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The House Rules committee heard testimony on the rule to accompany H.R. 542, the legislative appropriations bill. The bill concerned the funding for the operations of Congress, congressional…

The committee heard testimony from members of the House and Senate during the second day of hearings on H.Con.Res. 192, legislation to create a committee to investigate reforms of the House …

The House Rules committee held a hearing on Congressional Reform where they heard testimony on H.Con.Res. 192, legislation that would create a joint committee on the organization of Congress…

The House Rules Committee met to determine the rule for floor debate on H.R. 776, the National Energy Policy bill. The bill, expected to be debated on the House floor later in the week, pass…

The House Rules Committee met to establish the rules for debate for several measures that will come to the floor of the House of Representatives this week. In this excerpt from the hearing, …

Members of the House Rules Committee heard testimony on a proposal to implement a British House of Commons style question period in the U.S. Congress. This would be a time in which members o…

As the U.S. House of Representatives began work on its Fiscal Year 1993 Budget Resolution, a congressional blueprint for taxes and spending, the House Budget Committee approved two plans for…

The House Rules Committee continued debating the FY'93 Budget Resolution. Rep. Leon Panetta, sponsor of H.Con.Res. 287, talked about the bill, which would use defense savings for domestic pr…

The House Rules Committee considered the rule to allow for consideration by the full House of two economic growth and tax proposals. The proposals were recently passed by the House Ways and …

The House Rules Committee continued looking into the “October Surprise,” an allegation that members of the 1980 Reagan campaign staff held secret negotiations with the government of Iran. Ga…

The House Rules Committee met to begin the first of two hearings concerning the investigation into the October Surprise. That refers to the allegations that the 1980 Ronald Reagan Campaign m…

Members of the U.S. House Rules committee heard testimony in consideration of the rule for H.R. 3040, which was the Unemployment Insurance Reform Act. This legislation would lengthen unemplo…

The committee heard testimony on H.R. 2950, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act of 1991. Highlights of the $153.5 billion appropriations bill include funding for highway…

The Rules committee heard testimony on bills and amendments relating to the extension of most favored nation trade status for China. The extension would allow the resumption of normalized tr…

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 Rules committee heard testimony on H.Res. 1, the Civil Rights Act of 1991. H.Res. 1 was introduced by Democrats to counteract several 1989 Supreme Court decisions that increased the burd…

Members of the House Rules Committee heard testimony on rules concerning the debate of gun control measures in the House of Representatives.

The committee took up and voted on a rule to determine the procedure to be taken for the Persian Gulf debate in Congress. The rule called for the House to take twelve hours of general debate…