Senate Session
The Senate convenes and begins a period of morning business. 2:00 p.m.: The Senate begins consideration of H.R. 5384, the Agriculture Appropriations Bill, Fiscal Year 2007.
View in Congressional Chronicle362 viewsThe Senate convenes and begins a period of morning business. 2:00 p.m.: The Senate begins consideration of H.R. 5384, the Agriculture Appropriations Bill, Fiscal Year 2007.
View in Congressional Chronicle362 viewsThe Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumed consideration of H.R. 6061, the Secure Fence Act. Brief video interruption at 0954.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,271 viewsRetiring Senator Jeffords delivered his final speech on the U.S. Senate floor. He talked about his experiences and thanked his colleagues. Senators Reid and Leahy praised Senator Jeffords fo…
322 viewsWitnesses testified about the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the joint cases of Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the scope of t…
722 viewsThe Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumed consideration of S. 728, the Water Resources Development Act.
View in Congressional Chronicle269 viewsThe Senate resumed consideration en bloc of the Stem Cell Bills. The Senate passed S.3504, Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006; S.2754, Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enha…
View in Congressional Chronicle182 viewsThe Senate convenes and begins a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumes consideration of S.J.Res. 12, the Flag Protection Amendment.
View in Congressional Chronicle193 viewsSecretary Nicholson and other officials testified about a recent security breach at the Department of Veterans Affairs in which computer records containing personal information of 26.5 milli…
470 viewsThe Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing to consider pending nominations: Richard Capka to be administrator, Federal Highway Administration; James Gulliford to be an assist…
234 viewsThe Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee held a hearing on the Fiscal Year 2007 Veterans' Affairs budget. Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Jim Nicholson and other officials testified about admin…
325 viewsThe Senate resumed consideration of the nomination of Samuel Alito to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Late in the day a cloture motion on the debate passed…
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