Under perceived pressure from widespread panic felt among Americans from both the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks, Congress rushed to pass legislation to strengthen security controls.

The Federal Reserve's approval of their bid to become banks ended the ascendancy of securities firms, 75 years after Congress separated them from deposit-taking lenders, and capped weeks of chaos that sent Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. into bankruptcy and led to the rushed sale of Merrill Lynch & Co. to Bank of America Corp.

By the end of 1800, peace with France had been declared, and in 1801, to prevent a second disarmament of the Navy, the outgoing Federalist administration rushed through Congress an act authorizing a peacetime navy for the first time, which limited the navy to six active frigates and seven in ordinary, as well as 45 officers and 150 midshipmen.

Once the U. S. Congress learned that the child was dead, legislation was rushed making kidnapping a federal crime.

CAN-SPAM preempts ( supersedes ) state anti-spam laws that do not deal with fraud and was rushed through Congress just before a tougher anti-spam law passed in California.

The retiring President John Adams, rushed the Judiciary Act of 1801 through the Federalist 6th Congress, creating a number of new judgeships on the United States circuit courts.

It is one of numerous military-school or patriotic-adventure-themed, quickly-produced second features for a primarily juvenile audience, which every studio rushed before the cameras following the September 1939 outbreak of war in Europe and, subsequently, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, passed by Congress on September 14 and signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on September 16.

* 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

During Obama's State of the Union Address on January 27, 2010, he said that he would work with Congress and the military to enact a repeal of the gay ban law and for the first time set a timetable for repeal.

A particularly severe crisis in 1907 led Congress to enact the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.

This led to the U. S. Congress to enact the Public Law 81-600 which led to the Congressional approval of a local constitution drafted by a constitutional assembly elected by Puerto Rico and the renaming of the United States unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, using the same official name as the commonwealths of the U. S. states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as that of other sovereign nation countries such as Australia.

" She criticizes proponents of the unitary executive for expanding " the many existing uncheckable executive powers – such as executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements – that already allow presidents to enact a good deal of foreign and domestic policy without aid, interference or consent from Congress.

This means that no branch may exercise powers that properly belong to another ( e. g., since the legislative power is only vested in Congress, the executive and judiciary may not enact laws ).

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had already granted U. S. citizenship to all persons born in the United States, as long as those persons were not subject to a foreign power ; the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment added this principle into the Constitution to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to be unconstitutional for lack of congressional authority to enact such a law and to prevent a future Congress from altering it by a mere majority vote.

As the LRC completes particular areas of the law, it proposes that the Congress enact those titles of the Code as " positive law " ( i. e., make it an act of Congress itself rather than a restatement of various acts ).

However, when attention arose that the British War Library Service in London were performing similar duties to their troops, measures were quickly devised by Putnam, the ALA, and Congress to enact such a program to the American military branches.

J. Horace McFarland, the Sierra Club, and the Appalachian Mountain Club persuaded the United States Congress in 1906 to enact legislation to preserve the falls by regulating the waters of Niagara River.

Though the bill was vetoed by President Rutherford B. Hayes, the Congress overrode Hayes ' veto on February 28, 1878 to enact the law.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, in a dramatic joint-session address, called upon Congress to enact a strong voting rights bill.

Though the Supreme Court struck down the Line-Item Veto Act in 1998, President George W. Bush asked the Congress to enact legislation that would return the line-item veto power to the Executive Authority.

In 1963, Senator Kenneth Keating of New York proposed a Constitutional amendment which would have enabled the Congress to enact legislation providing for how to determine when a President is disabled, rather than, as the Twenty-fifth Amendment does, having the Constitution so provide.

In the Senate, concerns were raised that the Congress could either abuse such authority or neglect to enact any such legislation after the adoption of this proposal.

Indeed, in 2005, the U. S. Congress issued an apology for the federal government's failure to enact lynching legislation to protect blacks in that era.

