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Legislative updates 2001

Take a look at previous legislative updates

December:
A gift of nutrition this Christmas?
Legislative briefs and action alerts

November:
Critics call new farm bill hard on family farming

October:
Budget surplus evaporates under new spending demands
Confronting new realities in Washington—an interview with Network's Sister Kathy Thornton, RSM
Emergency spending approved in response to terror attacks, economic weakness
Fast track authority advanced as anti-terrorism measure
New farm bill debated
New military spending swiftly approved
Pressure for swift passage of new security measures

September:
Congress gets back to work on minimum wage, immigration, and more

August:
Bush administration considers insuring the unborn
Do food stamps need to be beefed up?
Keeler applauds anti-cloning measure
House ponders brownfields legislation

July:
Lawmakers, public unsure about stem cell rsearch
Minimum wage must go up, religious leaders say

June:
Bill funds food and education
End world hunger—with pocket change?
Tax bill includes some relief for working poor
Diamonds are a war's best friend

May
Bill would bolster land-use planning initiatives
What's in the budget for the nations' poor?

April:
Keeping up with Campaign Finance Reform
President says Salvadorans can stay, temporarily
Protecting the innocent already on death row
U.S. Catholics meet Congress

March:
Support for new immigrant amnesty grows
Bush orders bully organized labor

February:
The return of campaign finance reform
Catholic lobbies check if Bush is in their league
Will Bush's education plan make the grade?

January 2001:
Legislative resolutions to ring in the new year
Fiscal 2001 budget passes in Washington

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