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House Appropriations Subcommittee members heard testimony concerning the safety of automobile air bags. The National Highway Safety Traffic Administration recently introduced several new…

Committee members heard testimony concerning the safety of automobile air bags. The National Highway Safety Traffic Administration recently introduced several new safety requirements for…

The U.S. House of Representatives debated 85 billion dollars in spending for Veterans, Housing, and Urban Development for the next fiscal year. The VA Bill was one of the appropriation…

The House met briefly to have Morning Hour speeches.

In the last of a series of joint hearings, two House subcommittees examined ways of improving rules and procedures for the 105th Congress, including topics such as using more technology,…

U.S. House begins the day with debating the Medicaid Beneficiaries in California.

Representative Bob Livingston (R-LA) and the chairs of several appropriations subcommittees briefed reporters on the status of the appropriations bills in the House. They emphasized that…

On this day, the House Savings and Construction Act of 1996. They also took up H.R. 3564, The NATO Enlargement Facilitation Act, which would allow membership in NATO of some eastern…

United States House of Representatives session on July 17, 1996, debated the Treasury and Postal Spending, Safe Drinking Water Act Reauthorization, and Welfare Reform.

Friends and colleagues gathered to remember Bill Emerson, who represented the 8th district of Missouri from 1981 until his death on 22 June 1996 from lung cancer. During his tenure, he…

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…

On this day, the House, after a period of one-minute speeches, took up the Safe Drinking Water Act under suspension of the rules. The House then moved to consideration of spending bills for…

The US House of Representatives met to conduct a number of Special Order Speeches.