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DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - First Federally-Funded School Voucher System

2004-01-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

On January 22, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the DC School Choice Incentive Act, creating the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP)—the first federally-funded private school voucher program in American history. Congress used its constitutional authority over the District of Columbia to …

President George W. Bush Speaker Dennis Hastert Senator Judd Gregg DC Public Schools Heritage Foundation +1 more education vouchers privatization federal-policy washington-dc

Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington, D.C.

1978-12-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

By the end of the 1970s, corporate public affairs offices in Washington dramatically expanded from 100 in 1968 to over 500, with registered corporate lobbyists increasing from 175 in 1971 to nearly 2,500. This unprecedented mobilization, influenced by the Powell Memo, represented a systematic …

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Lobbying Industry Lewis Powell Fortune 500 Leadership capture-cascade corporate-lobbying washington-dc institutional-capture political-infrastructure +1 more