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Congressman Bill Archer(R-Texas) and House Ways and Means staff released the 1996 green book. The book is an annual statistical report on entitlement programs, such as Medicare, Social Secur…

In the second of a series of hearings on reforms in congressional rules and procedures, members of Congress testified about various proposals to reform how the House of Representatives opera…

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and other Republican House members talked with reporters about an agreement reached Wednesday on health care reform legislation. They took questions from t…

The Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees met in conference to come up with a final version of minimum wage legislation, which included tax incentives for small businesses and c…

Congressional Republicans talked with reporters about today’s House-Senate conference agreement on welfare reform.

Conference committee members debated the final conference report on legislation which would change regulations governing health insurance. The final report included a provision which would a…

House and Senate Conference Committee members met to work out differences in welfare reform legislation.

Republican Congressional leaders met on Capitol Hill and spoke about the Republican economic strategy, including lower and simpler taxes, balancing the budget and other items. After the init…

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on approving the Journal. Then the members gave one-minute speeches. Later the House considered a bill letting workers take compensatory time off inst…

In an excerpt, members debated changes to food stamp, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, child care and other federal welfare programs. Many of these programs come under the jurisdicti…

On this day, the House took up the Most Favored Nation (MFN) status with China, debating whether to grant MFN status to China for another year. They also then considered the Fiscal Year 1997…

The House convened to debate health care and other legislation.

The House Ways and Means Committee heard testimony on the solvency of the Medicare trust fund. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala said t…