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Former President Bush joined Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole at a campaign rally in Tampa, Florida. They were preceded by local Republican candidates. Former Senator Dole focused …

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…

United States House of Representatives session on September 17, 1996, included taking up more than twenty bills under suspension of the rules procedures.

Conference committee members debated the final conference report on legislation which would change regulations governing health insurance. The final report included a provision which would a…

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…

United States House of Representatives session on July 17, 1996, debated the Treasury and Postal Spending, Safe Drinking Water Act Reauthorization, and Welfare Reform.

On this day, the House, after a period of one-minute speeches, took up the Safe Drinking Water Act under suspension of the rules. The House then moved to consideration of spending bills for …

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 Commerce Subcommittee on Health, heard testimony on quality standards for managed health care. Patients, providers, physicians, and industry professionals testified about “gag rule…

House Commerce Subcommittee members heard testimony on quality standards for managed health care. Patients, providers, physicians, and industry professionals testified about “gag rules” whic…

In the second day of hearings, committee members heard from health researchers and health industry representatives concerning three bills designed to accelerate the FDA approval process for …

The House met to debate on the Ocean Shipping Reform Act and funding for the U.S. Marshalls Service. The session began with One-Minute speeches on a variety of issues, then debated the batte…

Committee members heard from FDA officials concerning three bills designed to accelerate the FDA approval process for both food and drugs. Key points in the proposals included allowing firms…

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