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Byline: Jacqui Fatka Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., says she and her House counterpart House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott, D-Ga., and other Democrat colleagues are working daily [...]

Our third look at the 113th Congress shows how every member of the House and Senate voted on key issues, such as the debt limit, farm and food programs, indefinite [...]

21 Budget Agreement. On December 18, 2013, the Senate accepted the House concurrence in the Senate version of H. J. Res. 59, the budget agreement. See House vote #21 for [...]

The First Session of the Forty-First Parliament resumed from summer adjournment on September 19, 2011, and, by unanimous consent, adjourned for the winter break on December 15, 2011. The House [...]

At the resumption of proceedings, on February 14, the composition of the National Assembly had undergone several changes in comparison with the situation at the time of adjournment in December. [...]

The General Assembly on 12 December recommended the appointment of a Special Representative to raise awareness about the impact, of armed conflict on children. It also decided to convene a [...]

Three separate but interlocked peace-keeping operations--for Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia--with mandates extending until 30 November 1995 were set up by the Security Council [...]

Reports of 'continuing intimidation and security problems' in camps for Rwandese refugees, particularly in Zaire, were the subject of grave concern by the Security Council on 10 February, when it [...]

Conscious of 'serious risks to humanity' posed by the continuing existence and development of nuclear weapons, the General Assembly on 15 December asked the International Court of Justice for an [...]

The 2011 fall-winter period was an active one for the Senate, both in the Chamber and in committees. The Senate considered a substantial array of bills during this quarter, amongst [...]

Following the general election of October 11, 2011 the Yukon Party, New Democratic Party (NDP) and Liberal Party caucuses made arrangements with the Clerk's office to have their members sworn [...]

On Wednesday, November 23, Lieutenant-Governor Graydon Nicholas delivered the second Throne Speech of the David Alward Progressive Conservative government, formally opening the Second Session of the 57th Legislature. The speech [...]

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I want to speak for a few moments about the crisis in Haiti, the challenge it poses to our national interests, and the new steps [...]

Citing its concern over the 'crippling famine and drought in Somalia' compounded by civil strife, the Security Council decided on 26 March to transfer the task of securing humanitarian aid [...]

The Security Council, Reaffirming its resolution 713 (1991) of 25 September 1991 and all its subsequent relevant resolutions, Taking note that the International Court of Justice in its Order of [...]

Aiming to foster 'a shared worldwide commitment to put the needs of people at the centre of development and of international cooperation', the General Assembly on 16 December decided to [...]

The Security Council, while acknowledging there had been some positive steps, declared on 24 November that iraq had not complied fully and unconditionally with its obligations under Council resolutions relating [...]

Gravely alarmed by the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in famine-stricken Somalia and dismayed by the continued looting of relief supplies and attacks on UN peace-keepers there, the Security Council [...]

President Bush, Ambassador Perkins, UN Security Council Resolutions Related to Crisis Text of a letter to the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Washington, [...]

Up to 400,000 people could die from the cold and hunger without emergency assitance in the new State of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the winter of 1992, a UN official [...]

Resolution 713 (September 25, 1991 ) The Security Council, Conscious of the fact that Yugoslavia has welcomed the convening of a Security Council meeting through a letter conveyed by the [...]

Resolution 705 (August 15, 1991) The Security Council, Having considered the note of 30 May 1991 of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 13 of his report of 2 May 1991 [...]

Mr. Chairman, members of the Subcommittee. I am pleased to appear before the committee today. In these opening remarks I will discuss some of the major developments which have occurred [...]