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The United States Senate met for morning hour to give opening speeches and to vote on three spending bills.

Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Diane Feinstein (D-CA), expressed their support for Bill Lann Lee, who is also from California, to be the next Assistant Atto…

A summit was held in which participants discussed the importance of understanding and preparing for the weather phenomenon known as El Nino. Officials from government, business and community…

After the Senate came in they voted to end a filibuster on the Campaign Finance reform bill. The also worked on the $145 billion Highway Authorization Act and the District of Columbia spendi…

The U.S. Senate met and continued debate on the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act. The bill titled S.830, sought to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public…

The U.S. Senate reconvened and after a brief period of Morning Business speeches returned to debate on Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act. The Act under the title S.830 moved to …

Speakers at this AFL-CIO conference talked about issues that affect working women such as globalization, proposed legislation to expand NAFTA, and abuses in the garment industry. The speaker…

The U.S. Senate began this session with a discussion on a motion to invoke Cloture to the Motion to proceed to the consideration of S.830, The FDA Reform Bill. Cloture is the procedure used …

Beginning at about 4:50 p.m., senators debated an amendment to the Veterans Department appropriations bill sponsored by Senator Bumpers which would eliminate U.S. funding for the internation…

Continuing Senate Session of July 22nd, 1997. Debate focused on Military Construction, Veterans, Housing and Urban Development, and Superfund spending among other budget considerations were…

The July 22nd 1997 Senate Session. Among other issues the Senate considered Treasury Department, Postal Service, Veterans, Housing and Urban Development spending.

After Morning Business, the Senate took up debate on several bills for Fiscal Year 98. The bills would help fund NASA, Veterans & Housing programs and Treasury & Postal Service and help elim…

Democratic Senators briefed reporters on their alternative tax cut proposal on the day on which the Senate began debate on the tax portion of the budget resolution. They stressed that they w…

The Senate voted on amendments to and passed its first budget reconciliation bill, which reduces entitlement spending by a net $136 billion over five years. The bill reduces Medicare, Medica…

The U.S. Senate met and continued consideration of S. Con. Res. 27 the Concurrent Budget Resolution which set forth the congressional budget for the United States government for fiscal years…

During the Senate floor proceedings, Senators debated Worker Schedules and Overtime, Comp Time and Partial-Birth Abortion.

The Senate Intelligence committee held the confirmation hearing for George Tenet to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Following leader remarks, the Senate spent the session in a period of morning business. No legislative business was conducted.

The Senate met to debate a number of bills.

The Senate debated and voted on a resolution concerning Mammograms. The resolution urged the National Cancer Institute to reissue guidelines which urge women 40-49 years old to get a mammogr…