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Several bills were voted on that were debated earlier in the day. Bills include resolutions on a tribute to Jimmy Stewart, earthquake hazards, the Eastern Orthodox patriarch & housing progr…

This session began with One Minute Speeches on issues such as the bill on Nuclear Waste, a naming of a border station, personal responsibility and failing schools, the IRS auditing of former…

The US House dealt with Foreign operations Spending.

The House of Representatives debated entitlement reductions of $138 billion over a five year period. Members started the day by completing work on the Defense Spending Bill that called for $…

The House of Representatives voted on an amendment by Representative Major Owens, D-NY regarding job training and adult education. The Owens amendment would keep separate funding and adminis…

The House debated amendments to the bill for disaster relief and funding for operations in Bosnia and Iraq.

The House met for legislative business.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus spoke to reporters about the underrepresentation of Latinos in President Clinton’s cabinet and senior government offices. They noted the Presiden…

The 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…

This House session has no audio or video from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. due to technical problems.

Participants 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…

Current 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…

Congressional colleagues remembered Representative Frank Tejeda, the Democratic Representative of the Texas 28th congressional district since 1993. He died of pneumonia brought on by treatme…

Members gave speeches in tribute to the late Representative Frank Tejeda (D-TX), who died on January 30 of pneumonia brought on by two years of cancer treatments, and passed a suspension bil…