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The House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 2100, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construc…

The House passed H.R. 2454, to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to impose debarments and other penalties for illegal activities involving the approval of abbreviated drug…

The House failed to agree on the conference report on House Rule 2508, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The House passed House Rule 3489, to reauthorize the Export Administration…

United States House of Representatives session on October 16, 1991 met and debated the completion of all general debate and consideration of amendments on H.R. 3371, to control and prevent c…

The House suspended the rules and passed H.R. 1297, to amend the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to authorize the use by special coastal states of apportionments under that act fo…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications heard testimony on the effects and causes of recent telephone outages on the East Coast. Witnesses talked about the disruptio…

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.

The House passed H.R. 3201, to provide emergency unemployment compensation.

The House passed H.J.Res. 263, to disapprove of the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of the People’s Republic of China.

Members of the House of Representatives debated the extension of most favored nation trade status for China. The extension of most favored nation trade status, favored by the Bush administra…

The House voted to suspend the rules and passed H.R. 531, Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, and H.Res. 182 and H.Con.Res 113, which expressed the sense of the House and of the Congre…

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 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 the House Rules Committee heard testimony on rules concerning the debate of gun control measures in the House of Representatives.

The House filed a report to amend title 18, to require a waiting period before the purchase of a handgun. The House passed H.R. 1988, to authorize appropriations to NASA for research and ope…

The House agreed to H.Res. 132, electing Representative Levin of Michigan to the Committee on the District of Columbia. The House also passed two resolutions establishing a national historic…

The House met and recessed following a motion to receive former Members of Congress. 47 public bills and five resolutions were introduced.

It was ordered to consider under suspension the rules of H.R. 1047, the Veterans' Compensation Programs Improvements Act of 1991 and S. 534 and S.565, to award gold medals to Gen. H. Norman …

The House introduced 51 public bills, two private bills, and nine resolutions. By a vote of 387 yeas to 23 nays, the House passed H.R. 355, to amend the Reclamation States Drought Assistance…

The House filed a report requiring the Federal depository institution regulatory agencies to take additional enforcement actions against depository institutions engaging in money laundering.…