 The scandals uncovered by the Select Committee led directly to passage of the Labor @-@ Management Reporting and Disclosure Act ( also known as the Landrum @-@ Griffin Act ) in 1959 . Calls for legislation and drafts of bills began circulating in the Senate as early as May 1957 . Among the more prominent bills was one submitted in 1958 by Senators John F. Kennedy and Irving Ives ( with assistance from nationally @-@ known labor law professor Archibald Cox ) which covered 30 areas , including union recordkeeping , finances , and democratic organizational structures and rules . The Kennedy @-@ Ives bill proved immensely controversial , leading to the longest Senate debate of the year , and the greatest number of amendments and floor votes any piece of legislation that year . But President Dwight D. Eisenhower opposed the bill and it died when the Congressional session ended in December 1958 . Kennedy reintroduced the bill , with some additional provisions , in 1959 . Although Ives had retired from the Senate , Senator Sam Ervin agreed to co @-@ sponsor the revised bill . The Kennedy @-@ Ervin bill also encountered stiff opposition , and Republicans were able to win Senate approval of a management " bill of rights " to the bill which labor strongly denounced . But with this and other Republican @-@ backed amendments , the bill passed the Senate overwhelmingly . 
