House Session
The House passed several suspension bills, including one requiring the National Park Service to remove the monument to Robert E. Lee at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland, and another…
View in Congressional Chronicle5,849 viewsThe House passed several suspension bills, including one requiring the National Park Service to remove the monument to Robert E. Lee at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland, and another…
View in Congressional Chronicle5,849 viewsThe House considered several bills under suspension of the rules, including a measure that requires a review panel to evaluate Boeing safety features following fatal airplane crashes in 2018…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,073 viewsU.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack defied a congressional subpoena to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but five former executives of the agency testified about c…
991 viewsThe House considered five veterans-related bills under suspension of the rules, and voted on another suspension bill debated earlier in the week. Members also debated H.R. 4447, the Clean Ec…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,670 viewsIn a vote of 257-150, the House passed a bill that says the U.S. Postal Service needs to return to service and operation levels of January 1, 2020, and may not make any changes until January…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,014 viewsThe House debated the rule covering the fiscal year 2021 spending measure that funds the Departments of Agriculture, State, Veterans Affairs, and Interior as well as military construction. …
View in Congressional Chronicle18,936 viewsThe House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks held a hearing to discuss three pieces of legislation calling for the removal of Confederate statues on public land. Witnesses incl…
2,137 viewsThe House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the implications of China’s new national security law in Hong Kong. Witnesses included activists and scholars, who discussed the new law…
1,328 viewsMembers of Congress testified before the House Small Business Committee on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and other measures intended to provide economic relief to small businesses im…
857 viewsThe House debated and passed by voice vote a $2 trillion Senate-passed coronavirus economic aid package, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Lawmakers had hoped to pass t…
View in Congressional Chronicle10,608 viewsThe House debated four foreign affairs-related suspension bills, including resolutions “condemning continued violence against civilians by armed groups in the Central African Republic” (H.Re…
View in Congressional Chronicle344 viewsThe debated H.R. 2339, the Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019, legislation seeking to reduce youth vaping by banning the sale of all flavored toba…
View in Congressional Chronicle741 viewsThe House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle853 viewsThe House passed the PFAS Action Act of 2019, dealing with Environmental Protection Agency designation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
View in Congressional Chronicle2,753 viewsThe House considered several bills under suspension of the rules, including legislation promoting 5G technology and providing entrepreneurship counseling and training services for incarcerat…
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