Category: Timeline Stories

Inside the White House, Carter signs into law P.L. 95-213. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is enacted. 

Senators agree to conference report language of the FCPA, followed by the House a day later. 

The conference committee meets to resolve discrepancies between House and Senate versions of the FCPA. Changes include the removal of ...

The House votes to pass the Unlawful Corporate Payments Act.

James Callaghan, Jimmy Carter and Helmut Schmidt during the 1977 economic summit. Credit: National Archives The Senate passes the FCPA ...

US Rep. Bob Eckhardt (D-Texas) introduces H.R. 3815, the Unlawful Corporate Payments Act, as a companion bill to the FCPA.

1977 inauguration of Jimmy Carter. Credit: National Archives Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as the 39th president of the United States. ...

Bypassing Congress, the SEC announces new rules effectively implementing S. 305's books-and-records and internal accounting control requirements. 

Sen. William Proxmire introduces S. 305, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Despite a title change, the statute has exactly ...

President Gerald Ford signs into law the Tax Reform Act of 1976, ending deductibility of foreign bribes.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee dissolves Church’s Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations and re-designates it as the Foreign Economic Policy Subcommittee. 

S. 3664, Sen. William Proxmire's anti-corruption compromise bill, passes the Senate by a vote of 86-0; Church's last-minute amendment, S. ...