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Following prepared remarks responding, in support, to last night’s presidential address, the participants answered questions from reporters. President Bill Clinton has proposed 60 billion…

Senators and Representatives spoke at the annual Capitol Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. The tree was a 58-foot-tall balsam fir from Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest.

Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced the closing of over 1000 field offices across the country as part of the administration’s government reform process. The downsizing is intended to…

Interviews, video clips and vignettes illustrated the political issues and events of the previous week. Topics included the Congressional debate on the General Agreement on Tariffs and…

The United States Senate met for Morning Business. They also discussed the Gatt Trade Agreement.

The Senate opened with prayer and then morning business. After the Quorum Call, they debated the Lobbying Reform. The Senate tried again to invoke cloture on the conference report S. 349,…

The Senate scheduled to debate the conference report for the Lobbying Reform Bill.

The United States Senate considered the nomination of Judge H. Lee Sarokin to the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

The U.S. Senate conducted its' daily business including a debate on the conference report for the Transportation Department Spending Bill.

The Public Voice for Food and Health Policy released it’s annual report on school lunches, featuring case studies from more than 40 schools and school districts around the nation. The…

The United States Senate continued their work on the conference report to the 1994 Crime Bill.

In an excerpt of Senate floor coverage, senators continued debate of the Crime Bill conference report. Republicans raised a point of order against the conference report, saying it directly…

Senator Patrick Leahy D-Vermont and Senator Alan Simpson R-Wyoming talked about the status of crime legislation in the Senate.

U.S. Senate, law makers debate the U.S. Representatives conference report to the Crime Bill.

In this day’s session, members took up the fiscal 1995 spending bill for U.S. Intelligence agencies. The bill provides funding the CIA and other intelligence gathering agencies like the…

The United States Senate continued to work on a Appropriations Bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. The Senate took up 8 votes for an Appropriations…

Senators took the floor to debate the provisions of the Mitchell health care reform plan. Senator Packwood controlled the time of the minority, while Senator Moynihan controlled the time of…

The United States Senate continued working on the 1995 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill as well as healthcare reform legislation. the plan is offered by Senate Majority Leader…

The U.S. Senate met and resumed consideration of H.R. 4624, making appropriations for the ·Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies,…