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Listen President Barack Obama speaking before signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act after an introduction by Joe Biden
Introduced by Vice Pres. Joe Biden, U.S. Pres. Barack Obama speaking before signing...
Follow a bill from a congressional committee to being signed into law by the president of the United States
Mark Andrews and Thomas Eagleton talk about how Congress passes legislation.
Learn about the structure of the U.K. Parliament - the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the monarch
Exploring the three branches of the U.K. Parliament—the House of Commons, the House...
Understand how a bill becomes a law in the UK Parliament
Learn how a bill becomes a law in the United Kingdom.
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Lyndon B. Johnson: Medicare
Former U.S. president Harry S. Truman (right) looking on as U.S. Pres. Lyndon B....
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum/NARA
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
U.S. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower signing H.R. 8127, also known as the Federal Aid...
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Diné justices
Navajo Supreme Court justices questioning counsel during a hearing.
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John Murtha (left), the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on...
Cherie A. Thurlby/U.S. Department of Defense
Senate Appropriations Committee: Inouye, Daniel; Stevens, Ted; Rumsfeld, Donald
Senators Daniel Inouye (left) and Ted Stevens (right) listening to Secretary of Defense...
PO1 Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy/U.S. Department of Defense
Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) signing into law the Emergency Railroad...
Samuel Rayburn Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Jeremy Bentham, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1829; in the National...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights...
LBJ Library photo by Frank Wolfe
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