1. The existing rules were set out in legislation passed in 2000.

2. The NSA was allowed to collect this information without a warrant thanks to a US law passed in 2008.

3. The bank passed these observations and a test report onto the NBN Co team in October 2013.

4. Many business leaders and tax experts are pessimistic that anything will be passed in 2017.

5. Similar language passed as an amendment to the California Constitution in 2008.

6. This will be the fourth extension of the tax moratorium, first passed in 1998.

7. Arizona passed a similar law in 2015.

8. Net neutrality laws were passed in 2015.

9. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo passed away on January 1,2015.

10. The version that the committee ultimately approved passed by a vote of 8 to 1.

11. It passed in the Assembly 43-22.

12. The Senate had passed the bill Tuesday, 36 to 3.

13. The Nasdaq recently passed the 4,000 mark, a level last seen in September of 2000.

14. The bill had passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 19 to 0.

15. The bill passed with an overwhelming majority, 92 to 8.