Social Security Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision. [1] The bill passed the House in November 2024, and also passed the Senate in December.

  7. For the People Act - Wikipedia

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    Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks on the Act from inside the Capitol Building. The Freedom to Vote Act (formerly known as the For the People Act), [1] introduced as H.R. 1, [2] is a bill in the United States Congress [3] intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal ...

  8. Employee Free Choice Act - Wikipedia

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    On July 17, 2009, The New York Times reported that in an effort to secure a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, a group of key Democratic senators planned to change the proposed legislation to remove the "card check" provision of the EFCA, which would have allowed unions to be certified solely by majority sign-up. [25]

  9. U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 - Wikipedia

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    The bill would have made sweeping changes across the board to the United States immigration, visa, and border control system, including reversal and Congressional prohibition of many of the immigration-related executive actions of former president Donald Trump; providing a path to legal residence and eventual citizenship for as many as 11 ...