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House Cloakroom: May 24 - 28
House Analysis:

The House potentially
has a full plate this week
as Leadership tries to clear
it's plate before leaving
for Memorial Day recess.

For a second week in a row
the House failed to pass the
Competes Act, which would
authorize $48 billion over three
years (originally $85.6 billion over
five years) for the National Institute
of Standards and Technology, the
National Science Foundation, and
research programs at the
Department of Energy.

Despite many Republican concerns
that the bill spends too much, creates
too many new programs, and shifts
money to climate change efforts,
House Leadership may make a third
attempt to pass the bill this week.

The tax extenders bill discussed in
the Cloakroom last week was pulled
from floor before consideration.

The bill is reported to be $190 billion
but only some of it is paid for, resulting
in increased deficit spending estimated
at around $100 billion.

Additionally, the temporary
extensions that are paid for are done
so with permanent tax increases.

Expect this to be a very close vote
as Democrats who anticipate close
races in the fall are hesitant to
support a bill that will add
billions more to the deficit.

The Defense Authorization bill was
passed out of the House Armed
Services Committee last week and
will be brought up on the floor
for a vote this week.

It authorizes budget authority
for the Department of Defense,
national security programs at the
Department of Energy, overseas
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and also disaster assistance to Haiti.

Two additional other items worth
mentioning include Rep. Barney
Frank's (D-MA) TARP III bill
which would create a $30 billion
lending program that would
duplicate efforts made by the
$700 billion original TARP bill.

Lastly the Democrat response to the
Supreme Court case Citizens United
was introduced and could be seen
on the floor next week as well.

Heritage expert
Hans von Spakovsky
wrote about the Citizens United
case here.

Total possible spending for the week
. nearly $1,000,000,000,000 (that
would be a trillion in case you don't
want to count the zeros).

And still no signs
Congress will pass a budget this year.

Senate Cloakroom: May 24 -28
Analysis:

With the financial regulation
and bailout bill behind them,
the Senate will shift its focus to
some housekeeping measures.

Of course, housekeeping items
in Congress are rarely routine
and this will be no exception.

Substantive issues remain
with the war supplemental
and massive extenders package
crafted by House Democrats.

The biggest fight
may be over jobs, though.

Senator Murkowski (R-AK)
could bring her resolution of
disapproval to the floor, forcing
Senators to choose between
jobs and costly EPA regulations
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/05/22/house-and-senate-cloakroom-may-24-28-2010/

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Corporate Criminal Regimes ;

'Yesterday', the House voted
down a provision introduced by
House Republican Whip Eric
Cantor (R-VA) to cut a 2009
welfare expansion program.

The introduction of this spending
cut was a part of a new program by
Cantor's office called "You Cut".

The programs offers a website
where Americans can go and vote
each week on one of 5 wasteful
programs that will then be put
up for a vote in the House.

'Yesterday's' winner
was voted down 240 to 177.

Florida Representative Alcee
Hastings took to the House floor
Thursday to denounce the entire
You Cut program and the nearly
300,000 "so-called Americans"
concerned about Washington's
out-of-control spending
who participated
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/05/22/osama-bin-laden-wants-to-cut-wasteful-spending/