Social Security Legislation
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…
81 viewsWitnesses 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…
81 viewsWitnesses testified regarding the effect on Medicare as a result of the Balanced Budget Act. Government officials talked about the President’s Medicare reform plan and how under the existing…
142 viewsCommittee members heard testimony about the disparity in information technology access. They heard about a report showing demographic differences in the number of Americans with access to te…
124 viewsThe 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…
View in Congressional Chronicle554 viewsThe 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…
59 viewsCommittee members heard about legislation containing several tax cut proposals. Under particular consideration was a Republican proposal that would cut personal income, capital gains, and ma…
122 viewsThe House debated the use of Social Security funds for other federal programs.
View in Congressional Chronicle29,520 viewsThe U.S. House of Representatives convened and after voting on several amendments to a bill on bankruptcy law, it passed with a vote of 313-108.
View in Congressional Chronicle449 viewsRepresentatives talked to reporters about their proposed legislation to protect the Social Security program. Their plan would put the Social Security surplus into a lock box where the money …
46 viewsThe April 21, 1990 opening House session. One of the principle topics of discussion was education funding.
View in Congressional Chronicle429 viewsThe U.S. House of Representatives convened to work on steel imports to the U.S. and a bill that would authorize $4.6 billion in FY2000 and $4.9 billion in FY2001 for the Coast Guard.
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