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Witnesses testified about President Clinton’s Social security plan. Among the issues they discussed were using budget surpluses to strengthen the system, Medicare reform, and ensuring the in…

House Session

The House convened on July 22, 1999 to debate and discuss a Republican package of tax cuts totaling 792 billion dollars over ten years. This proposal was passed. Also, a fiscal year 2000 def…

The committee met to hear proposed amendments to the Financial Freedom Act which provided for several forms of tax cuts. Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the committee voted to for…

The House debates bills about education issues. Special order speeches conclude the session.

The house was in session and hearing a debate on the fiscal budget.

The House Ways and Means committee heard testimony from Witnesses about how to use the budget surplus prudently.

Treasury officials testified about the president’s budget proposal. The plan included provisions to set aside the bulk of the surplus for Social Security and Medicare while using the remaini…

Mr. Greenspan testified that he agreed with President Clinton’s idea to save Social Security by using the budget surplus. He disagreed, however, with the idea to use some of the surplus to i…

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on Social Security Reform. Witnesses including Reverend Jesse Jackson and Empower America’s Jack Kemp offered solutions to the program’s pr…