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The members debated legislation that would allow states to choose whether to charge illegal immigrants or let them attend public schools for free. Illegal immigrants enrolled between Septemb…

United States House of Representatives session on September 17, 1996, included taking up more than twenty bills under suspension of the rules procedures.

House Members debated H.R. 123, a bill which would make English the official language of the U.S. government, with some exceptions, which would mandate that citizens use English in all their…

The House convened for debate on fishing legislation.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on approving the Journal. Then the members gave one-minute speeches. Later the House considered a bill letting workers take compensatory time off inst…

On this day, the House Savings and Construction Act of 1996. They also took up H.R. 3564, The NATO Enlargement Facilitation Act, which would allow membership in NATO of some eastern European…

Committee members heard testimony concerning H.R. 3717, the Postal Reform Act of 1996. This legislation is designed to reform the U.S. Postal Service in various ways, including updating the …

The House met for One Minute Speeches and Special Order Speeches.

Senator Daschle and Rep. Gephardt, who were joined by other Democratic legislators and citizens in Detroit, Houston, Sacramento and Des Moines by satellite, discussed a Democratic legislativ…

On this day, after a period of one-minute speeches, the House took up consideration of a $12.1 billion Interior Dept Spending Bill.

U.S. House begins the day with debating an appropriations bill for spending for the Interior department.