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House Passes Tougher Border Security Bill
Illegal presence in the US a felony, not a
misdemeanor
Homeland Security and Dept of Defense to
implement plan
Focus on seaports and nuclear threat
increased
Deportations expedited
Local law enforcement to enforce
immigration laws
HR 4437 |
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Radiation Detector-Photo: DHS |
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Pension benefits bill passes House.
Employers to pay higher premiums
HR 2830 |
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Coast Guard honored and rewarded for
hurricane rescue work
HR 4508 |
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Funds for REDI Center in Singapore
to fight bio-threats
HR 4436 |
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Patriot Act Covers More Than National Security
Methamphetamine concerns may make some cold
remedies 'by prescription only'
Cigarette smuggling targeted
House and Senate agree to extend the Act
'til Feb. 3,
HR 3199 |
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WATER, PARKS, HONORARIUMS,
LAND, EDUCATION AND NEW COINS |
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Coral reef protection bill fails in
the House S
1390 |
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California Water
HR 125 and
HR 853 |
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Colorado water
HR 3443 Georgia
mountains gain National Heritage status
HR 2099 |
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Crimes against parks to be unified
HR 975 Military
museum bids to be in National Park system
HR 452 |
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The incredible stamina of Alan Reich
SRES 321 |
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An all too brief resolution on the
passing of Gene McCarthy
SRES 330 |
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Commodore Barry gets his, 230 years
later HJR 38 |
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Grants to clean up and develop
brownfields
HR 280 |
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Native American leadership education
S 2093 and additional funding
S1231 |
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Call it a tax, it is-Native American
casinos get a rate hike
S 1295 |
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A month for Jewish American history
HCR 315 |
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They're still trying to work out
that one dollar coin thing. Americans don't use them
S
1047 |
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Buffalo Soldiers to get their park
S 205 |
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Ben Franklin Memorial additions
S 652 |
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A Resolution to affirm Christmas traditions (and only
Christmas traditions)
HRES 579 |
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The US View of the World |
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POKE IN THE EYE FOR SOME COUNTRIES... |
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PAT ON THE HEAD FOR OTHERS |
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Recognizing decades of Filipino
immigration
HCR 218
{Map} and good luck to
Iraq HRES 534
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Supporting Victory in Iraq
HRES 612
Robert Mugabe's time may be up in
Zimbabwe
HRES 409
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Chinese prisons condemned
HCR 294
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Croatia shoots for NATO membership
with US support
HRES 529
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One hundred and three years of
Korean immigration
HRES 487
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Is Nicaragua next? Rep. Dan Burton
seems to think so
HCR 252
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Congress tell Russia's congress what
to do...really
HCR 312
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Resolution: recognize Israel and
pull out of Palestinian election or lose US financial aid
HRES 575 |
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Syria: can't win for losing
HRES 598
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Remembering US victims in El
Salvador's civil war
HRES 458
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Shooting for a Jewish-American
History Month
HCR 315 |
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Uzbekistan should clarify charges
against Umarov (if he's even been arrested!)
HRES 545
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It took a tsunami but things are
looking up in Indonesia
HRES 456
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Saudi Arabia should fight terrorism
by changing its school books
HCR 275
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Transferring military goods to South
Korea S 1988
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Senate and House Agree to
'Stem Cell' Bill
Clearing the Way for the President's Signature
Bill creates cell bank from umbilical
blood cells rather than embryo cells
Data base would aid matching patient to
donor
Patient advocacy program established
HR
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A
coin for Teddy Roosevelt
S 863 |
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Fighting
Drought in the US
S 648
Replenishing the aquifer under Wichita
S 1025 |
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Preserving
Connecticut rivers
S 435 and
New Jersey rivers
S 1096 |
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Protecting
barrier islands from development by blocking Federal funds
S1869 |
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Leveling the dairy product playing
field a bit
S
2120 |
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Irrigation land in Nevada
S 310
University land in Washington
S 1552 |
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Gearing up to commemorate the War of
1812 S 959 |
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Condemning statements of Iranian
President about Israel
SRES 337 |
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New stamp program for bird hunters
S 1496
and Saving fish in Colorado
S1578 |
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Clearing up conflict of interest
when representing Native Americans
S1312 |
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Expanding a gas pipeline through a
Pennsylvania park
S1310 |
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Youth Corps to clean up US forests
S 1238 |
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Tweaking Native American property
law S 1481 |
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Continuing the cash flow until all
the spending bills are done
HJR 75 |
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