The Week In Congress.com                                          Volume 1 Number 6

Week Ending June 4, 2004

This Week's Stories...

SENATE

       Senate takes up Defense spending bill and aims it at increasing fines for obscenity. Story...
                                                                 School Lunches. Elizabeth Dole sees them
 as the answer to world peace, and she may be onto something. Story...
                                                                 Boys and Girls Clubs of America; One of those unsung yet successful programs. Stories...
                                                                 Transportation Bill heads for conference between House and Senate to iron out differences. Story...

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
    It sounds like a way to get back to work, but it really is a way to pay a few bills and keep the faith until you actually do get back to work. Then there are all those higher education add-ons. Story...
                                 So what happens if the Governor is incapacitated or dead,
                                         too? Story...
                                         Great Blacks in Wax...A Baltimore Legacy. Story...
                                         Simple Senior Taxes. Story...
                                         Fighting Steroid use in sports. Story...
MORE WW II REMEMBRANCES
*Remembering Rosie the Riveter. Story...
*The Tuskegee Airmen. Story...
*Senate remembers 60 years on. Story...

                                       

                           Voluntary Consensus Standards. Story...

                                         Revising the Peace Corp. Story...

                                         Zhao Ziyang and 20,000 others still missing 15 years after Tinanamen Sq. Story...

                                         Other House Actions. Stories...

 

THE WHITE HOUSE
         President Bush expands opportunities for religious organizations to gain taxpayer funds. Story...