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The House passed $600 billion in federal spending for the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor Departments. Members also passed the House-Senate compromise on reauthorizing…

The House Ways and Means Committee marked up the tax portion of the House budget reconciliation legislation. Mr. Yin testified about the likely impact of various proposals on fiscal and tax …

The House approved the conference report to H.R. 2744, a $100 billion agriculture appropriation for fiscal year 2006. Among the items agreed to in the conferenced version of the bill was a h…

The House will consider four bills under suspension of the rules; possible consideration of the conference report to HR 6, energy policy bill; possible consideration of HR 3283, a bill aimed…

The House plans to finish work on HR 2601, Foreign Relations authorization bill; possibly work on HR 3070, NASA authorization bill; take the postponed vote on a suspension bill debated Monda…

Votes are not scheduled to allow members to attend the return to flight of the space shuttle launch in Florida.

The House passed a $20.3 billion bill for foreign aid in fiscal year 2006.

Witnesses testified about recommendations for changes and amendments to the proposed Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement prior to its formal submission to the house for a…

The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on U.S.-China economic relationship and the role of China in the world economy. Witnesses testified about China’s participation in glob…

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the future of Social Security. The hearing will focus on Social Security’s financial outlook and the program in the context of the federa…

Secretary Snow testified about President Bush’s budget request for fiscal year 2006. Among the topics he addressed were proposals to reform Social Security, spending cuts for various program…

The 109th Congress convened and House members were sworn in. Speaker of the House Hastert was re-elected and rules for the 109th Congress were debated and adopted.