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111-1. January 16, 2009. (No short title) Authorized a salary rollback (a Saxbe fix) for the Secretary of the Interior (so Ken Salazar could assume the seat) 111-2. January 29, 2009. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. Changed the statute of limitations for pay discrimination.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( ARRA) ( Pub. L. 111–5 (text) (PDF) ), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Developed in response to the Great Recession, the primary objective of this federal statute was to save ...
e. Article Three of the United States Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government. Under Article Three, the judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as lower courts created by Congress. Article Three empowers the courts to handle cases or controversies arising under federal law ...
Omnibus spending bill. An omnibus spending bill is a type of bill in the United States that packages many of the smaller ordinary appropriations bills into one larger single bill that can be passed with only one vote in each house of Congress. There are twelve different ordinary appropriations bills that need to be passed each year (one for ...
1st: January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2022. 2nd: January 3, 2022 – January 3, 2023. The bills of the 117th United States Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 117th United States Congress . The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two ...
A 1939 promissory note, Rangoon, Burma. A negotiable instrument is a document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time, whose payer is usually named on the document. More specifically, it is a document contemplated by or consisting of a contract, which promises the payment of money without ...
Sessions. 1st: January 3, 2023 – TBD. The bills of the 118th United States Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 118th United States Congress . The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the lower house known as the House ...
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [ 3 ] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.