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The House will debate H.R. 3196, the foreign operations appropriations bill, and H.R. 3075, a bill to amend the Social Security Act.

Representative Pete Stark D-California, joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and talked about the debate of managed care in the House of Representative. He focused on tax benefits for the unin…

Members testified about potential measures to provide prescription drugs to the elderly. At issue were the costs of medication and developing an efficient system for providing the drugs.

Witnesses testified regarding the effect on Medicare as a result of the Balanced Budget Act. Government officials talked about the President’s Medicare reform plan and how under the existing…

Representative Bill Archer, R-Texas, Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Senator Bill Roth, R-Delaware, Finance Committee Chairman, and other Members made opening statements in this meeting o…

The House convened on July 22, 1999 to debate and discuss a Republican package of tax cuts totaling 792 billion dollars over ten years. This proposal was passed. Also, a fiscal year 2000 def…

The House Ways and Means Committee met to hear proposed amendments to the Financial freedom Act which provided for several forms of tax cuts. Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the c…

Representative Charles Rangel, D-New York, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member, and other Democratic Representatives reacted to a Republican proposal to utilize the federal budget surp…

Congressional and business leaders talked to reporters about their opposition toward normal trade relations with China. They focused on the Chinese human rights violations committed by the …

Representatives Pete Stark (D-California) and Richard Gephardt (D-Missouri) spoke with reporters about the president’s Medicare proposal. They claimed that the plan would pick up half of the…

Committee members heard testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan about the country’s economic outlook. He claimed that the economy is “in the midst of a significant shift, where t…

Representative Stark discussed the Social Security legislation that was on the House floor. He believed the “lock box” legislation contained a “giant loophole” that would allow the surplus t…

Members debated various measures concerning military action against Serbian forces in Yugoslavia. They voted 290-139 not to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. They voted 427-2 against a f…

The U.S. House of Representatives debated a constitutional amendment on tax limitations and also debated some issues on benefits for the military personnel serving in Yugoslavia.

The house was in session and hearing a debate on the fiscal budget.