- Foreign Policy: Iraq, Intelligence
- Domestic Policy: Taxes, Spending
- Heartland Issues: Energy, Farming, Global Warming
- Expiring Health Care
- Stem Cell Research
In terms of foreign policy, Iraq and intelligence bills top the priority list. Domestically, taxes and spending will be the most noticed issues Congress addresses this month.
In terms of issues affecting the Heartland, Congress also intends to take up bills related to energy, farming, and global warming. The President is not pushing any of these bills and has threatened to veto at least one of them.
Yesterday's political compromises are today's political emergencies, and nowhere is this clearer than where politics and science intermingle: expiring health care funding.
Two days before Thanksgiving, news broke on the front pages of mainstream newspapers, that researchers in Wisconsin and Japan had turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women's eggs.
We have been handed an opportunity to turn the tide!
Read today's legislative update for more.
