The Week In Congress.com                                          Volume 1 Number 22

Week Ending December 10, 2004

 

This Weeks Stories,

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

13     Sec. 222 Notwithstanding any other provision of law

14  governing the disclosure of income tax returns or return

15  information, upon written request of the Chairman of the

16  House or Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Com-

17  missioner of the Internal Revenue Service shall (hereafter)

18  allow agents designated by such Chairman access to Inter-

19  nal Revenue Service facilities and any tax returns or re-

20  turn information contained therein.

   (Copy made from Omnibus Appropriations, Division H, Title II, Sec. 222)

 

 

 

 

This is what the flap is all about.

   Full story here HCR528

 

                                                                          If you want to take that vacation in outer space, read the fine 

                                                                           print on your ticket and don't expect flight insurance HR5382

                                                                          The 'Eagle will fly' HR4116 and Ben gets his HR3204

                                                                          New academies for teaching US history HR5360

                                                                           Hospitals shortchanged for treating healthy kids HR5204

                                                                           Congress crunches several bills;  National Park kids get a ride to school; Golden Gate Park (CA) and Wind Cave (SD) expanded, Ojito Wilderness created (NM), Buying leased park land (SD), The Rabon brothers and the Air Force swap properties (NM), Covering the debt to the Northern Mariana Islands, Assessing the US / Mexico aquifer, Preserving the monument and the land under Orange Street in St. Augustine (Fl), Wildlife heritage in N. California, $200 million to the Sioux, Valles Caldera employees, Cemeteries in Nevada, The desert tortoise in Utah, Arizona land exchange HR620

                                                                           Land was big on the agenda this week; Tobacco facility gets new owner in North Carolina HR2119 ; St. Augustine, FL monument HR2457 (see also HR 620)  ; Science center in the Florida Keys HR4027 Swapping lands in the Everglades HR3785 ; and expanding the wild life refuge in Hawaii HR2619.

                                                                           Despite their great success at the marketplace, specialty 

                                                                            crops get $9 million yearly for research and marketing R3242

                                                                            Copying that 'authentication code' would draw punishment 

                                                                              equal to outright copyright violations HR3632

                                                                              Micro-enterprise HR3818 ; Federal retirement plans HR4324

Financial aid for District of Columbia student HR4012 ; and a new pension fund for D.C. employees HR4657 ; pay increase for federal judges HR5363 ; changing the YMCA benefit plan HR5365 ; Grants for emergency telephone services HR5419 ; Expanding the Eisenhower Fellowship by $12 million HR2121 ; Remembering Peleliu at 60 HJR102 ; New post offices in your neighborhood? MISC

 

SENATE

 

 

 

 

 

Senate agrees to conference report creating Office of National Intelligence Director S2849

America's head spy, Alan Pinkerton, (standing left)

with President Lincoln and General McClellan

(National Archives)

                                                                           Two hundred million for Sudan (with a few strings) S2781

                                                                            Senate aims to block junk faxes S2603 and 'video

                                                                            voyeurism' on Federal land & maritime jurisdictions  S1301

                                                                            Sudden Oak Death gets $21 million HR4569  and S2575

                                                                             A few changes at the Commodity Credit Corporation 

                                                                             HR4620 and S2856

                                                                             Land for ALP in Pahrump S1521 and a dental plan for 

                                                                              federal employees could be financed by the taxpayers S2657

                                                                              A private relief bill S3034

                                                                             Congress condemns repression in Iran SCR78 ; weighs in on Tibetan prisoners SRES483 ; Condemns fraud in the Ukraine SRES 487 ; Looks at the peaceful uses of atomic energy SCR 151; Commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act SRES387 ; Kudos to Bob Howe SRES484 ; and Honors to J. Stanley Kimmitt SRES486.