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  2. Government shutdowns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...

  3. Government shutdown - Wikipedia

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    Government shutdowns, in United States politics, refer to a funding gap period that causes a full or partial shutdown of federal government operations and agencies. They are caused when there is a failure to pass a funding legislation to finance the government for its next fiscal year or a temporary funding measure.

  4. Continuing resolution - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In the United States, a continuing resolution (often abbreviated to CR) is a type of appropriations legislation. An appropriations bill is a bill that appropriates (gives to, sets aside for) money to specific federal government departments, agencies, and programs. The money provides funding for operations, personnel, equipment, and ...

  5. 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown - Wikipedia

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    The United States federal government shutdown from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days) was the longest government shutdown in history [1] [2] and the second [a] and final federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the presidency of Donald Trump. It occurred when the 115th Congress and Trump could not ...

  6. Hikikomori - Wikipedia

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    Definition. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare defines hikikomori as a condition in which the affected individuals refuse to leave their parents' house, do not work or go to school, and isolate themselves from society and family in a single room for a period exceeding six months. [13] The psychiatrist Tamaki Saitō defines ...

  7. 1995–1996 United States federal government shutdowns - Wikipedia

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    t. e. As a result of conflicts between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress over funding for education, the environment, and public health in the 1996 federal budget, the United States federal government shut down from November 14 through November 19, 1995, and from December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996, for 5 and 21 ...

  8. Internal Revenue Service - Wikipedia

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    American Civil War (1861–65) George S. Boutwell was the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue under President Abraham Lincoln.. In July 1862, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1862, creating the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue and enacting a temporary income tax to pay war expenses.

  9. Deinstitutionalisation - Wikipedia

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    Located in Washington D.C., the hospital had been one of the sites of the Rosenhan experiment in the 1970s. Deinstitutionalisation (or deinstitutionalization) is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability.