Institutional-Expansion

Roosevelt Signs Hepburn Act Creating First True Federal Regulatory Agency

1906-06-29 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On June 29, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Hepburn Act into law after a month of conference committee reconciliation, with the Senate passing it 71-3 and the House by substantial margin. The Act fundamentally strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission, giving it power to set …

Theodore Roosevelt Representative William Hepburn Interstate Commerce Commission Railroad companies U.S. Congress railroad-regulation regulatory-enforcement progressive-era institutional-expansion corporate-power

Roosevelt Creates Bureau of Corporations and Department of Commerce and Labor

1903-02-14 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On February 14, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Act to Establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, creating the ninth cabinet-level executive department and establishing the Bureau of Corporations as an investigatory agency within it. The Bureau was specifically designed to study …

Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Congress George B. Cortelyou James Rudolph Garfield Bureau of Corporations antitrust regulatory-enforcement progressive-era corporate-power institutional-expansion