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House and Senate Budget Committee conferees worked on a final version of the budget reconciliation bill, which attempts to balance the federal budget in seven years.

After meeting with Democratic leaders, House and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Representative John Kasich (R-OH) and Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) expressed their disappointment at Preside…

Republican congressional leaders met with reporters to respond to President Clinton’s announcement of the partial government shutdown.

The House & Senate Budget Committees held a hearing on the effects of a possible government shutdown if federal budget legislation was not passed by October 1. They heard testimony from Whit…

Republican leaders criticized the president’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2001. They said that it was “dead on arrival” because it had too many spending programs and did not provide enou…

Senator Pete Domenici R-New Mexico and Representative John Kaisch R-Ohio, talked to reporters about the federal budget surplus.

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) and other Republican leaders announced that they would “lock up” every penny of that portion of the budge…

Budget Committee Chairman Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Budget Committee Chairman Representative John Kasich (R-OH) announced the Republican budget plan which would set aside a significan…

Senator Pete Domenici(R-NM) and Representative John Kasich(R-OH) reacted to the president’s budget proposal by advocating an across-the-board tax cut. They said that the president had includ…

Congressional Republican leaders reacted to President Clinton’s 1999 budget plan and answered questions from the media.

Republican Budget Committee Chairmen reacted to the new initiatives outlined by President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union message. They stated that the outlines of his budget proposal…

Surrounded by fellow Republican members and citizens, Republican leaders talked about the budget agreement reached the previous evening. They talked about aspects of the proposal and its com…

House and Senate conferees met to eliminate the differences in the tax provisions of the House and Senate versions of the budget reconciliation bill. Members debated where the proposed cuts …

House and Senate conferees met to eliminate the differences in the spending provisions of the House and Senate versions of the budget reconciliation bill. Members debated where the required …

Committee members met to mark up the 1998 budget resolution. They progressed through the bill line by line and debated and changed portions of it. Congressional and administration negotiator…

Republican congressional leaders announced their budget agreement with President Bill Clinton. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) made the announcement to the Republican legis…

After meeting with President Clinton, the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate budget committees talked to reporters. The Republicans highlighted their differences with the pre…

The chairs of the House and Senate Budget Committees reacted to the 1998 presidential budget proposal. They highlighted some of the areas on which they could more readily accept the proposal…

Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Representative John Kasich (R-OH), the chairs of the Senate and House Budget Committees, reacted to comments made earlier in the day by the president about h…

Congressional Republicans talked with reporters about today’s House-Senate conference agreement on welfare reform.