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| 1980 || || Publication || {{w|Norman Ornstein}} from {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} and {{w|Thomas E. Mann}} at Brookings jointly publish ''Vital Statistics on Congress'', detailing the election and composition of the {{w|United States Congress}} membership, party structure, and staff. Mann and Ornstein also document the growing partisan divide in Congress and track the demographics of senators and representatives. The book would be published entirely online in 2013.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1981 || || || "In 1981 the Brookings Institution and the Chinese Academy of Social Science commenced an ongoing series of joint-venture conferences participated in by government officials, leaders in the public and private sectors, and scholars from the United States and China."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dickson |first1=Bruce |last2=Harding |first2=Harry |title=Economic Relations in the Asian-Pacific Region |journal=he Journal of Energy and Development |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24807949?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents}}</ref>
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| 1986 || || || Research by Brookings Senior Fellow {{w|Joseph A. Pechman}} leads to the {{w|Tax Reform Act of 1986}}, a major bill that would have a profound impact on the {{w|economy of the United States}}.<ref name="brookings.edu"/> The act is designed to simplify the tax code, broaden the tax base, and eliminate many tax shelters and preferences.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tax Reform Act of 1986 |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tax-Reform-Act |website=britannica.com |accessdate=20 November 2019}}</ref> Pechman’s ''Federal Tax Policy'' is essential to those reforms.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
