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Tell Them What You Think: House / Senate––Newest Public Laws––Features–– Archives

The Week In Congress .com

Week Ending September 16, 2005 Volume 2 Number 29

SENATE

Senate Fails to Override EPA Pollution Changes

Whose mercury is it anyway?

Photo: John Pilge

College campus crime is out of control SRES 221; Highway Trust Fund Funds for Boating Safety HR 3649

Commerce, Justice and Science spending HR 2862; Coast Guard Budget Set HR 889;

HURRICANE KATRINA

Will It Ever Look Like This Again?

Congress Continues to Patch Together Laws and Dollars for the Gulf Coast

Photo: Anna Kirsten Dickie

That Pesky Investigative Committee Matter HRES 437

A tax break for victims, businesses hiring victims and warding off the tax man HR 3768

Protecting Volunteers HR 3736; A National Day of Prayer HCR 240;

Minimum Wage Limits Dropped EXEC2; Senate agrees to more borrowing for FEMA HR3669

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The most significant bus ride in American history HCR 208; Getting tough with sex offenders HR 3132

Other House Action: Land, Water and Pigs

A National Forest in Puerto Rico HR539: Public land transferred in Reno, Nevada S 252:

South Dakota park expanded S276; Hawaii water projects funded S 264;

Managing grain exports to be privatized HR3421; Reporting Slaughtered pigs HR3408

WHITE HOUSE

President Bush Takes Aim at Terrorism, Trade with Cuba and Wage Rates for the Hurricane Rebuild. Asks America to Pray.

Terrorism Alert Extended EXEC1

Davis-Bacon Wage Rates suspended for hurricane rebuild EXEC2

Trading with the 'Enemy' still prohibited EXEC3

Pray for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina EXEC4