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62nd United States Congress
The 62nd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1911, to March 4, 1913, during the final two years of William H. Taft's Presidency of William Howard Taft, presidency. The apportionment of seats in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives was based on the 1900 United States census. Additional House seats were assigned to the two new states of New Mexico and Arizona. The size of the House was to be 435 starting with the new Congress coming into session in 1913. The Senate had a Republican Party (United States), Republican majority, and the House flipped into a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic majority. This change of control ended the 14-year-long Republican government trifecta that began in the 55th Congress, one of only two trifectas that lasted longer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the Seat of government, seat of the United States Congress, the United States Congress, legislative branch of the Federal government of the United States, federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Although no longer at the geographic center of the Geography of Washington, D.C., national capital, the U.S. Capitol forms the origin point for the street-numbering system of the district as well as Quadrants of Washington, D.C., its four quadrants. Like the principal buildings of the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive and Federal judiciary of the United States, judicial branches, the Capitol is built in a neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style and has a white exterior. Central sections of the present building were completed in 1800. These were partly destroyed in the Burning of Washington, 1814 Burni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Trifecta
A government trifecta is a political situation in which the same political party controls the Executive (government), executive branch and both chambers of the legislative branch in countries that have a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature and an executive that is not Fusion of powers, fused. The term is primarily used in the United States, where the term originated—being borrowed from Trifecta, horse race betting. Most countries and all democracies have some degree of separation of powers into separate branches of government, typically consisting of an executive, a legislative, and a judicial branch, judicial branch, but the term ''government trifecta'' is primarily applied to countries in which the executive is not elected by the legislature and where the legislature is not Parliamentary sovereignty, sovereign; in parliamentary systems, the executive or part of it is elected by the legislature and must have the support of the majority of Parliament. Government trifectas are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnett Act
Burnett may refer to: Places ;Antarctica *Burnett Island, an island in the Swain Islands ;Australia * Burnett County, New South Wales, a cadastral division * The Burnett River in Queensland * Burnett Heads, Queensland * Shire of Burnett, a former local government area in Queensland * Electoral district of Burnett, Queensland, Australia ;Canada * Burnett Bay, Northwest Territoes * Burnett Inlet, Nunavut ;United Kingdom * Burnett, Somerset, England ;United States *Burnett, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Burnett, Indiana, an unincorporated town * Burnett, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Burnett, Washington, an unincorporated community * Burnett, Wisconsin, a town * Burnett (CDP), Wisconsin, an unincorporated census-designated place * Burnett County, Wisconsin Burnett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,526. Its county seat is Siren, with the majority of county governmental services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Act
Arlington most often refers to: *Arlington, Virginia **Arlington National Cemetery, a United States military cemetery *Arlington, Texas Arlington may also refer to: Places Australia *Arlington light rail station, on the Inner West Light Rail in Sydney Canada * Arlington, Nova Scotia * Rural Municipality of Arlington No. 79, Saskatchewan * Arlington, Yukon South Africa * Arlington, Free State United Kingdom * Arlington, Devon * Arlington, East Sussex * Arlington, Gloucestershire * Arlington Road, London United States * Arlington, Alabama * Arlington, Arizona * Arlington, California * Arlington, Colorado * Arlington (Jacksonville), a geographical section east of downtown Jacksonville, Florida *Arlington, Georgia * Arlington, Illinois *Arlington, Monroe County, Indiana * Arlington, Rush County, Indiana *Arlington, Iowa *Arlington, Kansas *Arlington, Kentucky *Arlington, Baltimore, Maryland *Arlington, Massachusetts, a town in Middlesex County *Arlington station (MBTA), on the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gould Amendment
The Gould Amendment sponsored by Rep. Samuel W. Gould (D) of Maine, amended the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 by requiring that the contents of any food package had to be “''plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count and ingredients''” External links * 1913 in American law 62nd United States Congress United States federal trade legislation {{US-fed-legislation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virus-Serum-Toxin Act
The Virus-Serum-Toxin Act or VSTA (P.L. 430 of 1913, as amended; 21 U.S.C. 151-158) was United States federal legislation designed to protect farmers and livestock raisers by regulating the quality of vaccines and point-of-care diagnostics for animals. Initially, the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act was created due to significant losses from unregulated manufacture and distribution of anti-hog cholera serum. The Act's intended purpose is to ensure the safe and efficient supply of animal vaccines and other biological products. The United States Secretary of Agriculture is responsible for licensing and regulating the manufacture, importation, and exportation of affected agents. The act and its applicable guidelines are managed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). History The Virus-Serum-Toxin Act was enacted in 1913. During this time, a USDA official stated that the bill was crucial "to protect the farmer and stock rais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publicity In Taking Evidence Act
