national security
facts & issues
just the facts
- armed forces overview
- foreign aid
- homeland security
- intelligence
- Iraq
- national missile defense
- nuclear plant security
- terrorism
- terrorist groups
- war spending
- where our troops are
- WMD
issues in brief
- Dubai ports deal
- enemy combatants & terrorist trials
- Iraq: Split or Surge?
- NSA wiretap program
- state grants & first responders
bills in brief
On Capitol Hill
The Week of June 30
Congress takes the week off for July 4th. Lawmaking gets started up again next week.
Down the Pike in '08
The Senate may follow up with the House's vote to triple funding for health programs in Africa (WP). It's not clear, though, if/when Congress will take up the president's call to offer $770 mill in emergency food aid to respond to the global food crisis.
Other national security bills that may return in '08 include: an effort to roll back detention policies passed by the last Congress - as well as use of data mining programs, giving enemy combatants' access to federal courts (S 185) and relocating Guantanamo prison to the US, as well as limiting the "interrogation techniques" that the CIA can use (WP).
