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The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on “Combating Child Pornography by Eliminating Pornographers' Access to the Financial Payment System.” Witnesses…

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee examined the Department of the Treasury’s role in combating terrorist financing during the five years since the September 11…

The Senate convened and resumed consideration of H.R.5631, the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2006 Appropriations bill. The Senate rejected the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to…

The Senate resumed consideration of S. 3711, the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security bill.

Witnesses testified about investment regulation and the operations of investment pools and hedge funds. Among the issues addresses were a recent court ruling against a Security and Exchange…

Ben Bernanke presented the semiannual Monetary Report of the Federal Reserve Board. Topics included U.S. economy, real gross domestic product, GDP increase and rising of industrial…

The Senate convened and resumed consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 8, the Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act. The Senate rejected the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to…

The Senate continued work on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on the “Report to the Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies” prepared by the secretary of the…

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on the fiscal year 2007 budget for the Defense Department. Secretary Rumsfeld and General Pace testified about military…

The Senate convenes and begins a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumes consideration of H.R. 4939, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.

Mr. Griffin testified about spending requests and programs contained in the 2007 budget for NASA. He talked about proposed space exploration and research missions, research and development…

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on the state of the securities industry. Mr. Cox testified about a recent report on small business compliance with…

Senator Shelby talked about his efforts to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. and other issues pertaining to the potential sale of some U.S. seaport operations to the…

Chairman Bernanke provided his first testimony on the semi-annual monetary policy report of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. Topics included the state of the economy,…

Debate on the nomination of Samuel Alito as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court resumed with time evenly divided between both parties. Shortly after 11:00 a.m. the Senate voted to…