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The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services heard testimony on stem cell research. Witnesses testified on the potential benefits into disease treatment that human emb…

Senators heard testimony about foreign operations appropriations. Secretary Albright pointed to such high-profile operations as the Middle East Peace Process, and the situation in Kosovo as …

Committee members heard testimony from Secretary Cohen regarding the budget for the Defense Department in fiscal year 1999. He talked about the needs of the department and the United States …

Senate Appropriations subcommittee members heard testimony from administration officials past and present regarding the budget for the Executive Office of the President for Fiscal Year 1999.…

House and Senate conferees met to discuss the differences between House and Senate versions of supplemental appropriations legislation to fund military efforts in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf…

The Senate Appropriations subcommittee heard testimony on breast cancer research and the drug tamoxifen. Studies showed that a daily dose of tamoxifen reduced the incidence of breast cancer …

Subcommittee members heard testimony on the need for more federal funding of Alzheimer’s disease research and drug treatment. Medical researchers and several persons who were personally affe…

Senate Appropriation Subcommittee members heard testimony from Director Louis Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Ernest Allen, President & CEO, National Center for M…

The Senate Appropriations Committee heard testimony about President Clinton’s request for supplemental military appropriations for U.S. operations in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf. Defense Dep…

Attorney General Reno testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcomittee about the Justice Departments fiscal year 1999 budget proposal. Budget items discussed included the fight against…

The Senate Appropriations Committee heard testimony from William S. Cohen, Defense Secretary Madeleine K. Albright,Secretary of State on the cost of NATO expansion. In May 1997 NAT…

Conference committee members met to discuss differences in the House and Senate versions of the appropriations bill for the departments of labor, health and human services and education. One…

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee members heard testimony from Education Secretary Richard Riley and Representative William Goodling, R-Pennsylvania and the chair of the House Education and…

Subcommittee members heard testimony from Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on the Department of Interior fiscal year 1998 budget proposal. Congress appropriated $6.2 billion in FY 1997 and t…

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Supreme Court Justice David Souter presented the Supreme Court budget proposal to Senate Appropriations Committee members.

The Senate Transportation subcommittee heard testimony from northeastern governors, CSX officials and others concerning the equal division of Conrail between CSX and Norfolk Southern. Witnes…

The Senate Health & Human Services Subcommittee members heard testimony concerning whether the federal government should reissue a guideline outlining when women should begin getting themsel…

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, members heard testimony concerning the role of Ebonics, or African-American Vernacular English, in e…