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Lyndon B. Johnson: Medicare
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Diné justices
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.
David Field
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
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