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Week Ending October 7, 2005                                                                                Volume 2 Number 32


Congress is adjourned until Monday, October 17, 2005. The next edition of TheWeekInCongress.com will be

Friday, October 21, 2005.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

House Passes Fuel Energy Bill

 

More Refineries Planned

 

More Air Pollution Anticipated

 

Price Gouging Assessed But Not Defined

 

Home Heating Oil Reserved

 

President Picks Who Builds Refineries for the Military and if a Facility is Built on Public Land

 

HR 3893

Photo: NOAA    Katrina Damaged Oil Storage

 

        The illusive cancer HRES 276;        Million Man March remembered HCR161

               Are our campuses safe? HRES15;     Honoring African-Americans in Basketball HCR59
 
 

  Remember this Guy? Four years as Secretary of State and all I got is this lousy building S 1413

 
 

 

 

 

 

Homeland Security Bill Passes House

Border Control the Big Ticket

So...Seriously, four years after 9-11 and a year in passing the bill...we ask, "Are we safe YET?!?!"

HR 2360

Photo: DHS Radiation Detector Prototype
 

SENATE

 

 

Senate Passes the Big One

Department of Defense Gets $445 billion

Review Everything it Will Buy HR 2863

Photo: DOD by Staff Sgt Stephen Schester
 
    Tuskegee Airmen to receive Congressional medal S 392  Violence against women revisited S1197
    Condolences for Indonesia SRES 264;       Families struggle...the Nation strengthens S 266
    Senate to provide documents for criminal investigation S 267  
           Kosovo. Post-Milosevic meltdown or just another phase in a long period of change? SRES 237

 

KATRINA

 

Hurricane Katrina

The Spending Continues

Photo: NOAA
    
    More family and individual aid but no money for erectile dysfunction...really HR 3971
    Help with Housing HR 3894 and HR 3895      Recognizing the volunteer work of VA employees SRES 263

    House agrees to airport repair costs S 1786        Public Housing  HR 3896

    Transferring funds for direct loans to local governments S 1858     

TheWeekInCongress.com Summary

Hurricane Katrina and Disaster Relief

Twenty nine bills and resolutions and speculation of a total cost of $200 billion or more here is what Congress has done so far and where they might

try to get the money ... The story here

THE WHITE HOUSE

 

 

President Cuts Aid to Countries Over Human Trafficking EXEC1

 

President's Panel Still Mulling Over Tax Reform EXEC2

 

Photo: Susan Marten

 

 

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