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        The Week In Congress .com  (TM)                  

         Week Ending August 4, 2006                                                                                         Volume 3 Number 21

ESTATE TAX, WAGE INCREASE & OMNIBUS TAX BREAK BILL FAILS IN SENATE

Bill Cuts Revenues $302 Billion Through 2016

Increases Fed Outlays by $7.2 billion in Same Period

Raises Minimum Wage to $7.25/hr in 3 Years

HR 5907

SENATE APPROVES GULF COAST OIL AND GAS

EXPLORATION BILL

  "The total area to be explored equals 8.3 million acres, is expected to produce 1.26 billion barrel of oil and 5.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. the agreement is that those areas and distances from shore will be respected until 2022." Full story...here S 3711

MANAGING AMERICA

Health Institute directed to ramp up research on premature babies S 707

Recognizing the Airborne warriors SRES 405

Spelman College turns 125 SRES 541

Senate, too, recognizes Israeli Humanitarian society SCR 113

SENATE DELAYS PASSAGE OF DEFENSE BILL

Deal With Iraq: No US Troops in Iraq Courts

President Expected to Ask for Another $127 Billion

Off-Budget in 2007

  It was the amendment activity that discerned the Senate bill from the House particularly in the category of total expenditures. The first amendment to the bill would provide additional off-budget funds equaling $7.8 billion more for Army and $5.3 billion more for the Marines to replenish and repair equipment damaged in the current war adding $13 billion more to the above totals.

Full story here...HR 5631

OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

Kellogg's Corn Flakes still selling nutrition at age 100 SRES 545

California Island Park sustained SRES 468

Centers for Autism authorized S 843

Yet another youth labor program S 3534

Diplomacy advice for officials extended S 3836

Murderer would be exhumed from Arlington Cemetery S 2694

Oversight of child abuse on Indian land increased S 1899

District of Columbia court expanded S 2068