When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.
Michael Burgess
We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.
Andrej Meszaros
The growth of our economy has been fueled by tax relief enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Bush over the past four years.
Andre Godin
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was originally enacted in 1973 with the primary function being recovery of endangered and threatened species.
Alex Walker
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
Alexandre Vasarhelyi
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
Alba Quinones
I think the Congo force is in danger of not being enacted if we don`t clean up the act in Sierra Leone and indeed in all peace-keeping of the future.
Ailton Nascimento
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation`s existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
Jeff Miller
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
Wendell Phillips
