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    The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original...
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    Eastern states. The Act created a federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which it charged with monitoring railroads to ensure...
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  • destroy the Commission, but to utilize it. While the Interstate Commerce Act forbade "undue and unreasonable prejudice" against interstate passengers,...
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    of two adjacent buildings beginning in the late 1990s: the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) building and the Department of Labor Building, on Constitution...
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  • Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois (category Interstate Commerce Commission litigation)
    rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce. It led to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The majority's opinion was written...
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  • Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Co., 167 U.S. 479 (1897), was an important early U.S. Supreme Court...
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    United States federal law that expanded the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and gave it the power to set maximum railroad rates. This...
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  • Richard F. Mitchell (category People of the Interstate Commerce Commission)
    In 1946, President Harry S. Truman appointed Mitchell to the Interstate Commerce Commission. In the 1944 Iowa gubernatorial election, Mitchell was the Democratic...
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    the previous Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction...
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  • transportation. The Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, and this power was upheld...
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