Washington Gubernatorial Debate
Washington gubernatorial candidates Representative Jay Inslee (D) and State Attorney General Rob McKenna (R) debated campaign issues including Medicaid, job growth, and immigration. Mr. McKe…
1,163 viewsWashington gubernatorial candidates Representative Jay Inslee (D) and State Attorney General Rob McKenna (R) debated campaign issues including Medicaid, job growth, and immigration. Mr. McKe…
1,163 viewsThe House passed the Senate version of health care legislation by a vote of 219 to 212. The House passed both the Senate health care legislation and the reconciliation bill. The reconciliati…
View in Congressional Chronicle156,838 viewsSecretary Chu testified on the Energy Department’s fiscal year 2013 budget request. Questions focused on the high price of gasoline, the potential of tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Res…
258 viewsAdministrator Lisa Jackson testified on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) fiscal year 2013 budget request. She defended her agency’s study of the effects on hydraulic fracking, a n…
793 viewsWitnesses testified on the Obama administration’s decision to deny a permit for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would have carried oil from Canada to the U.S.
645 viewsA vote on a Continuing Resolution to keep the federal government funded failed by a vote of 195 to 230.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,255 viewsThe House considered President Obama’s jobs bill and legislation on the National Labor Relations Board.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,398 viewsWitnesses testified on the federal management of civilian nuclear waste and the Energy Department’s decision to end the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste respiratory program. Among the issues the…
448 viewsThe House took up House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to lift the debt ceiling.
View in Congressional Chronicle3,055 viewsThe House convened for a legislative session.
View in Congressional Chronicle589 viewsPatrick Conroy opened the session with his first prayer as House chaplain.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,621 viewsThe House began consideration of a bill dealing with leasing for offshore drilling off the coast of Virginia and in the Gulf of Mexico.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,620 viewsRep Crowley (D-NY) gave a silent one-minute speech during today’s House session.
View in Congressional Chronicle4,260 viewsEnergy Secretary Steven Chu testified on his department’s 2012 budget request. Much of the hearing focused on several nuclear accidents at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power station in the afte…
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