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The Human Needs Report is the Coalition on Human Needs'
newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable
populations. It is published every other week while Congress is
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Appropriations: Stop-Gap Spending Bill Needed to Avert Government Shutdown
Programs that need annual appropriations will run out of money around the end of the federal fiscal year – September 30. So, Congress is expected to enact a temporary spending measure to provide continued funding at least until Congress returns from its election-time recess.
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Republican Leaders Bent on Gutting the Estate Tax Are Running Out of Options
After two failed attempts in recent months to gut the estate tax, Republican leaders are desperately searching for ways to package yet another plan that will garner the additional support needed to push the legislation through Congress before September 29.
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Danger Looms for Children’s Health Care in 2007
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a program created in 1997 to expand health care coverage to the millions of uninsured children living in the U.S., faces federal funding shortfalls for fiscal year 2007.
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Whatever Happened to Lobby Reform?
In the aftermath of ethics scandals surrounding relationships with lobbyist Jack Abramoff that resulted in indictments, resignations, guilty pleas and returned money, rather than passing legislation that addresses the core problem, the House has passed lobby reform ‘ultra lite.
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