In February 1996, the ruling ODP / MT merged with several small opposition parties to form the Congress for Democracy and Progress ( CDP ).

In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, banning indecency on the Internet.

In 1996, Destry Rides Again was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

* 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U. S. Congress.

* 1996 – The U. S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

In anticipation of an effort to bring the border dispute to an end in early 1996, the Guatemalan Congress ratified two long-pending international agreements governing frontier issues and maritime rights.

By 1995, a billion cubic meters of the gas had been collected and the reserve was US $ 1. 4 billion in debt, prompting the Congress of the United States in 1996 to phase out the reserve.

After Bush won and Kemp left Congress for the Cabinet, the two did not really cross paths again until 1996, when Kemp endorsed Dole's opponent Forbes on the eve of the New York Primary in March.

In 1996 Martin Orans examined Mead's notes preserved at the Library of Congress, and credits her for leaving all of her recorded data available to the general public.

In 1996, Congress attempted to enhance the president's veto power with the Line Item Veto Act.

According to a 1996 report of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, during Reagan's two terms, and through 1993, the top 10 % of taxpayers paid an increased share of income taxes ( not including payroll taxes ) to the Federal government, while the lowest 50 % of taxpayers paid a reduced share of income tax revenue.

The current President of the Socialist Republic, Trương Tấn Sang, was directly elected from the provinces at the 8th Party Congress, held 1996.

In 1996, the United States Congress decreed that the television industry should create a voluntary rating system for its shows called the TV Parental Guidelines.

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 ( CDA ) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.

Passed by Congress on February 1, 1996, and signed by President Bill Clinton on February 8, 1996, the CDA imposed criminal sanctions on anyone who

Until 1996, the President appointed the mayor of Buenos Aires, and by law, the president and Congress controlled any legislation that affected the city.

The partition of this area, commonly known as Big Mountain, by Acts of Congress in 1974 and 1996, has also resulted in long-term controversy.

In 1996, the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service issued a report that said, " There is no precedent for Congress promulgating an amendment based on state ratifications adopted after a ratification deadline has expired.

In 1996 The Awful Truth was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, having been deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

Proposed by the US Navy in 1996, it has since had funding problems, with the United States Congress cancelling some funding, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) providing some funding to individual contractors for prototypes.

Congress attempted to grant this power to the president by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control " pork barrel spending ", but in 1998 the US Supreme Court ruled the act to be unconstitutional in a 6-3 decision in Clinton v. City of New York.

Though the current line-item veto proposal is much weaker than the 1996 version, it has nevertheless failed to find strong support in the Congress.

On January 3, 1996, the 104th Congress of the United States amended or repealed sections of the Communications Act of 1934 with the new Telecommunications Act of 1996.

In contrast to Zeffirelli, whose Hamlet was heavily cut, Kenneth Branagh adapted, directed, and starred in a 1996 version containing every word of Shakespeare's play, combining the material from the F1 and Q2 texts.

On 22 January 1996, the Board of Directors of Daimler-Benz decided to focus on its core automobile business and cut ties with Fokker.

The Forestry Law of 1996 imposed a tax on sawn lumber and consequently cut Bolivian lumber exports significantly.

During his 1996 presidential run, Senator Bob Dole promised, " We're going to cut out the Department of Education.

When Congress and the administration finally settled on a budget compromise midway through FY 1996, DoD received $ 254. 4 billion TOA, slightly more than in FY 1995, but in terms of real growth a 2 % cut.

In 1996, the NFB absorbed a 32 % cut to its operating budget, forcing it to lay off staff, close its film laboratory, sound stage ( now privatized ) as well as other departments.

The following year, Norman came into the 1996 Masters Tournament having already won at the Doral-Ryder Open ( though he also missed the cut at the Players Championship and the Bay Hill Invitational beforehand ).

# Andy Warhol's Frankenstein ( also known as Flesh for Frankenstein ) – passed with 56 seconds cut in 1996 ; released uncut in 2006

As a concert artist, she remained a top draw throughout her career, but by the early 1990s she drastically cut down the number of personal appearances due to the fragile health of her husband, who died in 1996.

Kunming's rail link to Hanoi was cut during World War II, restored in 1957, cut again in 1979, and reopened in 1996.

In 1996 Walter Murch accepted the Academy Award for editing The English Patient ( which also won best picture ), which he cut on the Avid.

As of 2001, DeLay had not spoken to his younger brother, Randy, a Houston lobbyist, since 1996, when a complaint to the House Ethics Committee prompted Tom DeLay to state that he cut his brother off in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Finally, the University of Minnesota Regents tried from 1995 to 1996 to enact 13 proposals, including these policy changes: to allow the regents to cut faculty base-salaries for reasons other than a university financial emergency, and included poor performance, and firing tenured professors if their programs were eliminated or restructured and the university was unable to retrain or reassign them.

The EI system was again cut by the Progressive Conservatives in 1990 and 1993, then by the Liberals in 1994 and 1996.

He also voted for the " Medicare Preservation act of 1995 ," which cut the projected growth of Medicare by $ 270 billion over ten years, and against the " Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 ," which raised the minimum wage to $ 5. 15.

Anderson, who still had the workprint of his original cut, submitted the film which was accepted and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Between 1993 and 1996 he was cut by four different CFL teams, getting some playing time with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1993.

Not playing in the league in 1994 or 1995 Vanderjagt played for the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League before returning to the Toronto Argonauts ( who had previously cut him twice ) for the 1996 season.

According to a Tom Hanks interview for the 1996 documentary The Celluloid Closet, scenes showing more affection between him and Banderas were cut, including one with him and Banderas in bed together.

Then, in April 1996, Isaac Tigrett visited Atlanta with other investors and cut a deal to open a House of Blues in the building in time for the Olympics.

She has since appeared as a stuffy high school principal in the 1996 Disney film Wish Upon a Star and as a frightened cruise passenger in the critically panned Speed 2: Cruise Control in 1997, and she made a cameo appearance in the international release of the 1997 Bond-spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, though her scene was cut in the U. S. release.

It was also released in theaters in the UK with Lilo & Stitch in 2002, The short was to be re-released with 101 Dalmatians, which was sent to theaters with the short attached in 1996, but Disney asked theater owners to cut the short off all film prints to replace it with trailers for Hercules, That Darn Cat, Jungle 2 Jungle and George of the Jungle.

In 1996, when faced with a large budget shortfall, the Liberal federal government merged the health transfers with the transfers for other social programs into the Canada Health and Social Transfer, and overall funding levels were cut.