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Senators Chris Dodd D-CT) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) reviewed the impact of the first session of the 105th Congress on children and their agenda for the second session of the 105th Congress. T…

After morning business, the Senate voted to end debate for the Highway Reauthorization Bill. Later in the day the senate voted $13.8 billion on Interior spending. It’s one of the 13 appropri…

Senator Wendell Ford (D-Kentucky, ranking member on the Senate Rules Committee, and Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) talked with reporters about the committee’s unanimous vote to end the …

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Congressman Ray LaHood (R-Illinois) talked about current news stories of interest to them and took viewer calls in the Washington Journal’s Newspaper …

The Senate continued their work on the fiscal year 98 budget. The president has requested 13.8 billion dollar budget for the Interior. The Senate continued debate of Interior spending with t…

On this day, the Senate once again took up consideration of the FDA Reform Bill. Debate also continued on the $269 billion spending bill to fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Se…

The senate was in session. on this particular day they debated two Bills Designed to reduce the Deficit and Balance the federal budget.

The United States Senate convened to begin debate on S. 1033, Agriculture spending for the fiscal year of 1998.

Vice President Gore and Democratic congressional leaders criticized the Republican congressional proposal on the same day that House and Senate conferees met to discuss differences in the ta…

The Senate passed its second budget reconciliation bill, which reduces taxes by a net $85 billion over five years. The process is designed to reduce the deficit and reach a balanced budget b…

Democratic Senators briefed reporters on their alternative tax cut proposal on the day on which the Senate began debate on the tax portion of the budget resolution. They stressed that they w…

Senate Democratic leaders reacted to Senate passage of the budget resolution by a 78 to 22 vote. They stressed the importance of the agreement and highlighted important aspects of the resolu…

During the Senate floor proceedings, Senators debated Worker Schedules and Overtime, Comp Time and Partial-Birth Abortion.

Senator Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, announced she would support the Republican version of the Balanced Budget Amendment, although she has reservations about its protection of Social Security…

Current news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…

After the president’s State of the Union Address, members of Congress reacted to the speech in Statuary Hall.

Former House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-IL) presented the Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress to George Hager of Congressional Quarterly for print journalism and to Kwam…

In a session about key Senate elections in November 1996, Senators Landrieu and Sessions talked about the details of their campaigns.