House Session
The House agreed to the Foley motion to table the Walker motion to discharge the Committee on Armed Services from the further consideration of H.R. 4264, National Defense Authorization Act…
View in Congressional Chronicle117 viewsThe House agreed to the Foley motion to table the Walker motion to discharge the Committee on Armed Services from the further consideration of H.R. 4264, National Defense Authorization Act…
View in Congressional Chronicle117 viewsThe House passed H.R. 4481 Defense Savings Act to provide for the closing and realigning of certain military installations. Also under suspension of the rules the House passed the following…
View in Congressional Chronicle152 viewsCR, pp. H3044-H3128. The House passed H.R. 4445, to amend title 18 of the U.S. Code, to prohibit certain firearms useful to terrorists due to their undetectability.
View in Congressional Chronicle181 viewsThe House agreed to debate H.R. 3932, to amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 to provide for a more orderly transfer of executive power. The House passed H.R. 3396, to provide for…
View in Congressional Chronicle160 viewsThe House Armed Services Committee held a defense policy panel on conventional stability of forces in NATO.
81 viewsThe House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 3471, to establish the Veterans' Administration as an executive department. The House agreed to S.Con.Res. 154, to correct additional…
View in Congressional Chronicle339 viewsThe U.S. House of Representatives considered and passed H.R. 4637, the $14 billion Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill. This bill provides funds for foreign operations, export financing, and…
View in Congressional Chronicle121 viewsCR, pp. H1659-H1855. The House passed Res.422, to support the INF Treaty and to provide for the continued security of NATO. The House also passed H.R. 4401, to amend the Communications Act…
View in Congressional Chronicle183 viewsThe House passed H.R.3967, to amend the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985, to extend medical benefits to certain former spouses. The House also recognized the fourth anniversary…
View in Congressional Chronicle173 viewsThe committees held a hearing on the U.S. military’s role in drug interdiction. Some weeks prior to the hearing, both the Senate and House had passed bills increasing the military’s role in…
191 viewsThe House agreed to the Senate amendment no. 16 to H.R. 1414 Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to amend the Price-Anderson provisions to extend and improve the procedures for liability and…
View in Congressional Chronicle168 viewsThe House agreed to the Foley motion to table the Bateman motion to discharge the Committee on Armed Services from the further consideration of H.R. 4264, National Defense Authorization Act…
View in Congressional Chronicle204 viewsCR pp. H343-H418. The House agreed to instruct conferees appointed for consideration of H.R. 5, to improve elementary and secondary education, to agree to language that offers a solution to…
View in Congressional Chronicle205 viewsThe House failed to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 4646, amended, to require the Federal Savings and Loan Corporation to revoke the charter of the Federal Asset Disposition Association and…
View in Congressional Chronicle242 viewsThe House debated and, by a vote of 211 ayes to 219 noes failed to pass H.J. Res. 444, denying the President’s effort to continue military aid to the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance…
View in Congressional Chronicle296 viewsThe House debated H.R. 1054, the Armed Forces Malpractice Liability Act.
32 viewsThe subcommittee and panel heard testimony from Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci on military installation closures. This video includes the original advertisements that aired in 1988.
122 viewsThe House failed to pass H.J. Res. 484, to provide assistance and support for peace, democracy and reconciliation in Central America. CR, pp. H635-H713
View in Congressional Chronicle199 viewsThe subcommittee heard testimony on allegations that the Republic of Korea was producing M-16 rifles beyond the maximum allowed number specified in an agreement between the United States…
231 viewsThe committee heard testimony on strategic arms reduction talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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