It was first passed in 1898 as a luxury tax to fund the Spanish-American War.
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This would result in the fifth version of PDUFA, which was first passed in 1992.
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When the National School Lunch Act was first passed in 1946, it was seen as a matter of national security.
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Much of Dodd-Frank is still just far from implementation as it was a year ago when the controversial legislation was first passed.
Public interest provisions have also been introduced into the bill, which was first passed by the lower house of parliament in November 2011.
If anything, one may wonder why the FCPA has not generated more debate and inspired more legislative challenges since it was first passed in 1977.
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The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) was first passed in 1998, and supports employment services and training programs serving millions of workers across the nation each year.
When the country first passed laws supporting film-making in 1927, it forced cinemas to show a minimum quota of British films, arguing that they needed special protection.
First passed in 1977, the CRA was "strengthened" in 1995, causing an increase of 80% in the number of bank loans going to low- and moderate-income families.
The law in question was passed in 2006 to fix a seeming loophole in federal regulations that were first passed in the 1930s to prop up milk prices.
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But by the last couple of years, when Apple first passed Microsoft in market capitalization and then briefly became the richest company on earth, all that was long forgotten.
Seemingly cruising to fourth or fifth place and the guaranteed Formula One World Championship title, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was first passed and then forced to pit for wet tires.
But until late last year, he resisted efforts for Right to Work legislation, which would be the first passed by a state in two decades, and the first in the industrial Great Lakes states.
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The law, first passed by Congress in a wave of post-Watergate reforms in 1978, allows a three-judge federal court panel to appoint special counsels to investigate allegations of possible criminal behavior by top government officials.
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The protections offered in the Voting Rights Act have been critical to reducing discrimination in voting in the more than four decades since the law was first passed, and continue to play an important role.
It was then that the Dow first passed 1, 000, and while there were periods in the ensuing 16 years during which 1, 000 was breached, the average never rose above a grand for good until 1982.
When the petition first passed the 30, 000 signature mark necessary to require a White House response, a vigorous debate broke out in the comments section on this blog as to whether the First Amendment was applicable in the case of Morgan, a British citizen.
The first Act passed by the Assembly, the first visit by the Welsh government and the Assembly to the Supreme Court in London, the first woman elected to lead Plaid, the first tranche of the Silk Commission's work done and - they hope - not left on a shelf to be dusted in years to come.
The lawfulness of the first bill passed by the assembly under its new law-making powers was challenged in the Supreme Court by the UK government.
The first bailout was passed on a bipartisan basis to solve this problem in the credit markets.
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For the team patrolling the perimeter, the first fifteen minutes passed without incident.
The first 13 parliaments passed more than 3, 200 bills, but the legislative output slowed down in the 1990s as India's politics fragmented and political instability grew.
The increasingly influential Warwick landed a penalty to steady Munster at 21-14 and young scrum-half Conor Murray, who impressed on his first start, passed for O'Driscoll to rumble over for the hosts' third try.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), now making its way back into the House of Representatives is a bill that was first introduced and passed by the House in 2011 but failed to gain traction in Senate, due to heavy criticism from civil liberties groups like the ACLU and the EFF.
The Bush administration's controversial nuclear deal with India has passed its first Congressional hurdle.
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"It was really hard to get this bill passed the first time, " said the aide.
The assembly also passed the first stage of the Apartment Developments' Management Reform Bill.
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