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| 1962 | President Kennedy (D) signs Public Law 87-781, the "Kefauver-Harris Amendments", which "will Extend the period the Food and Drug Administration has for acting on a manufacturer's application to market a new drug; broaden FDA's powers to inspect drug factories and require every plant to be registered. Authorizes FDA to seize products from any drug plant where unsanitary conditions are found or where current good manufacturing practice was not followed." Also allows thousands to die needlessly.
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| 1973 | Vice President Spiro Agnew (R) resigns as a result of bribery and tax evasion charges. It's fun to watch the thugs fight among themselves.
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| 1978 | The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, P.L. 95-445, becomes law. Among other things, animals must not be subjected to stress before they are killed.
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| 1990 | U.S. begins reparations payments to survivors and families of Japanese-Americans taken from their homes and put into internment camps during World War II.
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| 1996 | The Washington Post tells how the Feds decide on the sentencing for the millions of crimes they have created in the series, "Justice by the Numbers", by Mary Pat Flaherty and Joan Biskupic (series is no longer on line -- to get it you must pay -- login to the Washington Post and search for "justice by the numbers" in 1996).
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| 2000 | President Clinton (D) signed the Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China.
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| 2005 | Today's Example of a Most Interesting Government Purchase: DRS Optronics wins $660M contract to supply infrared binoculars to the U.S. Marine Corps. The per-unit cost is about $23,571. [Too bad, the military has not heard about ebay where you can get all you want of these things for 80 bucks or less.]
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