On Wednesday, President Obama signed into law the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

Congress approved the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 on October 3rd.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

According to Ferdowsian, the Great Ape Protection Act,or GAPA, "would ban all invasive and harmful research on chimpanzees in American laboratories."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The ministry of information is now focusing on putting together a Freedom of Information act.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

During the early weeks of eighteen ninety-eight, President McKinley waited for Spain to act on its promises to Cuba.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The new act will also bar companies from raising rates on existing debts unless payment is at least sixty days late.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

In this way, the case could be settled without deciding on the power of Congress to act on slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

City officials believed that offering promotions based on the results would violate the nineteen sixty-four Civil Rights Act.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

But that did not mean all the women involved with Nancy Drew agreed on how she should act.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

But the force that was guiding her would not permit her to act on such a thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

A measure known as the Dream Act would put these children of undocumented immigrants on a path toward citizenship instead of possible expulsion.

VOA: special.2010.09.30

Shin changed the human forms on every trophy so that each is doing an everyday act like cleaning, driving or carrying shopping bags.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Wilson wasted no time. He immediately called a special session of Congress to act on Democratic campaign promises to reduce import taxes,or tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.09.23

But their territorial legislatures would not have the power to act on the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Lena Horne once said she felt a need to act distant on stage to protect herself.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He says Congress can only act intelligently and boldly on the issue of climate change if the American public gives it no other choice.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

He would leave the fort on April fifteenth if the Confederates made no hostile act against Fort Sumter or against the United States flag.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

They say that some states have lowered their standards in order to increase student scores on tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

As more and more farmers joined granges, the groups began to act on economic problems.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

"The president is wrong to act on the demand of the business interests.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Congress did not have power to act on slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.14