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Retired Air Force General David Jones and retired Admiral William Crowe appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee where both counselled patience in maintaining economic sanctions a…

Senate Democrats challenged President Bush’s Persian Gulf policy and questioned the need for immediate offensive military action to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Senators demanded a greate…

The Senate passed H.R. 5835, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 4 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 1991. The Senate passed H.R. 1602, to amend th…

The senate reconvened after a recess for party caucus lunches to continue consideration of the conference report to accompany S 2104, the civil rights act of 1990. The bill sought to overtur…

Senate Armed Services Committee held hearing looking at the funding and progress of the B-2 Bomber program. Air Force Secretary Donald Rice testified to the committee on the funding and prog…

The Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2331, to designate as nonmailable matter solicitations of donations which could reasonably be m…

The Senate designated several National Days, Weeks, and Months for various purposes. The Senate began consideration of S. Con. Res. 147, supporting the actions taken by the President with re…

Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) campaigned before members of the Army Reserve and their families in Saginaw, Michigan.

Democratic incumbent Senator Levin and Republican Rep. Shuette debated topics such as the Middle East situation, unemployment, housing, gas prices, tax policy, and the Pan Am 103 explosion. …

The Senate continued consideration of S. 2884, for appropriations for the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy for 1991.

The Senate continued consideration of S. 2830, to regulate agriculture. The Senate considered S.Res. 311, the Ethics Committee Recommendation on Senator David Durenberger. The committee reco…

The Senate agreed to S. Res. 308 to provide budget allocations for fiscal year 1991 to the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The Senate began consideration of H.R. 4328 to authorize approp…

The Senate began consideration of S. 2104, the Civil Rights Act of 1990 to restore and strengthen civil rights laws that banned discrimination in employment.

The Senate passed H.R. 5149, to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. The Senate passed H.R. 4525, to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. The Senate passed S. 2461, the Drug Treatme…

The Senate passed H.R. 3045, the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act. The Senate rejected S.J. Res. 332, proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution authorizing the Congress and the state…

The Senate Armed Services Comittee received testimony from the General Accounting Office and the Sandia Laboratory on the Navy investigation into the explosion aboard the USS Iowa.

Secretary Cheney testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee and outlined the Defense Department’s proposed plan to cut $34.8 billion in purchases of sophisticated aircraft, includi…

U.S. officials announced that the U.S. and Japan had reached agreement on removing various barriers to the sale of U.S. forest products in Japan. This segment was from the Senate Finance Com…

The Senate continued consideration of H.R. 1594, Miscellaneous and Technical Changes to Various Trade Laws.