... waiting to board a vacation train in Washington's old Baltimore and Potomac railroad station. Garfield's death gave new impetus to a Civil Service reform bill introduced six months earlier by Senator George Pendleton of Ohio and other powerful proponents of the merit system. Passed in 1883, this Act established procedures to assure that selections for certain Federal jobs would be open, competitive, and ... 1978 In 1978 the CSRA abolished the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and established two offices in its place to oversee civil service statutes. The CSC had been created by the Pendlet...

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... regulation, tariff policy, and monetary policy. Though Congress debated these issues, factionalism, interest-group politics, and political equilibrium resulted in the passage of vaguely worded, ineffective legislation such as the Pendleton Civil Service Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Combined with a conservative Supreme Court, weak presidential leadership, and political campaigns that focused on issues of personality ... ...

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... . By establishing this platform, Teddy Roosevelt aimed at helping society by ridding it of the corruption of monopolies. The first legislative attempt to destroy corruption within government ranks was the Pendleton Civil Service Act (1882) which established a Civil Service Commission to oversee exams for admittance to government positions, in an attempt to dismantle the spoils system. There were also judicial advancements ... ...

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... .com After nine years of robust growth, America's economic bubble burst in 2000. Technology shares plunged in the spring, foretelling a sharp economic slowdown later that year. The Fed, led by Alan Greenspan, slashed interest rates. But the economy failed to pick up and was in recession before the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. Its health took another knock in ... ...

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