The Week In Congress.com                                          Volume 1 Number 9

Week Ending June 25, 2004

This Week's Stories

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

         

 

 

 

 

  Maybe it does grow on trees. House rejects bill to curb spending.                     

                                               Energy and Water spending                                                                             

                               Good luck to Iraq. , Kudos to Africa. , Thumbs up to Israel.

                                               Serious concerns about Hong Kong. , The plot thickens against Burma.                                                and Congress wants to level the democratic playing field at the UN.

                                                  
                                                  
                                               Native American Indians: One fat settlement for the Shoshones. , and
                                                  fighting fires out West.

                                               The American Dream; Home Ownership. For Native Americans.

                                                  Vets. , how Congress sees it all. , and the banks helped.

                                                   

                                                Should off duty cops carry concealed weapons across State lines? The 

                                                  House  thinks so.

                                                   
                                                 Bureaucracies , The Blues , Civil Rights , Parks and
                                                    Property , The Pistons, Kenyon College , Helping the Needy ,
                                                    Protecting Airplane Investors , and Don't Run Into Blind People .

 

SENATE

 

                  

 

 

      

 

    You've seen those eerie commercials now the Senate wants to fix ID

       theft.,

                                             Illegal music downloads. , Pirated movies. , a patent law change to 

                                               make research more lucrative.

                                                      

                                             Helping African-Americans research their roots.

                                             Authorization bills , School Lunches , Bob Oppenheimer , and the

                                                 House Defense bill .

THE WHITE HOUSE

               Still Dangerous In the Western Balkans