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Elections and swearing-in of the members for the 102nd Congress were shown. Rep. Foley (D-WA) was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Rep. Gephardt (D-MO) and Rep. Mic…

The House of Representatives took up H.R. 2094, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act, which provided new funds for the FDIC and strengthened oversight of banks and thrif…

Rep. Henry Gonzalez and Rep. Esteban Torres were honored for their service and accomplishments in the House of Representatives.

The House Banking Committee received the portrait of former chairman Rep. Gonzalez. Friends, family and colleagues of former Rep. Gonzalez were on hand to pay tribute to him. Rep. Gonzalez s…

Members of Congress presented Patriarch Bartholomew I with a congressional gold medal. He is the head of the Orthodox Church with over 250 million members worldwide. Speaker Gingrich and oth…

The US House waited for FY 1998 Spending Bills. Todays Bills addressed Juvenile crime and delinquency Programs, letting a Swiss Family who disclosed Bank Documents Immigrate to the US, 13 Bi…

The House reconvened to continue debate on defense spending and other legislative business.

United States House of Representatives session from May 14, 1997 and considering a bill on federal education aid to children with disabilities, disaster relief and Bosnia / Iraq Operations f…

The House met to vote to approve journal of yesterday’s session and debated Juvenile Violent Crime and Public Housing Programs.

U.S. House is looking at Housing De-Regulation.

The United States House of Representatives voted on various amendments to a housing deregulation bill. The measures would permit public housing authorities to admit a mix of residents making…

The United States House of Representatives voted to encourage adoptions of children in the foster care system.

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.

Congressional colleagues remembered Representative Frank Tejeda, the Democratic Representative of the Texas 28th congressional district since 1993. He died of pneumonia brought on by treatme…

Members gave speeches in tribute to the late Representative Frank Tejeda (D-TX), who died on January 30 of pneumonia brought on by two years of cancer treatments, and passed a suspension bil…

At a press conference at Longworth House office Building Representative Henry Gonzalez(D-TX) talked with reporters about his re-election as the ranking member of the House Banking Comm…

The U.S. House of Representatives debated 85 billion dollars in spending for Veterans, Housing, and Urban Development for the next fiscal year. The VA Bill was one of the appropriation bills…

On this day, the House, after a period of one-minute speeches, took up the Safe Drinking Water Act under suspension of the rules. The House then moved to consideration of spending bills for …