Congress Returns With Busy Schedule and Looming Lame-Duck Session
Congress faces 19 working days to adjourn on Oct 1 with 12 of 13 annual appropriations unfinished along with two tax bills and a six-year highway bill. Bills on gay marriage and minimum wage loom amid push to overhaul intelligence and House Senate disagreements on reform efforts. Leaders push rival bills, while insiders forecast a continuing resolution to cover hard choices until the lame duck.
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Washington
Congress
Bush
Senate
Susan Collins
Maine
Joe Lieberman
Connecticut
House
Dennis Hastert
R-Ill
Nancy Pelosi
D-Calif
World Trade Center
Pentagon
White House
Bill Frenzel
Frenzel
Daschle
Sen
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Chickenpox shots save health care costs nationwide
A University of Michigan led study finds routine varicella vaccination saves the U.S. health care system nearly $100 million yearly by reducing hospitalizations for severe chickenpox. In 1993 about 14,000 hospitalizations cost $161 million. in 2001, 3,729 hospitalizations cost $66 million.
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Chicago
U.S
Matthew Davis
University of Michigan
Ben Z. Katz
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Katz
Houston district battles dropout problem and reform plan
Houston Independent School District and supporters push reforms to raise graduation rates after past miscounts. Officials split classes into learning communities and visit students who failed to re enroll while aiming for 85 percent graduation by 2007. Critics cite counselor influence and lingering accountability scrutiny remains.
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Houston
Texas
Houston Independent School
Steve Amstutz
Lee High School
Terry Abbott
Abbott
U.S. Education
Rod Paige
Mary Ramos
League of United
Ramos
Paige
Dirty bomb fears mount after Sept. 11 warnings
San Francisco Chronicle reports experts warn of an inevitable dirty bomb attack as more than 2 million radioactive sources exist in the United States. They caution that stolen or lost sources, including cobalt-60 from medical machines, could be acquired online and used with conventional explosives to spread a wide, deadly plume.
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U.S
Los Angeles
Edward J. Markey
D-Mass
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Markey
Zimmerman and Loeb
Study Finds Extra Hour Of Exercise Cuts Child Obesity
A large study shows adding one hour of weekly exercise for first graders, especially girls, may lower obesity and overweight rates by up to 43 percent if schools provide five hours of physical education weekly. Researchers note boys did not show the same benefit, possibly due to higher baseline activity. Experts urge sustained funding for school PE and integrated healthy eating measures.
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Rebecca Unger
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Chicago
Unger
Yale University
Kelly Brownell
Brownell
Vincent Ferrandino
National Association of Elementary School Principals
Ferrandino
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Pat Sullivan
Associated Press
Abter Saavedra
San Francisco Chronicle
Nancy Chockley
National Institute For Health Care Management Foundation
Rand Corp
U.S. Department of Education
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