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Representative Kwanza Hall (D-GA) was sworn in the fill the remainder of the term of the late Representative John Lewis. The House then debated the rule governing the MORE Act (a marijuana d…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,037 viewsRepresentative Kwanza Hall (D-GA) was sworn in the fill the remainder of the term of the late Representative John Lewis. The House then debated the rule governing the MORE Act (a marijuana d…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,037 viewsThe House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing remembering the Holocaust, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, and to discuss how to combat bigotry, discrimination, and viole…
793 viewsSteven Dillingham, U.S. Census Bureau director, said in testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee that his agency would be able to roll out he was confident the 2020 Census i…
2,096 viewsThe House debated the rule covering the fiscal year 2021 spending measure that funds the Departments of Agriculture, State, Veterans Affairs, and Interior as well as military construction. …
View in Congressional Chronicle18,925 viewsThe House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing to examine actions taken by U.S. Postmaster General Lewis DeJoy since he took office in July 2020. Experts…
5,047 viewsTop executives of Purdue Pharma, a U.S. pharmaceutical company that makes OxyContin, testified about their role in the opioid epidemic at a virtual House Oversight Committee hearing. The com…
2,945 viewsThe House considered more than 20 bills under suspension of the rules, including one reaffirming the House of Representative’s commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,378 viewsAxios reporter Alayna Treene, Florida Republican Party Chair Joe Gruters, and Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) discussed the second night of the 2020 Republican National Conven…
3,075 viewsThe House passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 11, 2020. The vote was 359-57-1, with 56 Republicans and Representative Amash (L-MI) voting against the measu…
View in Congressional Chronicle693 viewsActing Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf testified on Capitol Hill about President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 budget request. Members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland S…
886 viewsIn a vote of 236-181, the House passed the Democratic police reform bill, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Will Hurd (TX) and Fred Upton (MI)…
View in Congressional Chronicle2,907 viewsBristol-Myers Squibb CEO Dr. Giovanni Caforio, Teva CEO Kare Schultz and former Celgene CEO Mark Alles testified on prescription drug pricing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.…
3,020 viewsThis special “Washington Journal” primetime edition on the coronavirus pandemic focused on the 1918 influence pandemic. John Barry, author of The Great Influenza: the Story of the Deadliest …
1,862 viewsCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, and other public health offic…
24,565 viewsThe House approved the House-Senate compromise on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets defense programs and policy for fiscal year 2021. President Trump had vowed to vet…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,500 viewsThe House passed a fiscal year 2021 spending package to fund the Departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services and other agencies.
View in Congressional Chronicle7,529 viewsVeterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and other department officials testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Secretary W…
2,156 viewsThe House approved two suspension bills. The first measure establishes a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino. The second sets up a Commission on the Social Status of Black Men…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,485 viewsThe House passed a number of suspension bills, including a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 18, 2020.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,187 viewsThe House considered several bills under suspension of the rules involving such issues as education discrimination lawsuits, grants for child care providers during the coronavirus pandemic, …
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