| July 28, 2005 | - The U.S. House of Representatives voted down CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, even though it was already approved by the Senate. House leaders then held the vote open for forty-seven minutes until they had changed enough Republican votes to approve the agreement.
| Source:
Democracy Now
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| July 27, 2005 | - A study found that 43 percent of the House and Senate members who have left public office since 1998 are registered lobbyists.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 22, 2005 | - The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to start broadcasting radio and television programs into Venezuela that will counter the “anti-Americanism” of Telesur, a new Latin American TV station. Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez called the plan “a preposterous imperialist idea.”
| Source:
Common Dreams
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| July 21, 2005 | - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to keep most of the USA Patriot Act, extending provisions that allow the search of library and medical records by ten years. “Periodically revisiting the Patriot Act,” said Representative Martin Meehan (D.-Mass.), “is a good thing.”
| Source:
AP
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| March 3, 2005 | - The House passed a bill that provides for special elections if more than one hundred representatives are killed.
| Source:
CBS News
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| April 22, 2004 | - The House of Representatives approved a bill providing for quick elections if 100 or more members are killed at one time.
| Source:
CBS News
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| February 16, 2004 | - A grand-jury investigation was under way in Texas into a political action committee controlled by House speaker Tom DeLay.
| Source:
New York Times
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