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Following a period during which Ms. Parks was honored by lying in repose in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, a memorial service was held to honor her life and legacy prior to her funeral scheduled …

Congress honored Rosa Parks for her courage when she defied authority by refusing to relinquish her seat on a bus to a white man in 1955 and her advocacy of civil rights since then. Ms. Park…

Witnesses testified about hurricane disaster recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast, financing recovery and rebuilding programs, the Louisiana Recovery Corporation Act, and future needs in th…

The Subcommittee on Railroads held a hearing on governance issues at Amtrak following the dismissal of former President and CEO David Gunn the previous week. Among the issues addressed were …

The House approved the conference report to H.R. 2744, a $100 billion agriculture appropriation for fiscal year 2006. Among the items agreed to in the conferenced version of the bill was a h…

Regulators and others testified in an oversight hearing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac government-sponsored mortgage enterprises. Problems in such enterprises and the improvement of oversight…

The 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission held a regional hearing on additions to the list of possible closures and realignments of defense bases. Elected officials and commun…

Chairman Greenspan presented to the committee the Federal Reserve Board’s semiannual report on monetary policy. He said the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates. He gave a posit…

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…

The House will consider: H.J.Res. 27 - Withdrawing the approval of the United States from the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization.

The House met in special session to consider a bill to expand the jurisdiction of the federal courts in order to review the case of Terri Schaivo, an incapacitated Florida woman at the cente…