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Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Representative Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM), health policy experts, and former lawmakers addressed the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on rural health care. Ot…

Experts discussed the deregulation of digital technology and responded to audience questions.

The House passed H.R. 2065, to improve tropical forest management, by a voice vote. The House passed H.R. 5932, to improve educational equity and excellence, by a voice vote. The House agree…

Representative Tom Tauke and Senator Tom Harkin, candidates in the Iowa Senate campaign race, debated topics including health care, abortion and social services. Sen. Harkin talked about the…

The House passed H.R. 5313, making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense. During consideration, the House rejected the Penny amendment to have an across-the-…

The House passed H.R. 5229, making appropriations for the Department of Transportation. The House agreed to H. Con. Res. 291, expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to account a…

Both candidates spoke about issues they consider to be important to Iowans and the nation. Among those topics the candidates promised to address were farm policy, drug policy, economics, and…

Representative Tom Tauke talked about issues during his Senate campaign speech.

The House voted to override the president’s veto of H.R. 20, to amend Title 5, United States Code (the Hatch Act), concerning the participation of federal civilian employees in the political…

The House passed H. Con. Res. 324, amended, concerning human rights, democracy, and illicit narcotics production and trafficking in Burma. The House passed H. Res. 393, concerning the first …

The House passed H.R. 3802, designating the month of May as “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.” The House agreed to the motion on H.R. 4404, regarding Fiscal 1990 Supplemental Appropri…

The Iowa Republican Party spoke about Liberal Democrat’s nd contrasted their Republican views on how America should be run.

The House passed H.R. 3, to authorize appropriations to expand Head Start programs and programs carried out under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include child care ser…

The House reconvened after a recess and further amended H.R. 3607, Catastrophic Health Coverage. They also passed the following legislation: H.Res. 299, Judiciary Committee Election; H.R. 3…

The House passed H.R. 3299 which provides for reconciliation pursuant to section 5 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY90. H.R. 2712, the Emergency Chinese Adjustment of Status …

The House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 2788 which makes appropriations for the Interior Department for FY90. Debate continued on H.R. 3299 which deals with section 5 of the concur…

This is a hearing sponsored by the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care about insurance industry concerns.

The House passed H.R. 2883, appropriating 44 billion dollars for the 1990 Farm bill. Other programs supported by the bill include funding for rural housing and WIC, a supplemental feeding pr…

Republican members of the US House announced the proposal of a new bill to increase the minimum wage. The new bill came after the President’s veto of the most recent minimum wage increase bi…

The House met in Pro Forma session.