The Publicity in Taking Evidence Act was an act passed in 1913 that provided that depositions of witnesses for use in any anti-trust Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust ... suit "''shall be open to the public as freely as are trials in open court''." References 1913 in American law 62nd United States Congress United States federal antitrust legislation United States federal legislation articles needing infoboxes {{US-fed-legislation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Evaluation Act
The Valuation Act is a 1913 United States federal law that required the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to assess the value of railroad property. This information would be used to set rates for the transport of freight. Background The act was the brainchild of ICC commissioners Charles A. Prouty and Franklin K. Lane. Its objective was the setting of fair rates for freight shipments. It was a classic piece of Progressive Era legislation designed to find a scientific basis for setting tariffs (shipping charges) by determining the correct value of each railroad's real property and assets. Members of Congress assumed that with this information, the ICC would be able to set rates according to the principle of a reasonable rate of return on the real value of each railroad and the industry as a whole. Implementation The law amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webb–Kenyon Act
The Webb–Kenyon Act was a 1913 law of the United States that regulated the interstate transport of alcoholic beverages. It was meant to provide federal support for the prohibition efforts of individual states in the face of charges that state regulation of alcohol usurped the federal government's exclusive constitutional right to regulate interstate commerce. Text The statute reads:''New York Times''"Webb Liquor Bill is In Force To-Day," March 2, 1913 accessed July 20, 2010 :The shipment or transportation, in any manner or by any means whatsoever of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor of any kind from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to, but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to, but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor is intend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlin Act
The Carlin Act of 1913, sponsored by Rep. Charles Creighton Carlin (D) of Virginia and signed into law by President William Howard Taft, was an Act of the United States Congress that made larceny from interstate carriers a felony and a federal crime. An amendment to the Carlin Act was introduced by Rep. Leonidas C. Dyer (R) of Missouri and passed by the 68th United States Congress, expanding its scope to cover any "station house, platform, depot, wagon, automobile, truck, or other vehicle" associated with freight or express shipments. The amended act provided a fine of not more than $5,000, imprisonment for more than 10 years, or both, and stated that a crime could be prosecuted in whichever district it was committed. President Calvin Coolidge signed the amendment in 1925. The Carlin Act was amended again in January 1933, making it a violation not only to break open or rob boxcars involved in interstate commerce, but also to "obtain by any fraudulent device, scheme, or game, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd–La Follette Act
The Lloyd–La Follette Act of 1912 began the process of protecting civil servants in the United States from unwarranted or abusive removal by codifying "just cause" standards previously embodied in presidential orders. It defines "just causes" as those that would promote the "efficiency of the service." August 24, 1912, § 6, , The Act further states that "the right of employees ... to furnish information to either House of Congress, or to a committee or Member thereof, may not be interfered with or denied." Legislative history Under the leadership of Republican Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the United States Congress passed the Act with the intention of conferring job protection rights on federal employees they had not previously had. Prior to this, there was no such statutory inhibition on the authority of the government to discharge a federal employee, and an employee could be discharged with or without cause for conduct which was not protected under the First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Law 62-5
* The Hacker Files The Apportionment Act of 1911 (, ) was an apportionment bill passed by the United States Congress on August 8, 1911. The law initially set the number of members of the United States House of Representatives at 433, effective with the 63rd Congress on March 4, 1913.''Apportionment Act of 1911'', , It also included, in section 2, a provision to add an additional seat for each of the anticipated new states of Arizona and New Mexico (which happened in 1912), bringing the total number of seats to 435. Previous apportionment To give effect to the requirements of Article One, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution and Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment that United States representatives be apportioned to the states in proportion to their respective populations, Congress would pass Apportionment Acts following each Census, starting with the Apportionment Act of 1792. Prior to the Apportionment Act of 1911, the Hamilton/ Vinton ( largest rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
