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The House Ways and Means Committee heard its fourth day of testimony on proposals to stimulate the economy with tax incentives and cuts for parts of the American population. Witnesses includ…

Rep. McDermott, member of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, talked about recent proposals to reduce taxes for middle class Americans to stimulate the economy.

The committee continued to hear testimony on proposals to reduce taxes for middle-class Americans from members of the Department of the Treasury and the White House. The middle class tax cut…

The House passed H.R. 3839, to make appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. After a series of one-minute speeches by members, the Bill was intr…

The House of Representatives took up the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill and the Fiscal Year 1992 Intelligence Authorizations Bill.

The House passed H.R. 3595, to delay until September 30, 1992, the issuance of any regulations by the Secretary of Health and Human Services changing the treatment of voluntary contributions…

The House passed S. 1745, to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve federal civil rights laws and to provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discriminati…

Members of the House of Representatives debated H.R. 1, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which would overturn a number of Supreme Court decisions that placed a greater burden of proof on plaint…

The House suspended the rules and passed H.R. 3401, to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program for the prevention of disabilities.

The House passed H.R. 2950 to develop a national intermodal surface transportation system, to authorize funds for the construction of highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass tran…

The House Ways and Means committee heard testimony on the high costs of health care and health insurance on Americans and American businesses.

The House Ways and Mean Committee continued to hear testimony on the effects of rising health care costs on several industries and testimony on several universal health care proposals.

The committee heard testimony on the high costs of health care to American businesses and individuals. Witnesses testified on the effects of the high costs, and on reform measures including …

The Ways and Means committee heard testimony from several members of Congress on health care reform proposals designed to provide basic health care to all Americans and stabilize the costs o…

House Legislative Session. The House suspended the rules and passed H.R. 3350, to extend the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

House Legislative Session. The House suspended the rules and passed H.R. 1674, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to reauthorize the Federal Communications Commission.

On this viewer call-in program, Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), a physician, talked about proposals to reform health care. He was also the co-author of a bill to extend unemployment com…

Members of the House of Representatives debated H.R. 2507, the fiscal year 1992 $3.3 billion appropriations reauthorization for the National Institutes of Health.

The House passed H.R. 1096, to authorize appropriations for programs, functions, and activities of the Bureau of Land Management for fiscal years 1992-95.

The House continued consideration of H.R. 2508, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Representative Tony Hall (D-OH) offered an amendment en bloc that earmarks $335 million in the fi…