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Witnesses testified about President Clinton’s Social security plan. Among the issues they discussed were using budget surpluses to strengthen the system, Medicare reform, and ensuring the in…

Witnesses testified regarding the effect on Medicare as a result of the Balanced Budget Act. Government officials talked about the President’s Medicare reform plan and how under the existing…

Committee members heard testimony about the disparity in information technology access. They heard about a report showing demographic differences in the number of Americans with access to te…

The House convened on July 22, 1999 to debate and discuss a Republican package of tax cuts totaling 792 billion dollars over ten years. This proposal was passed. Also, a fiscal year 2000 def…

The committee met to hear proposed amendments to the Financial Freedom Act which provided for several forms of tax cuts. Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the committee voted to for…

Committee members heard about legislation containing several tax cut proposals. Under particular consideration was a Republican proposal that would cut personal income, capital gains, and ma…

The House debated the use of Social Security funds for other federal programs.

The U.S. House of Representatives convened and after voting on several amendments to a bill on bankruptcy law, it passed with a vote of 313-108.

Representatives talked to reporters about their proposed legislation to protect the Social Security program. Their plan would put the Social Security surplus into a lock box where the money …

The April 21, 1990 opening House session. One of the principle topics of discussion was education funding.

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.