House Session
House debated the following bills - HR 5678: A bill to make appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, and the judiciary. HR 5192: A bill to amend title thirty-eight, Un…
View in Congressional Chronicle512 viewsHouse debated the following bills - HR 5678: A bill to make appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, and the judiciary. HR 5192: A bill to amend title thirty-eight, Un…
View in Congressional Chronicle512 viewsThe House of Representatives convened to consider multiple bills before the House. Representatives gave speeches on the floor to express their support or disapproval of the bills.
View in Congressional Chronicle432 viewsThe House of Representatives took up the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill and the Fiscal Year 1992 Intelligence Authorizations Bill.
View in Congressional Chronicle630 viewsThe committee heard testimony from Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander on the decision by the Department of Education to fund the videotaping of a speech by President Bush. The presidenti…
61 viewsThe House of Representatives took up conference reports on H.R. 2698, H.R. 2426, and H.R. 1415, to make appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, the Food and Drug Administration, t…
View in Congressional Chronicle219 viewsThe House passed H.R. 1281, making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for the consequences of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, food stamps, unemployment compensation administrat…
View in Congressional Chronicle330 viewsRepresentatives Guarini (D-NJ) and Chapman (D-TX) were sworn into office by the Speaker of the House. The Speaker appointed Representatives Gephardt (D-MO) and Michel (R-IL) as members of th…
View in Congressional Chronicle315 viewsThe 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…
View in Congressional Chronicle269 viewsThe House agreed to H.Res. 309, providing for the consideration of H.R. 2190, to establish national voter registration procedures for elections for federal office. The House recessed to rece…
View in Congressional Chronicle153 viewsThe House passed H.R. 3566, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY90. Also the House agreed to conference reports on H…
View in Congressional Chronicle298 viewsThe House disagreed to the Senate amendments of H.R. 3072, the FY90 Department of Defense appropriations, and to H.R. 2991, FY90 departments of Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary appropr…
View in Congressional Chronicle275 viewsWhile under suspension of the rules the House debated five pieces of legislation. The yeas and nays were demanded on two of these measures. These were H.Res. 257 which denounced restrictive …
View in Congressional Chronicle126 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 viewsH.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 …
View in Congressional Chronicle381 viewsThe House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on technology issues and the Fighter-Strike Experimental fighter (FXX). They witnesses discussed the agreement between the Ja…
249 viewsThe House debated H.R. 7, Vocational Training Funding.
View in Congressional Chronicle93 viewsThe House voted to pass H.R. 972 to increase the authority of the Attorney General to settle claims for damages resulting from law enforcement activities of the Department of Justice. The Ho…
View in Congressional Chronicle262 viewsThe House debated H. Con. Res. 106, the congressional budget for the United States Government for FY90.
View in Congressional Chronicle150 viewsThe House passed H.R. 5462, to provide assistance for housing and community development in the United States-Mexico border region of the United States. The House failed to agree to H. Res. 5…
View in Congressional Chronicle286 viewsC-SPAN had a live viewer call in program from New Orleans, Louisiana to preview the upcoming 1988 Republican National Convention. Charles Ferguson, the editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayu…
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