House Session
The House voted to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 707, to improve the regulation of futures trading and to authorize appropriations for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The House v…
View in Congressional Chronicle266 viewsThe House voted to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 707, to improve the regulation of futures trading and to authorize appropriations for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The House v…
View in Congressional Chronicle266 viewsRepresentative Jim Saxton(R-NJ) provided an eyewitness account of the situation in the Middle East. He mentioned the attitudes and concerns of the Israelis in regard to Iraqi SCUD missile at…
15 viewsThe House passed H. Con. Res. 41, condemning the Iraqi attack against Israel. The House passed H. Con. Res. 48, condemning the brutal treatment by the government of Iraq of captured service …
View in Congressional Chronicle237 viewsRepresentative Peter Kostmayer, D-Pennsylvania, member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, praised Israel for restraint in not retaliating against SCUD missile attacks directed at Israe…
48 viewsThe House completed all general debate on the situation in the Middle East. The House agreed to three extensions of the time for general debate by two hours, four hours, and four hours, resp…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,875 viewsRep. Saxton had recently returned from a congressional fact-finding trip to Saudi Arabia. He discussed troop morale and chances for peace in the Middle East.
29 viewsThe House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 5021, commerce, justice, and judicial appropriations, after having agreed to recede from its disagreement over amendment 165. The House agre…
View in Congressional Chronicle309 viewsThe House passed H.R. 4000, known as the Civil Rights Act of 1990 to strengthen civil rights laws that ban employment discrimination. The House passed H.R. 5350 a short-term debt limit incre…
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