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Lyndon B. Johnson: Medicare

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Listen President Barack Obama speaking before signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act after an introduction by Joe Biden

Follow a bill from a congressional committee to being signed into law by the president of the United States

John Murtha (left), the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, conducting a hearing in February 2008.

Senate Appropriations Committee: Inouye, Daniel; Stevens, Ted; Rumsfeld, Donald

Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act

Jeremy Bentham, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1829; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Law, Legislation, Document

What Is an Injunction?

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Are There Laws on the High Seas?

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8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

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10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

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8 of the Largest Empires in History

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Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Flags That Look Alike

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America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

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Lyndon B. Johnson: Medicare

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

John Murtha (left), the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, conducting a hearing in February 2008.

Senate Appropriations Committee: Inouye, Daniel; Stevens, Ted; Rumsfeld, Donald

Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act

Jeremy Bentham, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1829; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Listen President Barack Obama speaking before signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act after an introduction by Joe Biden

Follow a bill from a congressional committee to being signed into law by the president of the United States

Learn about the structure of the U.K. Parliament - the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the monarch

Understand how a bill becomes a law in the UK Parliament

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Baldwin, Robert

Robert Baldwin

Canadian statesman

Edith Nourse Rogers

American public official