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The Senate passed S. 975 to amend the Job Training Partnership Act to encourage a broader range of training and job placement for women. The Senate passed S.J.Res. 178 to express U.S. suppor…

The Senate passed S. 561 to provide for testing for the use without lawful authorization of alcohol or controlled substances by the operators of aircraft, railroads, and commercial motor veh…

House and Senate Budget Committee members met to reconcile federal budget legislation.

Senators Simon, Dixon,and former Senator Eagleton, appeared as witnesses in a commodity futures trading hearing.

The Senate agreed to S.Res. 122, expressing the sense of the Senate in support of actions to eliminate preventable deaths and disabling illness, especially among children, through intensifie…

Senators Mitchell, Dole, Rudman, Boschwitz, and Murkowski discussed the Senate’s schedule for the upcoming week in an excerpt from the floor. In another excerpt, Representatives. Gephardt, G…

The Senate passed H.R.2088, to revise and extend the programs established in the Temporary Child Care for Handicapped Children and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986. The Senate passed H.R. 2939, …

The committee held a hearing and markup of legislation pertaining to aid for Hungary and Poland.

The Senate passed S. 974, to designate certain lands in the State of Nevada as wilderness. The Senate passed H.R. 2987, to transfer a certain program with respect to child abuse from title I…

The U.S. Senate me and passed H.R. 3012 making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1990. The Senate passed S. 737, to authorize the Secreta…

The Senate passed H.R. 1502, to authorize the appropriation of funds for additional officers and members of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and to provide for…

The Senate continued to consider H.R. 3015, making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for Fiscal Year 1990.

The Senate passed H.R. 3014, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for FY90. Wilson Amendment No. 698 was passed to prohibit the use of the franking privilege for unsolicited mass…

The Senate passed the following bills H.R. 2467, S. 1352, H.R. 2799, S. 1036, S. 1446, S. 1149, S. 1447, and S. 1448. The Senate also began consideration of S. 1153.

The Senate continued consideration of S. 1352, to authorize appropriations for military functions of the Defense Department for fiscal years 1990 and 1991, adopting several amendments. Also,…

The Senate began consideration of S. 1352, to authorize appropriations for FY90 and FY91 for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels.

The Senate considered several pieces of legislation to deal with bill S.1160 which deals with the State Department Authorization.

The Senate passed S. 358 to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the level and preference system for admission of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administr…

The Senate passed S. 326, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to repeal a provision allowing use of excess contributions (passed by vote). The Senate continued consideration o…