International Child Abduction
A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing to examine international child abduction. Subcommittee members heard from three parents who shared their personal stories of how their chi…
3,409 viewsA House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing to examine international child abduction. Subcommittee members heard from three parents who shared their personal stories of how their chi…
3,409 viewsThe House debated and passed a number of suspension bills.
View in Congressional Chronicle736 viewsThe House considered bills under suspension of the rules including a bill designating former President George W. Bush’s childhood home in Midland, Texas as part of the National Park System. …
View in Congressional Chronicle728 viewsThe House debated and passed a non-binding resolution saying that the House of Representatives does not approve of illegal immigrants voting in U.S. elections. Lawmakers also completed work …
View in Congressional Chronicle5,202 viewsThe assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, foreign policy experts, and Ethiopian community leaders testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on recent developments in …
2,683 viewsOfficials from the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Trump administration’s foreign policy to…
1,012 viewsAssistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about U.S. policy in Afghanistan. She addressed questions ab…
1,991 viewsThe House debated and passed the fiscal year 2019 Defense Department spending bill. Members also approved a resolution insisting that the Justice Department provide House investigators acces…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,414 viewsEducation advocates and scholars testified about charter schools at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing. Members listened to testimony identifying some of the advantages and ch…
801 viewsThe House passed bills dealing with the nation’s opioid epidemic, including housing for recovering addicts, shipments of illegal drugs, and the effect of opioid addiction on families.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,136 viewsHomeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on her department’s fiscal year 2019 budget request, along with other border security and …
1,271 viewsThe House debated and voted on two bills. One concerns the Columbia River power system, and the other relates to modernizing music copyrights.
View in Congressional Chronicle836 viewsThe House passed H.R. 4566, the Alleviating Stress Test Burdens to Help Investors Act. The bill would exempt some financial institutions from from certain “stress test” requirements in the 2…
View in Congressional Chronicle346 viewsThe House approved several suspension bills, including legislation to improve state home health care for disabled veterans. Members did not, however, approve a suspension bill to allow termi…
View in Congressional Chronicle691 viewsThe House considered bills under suspension of the rules.
View in Congressional Chronicle399 viewsThe House passed two bills. One allows prosecutors to use state sex trafficking and prostitution laws to target trafficking websites. Another bill prohibits federal regulators from issuing c…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,696 viewsThe House passed a bill that would reform the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) litigation process and provide education to state and local governments as well as property owners for ADA…
View in Congressional Chronicle622 viewsThe House passed legislation to extend federal government funding through February 16, in a vote of 230-197.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,121 viewsThe House passed a six year Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reauthorization, 256-164.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,868 viewsThe House debated and passed several suspension bills, including a resolution supporting Iranian protests against their government.
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