House Session
The House agreed to H.Res. 527 to waive certain rules. The House agreed to the conference report on S. 605, enhancing consumer product safety. The House agreed to the Senate amendments to H.…
View in Congressional Chronicle407 viewsThe House agreed to H.Res. 527 to waive certain rules. The House agreed to the conference report on S. 605, enhancing consumer product safety. The House agreed to the Senate amendments to H.…
View in Congressional Chronicle407 viewsThe House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 5021, commerce, justice, and judicial appropriations, after having agreed to recede from its disagreement over amendment 165. The House agre…
View in Congressional Chronicle303 viewsThe House agreed to the conference report for H.R. 5400, reform campaigns. The House agreed to the conference report for H.R. 5257, making appropriations for Labor and Health and Human Servi…
View in Congressional Chronicle391 viewsThe House agreed to H.Res. 487 which provided for the consideration of H.R. 5835, intelligence authorizations. The House agreed to H.Res. 509, providing for the consideration of H.R. 5835, t…
View in Congressional Chronicle303 viewsThis hearing begins a series of investigations into regulatory policies of the savings and loan industry in the late 1970's and the 1980's.
770 viewsThe House rejected the Thomas motion to accept the Senate provisions to H.R. 5400, amending the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. The Senate provisions in question related to franked ma…
View in Congressional Chronicle323 viewsIn an unusual action, Speaker Foley made a strongly worded one-minute speech at the opening of the session to condemn the Irish Republican Army terrorist killing of Conservative British Hous…
View in Congressional Chronicle341 viewsThe House passed H.R. 5313, making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense. During consideration, the House rejected the Penny amendment to have an across-the-…
View in Congressional Chronicle216 viewsThe House sustained the President’s veto of H.R. 770, which would entitle employees to family and medical leave in certain cases. The House continued consideration of H.R. 3950, the “Food an…
View in Congressional Chronicle228 viewsThe House considered H.R. 3950, the “Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990” but came to no resolution. Five amendments were agreed to and two amendments were rejected. The Downey(D-NY)…
View in Congressional Chronicle177 viewsThe House passed H.R. 5229, making appropriations for the Department of Transportation. The House agreed to H. Con. Res. 291, expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to account a…
View in Congressional Chronicle241 viewsThe House voted to override the president’s veto of H.R. 20, to amend Title 5, United States Code (the Hatch Act), concerning the participation of federal civilian employees in the political…
View in Congressional Chronicle221 viewsThe committee received the semi-annual report of the oversight board of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
120 viewsThe House concluded all general debate and began consideration of amendments to H.R. 2273, to establish a comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability. The House ag…
View in Congressional Chronicle282 viewsA presidential message was read concerning multilateral measures taken in response to the military crackdown in China in June 1989. The House passed H.R. 4151, to authorize appropriations fo…
View in Congressional Chronicle139 viewsThe House passed H.R. 3802, designating the month of May as “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.” The House agreed to the motion on H.R. 4404, regarding Fiscal 1990 Supplemental Appropri…
View in Congressional Chronicle126 viewsThe House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing about Resolution Trust Corporation oversight. This was the first part of that hearing. The Resolution Trust Corporation …
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