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Passed the 117th Congress's Senate on March 15, 2022 (by unanimous consent) The Sunshine Protection Act is a proposed United States federal law that would make U.S. daylight saving time permanent, meaning the time would no longer change twice per year.
The original Senate bill was passed by the House and signed into law by President Obama as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Subsequently, the House and Senate used reconciliation to pass the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which contained several alterations to the ACA. [31]
President Obama signing the Act into law; to his right is the new law's namesake, Lilly Ledbetter. The bill (H.R. 2831 and S. 1843) was defeated in April 2008 by Republicans in the Senate who cited the possibility of frivolous lawsuits in their opposition of the bill [15] and criticized Democrats for refusing to allow compromises. [16]
They passed the bill through unanimous consent on March 7, 2022. [11] [12] [9] [13] [14] Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer remarked on the Senate floor after the bill's passage that: "After more than 200 failed attempts to outlaw lynching, Congress is finally succeeding in taking the long overdue action by passing the Emmett Till ...
Passed the Senate as the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" on August 10, 2021 with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on November 5, 2021 ( 228–206 ) Signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021
The Senate also defeated an amendment by Sen. Heidi Campbell, D-Nashville, that would have prohibited law enforcement from arresting people living in or entering the country illegally in churches ...
Passed the House on November 7, 2009 Passed the Senate as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" on December 24, 2009 with amendment; House agreed to Senate amendment on March 21, 2010 Signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010
A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Ted Kennedy (D-MA) the same day. A unanimous U.S. House and a nearly unanimous U.S. Senate—three senators voted against passage [3] —passed the bill, and President Bill Clinton signed it into law. The law was passed in response to the United States Supreme Court's 1990 decision in Employment ...