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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…

Representative Michael Andrews (D-TX), a member of the Ways and Means Committee, discussed this week’s hearings on taxes and the state of the U.S. economy. He answered viewer questions.

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 committee heard testimony on the second of four days of scheduled hearings looking at various economic growth and tax reform proposals. Twenty-three members of Congress offered their spe…

The House passed S. 2050, to ensure that the ceiling established with respect to health education assistance loans does not prohibit the provision of federal loan insurance to new and previo…

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 H.R. 2950, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act of 1991. Highlights of the $153.5 billion appropriations bill include funding for highway…

The committee discussed H.J. Res. 263, which would disapprove of the extension of most favored nation status to China, H. 2212, which would extend most favored nation status to China for one…

Several legislators held a news conference to announce plans to attach an amendment to the budget authorization for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal year 1992 to …

The House passed H.R. 2519, making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans' Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, with amendments. The Speaker appointed Dr. Eugene S. Callender t…

Members of Congress voted 231-192 to give President Bush “fast track” authority to negotiate a tariff-removing trade agreement with Mexico. They also debated H.Res. 146, a resolution which c…

The House failed to agree to H. Res. 101, disapproving the extension of fast-track procedures to start trade negotiations. The House agreed to H.Res. 146, expressing the sense of the House o…

The committee debated resolutions canceling the extension of fast-track legislative authority for the president. Fast-track authority would allow the president to submit trade legislation to…

The House voted to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 479, amended, to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the California National Historic Trail and Pony Express National Histori…

Members of Congress spoke to the media about their meeting with President Bush about the the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The committee heard testimony on the crisis in health care facing the United States. Dr. Sullivan said true health care reform must involve drastic efforts, but current radical proposals of …

The committee heard testimony on President Bush’s March 1 request for extension of fast-track trade authority. An extension of fast-track trade authority would continue to give the President…

Representative Robert Michel,R-Illinois, Minority Leader, Representative Curt Weldon, R-Pennsylvania, Representative Lawrence Coughlin, R-Pennsylvania, and Representative Stephen Solarz, D-…