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Week Ending November 4, 2005                                                                                Volume 2 Number 35

Senate Squeezes $39 Billion from 2006 Budget

Healthcare takes the hit

Business Payments to Pension Fund Increased

Alaska Oil Leases to provide $2.5 billion

S 1932

Photo: M. Connors

Democrats Pull a Rule, Republicans Sputter and the Senate Closes Its Doors for Two Hours.

Iraq War Investigation Rekindled

Here is what It was all about...

...RULE 21

House Minority Leader Pulls Rule to Highlight the Investigation Issue... PRIV RULE

A building for Rosa Parks HR 2967  Recognizing China's art SCR 56

Fish and Wildlife Service counts the nation's waterfowl SRES 255

House Moves to Protect Private Property from Government Taking

New London, Connecticut / Supreme Court Eminent Domain Decision Addressed

States and municipalities would lose federal funding if property is taken for economic development.

HR 4128

Photo: Dee Kull

VA Information Technology Spending in Hundreds of Millions with few Results

CIO given authority to fix the problem

HR 4061

Photo: Harry Piek

How about them Sox? (A week later) HCR 281

Forthcoming Election Commission Rule Could Restrict Politics on the Internet

House bill to head off new regulations; some oppose bill HR 1606

Where and How US Taxpayer Dollars are Spent Around the World

House approves $20.9 billion in spending for Foreign Operations / International Spending HR 3057

President Extends National Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction EXEC 1

Sudan, Africa Still a Threat EXEC 2

Gulf Coast Recovery Gets a New Council and Coordinator to Oversee the Rebuild EXEC 3

Photo: Official WhiteHouse