Congress votes on spending and energy items this week
House approved HR 2216 at 341 to 87 funding $6.5 billion in fiscal 2001, with $5.5B for the military and cuts to FEMA and V 22 Osprey procurement. Other votes included energy policy limits, arts funding boosts, and a Gulf coast drilling ban. Senate began debate on a patients rights bill (S 105) amid divided proposals and health care tax provisions.
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Senate
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
Marine Corps
California
Tom DeLay
R-Tex
West
Robert Fisner
D-Calif
San Diego
Jim Jim Leonard
Tom Greg Leach
Nussle Boswell Latham Ganske
Interior Department
Clinton
George Miller
West Coast
Joe Skeen
R-N.m
Nussle
Boswell Latham Ganske
Gulf Coast
Inte Department
Mexico
Pensacola
Tampa
Karen Thurman
D-Fla
Florida
Jeb
Jim Jimbe
Nussle Bos
Eastern Gulf
American Trial Lawyers Association
The
American Union
Breaux Steffords
Charles Grassley
Richard Durbin
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National Endowment For the Arts
National Endowment For the Humanities
Institute For Museum and Library Services
Rosa DeLauro
D-Conn
Ralph Regula
Ohio
Tom Harkin
Tom Harks
Tom Greg Latham Ganske
Tracy L. Niemeyer
M.D
Gina M. Perri
Mark J. Goedken
Family Physicians of
Cedar Rapids
Fifth Avenue SE
John Deere
Ietor
LAWM
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Othe
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Warhol
Albright
Navratilova
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America
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