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title: "Why did Theodore Roosevelt get Congress to pass the Hepburn Act?"  
description: "Why did Theodore Roosevelt get Congress to pass the Hepburn Act?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-04-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41918/why-did-theodore-roosevelt-get-congress-to-pass-the-hepburn-act  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why did Theodore Roosevelt get Congress to pass the Hepburn Act? 

Why did [Theodore Roosevelt](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42803/where-was-theodore-roosevelt-s-famous-victory-in-the-spanish-american) get [Congress](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34723/the-telangana-government-has-signed-a-technology-partnership-agreement-with-which-country-at-the-world-congress-on-information-technology-wcit-2018) to pass the Hepburn Act? \
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