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A compilation of votes in the US Senate and House of Representatives regarding issues that affect African Americans is presented. The compilation was made to determine the general attitude of Congress towards the Black civil rights issues.

Veterans' medical benefits have dwindled over the past years. The US Veterans Administration's budget may be drastically reduced by Congress, which will lead to the reduction of financing for hospital, medical and domiciliary care for disabled war veterans.

The second bill passed by the House on U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq that would require total redeployment by April 1, 2008 is presented.

WASHINGTON -- Foodservice industry officials are cautiously optimistic that a seemingly comprehensive bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives could help jump-start the stalled federal legislative initiative on immigration [...]

The rekindling of a two-year feud between House Energy and Commerce Committee Chmn John D. Dingell and House Banking Committee Chmn Henry B. Gonzalez over regulatory control rights has initiated legislation calling for federal regulation of the insurance industry. Insurance industry observers believed that Dingell's preoccupation with health care reform would postpone regulatory legislative proposals. Controversy over which committee would write anti-redlining disclosure proposals prompted Gonzalez and Rep Joe Kennedy to instigate proposals for federal regulation of disclosure and offshore insurance and reinsurance., WASHINGTON -- An ongoing jurisdictional dispute between two powerful committee chairmen in the House of Representatives may lead to the passage of federal insurance legislation in this Congress, the National [...]

It looks like the Orphan Works Act -- opposed by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), the National Cartoonists Society, and many other artist and writer organizations -- almost [...]

The House was expected to vote Friday on a bill that would let shareholders of public companies give nonbinding advisory votes on executive compensation plans. The Shareholder Vote on Executive [...]

WASHINGTON - The bickering over immigration reform is making the produce industry understandably nervous. Fresh produce growers and shippers rely heavily on immigrant workers to harvest crops, so leaders are [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration wasted little time Wednesday in declaring a House bill to revamp the regulation of government-sponsored enterprises dead on arrival. The White House said the bill [...]

Companies with defined-benefit pension plans are bracing for changes that, if passed into law, would force them to quickly shore up underfunded plans, close loopholes and increase premiums. The good [...]

'Gangbusters' Legislation: Legislation has passed the House to raise penalties for gang-related offenses. The bill, H.R. 1279, would allow juveniles to be tried as adults if they are 16 at [...]

Food stamps would be funded at $33.6 billion, child nutrition programs at $11.38 billion and the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program at $4.9 billion under a fiscal 2005 spending [...]

GOING BACK TO WORK. On June 3, the House approved legislation on a 213-203 vote to assist previously employed individuals who are having trouble finding new jobs. Specifically, Jon Porter's [...]

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES. The House has voted to send two pieces of legislation that are important to the disability community to a conference committee. One, H.R. 1261, is the measure to [...]

America's House of Representatives has voted, for the second time, to ban all forms of human cloning. But the bill faces a tough test in the Senate, where an alternative [...]

WASHINGTON (October 3, 2002) -- The U.S. Senate has become the graveyard for major pro-life legislation. The two-year 107th Congress is likely to end around mid-October, giving lawmakers a few [...]

Imagine going before the Colorado Springs City Council to voice concerns about a development proposed for your neighborhood. You don't like the proposal and you list your concerns before the [...]

* Don't think people weren't taking notes when they noticed that the state's two congressmen, Charlie Bass and John. E. Sununu, parted ways on a District of Columbia domestic partners [...]

WASHINGTON -- Catching the industry by surprise, a House amendment in support of voluntary labeling of 'slave-free' chocolate had Chocolate Manufacturers Association lobbyists working to derail the proposal at press [...]

Small business lobbyists will continue their battle to include association health plans and expanded medical savings accounts in the Patients' Bill of Rights when members of the House and Senate [...]

U.S. House seeks to update Education Act of 1965 When Congress passed the Higher Education Act of 1965, computers that filled entire rooms held less memory than today's pocket calculators. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives voted earlier this month to make it easier for individuals to import low-cost prescription drugs but rejected a plan to allow such imports by [...]

The proponents of House Bill 011134 claimed there was a crisis of under-vaccinated children in Colorado and that parents could not keep track of their children's immunization records. Therefore, legislation [...]

....Bills to implement an international 'school lunch program' for up to 20 million children in developing nations have surfaced in the House and Senate on May [...]

WASHINGTON (August 4, 2000) -- Members of Congress have dispersed around the country for their traditional summer recess, which runs through the entire month of August. They will return to [...]