The Week In Congress.com                                          Volume 1 Number 8

Week Ending June 18, 2004

This Week's Stories

HOUSE

                   Gas prices up? Congress is on it, or so it would seem. As regular averages two bucks per gallon, what's the solution? More Refineries? ∞ Drill in Alaska? ∞ Simplify the process for producers? ∞. PLUS Alternative fuels and the environment. ∞, and the illusive and gigantic Energy Policy bill. ∞
                                                            The House passes its' version of the J.O.B.S. bill raising the question, "Is anything sacred or does any opportunity for a tax break constitute a job creation policy? ∞
                                                             It's spans the Nation and only costs $23 billion. ∞
                                                             Some thoughts on; Flag Day ∞ , Prostates ∞, Strokes ∞, business with Africa ∞, Flag Day ∞, Father's Day ∞, The Red Ball Express ∞, and the long productive life of Kathy Dunham ∞.
                                                              Turtles ∞, North Carolina Ponies ∞, some map changes ∞, GHWB is 80 ∞.
                                                              Rapid spending for the Department of Defense ∞ and waiting longer for the long-awaited identification system at US airports ∞.
                                                              Helping Kids Worldwide ∞, gismos for the disabled ∞, Department of Homeland Security gets a home of it's own ∞. Congrats to Brigham Young and Tampa Bay ∞

 

SENATE
                                Senate passes Defense spending Bill ∞

                                                                   Finally! They're straightening out that National Flood

                                                                    Insurance loophole. What's it been? Thirty years? ∞

                                                                   

                                                                   Ray Charles ∞

 

The White House
                                        Morocco is an ally, so is Haiti now that it signed the ICC non-participation agreement. Russian nuke material still needs to be cleaned up. ∞