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The House continued consideration of H.R. 3371, to control and prevent crime.

Members of the House Public Works and Transportation committee discussed amendments to H.R. 2950, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act of 1991 in preparation for its intr…

The House passed H.R. 1989, to authorize appropriations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Technological Administration of the Department of Commerce.

The House voted to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 479, amended, to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the California National Historic Trail and Pony Express National Histori…

The House agreed to the report making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for the consequences of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, food stamps, unemployment compensation administ…

The House filed a report requiring the Federal depository institution regulatory agencies to take additional enforcement actions against depository institutions engaging in money laundering.…

The House passed H.R. 556, to provide for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to obtain independent scientific review of the available scientific evidence regarding associations between diseas…

The House passed the crime control bill, H.R. 5269 after agreeing to the Hughes, Douglas, Waxman, and Dingell amendments and rejecting the Sensenbrenner amendment. The House agreed to the As…

Rep. Sangmeister (D-Illinois) talked about the status of the crime bill currently pending in the House. He spoke about the House Rules Committee needing to come up with a new rule to keep t…

The House agreed to H.R. 5170, Airport and Airway Improvement bill, to authorize appropriations to improve aviation safety and capacity after substituting the committee amendment and rejecti…

The subcommittee met to discuss prosecution of financial institution crimes.

The House debated H.J.Res. 350, a resolution to amend the Constitution to give federal and state governments the right to prohibit desecration of the American flag.

The House voted to sustain the president’s veto of H.R. 1231, to establish a commission to investigate and report the dispute between Eastern Airlines and its collective bargaining units.

The House of Representatives took up 9 bills that included H.R. 3910, amended, to require the Secretary of Education to conduct a comprehensive national assessment of programs carried out wi…

The House passed H.R. 3952, to authorize certain United States assistance and trade benefits for Panama. The House passed H.Con.Res. 262, expressing the sense of Congress concerning Operatio…

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice held a hearing on Computer Viruses and what can be done about them. Several incidences of viruses were cited, laws were seen as needing r…

After hearing an address by the president of South Korea, Roh Tae Woo, the House reconvened and debated two bills. H.R. 3299, a concurrent resolution on the budget for FY90 was defeated, and…

Appropriations were passed for the governance of the District of Columbia when the House agreed to H.R. 3026. Of note was the absence of abortion funding restrictions. The legislation favors…

The majority of the day was spent on H.R. 2788, FY90 Dept. of Interior appropriations. Of special note concerned debate over the funding of art which might be considered obscene or sacrilegi…

H.R. 2136 was passed which limited the length of time an individual could be held for contempt in child custody cases.The House agreed to the Senate amendments to S. 694 amending the Energy …