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The House passed $600 billion in federal spending for the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor Departments. Members also passed the House-Senate compromise on reauthorizing…

Democratic members of the House of Representatives spoke to reporters about letters they prepared for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra and National Security Adviser Steph…

The House voted 217 to 215 for passage of the budget bill.

The committee marked up portions of budget reconciliation instructions that fell under its jurisdiction, including energy and commerce budget reconciliations. In this portion of the day-long…

The House Subcommittee on Health along with the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing titled “Assessing Public Health and the Delivery of Care in the Wake of Katr…

Witnesses testified about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on U.S. energy supplies, refining capacity, and prices at the wholesale and retail level. They also focused on the practice of price…

General Hayden testified about the operation of the Office of the Director of national Intelligence, intelligence gathering and sharing among several agencies, and proposals to improve gover…

The House will consider two bills under suspension of the rules; three possible motions to go to conference/motions to instruct on Interior, Legislative Branch and Homeland Security appropri…

The House considers HR 3199, Patriot Act reauthorization.

The House plans to finish work on HR 2601, Foreign Relations authorization bill; possibly work on HR 3070, NASA authorization bill; take the postponed vote on a suspension bill debated Monda…

Witnesses testified about the National Governors Association’s bipartisan recommendations for Medicaid reform, the potential timetable for development of a comprehensive plan, and other prop…

The House will consider H.R. 2520 - Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, H.R. 810 - Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, and H.R. 2419 - Energy and Water Development, and R…

Members of the House Energy and Commerce committee heard testimony on the state of the telecommunications industry, recent and proposed mergers by communications companies, federal regulatio…

The 109th Congress convened and House members were sworn in. Speaker of the House Hastert was re-elected and rules for the 109th Congress were debated and adopted.