"act of Congress" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From the literal sense of act (“legislation”) enacted by US Congress.",
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        {
          "text": "Does it take an act of Congress just to get a stop sign on a corner?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Nevada Barr, Liberty Falling, page 79",
          "text": "Should Frederick stick around — and apparently it would take an act of Congress to get him out of the ICU — he might take up where Molly had brutally left off.",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, E. Lynn Harris, A Love of My Own, page 54",
          "text": "Since it seemed like getting a glass of wine was going to require an act of Congress, I quickly agreed.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Bill White with Robert Gandt, Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship, page 273",
          "text": "Another problem was bureaucratic: the transfer of the ship required, literally, an act of Congress. It was an agonizing process that ground along for twenty-six months, through the tenures of three secretaries of the navy, two presidents, and two mayors of New York.",
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        "Authorization that is extremely difficult to get, especially in a timely fashion."
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        "(idiomatic, US, chiefly colloquial) Authorization that is extremely difficult to get, especially in a timely fashion."
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        "A statute enacted by the United States Congress."
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        "(literally, US politics) A statute enacted by the United States Congress."
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  "etymology_text": "From the literal sense of act (“legislation”) enacted by US Congress.",
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          "text": "Does it take an act of Congress just to get a stop sign on a corner?",
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        },
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          "ref": "2000, Nevada Barr, Liberty Falling, page 79",
          "text": "Should Frederick stick around — and apparently it would take an act of Congress to get him out of the ICU — he might take up where Molly had brutally left off.",
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        },
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        "A statute enacted by the United States Congress."
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