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House and Senate Budget Committee conferees worked on a final version of the budget reconciliation bill, which attempts to balance the federal budget in seven years.

The House & Senate Budget Committees held a hearing on the effects of a possible government shutdown if federal budget legislation was not passed by October 1. They heard testimony from Whit…

The Senate and House Budget Committees met in conference to reconcile their two versions of the Fiscal Year 1997 Budget Resolution.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a discussion where participants spoke on the status of federal budget negotiations.

Congressional budget negotiators briefed reporters on their meeting with Congressional Budget Office director June O’Neill.

After meeting between Democratic Governors and Congressional Democratits to discuss the budget negotiations, Democratic congressional negotiators and several Democratic governors briefed rep…

Democratic and Republican budget negotiators briefed reporters on the results of their latest meeting. Mr. Leon Panetta the White House Chief of Staff criticized the Republicans for not talk…

Republicans and Democrats talked with reporters about federal budget negotiations.

House of Representatives met for session to discuss bills.

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The House Rules Committee began work on the federal budget. Committee members debated the rules for debate and the number of amendments that could be offered on the 1995 budget reconciliatio…

Commitee members heard testimony from chairmen of several House committees on their requests for funds to run their panels. This was the second of two days of hearings on committee funding r…

House Speaker Representative Tom Foley (D-Washington), House Majority Leader Representative Richard Gephardt D-Missouri), and other Democratic House members praised the President’s budget pr…

The House Rules Committee heard testimony from members of Congress on the rule for debate on the president’s budget bill, due for consideration by the House on the following day. The committ…

Speaker of the House Tom Foley (D-WA), Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-ME), House Budget Committee Chairman Martin Sabo (D-MN), and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Jim Sasser (D-T…

Rep. Martin Olav Sabo (D-MN), chairman of the House Budget Committee, discussed the negotiations currently under way concerning the House and Senate versions of the president’s budget bill i…

In an excerpt from the session of the House, members debated the Clinton administration’s deficit reduction plan due to come up for a vote later in the day.

The committee heard testimony from members of Congress on H.R. 2264, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. The legislation contains the tax increases and spending cuts proposed by the Clint…

Members of the Budget committee met to talk about the language and amendments to the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Act, the administration’s tax increase and deficit reduction legislation. The…

Representative Martin Olav Sabo (D-Minnesota), chairman of the House Budget Committee and member of the House Appropriations Committee, discussed the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Act passed by…