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The House passed two bills. One would provide a path for undocumented farm workers to get green cards. The other was the final version of a fiscal year 2020 defense policy and programs bill.…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,419 viewsThe House passed two bills. One would provide a path for undocumented farm workers to get green cards. The other was the final version of a fiscal year 2020 defense policy and programs bill.…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,419 viewsIn a 232-196 vote, the House debated and passed a resolution laying out the rules in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, including public hearings, and rights for the president and m…
View in Congressional Chronicle24,276 viewsCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma testified before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health care policy. Democratic members pressed the adm…
5,156 viewsThe House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on the relationship between e-cigarettes and an outbreak in lung disease. In this portion, public he…
1,327 viewsEnergy and and electric grid officials testified before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on cybersecurity threats to the U.S. electric grid. Topics covered included modernizi…
2,115 viewsThe House debated and voted on amendments to a near-$1 trillion spending package covering four of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund the government and related agencies. This speci…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,069 viewsThe House voted on amendments to and passed the Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act (HR 987), which addresses health care and prescription drug costs.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,116 viewsThe House worked on a bill requiring the president to keep the U.S. in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. President Donald Trump had said he would pull the U.S. out of the agreement…
View in Congressional Chronicle11,579 viewsThe House debated a bill that would block the Trump Administration from withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
During a hearing before a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, pharmaceutical executives faced criticism from lawmakers of both parties on the rising costs of insulin. For more than two h…
3,610 viewsRepublican Representatives David McKinley (WV) and Larry Bucshon (IL), along with Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin, discussed modernization and transformation of the U.S. electric gri…
446 viewsThe House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle980 viewsA House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing on the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. In the first p…
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