Federal Disaster Response
Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), testified on disaster response before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He answered severa…
2,242 viewsBrock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), testified on disaster response before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He answered severa…
2,242 viewsThe House began debate on H.R. 88, the Retirement, Savings, and Other Tax Relief Act, a Republican tax package, and also worked on extending the National Flood Insurance Program, which was s…
View in Congressional Chronicle838 viewsFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified before the House Financial Services Committee about monetary policy and the economy. He addressed several issues, including inflation, jobs, une…
2,795 viewsTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the state of the international financial system. He addressed members' questions on several issue…
1,477 viewsFBI Agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections, testified before a joint hearing of two House c…
118,634 viewsThe House considered amendments to opioid-related legislation.
View in Congressional Chronicle4,125 viewsA House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee considered possible reforms to how federal labor union employees report on the amount of time they are allowed under the law to spend “of…
577 viewsC-SPAN presented live coverage from the annual congressional baseball game between Republicans and Democrats. Radio commentary courtesy of Federal News Radio. The Democrats won the game, 21-…
5,743 viewsThe House passed bills dealing with the nation’s opioid epidemic, including housing for recovering addicts, shipments of illegal drugs, and the effect of opioid addiction on families.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,137 viewsThe House approved a $15 billion rescissions bill. Members also began debate on a federal spending package for fiscal year 2019, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, military constr…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,509 viewsRandal Quarles, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to talk about the central bank’s role in the supervision and regulati…
706 viewsThe House of Representatives debated and passed two financial services bills. The first would reform the stress test process in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulations law. The other would…
View in Congressional Chronicle648 viewsThe House passed two financial services bills. One would create an office to review bank complaints against regulatory agency reports. The other would exempt stock offerings under $75 millio…
View in Congressional Chronicle948 viewsThe House debated and passed two financial services bills, including one that makes mortgage lending regulation changes to financial institutions and market trading. The other measure requir…
View in Congressional Chronicle841 viewsThe House passed H.R. 1153, the Mortgage Choice Act.
View in Congressional Chronicle3,244 viewsThe House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a field hearing at Johns Hopkins Hospital on the opioid crisis. Testimonies were given by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R), the…
1,233 viewsThe former U.S. and Israeli ambassadors to the U.N. were among the witnesses who testified at a hearing on relocating the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Most of the offic…
1,945 viewsThe House approved the House-Senate negotiated compromise on the fiscal year 2018 defense programs and policy bill. Lawmakers also passed a reauthorization of the national flood insurance pr…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,191 viewsHousing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson testified at an oversight hearing before the House Financial Services Committee. He answered questions on a range of issues including propo…
14,722 viewsThe House debated a bill extending Federal Aviation Administration funding for six months and giving tax relief to victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
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