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Week Ending March 17, 2006                                                                                    Volume 3 Number 6

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HJR 47

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SENATE BUDGET

 $1.7 TRILLION 2006 / $2.7 TRILLION 2011

Following the President’s budget in February this is the Senate version of what Congress would spend and on what. Later, the House will pass its own version and a combination of the three will end up late in the year as the Budget Reconciliation for fiscal year 2007 with spending and policy plans out to 2011. Most telling of whether or not this bill will reduce deficit spending and the public debt is the difference between recommended revenue targets and appropriate budget authority amounts. More on SCR 83...

OFF BUDGET:

President's Supplemental

$68 Billion for Iraq / Afghanistan

$19.2 Billion for Katrina

$5 Billion Elsewhere

 The President and Congress have decided to continue to fund the global war on terror efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere through this off-budget, deficit-increasing bill rather than include the spending in on-budget appropriations. If nothing else, non-military items financed in the bill are indicative of the President’s philosophy that the war on terror has many faces, among them international poverty and healthcare. International famine relief, funds to rebuild in post-earthquake Pakistan and funds for the President to distribute directly to improve child survival and healthcare internationally are included in the bill. More on HR 4939...

Calibrating Artillery, Kabul, Afghanistan / Army Spc. C. Kinchen

Tariffs on import items reduced HR 4944

Military permitting can receive private funds HR 4826

Russian Federation urged to respect all religions HCR 190 {Map}

Rotunda reserved for Holocaust ceremony HCR 350

Moment of silence for US troops HRES 698

Military recruiters should have access to student information HCR 354

Bosnia SRES 400 Belarus SRES 401

Beware of asbestos poisoning SRES 402

President Continues National Emergency Regarding Iran

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