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House and Senate Budget Committee conferees worked on a final version of the budget reconciliation bill, which attempts to balance the federal budget in seven years.

The House & Senate Budget Committees held a hearing on the effects of a possible government shutdown if federal budget legislation was not passed by October 1. They heard testimony from Whit…

Congressional negotiators talked about how to combine three emergency spending measures for military action in Yugoslavia, other defense spending, and aid to disaster victims in Central Amer…

House and Senate Appropriations Committee members met to discuss the 1999 Supplemental Appropriations Bill. The bill would allow for $11.6 billion to fund the action in Yugoslavia, as well a…

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

The Senate and House Budget Committees met in conference to reconcile their two versions of the Fiscal Year 1997 Budget Resolution.

Committee members gathered to debate final language on the 1997 concurrent budget resolution which is designed to balance the budget by 2002. The Republican leadership proposals contain both…

Committee members gathered to debate final language on the 1997 concurrent budget resolution which is designed to balance the budget by 2002. The Republican leadership proposals contain both…

Committe members held the first markup session to work on the fiscal year 1996 budget, including provisions concerning Medicare and education.

Committee members heard testimony on the president’s fiscal year 1996 Defense budget. The Defense budget calls for $246 billion in spending in fiscal year 1996, $6.6 billion less than in fis…

House Budget Committee members held a markup session to finalize about $200 billion in federal spending cuts. Spread out over five years, the reductions are designed to pay for the tax cuts …

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before the House Budget Committee.

Representatives Penny and Kasich introduced a bipartisan package to make additional cuts in the federal budget and reduce the budget deficit. Ms. Rivlin outlined the president’s opposition o…

Mr. Panetta and Mr. Lader testified concerning the president’s National Performance Review plan to revamp the federal government by reducing spending and increasing responsiveness. The heari…

Office of Management and Budget (White House Budget) Director Leon Panetta appeared in front of the House Budget Committee to discuss the revised midterm budget estimates. Robert Reischauer,…

Members of the Budget committee met to talk about the language and amendments to the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Act, the administration’s tax increase and deficit reduction legislation. The…

The House Budget Committee met to work on draft legislation for the fiscal year 1994 budget resolution. The House measure would require $63 billion more in spending cuts over the next five y…

The committee heard testimony from Secretary Shalala on the fiscal year 1994 budget requests for health programs, including Medicare and Social Security programs, and reform proposals in hea…

The committee heard testimony from Secretary of Education Richard Riley on the Department of Education’s budget proposals for fiscal year 1994. The proposals included National Education syst…

The committee heard testimony from Secretary Bentsen and Ms. Rivlin on the tax increases and government spending cuts in the economic program recently introduced by President Clinton. The he…