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Officials, candidates, and others spoke about their support for Vice President Gore’s candidacy, and core Democratic values. Among the issues they addressed were health care, raising the min…

The House is expected to take up a number of measures, including H.R. 3113, the Unsolicited Commerical Electronic Mail Act of 2000, H.R. 2634, the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 1999, H.R. …

The U.S. House of Representatives convened to work on steel imports to the U.S. and a bill that would authorize $4.6 billion in FY2000 and $4.9 billion in FY2001 for the Coast Guard.

The U.S. House of Representatives was in Session and handled legislation business. The House clerk, Meg Goetz, read the Bill. After the reading of the Bill, the House Members debated the Tra…

The U.S. House of Representatives debated and voted on amendments to the agriculture spending bill.

The US House of Representatives met and passed several bills including: 1. Non-citizens will not receive relocation compensation if they are removed from their property that was taken for g…

The House met to consider multiple bills. They started by setting the rules of debate for the day’s bills. After voting, they moved on to Special Order speeches.

The house was in session to cover their daily duties.

Representative David Bonior, D-Michigan, Democratic Whip, criticized House Republicans for shutting down the government. He charged that it is their constitutional responsibility to fund fed…

U.S. House debated a bill to temporarily continue funding of the government.

After the prayer by the House Chaplain, the U.S. House opened with one-minute Speeches on a variety of issues then voted to adjourn. When they returned, a controversial debate ensued about m…

The U.S. House dealt with Flag Desecration, Abortion Funding, Foreign Operations, and Aid to Haiti.

Members of Congress addressed a rally organized by the Building and Construction Department of the AFL-CIO on federal labor policy and legislation.

The U.S. House of Representatives debated a Republican tax cut plan. This bill would cut taxes for people and businesses by 189 billion over 5 years. To help pay for these proposed tax cuts,…

The House approved two bills. One is a $3.2 billion measure to fund peacekeeping operations around the world. Defense and domestic spending cuts would be used to pay for the program. The oth…

The House resumes work on the Line Item Veto bill which would allow the President to cut individual items from a bill rather than veto an entire bill. Members debated amendments for several…

The U.S. House of Representatives continued work on a line-item veto bill, the third bill to reach the floor as part of the Republicans' Contract with America. The measure would allow the Pr…