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Members of the United States House of Representatives provided statements on the Minority Health Improvement Act of 1994 and voted on a conference report to the bill.

The house was in session today and prayer was offered by the House Chaplain. Sympathy was given to Representative Claude Harris’s family in his passing. The House voted on bills under “Suspe…

Members began the day with the Fiscal Year 1995 Defense Department Spending Bill H R 4650. This Bill provides $243.6 Billion dollars for the Defense Department, an increase of $3.5 billion o…

Members of the United States House of Representatives gave floor speeches and voted on a bill that dealt with the Interior Departments ability to manage national heritage areas.

Members of the House testified concerning the amendment process for the Gephardt health care reform legislation. The first panel spoke in favor of the plan while all other speakers opposed t…

The House met and debated the future of China’s “most favored nation” trade status.

This House session considered bills under suspension of the rules. Bills included NASA re-authorization and the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Members also took up the Conference Report…

The U.S. House met and discussed the Federal Crop Insurance Reform legislation.

Representative Thomas Bliley R-VA spoke about health care reform legislation and the implications of the president’s health care reform plan. He advocated the Republican alternative plan whi…

The US House of Representatives took up legislation on District Columbia Appropriations, Foreign Operations Appropriations, and Radon Awareness and Disclosure.

U.S. House of Representatives begin the day with voting on a motion to approve the previous day’s journal.

The House of Representatives continued work on FY '95 Appropriations for the Department of Labor, Health & Human services as well as the Department of Education.

The US House of Representatives met to debate HR 3626 (Antitrust and Communications Reform Act). Members discussed allowing regional Bell phone companies the ability to sell long distance te…

The U.S. House of Representatives met and engaged in a period of one minute speeches from members on any subject. Following this period of speeches the House debated and voted on a number of…

Each candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives spoke briefly to the delegates at the Virginia convention. Then former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney addressed the convention concerni…

The U.S. House of Representatives considered the National Highways System Designation Bill and the Foreign Operations Bill for FY 1995.

During a congressional hearing looking at the health effects of smoking, the House Health & the Environment Subcommittee continued its series of hearings on the impact of smoking and efforts…

During a mark-up session, the House subcommittee discussed the line-by-line language of H.R. 3434, a bill which would restrict smoking in public.

The U.S. House session included a conference report to the National Education Goals Bill. In addition, a School Funding Bill was debated.

Using the Oxford-style debate, members of Congress argued the merits of the Clinton and other health care reform packages. Eight House members made up two partisan teams for this health care…