Antideficiency Act

Examples of Antideficiency Act in the following topics:

• Divided Government

  • Discontent over Democratic President Obama's Affordable Care Act helped the Republicans capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
  • The Senate stripped the bill of the measures meant to delay the Affordable Care Act and passed it in revised form on September 27, 2013.
  • On October 1, 2013, many aspects of the Affordable Care Act implementation took effect, and the health insurance exchanges created by the Act launched as scheduled.
  • Only those government services deemed "excepted" under the Antideficiency Act were continued, and only those employees deemed "excepted" continued to report to work.
  • Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010

• Higher Education

  • President Johnson's Great Society made improvements to elementary, secondary, and higher education through a series of acts.
  • The Act also began a transition from federally-funded institutional assistance to individual student aid.
  • The Higher Education Act of 1965 was reauthorized in 1968, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, and 2008.
  • This signing plaque rests on campus grounds of Texas State University commemorating the Higher Education Act.
  • Distinguish the key features - as well as the effects - of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Facilities Act, and the Higher Education Act.

• The Coercive Acts

  • Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.
  • Many colonists, however, viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights.
  • The first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party was the Boston Port Act.
  • The Massachusetts Government Act provoked even more outrage than the Port Act because it unilaterally altered the government of Massachusetts to bring it under control of the British government.
  • Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least amount of protest of the Coercive Acts.

• Enforcing the Navigation Acts

  • These Acts formed the basis for British overseas trade for nearly 200 years.
  • Later revisions of the Act added new regulations.
  • The Acts were in full force for a short time only.
  • On the whole, the Navigation Acts were more or less obeyed by colonists, despite their dissatisfaction, until the Molasses and Sugar Acts.
  • Describe the central stipulations of the Navigation Acts and the Acts' effects on the political and economic situation in the colonies

• The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were a series of laws that aimed to outlaw speech that was critical of the government.
  • The Naturalization Act repealed and replaced the Naturalization Act of 1795 and extended the duration of residence required for aliens to become citizens of the United States from five years to fourteen years.
  • Enacted July 6, 1798, and providing no expiration provision, the act remains intact today as Title 50 of U.S.
  • The most controversial arrest made under the Alien and Sedition Acts was of a member of Congress.
  • While the Alien and Sedition Acts were left largely unenforced after 1800, the Alien Act was later used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Supreme Court was grappling with the constitutionality of the Sedition Acts as late as the 1960s.

• The Acts of Parliament

  • Two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, known together as the Quartering Acts, ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
  • Following the expiration of an act that provided British regulars with quartering in New York, Parliament passed the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
  • An amendment to the original Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774.
  • This act was passed and enforced along with many others, known by the colonists as the "Intolerable Acts."  
  • This act expired on March 24, 1776.

• Tax Protests

  • The first wave of protests attacked the Stamp Act of 1765, and marked the first time Americans from each of the thirteen colonies met together and planned a common front against illegal taxes.
  • The Parliament attempted a series of taxes and punishments which met more and more resistance, namely the First Quartering Act (1765), the Declaratory Act (1766), the Townshend Revenue Act (1767), and the Tea Act (1773).
  • In response to the Boston Tea Party Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts: the Second Quartering Act (1774), the Quebec Act (1774), the Massachusetts Government Act (1774), the Administration of Justice Act (1774), the Boston Port Act (1774), and the Prohibitory Act (1775).

• Navigation Acts

  • A series of Acts, known as the English Navigation Acts, restricted foreign shipment for trade between Great Britain and its colonies.
  • The deeply unpopular Molasses Act was the first of the Sugar Acts.
  • This act was set to expire in 1763; instead, it was renewed in 1764 as the Sugar Act.
  • The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with the Revenue Act of 1766, which reduced the tax to one penny per gallon on molasses imports, British or foreign.
  • Navigation Acts lead to conflict between the British and the Dutch

• Conclusion: The Consequences of the British Parliamentary Acts

  • Outrage over the act created a degree of unity among otherwise unconnected American colonists, giving them a chance to act together both politically and socially.
  • Colonists’ joy over the repeal of the Stamp Act did not last long.
  • Like the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts led many colonists to work together against what they perceived to be an unconstitutional measure.
  • The Tea Act of 1773 triggered a reaction with far more significant consequences than either the 1765 Stamp Act or the 1767 Townshend Acts.
  • Summarize the effect the Parliamentary Acts had on the beginnings of the Revolutionary War

• The Immigration Act of 1965

  • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (also known as the Hart-Celler Act) changed the nation's laws regulating immigration.
  • The Act abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been in place since the Immigration Act of 1924.
  • To convince people of the legislation's merits, the act's proponents asserted that the act would not significantly influence American culture.
  • President Johnson minimized the act's significance, calling it "not revolutionary."
  • The act would profoundly alter the nation's demographics.