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The House agreed to S. 3266, to reauthorize the Small Business Act of 1958. The House also agreed to H.Res. 538, amending the Immigration and Nationality Act, and H.Con.Res. 399, providing f…

The House agreed to the conference report for H.R. 5400, reform campaigns. The House agreed to the conference report for H.R. 5257, making appropriations for Labor and Health and Human Servi…

The House agreed to the Murtha motion to close the conference committee meetings on H.R. 5803, Defense appropriations, to the public. The House agreed to the conference report on S. 2104, am…

The House passed the crime control bill, H.R. 5269 after agreeing to the Hughes, Douglas, Waxman, and Dingell amendments and rejecting the Sensenbrenner amendment. The House agreed to the As…

The House continued consideration of H.R. 5269, to control crime, but came to no resolution.

The House passed H.R. 2039, the Job Training Partnership Act, to improve the delivery of services to hard-to-serve adults and youth. Representative Patsy Mink was also sworn in during the se…

The House passed H.R. 4000, known as the Civil Rights Act of 1990 to strengthen civil rights laws that ban employment discrimination. The House passed H.R. 5350 a short-term debt limit incre…

The House agreed to H.R. 5170, Airport and Airway Improvement bill, to authorize appropriations to improve aviation safety and capacity after substituting the committee amendment and rejecti…

The House voted to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 4982, which promoted the study of mathematics and science in elementary schools and to provide training for mathematics and science teacher…

The House debated H.J.Res. 350, a resolution to amend the Constitution to give federal and state governments the right to prohibit desecration of the American flag.

The House met in pro forma session.

The House voted to suspend the rules and pass fifteen measures: H.R. 4611, to amend the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984; H.R. 4314, regarding international commercial arbitration; …

The House concluded all general debate and began consideration of amendments to H.R. 2273, to establish a comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability. The House ag…

The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from Attorney General Richard Thornburgh on the budget request for Fiscal year 1992.

Following the oral arguments in U.S. v. Eichman and U.S. v. Haggerty, attorneys, defendants, and members of Congress talked with reporters about the cases. Both cases challenged the …

In his first appearance before the committee, Assistant Attorney General John Dunne presents the 1991 budget request for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. The request s…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation Director testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights at an oversight hearing about authorization of funding for t…

The House passed H.R. 3, to authorize appropriations to expand Head Start programs and programs carried out under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include child care ser…

The House voted to sustain the president’s veto of H.R. 1231, to establish a commission to investigate and report the dispute between Eastern Airlines and its collective bargaining units.

The subcommittee heard testimony from Secretary of State Baker concerning the fiscal year 1991 foreign operations request.