Morning Hour
The House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle996 viewsThe House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle996 viewsThe House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on holding big tech companies accountable for user-created content through reforms to Section 230 o…
1,347 viewsThe House Select Modernization of Congress Committee held a hearing focusing on civility and collaboration in Congress. Experts from the fields of leadership development, workplace civility,…
1,018 viewsThe House convened for one-minute speeches. Jake Elizey (R-TX) was sworn in as the replacement for former Representative Ron Wright (R), who died of COVID-19 on February 7. Representative El…
View in Congressional Chronicle4,142 viewsThe House continued work on the dozen bills that make up federal spending for the fiscal year 2022 budget year. In this session, members approved two bills: legislative branch spending, with…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,649 viewsThe House began work on federal spending for the fiscal year 2022 budget year, a package of seven of the dozen bills that set annual spending. More than 200 amendments were allowed, and a vo…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,547 viewsThe House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,632 viewsThe House passed the PFAS Action Act of 2021. The bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to designate perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals as hazardous and ma…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,047 viewsFollowing one-minute speeches, the House considered 14 suspension bills from the Energy and Commerce and Foreign Affairs Committees, including legislation on electric grid security as well a…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,274 viewsThe House passed a $715 billion surface transportation and water infrastructure package, separate from the bipartisan infrastructure agreement senators reached with President Biden the previ…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,707 viewsThe House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle717 viewsThe House voted to repeal a Trump administration rule limiting the EPA’s ability to regulate methane emissions for oil and gas.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,193 viewsThe House Select Modernization of Congress Committee held its second in a series of hearings focusing on civility and bipartisanship in Congress. Psychologists, scholars, and journalists tes…
1,115 viewsThe House passed a bill that would ensure the same burden of proof in age discrimination claims as in other discrimination cases. The measure would reverse a 2009 Supreme Court ruling on age…
View in Congressional Chronicle493 viewsThe House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,184 viewsThe House Select Modernization of Congress Committee held a hearing on efforts to foster bipartisanship and civility in the legislative branch. They discussed several topics, including relat…
703 viewsThe House passed the Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) and Disclosure Simplification Act, which requires public companies to disclose executive pay increases, corporate political con…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,232 viewsThe House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.
View in Congressional Chronicle857 viewsSBA Administrator Isabel Guzman testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on oversight of the Small Business Administration. Ms. Guz…
349 viewsTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services regarding congressional oversight of the agency. Several lawmakers raised inflati…
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