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Week Ending November 18, 2005                                                                             Volume 2 Number 37

Senate Passes 'Tax Cut' Bill

$15 billion added to the Treasury over five years, $76 billion removed

Fines increased for failure to file tax returns

'Opportunity Zone' created on Gulf coast

S 2020

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Pension reform bill clears the Senate to increase company premium payments S 1783

All American's health information in one place. Who gets access? S 1418 

House Digs Deep for Spending Cuts

Bill cut to under $50 billion

ANWR back off the table

School lunch and food stamp cuts scaled back mildly

HR 4241

M. Connors

Resolution to withdraw troops from Iraq fails in the House HRES 571

Parks, Trails and Conservation Areas

Maryland trails S 958,  Catoctin Mountain S777;  Delaware shoreline to be studied S 1627;

Arizona-Yuma  HR 326  Pennsylvania S 652  Watergap vehicle fees HR 3721  Virgin Islands HR 318

Idaho S 761   Tennessee HR1972    Colorado S 584     New Mexico S 1170   Maine  S 1154

 Ice Age Trail from Montana to the Pacific proposed  S 206

LAND DEALS

Arizona S 161;  California HR 3981;  Colorado HR 1129; New Mexico S 213;

Native American Land HR 3351;  HR 3507

Putting youth to work on public land S 1238

MANAGING WATER RESOURCES

Alaska S 1338    Oregon S 251; S 166;  Wyoming S 592;  Rural water supplies S 895

Idaho S 891;  Washington HR 1564

COMMEMORATIVES

Bob Hope to get a library HR 323;  Memorializing Japanese-American interment camps HR 1492

Creating NASA memorials to Columbia disaster victims S 242;

Lewis and Clark remembered SRES 315; The Peak that Pike Never made it to SRES 252

A statue for Rosa Parks SCR 62

MISCELLANEOUS BILLS

Making maps S 485;  A break for new importers S 695; Russia and copyright protections HCR 230

Remembering the Bermuda Triangle HRES 500

A big plan to help US youth HR 856;  Tax break via Katrina HR 4337; Nuking the Navy HR 4326

More borrowing power for FEMA HR 4133; Protecting kids at school HR 1790

Education for the handicapped HCR 288; Keeping the Internet in the U.S. HCR 268

Ukraine HR 562

President does not Support Saudi Ascension to World Trade Organization Membership EXEC1