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The House passed a fiscal year 2012 spending bill.

The House approved the Republican debt and deficit reduction plan, which they call the Cut, Cap, and Balance Bill. The legislation requires $111 billion in spending reductions and establishe…

Justices Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy testified on the proposed U.S. Supreme Court fiscal year 2012 budget. Topics included the winding down of renovations to the Supreme Court buildin…

U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies about the Fiscal 2012 Budget Requests.

Karen Mills testified on her agency’s $985 million budget for 2012, a 20% increase from 2010 levels. She also discussed the impact of proposed spending cuts in the continuing resolution (CR)…

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson spoke on her agency’s fiscal year 2012 budget request. In her testimony she urged Congress not to cut her agency’s budget …

The House continued consideration of fiscal year 2011 spending.

The House agreed to Senate changes to a bill extending PATRIOT Act provisions through the end of May 2011. Members continued work on the $1.2 trillion spending bill for the remainder of fisc…

The House debated amendments to a fiscal year 2011 spending bill.

The House began consideration of H.R. 1, the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011.

The House considered two bills under suspension of the rules. The bill that passed honored the late federal judge John Roll by naming a courthouse in Yuma, Arizona. Members rejected a measur…

Members of the House read the Constitution aloud beginning at 11:00 a.m.