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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives met to talk and vote on various bills.

The U.S. House of Representatives debated nuclear waste storage and forestry issues among others.

The House of Representative meets for morning business. Members gave general speeches. Temporary funding the Federal Government and Amtrak Funding were also discussed.

In the newspaper roundtable, Representatives Ford and Smith talked about current news stories of interest to them and the House agenda and took audience calls, faxes and electronic mail.

The U. S. House of Representatives debated the Coast Guard funding.

The House of Representatives gaveled in for morning business. Members gave one-minute speeches and discussed upcoming legislation.

The House of Representatives gathered for morning business. On the agenda was the Legislative Appropriations Bill, The Judicial and Commerce Appropriations Bill, and the Congressional Pay R…

House returned to vote on nine bills. The bills included Fiscal year appropriations for 1998. OTher bills dealt with Boat Travel to Canada, naming a courthouse in Ohio, court buildings in Wa…

The House continued debate of the thirteen appropriations bills that fund the government and must become law by the new fiscal year, including the $50 billion Agriculture Bill. Other bills d…

The U.S. House of Representatives debated and voted on amendments to the agriculture spending bill.

U.S. House discussed Fiscal Year 1998 Spending Bills

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

The House of Representatives voted on an amendment by Representative Major Owens, D-NY regarding job training and adult education. The Owens amendment would keep separate funding and adminis…

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…

The House took up a penalty recommendation from the House Ethics Committee for Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), the first time members had ever considered punishment for the speaker. A simple m…

The House of Representatives reprimanded and fined House Speaker Congressman Newt Gingrich $300,000 in accordance with the Ethics Committee recommendation by a 395 to 28 vote, with five pers…