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In a portion of proceedings from the floor of the United States House of Representatives Representative Bob Livingston (R-LA) surprised House colleagues by announcing that he would withdraw…

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Representative Dick Armey (R-TX) talked with reporters about a compromise budget agreed upon by both Republicans and Democrats. While they were…

House and Senate democratic leaders discussed the congressional session that was just ended. They criticized the Republicans' record for the past 2 year session and put forth what they…

In a segment of events in the HOUSE, members continued appropriations debate which would keep the government operating and allow Congress to adjourn prior to the 1998 midterm elections.…

Representatives DeLay and Shadegg responded to the president’s education proposals. He argued that the proposals took power away from local school districts and added to the federal…

Rep. Boehner talked about the accomplishments of the 105th Congress such as the balanced budget, tax relief, welfare reform, and IRS reform.

Senator Lott spoke about the Republican legislative agenda. Among the topics he discussed were tax cuts, agricultural relief and appropriations measures. After brief comments he answered…

Representative Waters talked to the press about the Congressional Black Caucus meeting. She said the caucus supported President Clinton’s legislative agenda. After her remarks both she and…

Vice President Al Gore and Democratic Congressmen talked about environmental issues before the 105th Congress, which included fighting global warming, preserving national parks, and…

Representative David Minge (D-Minnesota) outlined the budget proposal of the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally moderate House democrats.

Speaker Gingrich addressed the Republican Women’s Forum. He talked about the agenda before the House of Representatives and the importance and significance of the growing number of women…

In the newspaper roundtable, Representative Joe Scarborough (R-Florida) talked about current news stories of interest to him and the agenda of the 105th Congress. He also took audience…

Senator Daschle met with reporters. He talked about tobacco legislation, education spending and the observance of Earth Day and environmental legislation. Following his comments, Senator…

Ann Marie Maloney, a Congressional correspondent with Commerce Clearinghouse, talked about Senate debate on the 1999 budget resolution, which the leadership is trying to complete before the…

Senator Daschle briefed reporters on the Senate agenda. He criticized a Republican education proposal for education savings accounts because he said it would do nothing to help the…

Lawmakers and environmental experts talked about some of the major environmental issues that will come before Congress during the upcoming year. The panelists talked about issues that would…

Mr. Mondics talked about the nomination of Judge Frederica Messiah-Jackson and the motion in the Senate by U.S. Senators form Pennsylvania Arlon Spector and Rick Santorum that there be…

Senator Tom Daschle, Democrat from South Dakota, met with reporters. He talked about health care proposals in President Clinton’s 1999 budget, legislation to ban human cloning and possible…

Senator Trent Lott delivered the Republican radio address. He talked about the need for Medicare reform and criticized the president for spending proposals in his 1999 budget.

Several Republican freshmen released their proposal for tax cuts for the second session of the 105th Congress. The proposal includes eliminating the marriage penalty, investment tax cuts,…