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Physicians and private citizens asked questions of healthcare reform advocates and politicians, including first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senators William Cohen (R-ME) & Ted Kennedy (D…

The U.S. House of Representatives met on a special Saturday session to try to finish business before the holiday recess. They considered 23 suspension bills, the intelligence authorization c…

The U.S. House of Representatives took up a half dozen bills under a procedure known as Suspension of the Rules and also the Maritime Security & Competitiveness Act.

President Bill Clinton spoke on the floor of the manufacturing plant to the employees and managers of the Gillette Company in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 29, 1993, and cited the benefi…

The House Session began with one minute speeches. Members spoke for one minute on topics of their choice. The House then took up House Resolution HR 287, short term Government Spending Bill.…

The U.S. House of Representatives met and continued debate on H.R.3167 a bill to extend unemployment compensation benefits. After votes on a number of amendments to the bill, the measure pas…

The House of Representatives voted on the conference report of the Fiscal Year 1994 Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services Spending Bill. The House also took up H.R.…

House Session debated many topics, among the topics included gays in the military, which is part of the FY '94 Defense Authorization. Also, a bill making changes in House Rules to allow for …

Representative James Inhofe presented a bill that would make public the signatures of law makers who sign release discharge petitions. These petitions are used by representatives to bypass t…

Representative Joe Moakley (D-MA) talked about the discharge petition vote that was scheduled in the House later that day. The vote would determine whether the names of members who signed di…

Following speeches, the House of Representatives considered the FY '94 Transportation Appropriations Bill. Before making the vote official, the House recessed in order to wait for a quorum.

U.S. House of Representatives was in session to a debate amendments to the FY '94 Defense Authorization Bill.

Rep. Moakley, chairman of the House Rules committee, Rep. Synar, Rep. Fazio and Mr. Ornstein spoke in a news conference to oppose a resolution introduced to the House of Representatives maki…

This House session addressed a Motion to go to Conference on the Budget Reconciliation Bill, a formality that allows House and Senate negotiators to begin working out the differences in the …

U.S. House of Representatives resumed debate on the apparitions bill for Treasury, and Postal Service, and Independent Agencies.

U.S. House of Representatives session on June 15, 1993 with one-minute speeches and debate on the “Striker Replacement” Bill and Foreign Aid Authorization.

In an excerpt from the session of the House of Representatives, representatives debated legislation that would amend the National Labor Relations Act to prevent discrimination against worker…

The House’s first act was to vote on a motion to approve the previous day’s journal, which passed. They then moved on to one minute speeches, and then continued work on the Legislative Branc…

The U.S. House of Representatives returned from recess and agreed to vote the following day on H.R. 2348 a bill which authorized funding for the legislative branch. Representative John Josep…

The House Rules Committee discussed amendments to the legislative appropriations bill for fiscal year 1994.