He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

One--the first wave of REIT growth occurred right after Congress passed the 1960 bill.

EITs增长的第一波高潮,发生在国会1960年法案通过之后

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The United States did,too. In eighteen seventy-three, Congress passed a law that stopped the government from using silver as money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The new Congress passed a civil service bill that required ten percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Finally,in nineteen fifty-eight, Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Bill and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

That is already a lot higher than President Obama's advisers had predicted for later this year, even if Congress passed a stimulus bill.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

The American Congress passed several historic pieces of legislation during Benjamin Harrison's administration: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

So in nineteen thirty-five, the Congress passed a new law called the National Labor Relations Act.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

By early October,Congress passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a rescue plan for the financial system.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The Confederate Congress passed a bill in March of eighteen sixty-five to accept Negroes as soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

In eighteen sixty-two, Congress passed legislation that gave thousands of hectares to each state.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Congress passed the law to bar discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

In eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed a law that barred Chinese immigration for ten years.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Twelve years later,during President Benjamin Harrison's administration, Congress passed a new silver purchase bill.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Soon,Congress passed a bill creating NASA the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Congress passed his seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollar economic recovery plan.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

In two thousand eight Congress passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

In nineteen-fifty-six Congress passed a law called the Federal-Aid Highway Act.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Congress passed three historic amendments to the Constitution during this period.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the "Rivers and Harbors Bill."

VOA: special.2010.04.29

This was the law that Congress passed in eighteen twenty.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

But Congress passed the bill into law over his veto.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

But Congress passed the Hawaii Statehood Bill in nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

By eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Five years later, Congress passed a compromise bill.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

After much debate, Congress passed the bill.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Congress passed the proposal.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

In 1988, the U.S.Congress passed a bill that provided reparations to Japanese Americans interned during the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Among the environmentally significant bills Congress passed last year was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25