House Session
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives debated several appropriations bills.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,240 viewsMembers of the U.S. House of Representatives debated several appropriations bills.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,240 viewsThe House debated several versions of the Balanced Budget Amendment. One of the key issues was the "super majority", or 3/5 vote needed to pass future tax increases. This was originally pass…
96 viewsRepresentatives Robert Andrews R-NJ and Bill Zeliff R-NH talked with reporters about their reintroduction of the A to Z bill. In the previous year, these two Congressmen called for a special…
39 viewsPanelists talked about government waste and the need to eliminate it as much as possible to preserve the future of U.S. society. Each panelist made remarks and took questions from the audien…
48 viewsThis was a capitol conference to discuss the so-called “A to Z” spending cuts proposal, which proposes to set aside up to 56 hours of debate for nothing but spending cut proposals. The parti…
79 viewsRepresentatives Bill Zeliff R-NH and Robert Andrews D-NJ talked about the so-called “A to Z” spending cuts proposal, and their objective to have it debated on the U.S. House of Representati…
60 viewsThe efforts to cut the federal budget were outlined by Republican New Hampshire Congressman Bill Zeliff and Democratic New Jersey Representative Robert Andrews. Congressmen Zeliff and Andrew…
48 viewsRepresentative Bill Zeliff (R-New Hampshire), a co-author of the A to Z Spending Cuts Plan, defended the effort to gather votes for a discharge petition. The plan would allow each member to …
36 viewsRepresentatives Robert Andrews (D-NJ) and Bill Zeliff (R-NH) talked about their plan to force a House vote on whether Congress should have a special session devoted solely to deficit reducti…
27 viewsA bipartisan group of House members announced to reporters the upcoming release of a letter signed by 181 members of the House of Representatives calling for a special session of Congress de…
52 viewsSenator Gramm met with Rep. Zeliff’s First District constituents in a town hall forum. He spoke about President Clinton’s economic stimulus package and Republican alternatives to it. Followi…
31 viewsThe House discussed and voted on H RES 462, H R 4990, H RES 463 and H CON RES 287.
View in Congressional Chronicle226 viewsU.S. House of Representatives begin the day with a vote on approving the Journal.
View in Congressional Chronicle210 viewsHJR 456: A resolution to make futher continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1992. HR 1558: A resolution to amend the Panama Canal Act of 1979 to provide for a chairman of the board …
View in Congressional Chronicle167 viewsRepresentative Sam Johnson (R-Texas) was administered the oath of office by the Speaker. The Committee on Appropriations received permission to have until midnight to file reports on two bil…
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