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Under suspension of the rules the House passed several measures. Of special interest was H.R. 1602, the Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act to amend the Public Health Service Ac…

The House failed to override the president’s veto of H.R. 2990 which concerned FY90 appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services. The House agreed to H.R. 45 which calls fo…

The House resumed debate on conference report H.R. 3026 for FY90 District of Columbia government appropriations and agreed to concur with the Senate’s previous amendment. The House also agre…

The House passed H.J. Res. 407 making continuing appropriations for FY90.

The subcommittee examines reasons for the failure of the Cambodian conference in Paris and the implications of that failure for U.S. policy toward Cambodia.

The House debated H.R. 2916 appropriations bill for the Departments of Veterans' Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and other independent agencies, boards, and commissions for FY90. The…

Thomas S. Foley was elected speaker of the House of Representatives. The tally was 251 votes for Thomas Foley and 164 votes for Bob Michel. The House agreed to notify the Senate and the Pres…

The committee met to hear oral arguments on the Speaker Jim Wright’s motion to dismiss one or more of the committee’s charges against him.

Economist Lester Thurow, Dean of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, talked about America’s changing position in the world’s economy. He spoke at Middlesex Community College in Burlington…