One of Eisenhower's enduring achievements was championing and signing the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956.

Congress also passed the Force Bill which authorized President Andrew Jackson to use military force if Adams ' compromise bill did not force the belligerent states to capitulate.

The bill authorized funding for its Healthy Athletes, Education, and Worldwide Expansion programs.

* The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 ( based on an earlier bill in 1856 ) authorized land grants for new lines that would " aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean ".

In 1955 the U. S. Senate initiated a groundbreaking bill which authorized the construction of 540, 000 public housing units over four years.

The bill also authorized repair, but not replacement, of the monument.

The resulting debt became known as the " California War Debt " or " Army Appropriations Bill " and in 1854-though not entirely clear why, as Secretary of War Jefferson Davis wrote California that their ' war ' expenditures could not be authorized without the original bills of sale to verify the purpose was one intended by congress ; the bill of sale for the bounty was the head.

The bill requires each executive agency to establish a policy under which employees may be authorized to telework to the maximum extent possible without diminishing employee performance or agency operations.

The Clinton Administration issued a veto threat, in part because the bill would eliminate “ the longstanding right of unitary thrift holding companies to engage in any lawful business ,” but primarily because the bill required national banks to conduct expanded activities through holding company subsidiaries rather than the bank “ operating subsidiaries ” authorized by the OCC in 1996.

In spring 1886, Congress passed a naval appropriations bill that authorized the construction of two armored second-class battleships, one protected cruiser, one first-class torpedo boat, and the complete rebuilding and modernization of two Civil War-era monitors.

The plan was approved in 2012 by the Minnesota Legislature, as part of the bill that authorized a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings.

He was a leader in filibustering the Armed Ship bill, which would have authorized the President to arm merchant vessels.

Soon after the bill was passed, Congress authorized $ 800, 000 to obtain a treaty with the Algerians and ransom the captives, triggering an amendment of the Act which would halt the construction of ships if peace was declared.

In 1948, a bill was introduced before the Puerto Rican Senate which authorized the repeated arrest of Albizu Campos, and a round-the-clock surveillance of every Nationalist in Puerto Rico.

After both parties agreed to the terms, a bill that authorized increased taxes to pay for a new arena was signed into law in July, by then-Governor George W. Bush.

However, the bill only authorized the Board of Regents to change the name of the college, a measure they voted on at their meeting on June 6.

McClellan and fellow Senator Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma were the sponsors of the bill that authorized construction of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

In 2003, he worked with then-Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert ( R-NY ), to introduce the Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003 This bill authorized federal investments in nanotechnology research and development, restructured the National Nanotechnology Initiative to improve interagency coordination and the level of input from outside experts in the field, and laid the path to address novel social, ethical, philosophical, legal, environmental health issues that might arise.

This bill would have established federally funded government run heath insurance programs, and would have authorized states to require an individual to purchase insurance from one of these government run insurance plans.

* A bill was signed which authorized Federal agencies to provide minor medical and dental services to employees ( 1945 ).

First, in early 1997 CFTC Chairperson Born testified forcefully to Congress against a Senate bill that would have authorized futures exchanges to establish “ professional markets ” exempt from many regulatory requirements in a manner similar to the “ regulatory relief ” ultimately provided for an “ exempt board of trade ” under the CFMA.

A 2004 state bond bill authorized $ 246. 5 million on the condition of finding 50 % non-state matching funds ( which presumably would come from the federal government ).

In addition to urging greater restrictions on aerial spraying, Buchheister called for support of the Wilderness bill, creation of national seashore parks, including Point Reyes ; ;

Among its provisions are a Western-style bill of rights, the creation of the National Council of Democracy that also oversees the guarantee of those rights and a governmental advisory board which deals with economic and social issues.

Among its provisions were a Western-style bill of rights ; creation of a National Council of Democracy, which oversees the guarantee of those rights ; a governmental advisory board on economic and social issues ; and an independent judiciary.

In 1825 Adams signed a bill for the creation of a national observatory just before leaving presidential office – which became the Naval Observatory.

Just as the creation of New Mexico and Utah territories had not ruled on the validity of Mexican law on the acquired territory, the Nebraska bill was neither " affirming or repealing ... the Missouri act.

** The U. S. Congress passes a bill for the creation of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

* March 5 – The New Brunswick Legislature passes a bill to advance literacy in the province, which eventually leads to the creation of public education in what is now Canada.

President John Quincy Adams, who in 1825 signed the bill for the creation of a national observatory just before leaving presidential office, had intended for it to be called the National Observatory.

For 20 years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, there was a political movement calling for the creation of agriculture colleges.

An additional provision of the bill provided for the creation of a tariff board to study the problem of tariff modification in full and to collect information on the subject for the use of Congress and the President in future tariff considerations.

Rep. Armey included legislation in the House's Homeland Security Bill that explicitly prohibited the creation of Operation TIPS ; but Joe Lieberman blocked the program's removal from the Senate version of the bill.

A bill authorizing its creation of the Department passed the House of Representatives on February 15, 1849, and spent just over two weeks in the Senate.

Original legislation called for the creation of a " Stewart County ", after Nevada Senator William M. Stewart, but this was later changed in a substitute bill.

Indiana bill of the House No. 152 was originally for the creation of a county named Windsor.

The town was named in recognition of Stephen Swain, the state senator who introduced the bill for the county's creation in 1812.

It was not until 8 April 1875, that a bill was finally passed providing for the creation of a Supreme Court of Canada.

A bill supporting the creation of the Township of Teaneck was put through the New Jersey General Assembly on February 18, 1895, and the New Jersey Senate on the next day.

This led to the creation and passing of a new bill known as Tydings-McDuffie Act, or Philippine Independence Act, which allowed the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines with a ten year period of peaceful transition to full independence-the date of which was to be on the 4th July following the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Commonwealth.

leftOn May 27, 1903, Michigan Governor Aaron T. Bliss signed a bill authorizing the creation of the State's fourth teacher-training facility.

He authored several Senate bills that advanced ideas advocated by the Populists: a bill to foster the creation of worker-owned cooperatives, and a bill to allow the issuance of currency backed by land value instead of only the gold standard.

During his time in the Union parliament, Cartier introduced a bill in 1852 for the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada.

In keeping with his ties to the railways, in 1872 Cartier introduced a bill for the creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

On March 2, 1899, President William McKinley signed a bill passed by Congress authorizing the creation of Mount Rainier National Park, the nation's fifth national park.

In 1535, a bill was drawn up calling for the creation of a system of public works to deal with the problem of unemployment, to be funded by a tax on income and capital.