Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss President Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget request for his department. He address a…
677 viewsAt a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget request for his department. In addition to talking about the…
1,101 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the president’s fiscal year 2018 budget request.
479 viewsThe House Rules Committee met to consider an omnibus spending bill to fund the government, as well as a tax package. The spending bill would fund the federal government until September 30, 2…
897 viewsHouse and Senate conferees made opening statements in a meeting to negotiate a long-term highway and mass transit funding bill. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Bill S…
1,134 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell testified before the House Ways and Means Committee. The hearing, which was listed as a fiscal year 2016 budget hearing, centered on the Su…
1,718 viewsTreasury Secretary Jack Lew testified on President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2016 budget.
1,087 viewsTreasury Secretary Jack Lew testified on President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2015 budget. In his opening statement he also addressed President Obama’s executive order regarding Russia’s i…
1,263 viewsSecretary Kathleen Sebelius testified on the Health and Human Services Department fiscal year 2015 budget request. She said that there was no plan to delay the health care law’s individual m…
2,150 viewsMembers of the House debated about H.J. Res. 73, Research for Lifesaving Cures Act, a measure for emergency funding of medical research at the National Institutes of Health during a governme…
91 viewsTreasury Secretary Jack Lew testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget.*Topics addressed in the hearing included sequestration …
269 viewsRep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and other representatives debated the 2014 budget proposal submitted by Mr. Ryan.
198 viewsRepresentative Sander Levin (D-MI), the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee, talked about tax reform, the future of Social Security and Medicare, and how Congress is address…
503 viewsWitnesses testified on the history of the national debt limit, negotiations between past Congresses and presidents to raise the limit, and executive branch constitutional options when the de…
1,109 viewsThe committee met to set rules to allow amendments for floor debate the next day on an extension of U.S. borrowing capacity by four months by waiving the debt ceiling until May 19, 2013. The…
266 viewsRepresentative Sander Levin (D-MI) talked about legislative priorities for the 113th Congress, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. He discussed Republican thre…
184 viewsThe House Rules Committee met to set guidelines for the floor debate on defense programs and on House Speaker John Boehner’s amendment to H.J.Res. 66. The amendment would avoid the impending…
1,050 viewsNewly elected House Democratic leaders urged Republican leaders to pass a middle class tax cut and negotiate a deal on the “fiscal cliff.” “Fiscal cliff” referred to impending tax increases…
77 viewsRepresentative Sander Levin (D-MI) talked about the congressional agenda for the lame-duck session, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. The main topic was the …
89 viewsA House-Senate Conference Committee met in an attempt to break the deadlock over a Social Security payroll tax cut extension.
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