The Week In Congress                          Volume 2 Number 5

Week Ending February 18, 2005

SENATE

 

 

 

The insurance companies want this stuff like you wouldn't believe, but if the House agrees and the President signs they won't get it S306

(Graphic-National Human Genome project)

                                              War crime group extended S384 ;

                                              What would we do without those engineers? SCR13

                                               Mucopolysaccharidosis SRES57

                                               Cement.  Makes you think. SRES61

                                               Moldova. The next hotspot? SRES60

                                               Pick up a foreign language or two SRES28

                                                                Senate committees get $184 million SR50  and

Hats off to Hume SR54 ; Kudos to Baker SRES58 ; Remembering Shirley Chisolm SRES52 ; Recognizing the Rotary SRES62 and Dashiell Hammets' Falcon is 75 SRES51

 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

It just got more expensive to be obscene on TV or radio. Easy to get fined but hard to lose the license. HR310

 

                                                   House sends Class Action Lawsuit bill to 

                                                     President Bush. Protecting the plaintiffs or the 

                                                     defendants? Time will tell.  HR516

                                                                     Who killed Rafik Hariri? HRES91 and SRES63

                                                     The Alcan Highway HCR67

                                                     The MIA effort HJR18

Remembering the Greensboro Four HCR25 ; Virginia Fire Chiefs HRES80 ; How about those Patriots? HRES86 ; Two Post Offices MISC.

 

The White House

 

 

President requires supplemental funding for 2005 spending in Iraq, Afghanistan, tsunami relief and other international efforts. Considered emergencies Exec 1

(Image: US Department of Defense)

The Senate is Adjourned until February 28, 2005 and the House is adjourned until March 1, 2005. Your next edition will be March 4, 2005.