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The House passed a number of suspension bills, including a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 18, 2020.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,188 viewsThe House passed a number of suspension bills, including a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 18, 2020.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,188 viewsThe House considered several bills under suspension of the rules, including a measure that requires a review panel to evaluate Boeing safety features following fatal airplane crashes in 2018…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,077 viewsThe House passed a $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, 214-207. Eighteen Democrats joined all Republicans in voting against the measure. Democrats brought the bill to the floor despite the l…
View in Congressional Chronicle2,886 viewsThe House approved H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act, a package of bills to promote the development of clean energy, greenhouse gas reduction technologies, and increased e…
View in Congressional Chronicle767 viewsIn a 217-189 vote, the House passed H.Res. 965, allows proxy voting on the chamber floor and committees to conduct business remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Members also passed, 208-19…
View in Congressional Chronicle2,670 viewsThe House debated and passed H.Res. 935, which establishes a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis as a select investigative subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Refo…
View in Congressional Chronicle9,768 viewsHouse Republican Leadership took questions from reporters during their weekly briefing via conference call due to the coronavirus pandemic. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pushed back …
557 viewsIn an Oval Office ceremony, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a $2 trillion economic relief bill. The president outlined a number…
6,479 viewsThe House debated and passed by voice vote a $2 trillion Senate-passed coronavirus economic aid package, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Lawmakers had hoped to pass t…
View in Congressional Chronicle10,638 viewsHouse Republican leadership held a news conference to talk about their policy agenda.
736 viewsIn a vote of 224-194, the House passed a war powers resolution seeking to limit the Trump administration’s military action against Iran without first getting congressional approval. All but …
View in Congressional Chronicle3,855 viewsThe House passed a bill that would allow the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the authority to negotiate Medicare prescription drug prices.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,750 viewsHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, along with a handful of his Republican colleagues, held a news conference to respond to a Democratic proposal to address the cost of prescription drugs.…
810 viewsThe House voted on amendments to and passed the Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act (HR 987), which addresses health care and prescription drug costs.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,118 viewsThe House voted 232-190 to pass a bill to restore net neutrality rules that require internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content. The legislation comes less than two y…
View in Congressional Chronicle6,428 viewsThe House debated a resolution disapproving of the Trump administration’s legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act. Members also worked on a number of suspension bills dealing with renami…
View in Congressional Chronicle776 viewsThe House passed the final version of the House-Senate compromise of the farm bill. The legislation sets a five-year extension of farm subsidies, crop insurance, nutrition, and rural develop…
View in Congressional Chronicle4,210 viewsThe House approved a bill to make some of the individual tax cuts passed in December 2018 permanent. It was the last bill in a series of three Republican tax policy bills being called “Tax R…
View in Congressional Chronicle7,377 viewsThe House considered amendments to opioid-related legislation.
View in Congressional Chronicle4,125 viewsHouse Republicans held a news conference to discuss several bills addressing opioid abuse in the country that lawmakers would vote on during the upcoming legislative week. Several Republican…
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