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H.R. 5368: A bill to make appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs. H.R. 5504: A bill to make appropriations for the Department of Defense. H.C.Res. 37…

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…

The Democratic National Committee held a platform draft hearing, a meeting in which committee members composed their party’s political platform for 1992. This year, Democrats are faced with …

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus gathered outside the U.S. Capitol to hold the second of two news conferences on the day following the announcement of the verdict in the trial of fo…

The United States House of Representatives voted on a bill that would authorize some $17 billion to fund the Resolution Trust Corporation, which was charged with disposing of assets and prop…

Representatives of the Congressional Black Caucus discussed why they chose to work to defeat the Clarence Thomas nomination to the US Supreme Court. Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY) expl…

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus briefed reporters on the White House driveway after their meeting with President Bush, in which they discussed continuing sanctions against South Af…

The Committee on Appropriations received permission to have until midnight to file a report on H.R. 2521, making appropriations for the Department of Defense. The House concluded all general…

The committee heard testimony for the second day on H.R. 1, the Civil Rights Act of 1991. H.R. 1, introduced to the House and supported by the Democrats, would overturn several Supreme Court…

The convention sponsored by the 21st Century Commission on African-American Males sought to propose changes in American social policies to aid economically disadvantaged black males, who all…

In this Viewer Call In show, Representative Edophus Towns D-NY spoke on his perspectives on pending gun control legislation. Towns was the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. He answ…

The House agreed to the Senate amendment to H.R. 555. to amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to improve and clarify the protections provided by that Act, to clarify vet…

The House passed H.R. 180, to amend title 38, United States Code, with respect to veterans education and employment programs.

The House completed all general debate on the situation in the Middle East. The House agreed to three extensions of the time for general debate by two hours, four hours, and four hours, resp…

The House voted to suspend the rules and pass fifteen measures: H.R. 4611, to amend the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984; H.R. 4314, regarding international commercial arbitration; …

Witnesses testified about nuclear proliferation and weapons accountability. A significant portion of the hearing is missing.

Members delivers one-minute speeches on the topic of desecration of the U.S. flag.

The 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…

The subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 1231, to direct the President to establish an emergency board to investigate and report on the dispute between Eastern Airlines and its collective bar…