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The House passed a resolution on House Employee Protection Laws.

The House met to consider the American Heritage Areas Bill, the GATT International Trade Agreement, and U.S. Troops in Haiti.

The session of the U.S. House of Representatives was shown. The House took up legislation on Foreign Trade and U.S. Banks, FY '95 Intelligence Spending and School Aid.

Members began the day with the Fiscal Year 1995 Defense Department Spending Bill H R 4650. This Bill provides $243.6 Billion dollars for the Defense Department, an increase of $3.5 billion o…

President Bill Clinton addressed the annual legislative conference of the Congressional Black Caucus concerning issues affecting the African-American community and the situation in Haiti.

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, chair of the CBC, discussed the state of black America at the opening session of the annual legislative conference. The annual legislative conference is entitled, “Embraci…

The U.S. House of Representatives passed both a conference report to a $20.7 billion funding bill for Energy & Water Development projects and the Congressional Accountability Act.

This House session considered bills under suspension of the rules. Bills included NASA re-authorization and the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Members also took up the Conference Report…

The Senate Judiciary Committee considered nominees to fill vacancies on the federal courts. The Judiciary panel met today to hear from five nominees. Among them, Jose Cabranes, President Cli…

Representatives debated amendments to the Insurance Disclosure Act.

The U.S. House of Representatives met and took up consideration of a number of bills which they suspended the rules to consider the legislation passed. The bills included the naming of a nu…

A congressional committee convened to hear testimony concerning discrimination by insurance companies. The Senate BankingCommittee met Wednesday to discuss allegations of insurance company d…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee heard testimony from music industry representatives and high school students about the effects of music lyrics, focusing on “offensive, violent and…

Members of the House of Representatives met in a pro forma session and did not work on any legislation.

The U.S. House of Representatives debated “school-to-work” legislation and the Crime Bill.

The U.S. House met to discuss several bills under suspension of the rules.

The House convened on April 13, 1994, debated the 1994 Crime Bill, which included the "three strikes and you’re out provision", a provision that mandated life in prison for three-time violen…

The House debated various aspects of the Education Funding Bill and voted on amendments to that bill. They went to Special Orders after they finished their legislative business for the day.