House Session
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives met to vote on bills on education, taxes, and various other bills. Members began with their one minute speeches on whatever topic they wanted to …
View in Congressional Chronicle354 viewsMembers of the U.S. House of Representatives met to vote on bills on education, taxes, and various other bills. Members began with their one minute speeches on whatever topic they wanted to …
View in Congressional Chronicle354 viewsThe U.S. House of Representatives convened and worked on a variety of issues including federal grazing policy, nuclear waste storage and the Dornan-Sanchez contested House election.
View in Congressional Chronicle541 viewsCommittee members debated final language for H.R. 2400, the Building Efficient Surface Transportation and Equity Act of 1997, or “BESTEA.” The bill provides transportation funding for the ne…
77 viewsSenator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Congressman Ray LaHood (R-Illinois) talked about current news stories of interest to them and took viewer calls in the Washington Journal’s Newspaper …
69 viewsThis House Session debates the FY'98 Spending Bills, Labor , Health & Education Spending
View in Congressional Chronicle323 viewsUnited States House of Representative session from September 11, 1997 with one minute speeches and Labor, Health, and Education spending for fiscal year 1998.
View in Congressional Chronicle391 viewsAfter a special evening meeting of the House Republican Conference, members talked to reporters about recent struggles among House Republican leaders. They stressed that the conference is on…
34 viewsU.S. House discussed Fiscal Year 1998 Spending Bills
View in Congressional Chronicle548 viewsThe House subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection and television industry officials heard comments by randomly selected families in Peoria, Illinois. They commented…
239 viewsMembers of Congress participated in a roundtable discussion about congressional civility and their experiences at the bipartisan congressional retreat in March organized by Reps. Skaggs and …
43 viewsThe House opened with Morning Speeches. Any Member may speak for up to five minutes on any subject. The House then moved onto Compensatory Time Off and Overtime Pay. The Fair Labor Standards…
View in Congressional Chronicle339 viewsThis House session has no audio or video from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. due to technical problems.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,369 viewsParticipants in last weekend’s bipartisan congressional retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania talked to reporters about the results of the meetings. They stressed that the more than 200 members w…
222 viewsThe organizers of a bipartisan retreat spoke about the agenda and purpose of the retreat. The retreat for over 200 members and their families would occur March 7 through March 9 in Hershey, …
49 viewsUnited States House of Representatives session on March 6, 1997 with One-Minute Speeches, passing a bill concerning review of District of Columbia city contracts, and Special Orders.
View in Congressional Chronicle358 viewsThe U.S. House reconvened and continued their legislative business. Members voted on several concurrent resolutions. Two of those congratulated the Central American nations of Guatemala, for…
View in Congressional Chronicle242 viewsOrganizers of a bipartisan Congressional retreat discussed their motivations and the agenda for the upcoming meeting. They stressed that the meeting is about how to conduct policy debates an…
87 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…
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