![A political cartoon lampooning the Embargo Act of 1807. A merchant trying to smuggle goods out of the country is snapped at by a turtle, and complains about the "Ograbme". Ograbme is embargo spelled backwards. A political cartoon lampooning the Embargo Act of 1807](https://documents.law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/ograbme.jpeg?itok=HppYjy6b)
The collection can be sorted by the popular name of the law, by the date of its enactment, or by descriptive category of naming convention. The categories are our attempt to bring some degree of order to the chaos.
The collection can be sorted by the popular name of the law, by the date of its enactment, or by descriptive category of naming convention. The categories are our attempt to bring some degree of order to the chaos.
Title | Type | Popular Name | Short Title | Named For? | Classification | PL | Statute At Large |
Date(s) Enacted![]() |
Interesting Part Statutized? | Leads to other named Legislation | Link/Source | Notes |
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Betty Dick Residence Protection Act | Private Law | Betty Dick Residence Protection Act | "Betty Dick Residence Protection Act" | Betty Dick, 83-year-old woman residing in a cabin within Rocky Mountain National Park. The bill granted her a life estate. | Private Law 109-1 | 120 Stat 3705 | Y |
S.Rpt.109-146 |
short title; - noted here because the private laws are generally not included in the Popular Name Table -- wonder why this one is | |||
Carlisle Act (Internal Revenue) | Sponsor | Carlisle Act (Internal Revenue) | NO short title | Rep. John Griffin Carlisle (D-KY) | 19 USC 468, 469 | ch. 108, 21 Stat 145 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000152 |
PNT has 21 Stat 148 but it has to be wrong | |||
Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | Sponsor | Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | "World War Veterans' Act, 1924" | Sen. David Aiken Reed (R-PA); Rep. Royal Cleaves Johnson (R-SD, Chairman of the Committee on WW Veterans' Legislation) | ch 320, 43 Stat 607 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000114; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000173 |
The PNT and some secondary sources link Reed-Johnson and the WW Veterans' Act, but other sources link Reed-Johnson with the Immigration Act of 1924, which was 43 Stat. 153. | ||||
Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919 | Description | Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919 | "Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919" | Ch. 6, 41 Stat 35 | ||||||||
Aldrich Act (Currency) | Sponsor | Aldrich Act (Currency) | NO short title | Sen. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, (R-R.I) | 12 USCA 178 (repealed) | 34 Stat 1289 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000083 |
Repealed by PL 103-325, 108 Stat 2293 - popular name not mentioned in repeal | |||
I Am An American Day Act | Description | I Am An American Day Act | NO short title | ch 183, 54 Stat 178 | N | funny name - proclaiming name of day as "I Am An American Day" | ||||||
Baby Doe Amendment | Case | Baby Doe Amendment | NO short title | Series of "Baby Doe" child endangerment cases in the early 1980s. | 98-457, title I part B | 98 Stat 1752 | N |
Kathryn Moss, "The 'Baby Doe' Legislation Its Rise and Fall" Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 4 (June 1987) |
services and treatment for disabled infants -- possible that "Baby Doe" was an individual infant and this was passed in response?? | |||
Carol M White Physical Education Program | Honor | Carol M White Physical Education Program | "Carol M. White Physical Education Program" | Cannot find any information about Carol M. White. | 20 USC 7261 | 107-110 | 115 Stat 1841 | Y | Definitely written in to 107-110 -- originally 89-10, but that did not have Carol M White name; White added in NCLB | |||
FLAME Act of 2009 | Acrostic | FLAME Act of 2009 | "Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act of 2009" or "FLAME Act of 2009" | 43 USC 1701 | 111-88, div A, title V | 123 Stat 2968 | N | short title at beginning of Title V | ||||
Johnson Amendment (see Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933) | Sponsor | Johnson Amendment (see Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933) | "Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933" | Really unclear. The amendments offered in the House were all Committee amendments put forward by Rep. Rayburn, and the Senate amendments were by Shipstead. No one named Johnson participated in the debate in either chamber and none was appointed a conferee. It's possible that this is a mistake in the PNT, because there is a more famous "Johnson Amendment" in tax law that was offered by Sen. Lyndon Johnson on the floor, but it was not an amendment dealing with this part of the tax code - http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=154788,00.html | 15 USC 77mm | ch 38, title II, 48 Stat 92 | N | short title at end of title II - "Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935" - each of these titles has an appropriations name, but why no personal name for these? |