Two weeks later, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery, prompting Congress later that year to pass the Voting Rights Act.

The early waves of scandal from the subprime industry a decade ago prompted Congress in 1994 to adopt legislation requiring greater disclosure by high-cost lenders, but federal action to enforce those laws has been rare.

The report prompted Congress, in 2000, to pass the law that led to the sanctuary.

The crash made national headlines and prompted Congress to commission the Copeland Committee report on air traffic safety.

This case, and others like it, prompted Congress in 1998 to create a new federal offense of identity theft.

When tensions with Great Britain prompted Congress to appropriate funds for Colt's project toward the end of 1841, he demonstrated his underwater mines to the US government.

That prompted Congress to intervene recently - an unusual action in a private lawsuit - to ask the two sides to work out their differences.

It began to gain more attention a decade ago, prompting Congress in 1998 to make identity theft a federal crime and the Federal Trade Commission to set up a special victim assistance center a year later.

These deficiencies prompted Congress to order Washington to send more troops north.

Such criticism prompted Congress in 1984 to create the seven-member sentencing commission and instruct it to standardize sentences and toughen up on white-collar crimes and crimes involving drugs and violence.