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The Congressional Black Caucus held a hearing on health care for the poor. Witnesses included representatives from the health care industry, the insurance industry, academia, and other exper…

The House debated H.R. 3674, the US-Japan Fishing Agreement, H.Res. 335, the Reprimand of Rfepresenative Austin Murphy. The House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 2310, to extend the …

The Senate Select Intelligence committee heard testimony in order to help identify where the line can be drawn on what is reasonable and unreasonable to ask of the intelligence community to …

The House continued debate on bills and amendments. This program starts in progress. CR, pp. H11117-H11231.

CR, pp. H10035-H10118. The House disagreed to the Senate amendment to the child abuse prevention bill, H.R. 1900, and asked for a conference. The bill also includes measures concerning adopt…

Representative Louis Stokes of Ohio (D) answered host and viewer questions on the final report of the Join House and Senate Iran-Contra committees. Representative Stoke offered his opinion o…

CR, pp. H8919-H8964. The House passed S. 640, the water projects bill, which included a number of items relating to water and power issues for western cities and farms.

The Congressional Black Caucus outlined its legislative plan for the upcoming years. Some of the topics of discussion included apartheid in South Africa, education of minorities, the role of…

Secretary Caspar Weinberger was questioned further about his opposition to arms sales to Iran. Secretary Weinberger says that the transfer of U.S. arms by Israel, without official U.S. permi…

Donald Regan testified that when President Reagan was asked about pardoning Oliver North or John Poindexter that the president rejected the idea because he did not know of any crimes for whi…

Attorney General Edwin Meese III answered questions from committee members on his questioning of Oliver North and John Poindexter and his report of the diversion scheme to President Ronald R…

Secretary of State George Shultz testified before the committee. In responding to a committee member’s question comparing Iran-Contra to Watergate, Secretary of State George Shultz commented…

Poindexter testifies that President Reagan signed a retroactive finding, prepared by the CIA, concerning the sale of arms to Iran. Poindexter also says that he destroyed the finding when the…

Stanley Sporkin testified concerning the drafting of two presidential findings that authorized selling arms to Iran.

Glenn Robinette testified concerning the security fence he installed around Oliver North’s home. Mr. Robinette indicated that the fence was paid for by General Richard Secord but that he sen…

Fawn Hall testified further concerning the changing of documents. Representative Lee Hamilton then concluded the first phase of the Iran-Contra hearings by reviewing the revelations of the t…

Representative Louis Stokes discussed the testimony of Fawn Hall and the ongoing Iran-Contra hearings. He answered questions from viewers.

Retired Air Force Colonel Robert Dutton gave details about the logistics of the Contra supply operation. He also discussed the photo album that he prepared of the supply operation. He testif…

Robert Owen was questioned further about his activities for Oliver North. He ended his testimony by reading a poem praising Oliver North and the Contras.

Robert McFarlane testified further about President Ronald Reagan’s approval of spending Two million dollars to seek the release of hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. Representat…