Coronavirus and Rural Health Care
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…
593 viewsSenator 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…
593 viewsFormer members of Congress talked about the results of the 2014 midterm elections and their likely impact on Congress. Topics included tea party movement members of the House and Senate. …
540 viewsPanelists, including former members of Congress and White House advisers, talked about congressional reform. Video from USA Today was shown. Some of the ideas they discussed were two-year bu…
455 viewsTreasury Secretary Jacob Lew spoke at a Bipartisan Policy Center forum on raising the debt ceiling. He urged Congress to raise the debt ceiling and said the government was likely to exhaust …
1,366 viewsJim Rohr gave the keynote address at the Commission on Political Reform’s event to encourage national unity. After Mr. Rohr’s remarks, Susan Page moderated a town hall meeting on public serv…
203 viewsFormer Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) talked about her book, Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress, in which she explores how Congress came to its state of gridl…
636 viewsSix former members of the Senate and House of Representatives talked about ways to end hyper-partisanship in Congress. Topics included the congressional schedule, comity among members, parti…
369 viewsMembers of the Commission on Political Reform discussed the causes and consequences of extreme polarization of the American political process. The event opened with a video presentation high…
355 viewsSenator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) gave her farewell address to the Senate.
1,118 viewsThe U.S. Senate convened for a legislative session and therafter resumed consideration of S.3637, the TAG extension legislation.
View in Congressional Chronicle578 viewsWitnesses testified on a bill to provide tax incentives for small businesses, and to assist and bolster the entrepreneurial community. The committee examined legislative proposals and progra…
340 viewsCommittee members met to mark up legislation dealing with tax “extenders,” a number of short-term tax breaks. Among the amendments they considered were credits for “Make it in America,” appl…
331 viewsCommittee members made opening statements at a markup hearing on legislation dealing with tax “extenders,” a number of short-term tax breaks. It included an extension for the research and de…
510 viewsThe Senate convened for a legislative session.
View in Congressional Chronicle222 viewsThe Senate convened for a legislative session.
View in Congressional Chronicle437 viewsWitnesses testified about energy policy and the U.S. tax code. Among the issues they addressed were ways in which the tax code affects the energy sector, ways in which different energy indus…
294 viewsSenator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) gave the commencement address to the 2012 graduating class of the University of Southern Maine.
176 viewsCoast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials testified on tsunami debris along U.S. coastlines from Japan’s March 2011 tsumani triggered by an 8.9 magnitude …
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