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In an excerpt of the House of Representatives floor session, members met to debate the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty. The pact aimed to lower tariff and trade barriers…

The U.S. House of Representatives met for the last session of the 103rd Congress. Members debated the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty. Representative Steve Largent (R-OK…

Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Phil Crane (R-IL) discussed the pros and cons of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The House scheduled a vote on the treaty the follo…

The participants discussed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). They were speaking on behalf of passing GATT in the lame duck session opening at the end of November.

The House met to consider the American Heritage Areas Bill, the GATT International Trade Agreement, and U.S. Troops in Haiti.

Committee members particpated in a markup session of the GATT fast-track legislation. They heard testimony from trade experts and proceded through the bill line by line to agree on final lan…

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…

The House met to take up the 1995 Spending Bill for the Department of Transportation and several related agencies. They also considered a bill that would create a new super agency that would…

The U.S. House of Representatives conducted its daily business including debate and votes on portions of the 1994 Crime Bill.

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

The members of the House Ways and Means Committee continued to go through health care legislation markup. Members questioned committee staff on a variety of subjects while they debated the l…

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…

Members of the Ways and Means Committee debated the merits of several parts of the Gibbons health care reform plan during a mark-up session.

Representatives examined the language of the proposed health care reform bill in detail in one of the several markup sessions conducted by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Minority staff members outlined the details of the minority health care reform plan during a markup hearing. Representative McDermott, himself a physician, spoke about his plan which is a si…

The House Ways and Means Committee continued its consideration of President Clinton’s health care reform proposal. The panel resumed its review of the president’s proposal today a markup ses…

The House Ways and Means Committee continued its consideration of President Clinton’s health care reform proposal. The panel resumed its review of the president’s proposal today in a markup …

Day one of a mark-up session in the House Ways and Means Committee for the Health Security Act of 1994. House Ways and Means was one of three House committees handling health care legislati…

The U.S. House of Representatives considered seven bills under suspension of the rules, including measures naming federal courthouses across the country.