The Week In Congress                          Volume 2 Number 8

Week Ending March 18, 2005

An interview with  writer Joshua Samuel Brown in Hong Kong on tensions between mainland China and Taiwan.   go here

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET RESOLUTIONS

 

      Either way you look at it its budget time on the Hill.

     What would you do with $2.6 trillion?

           Here's the general breakdown. CongressBudgets

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

 

House shaves about $300 million from  President's $81.5 billion supplemental but increases his emergency defense spending by nearly $2 billion.  HR 1268

Photo: DoD

                 House builds a law regarding the Terry Schiavo matter HR1332 Update 3/21/05

                 Land Deals, Island Debt, Water Problems, Volunteers and Ponies:

                       Utah Indian Land HR680;  Gulla Geechee in South Carolina HR694 ;

                       Ohio - a Western Heritage State HR412; Virgin Islands

                       need a CFO HR63; Interior volunteering HR 584; Those charming

                       ponies in North Carolina HR 126; Careful with the drinking water

                       in California HR186 and the Rabon brothers in New Mexico HR486.
                  Pointing a Finger at the World:
                       Syria should get out of Lebanon HCR32; Syria should clean up
                       its' humanitarian act HCR18; Europe shouldn't sell arms to China
                        HCR98  and Europe should condemn Hezbollah HRES101
TheWeekInCongress spoke with American  freelance writer, Hong Kong resident and China
 Watcher Joshua Samuel Brown on China/Taiwan "cross-straits" tensions and the U.S. Here
                  Disaster payments and taxes HR1134;
                  Leaking fuel tank fund is extended HR1270;
                  War crime investigation funding goes to the President S384
                   New House committee to advise parliaments around the world on
                          how to do business HRES135; and
                   Temporary help for needy families is funded again HR1160

 

 

SENATE

OTHER SENATE BUSINESS THIS WEEK:

                    Senate, too, weighs in on Terry Schiavo S653  Updated 3/21/05
                                         New Schiavo bill S686  Update March 22, 2005 - Final

                    Things you won't believe about asbestos SRES43

                    Are we financial idiots or what?  SRES98

                    Holocaust Commemoration Week SRES90

                    Senator Kennedy complains about the IRA SRES84

                    Here's to those Future Farmers of America SRES89

                                        That damn Taiwan Relations Act SRES91.
TheWeekInCongress spoke with American  freelance writer, Hong Kong resident and China
 Watcher Joshua Samuel Brown on China/Taiwan "cross-straits" tensions and the U.S. Here

 

THE WHITE HOUSE

 

 

 

Adding to who gets the Vice Presidential Badge EX1

                                       Extending the emergency in Iran EX2

                                       W.M.D. Committee meets again EX3

                           

                           

                          
                             
 

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