Budget Negotiations
Republican and Democratic Senators who agree on the need to balance the budget in seven years using CBO economic projections. They briefed reporters on their proposal which would meet these …
68 viewsRepublican and Democratic Senators who agree on the need to balance the budget in seven years using CBO economic projections. They briefed reporters on their proposal which would meet these …
68 viewsA bipartisan group of 12 senators announced a new proposal for balancing the federal budget in seven years. They worked to agree on numbers from the Congressional Budget Office which include…
48 viewsA bipartisan group of senators talked with reporters about a just-completed meeting with President Clinton on legislation concerning U.S. troops in Bosnia.
76 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined, through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers, legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes, an…
1,311 viewsDemocratic leadership council hosted their annual conference. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) was the DLC Chairman and DLC President Al From addressed the Progressive Policy Institute on democr…
47 viewsPresident Bill Clinton, one of the founders of the Democratic Leadership Conference (DLC), spoke on a variety of Democratic platform issues. He related the recent assassination of Israeli Pr…
133 viewsAfter meeting with President Clinton, Senate Democrats talked about the possible use of U.S. troops in a peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
46 viewsThe speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was honored by the Nixon Center. He talked about U.S. foreign policy in the next century.
142 viewsThe Senate considered the 1996 Transportation Conference Report.
View in Congressional Chronicle87 viewsThe U.S. Senate continued work on the Budget Reconciliation Bill along with several amendments to the bill. The bill would reduce federal spending $633 billion and reduce taxes $224 billion …
View in Congressional Chronicle77 viewsThe United States Senate passed S.R. 1332 which allowed the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
View in Congressional Chronicle304 viewsReactions from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) to Governor Pete Wilson (R-CA) withdrawing from the 1996 presidential race and if this would help incumbent Pr…
50 viewsThe Senate returned to consideration of and passed the Welfare Reform Act, 87-12. Afterward, lawmakers resumed debate on the fiscal year 1996 Department of Agriculture spending bill, which a…
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