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House Democratic Whip David Bonior and others talked with reporters about ethics complaints filed against House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The Ethics Committee issued a report today on seven com…

The U.S. House of Representatives gave floor speeches. A Point of Order was made during the floor proceedings to assert that the rules of procedure are being violated. the chair’s ruling may…

Democratic House members reacted to the House Ethics Committee’s announcement that it was expanding its investigation into Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s (R-Georgia) possible violation…

The U.S. House of Representatives debated 85 billion dollars in spending for Veterans, Housing, and Urban Development for the next fiscal year. The VA Bill was one of the appropriation bills…

House Minority Whip Representative David Bonior (D-Michigan) called for the release of an outside counsel report on an ethics probe of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, saying that the Ethics Com…

The US Senate met to talk about the Fiscal Year 1997 funding for Veterans and Housing programs.

Afternoon session speeches were followed by a march by the Democratic women members of Congress.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on approving the Journal. Then the members gave one-minute speeches. Later the House considered a bill letting workers take compensatory time off inst…

House of Representatives met in a General session to discuss various bills and special orders.

On this day, the House Savings and Construction Act of 1996. They also took up H.R. 3564, The NATO Enlargement Facilitation Act, which would allow membership in NATO of some eastern European…

On this day, the House took up the Most Favored Nation (MFN) status with China, debating whether to grant MFN status to China for another year. They also then considered the Fiscal Year 1997…

Participants briefed reporters on a Los Angeles Times article about allegations of tax fraud against Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) and GOPAC. They criticized the speaker for using non-pr…

On this day, after a period of one-minute speeches, the House took up consideration of a $12.1 billion Interior Dept Spending Bill.

On this day, the U.S. House of Representatives took up an $11.9 billion Foreign Aid spending bill for the fiscal year 1997.

The House began with one-minute speeches from members before moving on to work on the Fiscal Year 1997 Budget Resolution. After their legislative business was concluded, they ended with Spec…