Political fallout from the 1929 crash led Congress to enact a law banning short sellers from selling shares during a downtick ; this was known as the uptick rule, and this was in effect until July 3, 2007 when it was removed by the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC Release No. 34-55970 ).

) Similarly, at the February 25, 2004 press conference, McClellan stated that the White House intended to work with Congress to develop language for the FMA that permitted states to enact civil unions.

The decision that the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts were unconstitutional has not been overturned ; on the contrary, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this limited reading of the Fourteenth Amendment in United States v. Morrison,, in which it held that Congress did not have the authority to enact parts of the Violence Against Women Act.

During Fujimori's first term in office, APRA and Vargas Llosa's party, FREDEMO, remained in control of both chambers of Congress ( the Chamber of Deputies and Senate ), hampering the government's ability to enact economic reforms.

President Roosevelt called both Houses of Congress into “ extraordinary session ” on March 9, 1933, to enact the Emergency Banking Act that ratified Roosevelt ’ s emergency closing of all banks on March 6, 1933.

For example, if the US Congress were to enact a national property tax ( a property tax or other tax by reason of its ownership ) or a national capitation ( a poll tax or head tax ), such taxes would be required to be apportioned.

The President may not dissolve Congress or call special elections but does have the power to pardon, or release, criminals convicted of offenses against the federal government ( except in cases of impeachment ), enact executive orders, and ( with the consent of the Senate ) appoint Supreme Court justices and federal judges.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

Beyond improving their existing association, the records of the Second Continental Congress show that the need for a declaration of independence was intimately linked with the demands of international relations.

Congress formed 23 counties, whose boundaries generally coincided with the existing municipalities.

Although the Constitutional text seems to suggest to the contrary, the Senate's practice has been to elect a full-time President pro tempore at the beginning of each Congress, as opposed to making it a temporary office only existing during the Vice President's absence.

Then Congress never gets around to the task of reorganizing and renumbering all the sections in a title, which forces Congressional drafters to resort to awkward methods to shoehorn new laws into the existing section numbering of a title.

As part of the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, Congress named several existing railroad companies to complete portions of the project.

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

After Hamilton left office in 1795, the new Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr. informed Congress that, due to the existing state of government finances, more money was needed.

A 1966 act of Congress established the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as part of the Smithsonian Institution with a focus on modern art, in contrast to the existing National Art Gallery.

For a period of time the only existing copy was a 35mm print owned by Capra, until he made a duplicate negative from it and donated a newly minted print to the Library of Congress.

Congress renewed the law on March 3, 1903, since no action had yet been taken, and this time specified that it be recut from the existing model which ended any further discussion.

In 1948, Congress renamed all of the courts of appeals then existing to their current formal names: the court of appeals for each numbered circuit was named the " United States Court of Appeals for the _____ Circuit ", and the " United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia " became the “ United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ".

Missoula County became a part of Montana Territory when the territory was organized out of the existing Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 26, 1864.

In 1813 Congress allocated $ 15, 000 to build a new lighthouse on Bald Head as the existing light had been rendered inoperable by erosion.

But Congress did recognize the value of a professional officer education program by enhancing existing general service schools such as the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Some members of Congress continue to advocate a more public and intrusive GAO audit of the Federal Reserve System, but Federal Reserve representatives support the existing restrictions to prevent political influence over long-range economic decisions.

When Congress enacted the 1933 Act, it left existing state securities laws (" blue sky laws ") in place.

At the Hungarian Jewish Congress of December 14, 1868, Hildesheimer at first endeavored to associate himself with the existing Orthodox party.

Congress was soon funding an SST design effort, selecting the existing Lockheed L-2000 and Boeing 2707 designs, to produce an even more advanced, larger, faster and longer ranged design.

This came from the existing NIH budget, as Congress had not appropriated any new funds for the institute when it was created.

: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

These three new groups often joined forces with existing organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), founded in 1909, the Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ), founded in 1942, and the National Urban League.

To deal with this, Congress rewrote the Act to make registration of existing firearms impossible except by the government ( previously, an existing firearm could be registered by any citizen ).