Social Security Legislation
Witnesses testified about President Clinton’s Social security plan. Among the issues they discussed were using budget surpluses to strengthen the system, Medicare reform, and ensuring the in…
81 viewsWitnesses testified about President Clinton’s Social security plan. Among the issues they discussed were using budget surpluses to strengthen the system, Medicare reform, and ensuring the in…
81 viewsWitnesses testified regarding the effect on Medicare as a result of the Balanced Budget Act. Government officials talked about the President’s Medicare reform plan and how under the existing…
142 viewsRepresentatives talked about books that they have recently read.
42 viewsParticipants talked about their experiences with mental illness and suicide. Dr. Satcher talked about a new suicide prevention initiative that would promote public awareness about ways to pr…
194 viewsThe House convened on July 22, 1999 to debate and discuss a Republican package of tax cuts totaling 792 billion dollars over ten years. This proposal was passed. Also, a fiscal year 2000 def…
View in Congressional Chronicle554 viewsThe House Ways and Means Committee met to hear proposed amendments to the Financial freedom Act which provided for several forms of tax cuts. Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the c…
94 viewsRepresentative Charles Rangel, D-New York, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member, and other Democratic Representatives reacted to a Republican proposal to utilize the federal budget surp…
59 viewsA portion of the session focused on repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.
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