The Week In Congress.com                                          Volume 1 Number 11

Week Ending July 16, 2004

This Week's Stories,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

 

Just when you thought all the tax breaks had been granted. A bit modified, but still the enormous tax break bill it was destined to become, the JOBS bill moves forward HR 4520

                             House moves against SUTA dumping HR3463        
                             Free Trade with Australia but no break on pharmaceuticals HR4759
                              What exactly is our responsibility to Taiwan? HCR462

                              Foreign Operations get funded. See where the money goes offshore HR4818 , Agriculture

                              gets funded. See where the money goes onshore HR 4766 , Congress funds itself HR4755

                              and spending for Customs, the very first US government department ever created. HR4418

                              The word is ‘Autochthonous’ HRES684

                              New Coins to be minted honoring Jamestown, VA HR1914 , the Marines HR3277 and  

                              John Marshall HR 2768

                               Will Israel become a permanent UN member? HRES615  ; Israel complains about the UN

                               HRES713. ; Grateful for Portugal HRES688 ; Urging the President to straighten things out with the 

                               WTO HRES705 ; How about those Titans? HRES704 ; Marinas get their day HRES646

                                          Helping others as you were helped HR4363  Remembering Dinah HCR144 ;   D.C. students 

                               get help with college HR4012  and the "Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith Post Office Building"

                               HR4380

 

SENATE

 

 

 

Messing with with Mother Nature or preserving it-depending on what side of the issue you are on-Senate Republicans lunge forward to define marriage before the courts do. But what happens if a gay man marries a gay woman? SJR41,

                                          The bill to protect us from bio-terrorism S-15

                                           Haiti could get a trade deal S2261

                                           Is Uganda becoming another Rwanda? S2264

                                                         Sorting out old surveys and who owns what land in Missouri S1167

                                           Improving savings and retirement for Federal employees S2479 and church             

                                            officials S2589 

                                                          Senate agrees to protecting court information on-line HR1303 , and Happy        

                                            Birthday to President Gerald Ford SRES 405