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House and Senate Budget Committee conferees worked on a final version of the budget reconciliation bill, which attempts to balance the federal budget in seven years.

After meeting with Democratic leaders, House and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Representative John Kasich (R-OH) and Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) expressed their disappointment at Preside…

The House & Senate Budget Committees held a hearing on the effects of a possible government shutdown if federal budget legislation was not passed by October 1. They heard testimony from Whit…

Senators debated legislation to save $135 billion in entitlement programs over the next five years as part of a balanced budget plan. They stressed the importance of balancing the budget and…

House and Senate conferees met to eliminate the differences in the tax provisions of the House and Senate versions of the budget reconciliation bill. Members debated where the proposed cuts …

House and Senate conferees met to eliminate the differences in the spending provisions of the House and Senate versions of the budget reconciliation bill. Members debated where the required …

After meeting with President Clinton, the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate budget committees talked to reporters. The Republicans highlighted their differences with the pre…

The Senate and House Budget Committees met in conference to reconcile their two versions of the Fiscal Year 1997 Budget Resolution.

During this portion of budget debate, Senator Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota raised a point of order that the resolution did not contribute to balancing the budget but to raising the deficit, w…

Republican budget negotiators reacted to the president’s earlier briefing on the budget negotiations. They cited that his most recent proposal was nothing more than the beginning of the 1996…

Republican congressional leaders talked with reporters about their just-finished budget negotiation meeting with President Bill Clinton and Democratic leaders. It was decided there would be …

After meeting with the president, Senator Pete Domenici and U.S. Representative John Kasich (R-OH) announced that he would submit Senator Daschle’s budget proposal in order to make the conti…

Prior to a budget negotiation meeting, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta talked with reporters.

Republican leaders talk with reporters Sunday evening about the breakdown in federal budget negotiations.

Following their appearance on ABC’s “This Week with David Brinkley,” House and Senate Budget Committee chairmen talk with reporters about the breakdown in federal budget negotiations.

Senate leaders debated President Clinton’s latest offer in the federal budget negotiations. The government shut down at midnight the previous night.

Budget Committee chairmen talked with reporters about the breakdown of the budget negotiations.

Budget negotiators talked with reporters about their just-completed meeting.

Congressional budget negotiators briefed reporters on their meeting with Congressional Budget Office director June O’Neill.

Republican leaders reacted to President Clinton’s veto of the Congress' balanced budget proposal. They emphasized that the president was now responsible for presenting his own proposal to ba…