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Congressman Bill Archer(R-Texas) and House Ways and Means staff released the 1996 green book. The book is an annual statistical report on entitlement programs, such as Medicare, Social…

In the second of a series of hearings on reforms in congressional rules and procedures, members of Congress testified about various proposals to reform how the House of Representatives…

House members debated an increase in the federal minimum wage. The bill would raise the current minimum of $4.25 per hour to $5.15 per hour.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and other Republican House members talked with reporters about an agreement reached Wednesday on health care reform legislation. They took questions from…

The Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees met in conference to come up with a final version of minimum wage legislation, which included tax incentives for small businesses and…

Congressional Republicans talked with reporters about today’s House-Senate conference agreement on welfare reform.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on approving the Journal. Then the members gave one-minute speeches. Later the House considered a bill letting workers take compensatory time off…

Conference committee members debated the final conference report on legislation which would change regulations governing health insurance. The final report included a provision which would…

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

Republican Congressional leaders met on Capitol Hill and spoke about the Republican economic strategy, including lower and simpler taxes, balancing the budget and other items. After the…

In an excerpt, members debated changes to food stamp, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, child care and other federal welfare programs. Many of these programs come under the…

On this day, the House took up the Most Favored Nation (MFN) status with China, debating whether to grant MFN status to China for another year. They also then considered the Fiscal Year…

The House convened to debate health care and other legislation.