Antideficiency Act

(noun)

Legislation enacted by the United States Congress in 1884 to prevent the incurring of obligations or the making of expenditures (outlays) in excess of amounts available in appropriations or funds; prohibits the federal government from entering into a contract that is not "fully funded" because doing so would obligate the government in the absence of an appropriation adequate to the needs of the contract.

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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

  • The Enclosure Act

  • 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.

  • "The General Act of the Conference"

  • Securities Exchange Act of 1934

    • The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (also called the Exchange Act, '34 Act, or Act of '34) is a law governing the secondary trading of securities, including stocks, bonds, and debentures, in the United States of America.
    • While the Securities Act is very limited in scope, the Securities Exchange Act (also known as the Exchange Act or 1934 Act) is much broader.
    • The '34 Act also regulates broker-dealers without a status for trading securities.
    • ATS acts as a niche market, a private pool of liquidity.
    • Define how the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regulates the US securities markets

  • 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

  • Oxidoreductase Protein Complexes

    • Oxidoreductases can be further classified into 22 subclasses: EC 1.1 includes oxidoreductases that act on the CH-OH group of donors (alcohol oxidoreductases); EC 1.2 includes oxidoreductases that act on the aldehyde or oxo group of donors; EC 1.3 includes oxidoreductases that act on the CH-CH group of donors (CH-CH oxidoreductases); EC 1.4 includes oxidoreductases that act on the CH-NH2 group of donors (Amino acid oxidoreductases, Monoamine oxidase); EC 1.5 includes oxidoreductases that act on CH-NH group of donors; EC 1.6 includes oxidoreductases that act on NADH or NADPH; EC 1.7 includes oxidoreductases that act on other nitrogenous compounds as donors; EC 1.8 includes oxidoreductases that act on a sulfur group of donors; EC 1.9 includes oxidoreductases that act on a heme group of donors; EC 1.10 includes oxidoreductases that act on diphenols and related substances as donors; EC 1.11 includes oxidoreductases that act on peroxide as an acceptor (peroxidases); EC 1.12 includes oxidoreductases that act on hydrogen as donors; EC 1.13 includes oxidoreductases that act on single donors with incorporation of molecular oxygen (oxygenases); EC 1.14 includes oxidoreductases that act on paired donors with incorporation of molecular oxygen; EC 1.15 includes oxidoreductases that act on superoxide radicals as acceptors; EC 1.16 includes oxidoreductases that oxidize metal ions; EC 1.17 includes oxidoreductases that act on CH or CH2 groups; EC 1.18 includes oxidoreductases that act on iron-sulfur proteins as donors; EC 1.19 includes oxidoreductases that act on reduced flavodoxin as a donor; EC 1.20 includes oxidoreductases that act on phosphorus or arsenic in donors; EC 1.21 includes oxidoreductases that act on X-H and Y-H to form an X-Y bond; and EC 1.97 includes other oxidoreductases.

  • British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

    • The Sugar Act of 1764 reduced the taxes imposed by the Molasses Act, but at the same time strengthened the collection of the tax.
    • Following the Quartering Act, Parliament passed one of the most infamous pieces of legislation: the Stamp Act.
    • The Stamp Act Congress met in October 1765, petitioning the King and Parliament to repeal the act before it went into effect at the end of the month.
    • The act faced vehement opposition throughout the colonies.
    • Parliament repealed the Stamp Act but passed the Declaratory Act in its wake.

  • The Civil Rights Acts

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
    • The Civil Rights Act was followed by the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Johnson in 1965.
    • The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B.
    • Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
    • Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act