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The House passed two bills. One would provide a path for undocumented farm workers to get green cards. The other was the final version of a fiscal year 2020 defense policy and programs bill.…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,418 viewsThe House passed two bills. One would provide a path for undocumented farm workers to get green cards. The other was the final version of a fiscal year 2020 defense policy and programs bill.…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,418 viewsThe House considered 16 bills under suspension of the rules.
View in Congressional Chronicle831 viewsFederal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Ajit Pai and the other four agency commissioners testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. T…
1,397 viewsThe House approved a measure that restricts robocalls, and members started work on a bill that bans illegal insider trading, making exchanges to the Securities Exchange Act.
View in Congressional Chronicle735 viewsFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified on the U.S. economy and monetary policy before the House Budget Committee. Other topics discussed included trade policy, income inequality, the …
1,431 viewsThe House passed a bill intended to combat money laundering by curbing the use of shell companies while requiring corporations to report ownership information to the Treasury Department. Mem…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,511 viewsGoogle and Reddit officials testified before two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees about internet privacy and consumer protection. The hearing focused on Section 230 of the Communicati…
1,433 viewsVoting industry experts testified at a House Energy subcommittee on proposed legislation to secure the nation’s wireless infrastructure from foreign interference.
447 viewsFollowing one-minute speeches, the House debated the rules for a continuing resolution to fund the government for seven weeks beyond the end of the budget year on September 30, 2019.
View in Congressional Chronicle492 viewsThe House passed a number of bills, including one that establishes a pension rehabilitation trust fund within the Treasury Department for multi-employer benefit plans. Another one sets human…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,949 viewsThe House debated and passed several bills, including one that opposes all boycotts of Israel.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,593 viewsEnergy and and electric grid officials testified before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on cybersecurity threats to the U.S. electric grid. Topics covered included modernizi…
2,115 viewsRepresentative Bill Johnson (R-OH), a member of the House Budget Committee, talked about the debate over federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown.
205 viewsThe House debated and voted on amendments to a near-$1 trillion spending package covering four of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund the government and related agencies. This speci…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,065 viewsThe House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act Reauthorization (STELAR) legislation, which …
6,616 viewsRepresentative Bill Johnson (R-OH) shared his reading list with Book TV.
431 viewsThe House voted 417-3 to pass a bill to increase the flexibility of 401(k) retirement savings plans, making it easier for employers to offer retirement plans to their employees.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,644 viewsThe House Budget Committee convened a hearing to examine the impact of a single-payer health care system if one were to be implemented in the U.S. Officials with the Congressional Budget Off…
1,430 viewsThe House worked on a bill requiring the president to keep the U.S. in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. President Donald Trump had said he would pull the U.S. out of the agreement…
View in Congressional Chronicle11,576 viewsThe House debated a bill that would block the Trump Administration from withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.