The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act comes into full effect Tuesday nearly four years after Congress passed the law under controversial circumstances.
Four years later it passed the Senate as part of the far more expansive Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, but died in conference.
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After the Wall Street crash of 1929, it took four years before Congress passed the Glass-Steagall act, which split commercial banking from securities dealing. (Before the legislation bank deposits were frequently diverted in support of new issues by commercial bankers' investment-banking colleagues.) Other restrictive rules continued to be made until 1940.
And over the past four years, nearly every member has passed his or her matriculation exams.
Three years have passed since four men accused of the serial killing of six Roma people, on ethnic grounds, were arrested.
"I thought America and the big-money fights had passed me by four or five years ago, " admits Calzaghe.
Dismissive of the partisan deadlock witnessed over the past four years, he thinks such legislation could get passed in the next three to six months.
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She will hold the post for four years, once a law creating the post is passed.
The US has not passed a full budget plan in four years, instead maintaining the government's spending through a series of stop-gap bills, the latest of which is set to expire on 27 March.
The Republicans with the growing spread of the TEA PARTY in the House of Representatives means another four years of deadlock, where no major policies can be passed.
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In a series of decisions in the past four years, the Chief Justice has expressed the view that the time has now passed when the Court should allow systemic remedies for racial discrimination.
California passed the most stringent heat laws in the nation three years ago after four farmworkers died in the field.
Maine shortly afterwards passed a law that requires parties to reach 5% only once every four years instead of every two.
Third and final point, this agreement which is bipartisan in nature, was fundamentally made possible in a larger sense by the dramatic economic progress of the last four years, which in turn was made possible by a brand new budget plan that was passed by a very partisan vote, all Democrats and no Republicans.
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