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Week Ending September 22, 2006 Volume 3 Number 24

IMMIGRATION BILLS

SURFACE AGAIN

House Bills Focus on Specific Issues

DHS Charged with Detention & Deportation of Criminal Aliens, Gangs

State & Local Law Enforcement to Assist Immigration Enforcement; U.S. Response to Immigration Lawsuits Defined

Under Border Tunneling Criminalized

Woman smuggled across Southern border in auto dashboard-DHS

	The U.S. and the World

HOUSE RESOLUTIONS STIR DEBATE ON ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Opposing Repression of Islamic Baha'i Sect *HCR 415* Recognizing 100th year of Iran Constitution *HRES 942* Allegations of Human Rights Abuses *HRES 976*
*Photo: Islamic Republic of Iran-USCIA*

House subcommittee report on Iran and nuclear weapons *Report*

*US and the World*

Resolution calls for day of World peace *HCR 317*
Better communications would stop demise of society *SRES 577*

A poke in the eye and a pat on the head for Vietnam *HRES 415*

Cautious praise for Uganda *SRES 573*

Free trade agreement with Oman approved *HR 5684*

	MANAGING AMERICA

Praise for adoption law...more to be done *HRES 959*

Teachers and public school officials could be cleared to search students *HR 5295*

Guaranteeing the quality of your wool clothing *HR 4583*

Keeping track of pig slaughtering *HR 3408*
Protecting service members from predatory insurance sales *S 418*
Household and service pets to be considered in disaster plans *HR3858*



ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
NOAA, it would seem, was never truly a government agency. Now it is *HR 5450*

Thirteen Appalachian states will get development and infrastructure aid *S 2832*
Funds to landowners to improve fish and wildlife habitats *S260*
New Hampshire, Vermont wilderness preserved *S 2463*
Pennsylvania to receive federal fish hatchery, Refuge expansion in other States *HR 4957*

Low water tables in Kansas addressed S 1025
Recycled water system for Oxnard, California *HR 2334*
Los Angeles subway gas pocket explosion threat resolved *HR 4653*

HEALTH MATTERS
Eliminating Cancer by 2015 *HCR 210*
Polio symptoms return in previously afflicted *HRES 526*

	Honorariums and Recognition

Mary Mahoney: First African-American nurse *HCR 386*
Purple Heart museum in New York would honor 800,000 *HCR 419*
Military mishap killed 69 in 1969 *SRES 569*

Native Americans to receive medal for WW I, WW II Code Talking *S 1035*
'Kiki' Camarena remembered with Red Ribbon Week *SRES 576*