Transportation Policy
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Bill Shuster (R-PA) talked about policy challenges and opportunities facing his committee, including replenishing the Highway Trust Fu…
194 viewsHouse Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Bill Shuster (R-PA) talked about policy challenges and opportunities facing his committee, including replenishing the Highway Trust Fu…
194 viewsThe House received the president’s message that he vetoed H.J. Res. 660. The House voted to sustain the president’s veto of H.J. Res. 660 making further appropriations for fiscal year 1991. …
View in Congressional Chronicle120 viewsRepresentative Bill Schuette (R-MI) appeared in Lansing, Michigan to receive the endorsement of the Michigan State Chamber of Commerce. This was the first time that the Chamber of Commerce e…
80 viewsDemocratic incumbent Senator Levin and Republican Rep. Shuette debated topics such as the Middle East situation, unemployment, housing, gas prices, tax policy, and the Pan Am 103 explosion. …
139 viewsThe House considered H.R. 3950, the “Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990” but came to no resolution. Five amendments were agreed to and two amendments were rejected. The Downey(D-NY)…
View in Congressional Chronicle177 viewsThe House voted to suspend the rules and pass several amendments, including H.R. 4039, to amend the Public Health Service Act; H.R. 238, to amend the PHSA to establish a program for preventi…
View in Congressional Chronicle176 viewsThe House passed H.R. 5064, to provide for a program of grants to local educational agencies for drug abuse resistance education programs. The House passed H.R. 5124, to expand and improve d…
View in Congressional Chronicle206 viewsThe 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…
View in Congressional Chronicle222 viewsThe 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 …
View in Congressional Chronicle140 viewsThe committee considered a Democratic budget proposal that calls for $8 billion less in defense spending than the Bush administration proposal.
120 viewsGOP Congressional Members spoke with reporters after their meeting with the President George H. W. Bush. They spoke about their recent meeting with Columbian and Peruvian Officials and discu…
35 viewsThe House Budget Committee met to discuss the fiscal year 1991 budget proposal with the Director of Office Management and Budget.
142 viewsWhile under the suspension of the rules the House passed several measures. Of special note was H.R. 2987, the Flag Protection Act. This bill amends the United States Code to protect the phys…
View in Congressional Chronicle403 viewsMembers delivers one-minute speeches on the topic of desecration of the U.S. flag.
332 viewsThe United States House of Representatives met and voted unanimously to support the President’s call for clemency to the pro-democracy demonstrators in China following the Tienanmen Square M…
View in Congressional Chronicle290 viewsThe House met to consider 5 bills under suspension of the rules. Those bills included, H.R. 968, the Noise Reduction Reimbursement Act of 1989, H.R. 838, which authorized Secretary of Transp…
View in Congressional Chronicle246 viewsThe House debated H. Con. Res. 106, the First Budget Concurrent Resolution of FY '90. This excerpt began with House Budget Committee Chairman Representative Leon Panetta’s (D-CA) opening sta…
34 viewsThe House debated H. Con. Res. 106, the congressional budget for the United States Government for FY90.
View in Congressional Chronicle150 viewsThe House Budget Committee heard testimony from FED Chairman Alan Greenspan about the FY 90 Federal Budget proposal by the Bush Administration.
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