Politics
Secrecy: Bush plans to give classified briefings to just eight members. Those out of the loop cite their right to know.
Oct. 10, 2001
World & Nation
Government: Action leaves unchanged appropriations panel’s move to provide a lesser $3.4-billion U.S. payment.
Sept. 18, 1998
The Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee is urging the Biden administration to declassify information about what he calls a serious national security threat.
Feb. 14, 2024
The House Appropriations Committee, reviving the heated congressional battle over nerve gas production, voted narrowly Thursday to delete all funds for chemical weapons from the fiscal 1986 military spending bill.
Oct. 25, 1985
The already problematic process of assembling a new federal budget slowed to a crawl Friday as the House overwhelmingly rejected two key funding bills because of concessions made to the more moderate Senate on abortion restrictions and Western mining.
Sept. 30, 1995
House Republicans, rushing to beat the White House in proposing extra defense spending, drafted emergency legislation Friday to provide $3.2 billion to help stave off projected cutbacks in military training and readiness.
Jan. 28, 1995
The U.S.
Aug. 14, 1986
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Nov. 10, 1994
The House on Friday approved a $295-billion defense spending package that makes wholesale cuts in President Bush’s budget for the Strategic Defense Initiative and B-2 Stealth bomber.
June 8, 1991
House Republicans decided to fill three vacant committee chairmanships Friday with the men next in line by seniority, including two lawmakers who were passed over for the posts under Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).
Nov. 21, 1998