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1990 1991 1992 1993 May 20, 1992 THE 27TH AMENDMENT In 1789, one of the twelve amendments to the Constuon proposed by Congress would have prevented a congressional pay raise fromgoing into effect unl the next Congress began. The amendment failed to gain the requisite number of state raficaons unl an effort to rafy the amendment was revived in the 1980s. OnMay 18, 1992, the amend- ment was officially cerfied by Archivist of the United States DonWilson. Congressional leaders protested the acon, arguing that Congress should first have cerfied the raficaon. OnMay 20, 1992, both houses of Congress passed a concurrent resoluon agreeing that the amendment, aer 202 years, had been legally rafied. The cerficaon of the raficaon of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment. February 5, 1993 FAMILY ANDMEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 1993 Signed into law on February 5, 1993, the Family andMedical Leave Act (FMLA) requires covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualifiedmedical and family reasons, including personal or family illness,military service, familymilitary leave, pregnancy, adopon, or the foster care placement of a child. The FMLA is administered by theWage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor. SUMMER 2012 THE CAPITOL DOME 25 NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION