REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE

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Update from the House Republican Study Committee (RSC):
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Chairman

Happy New Year! The House was out of session last week and will return to session on January 31, 2006.

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."
--Benjamin Franklin

Contents--January 3, 2006

Conservative Activity
The Money Monitor
Legislative Activity

Conservative Activity

--Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) is urging the Senate to quickly pass the Stealth Tax Relief Act (H.R. 4096), which passed the House in December. Click here for some details on what the bill would do:

http://www.house.gov/pence/rsc/doc/CA_010306_reynoldsamt.doc.

To view other activities of House conservatives, visit this webpage: http://www.house.gov/pence/rsc/rsc_memberactivity.shtml.

The Money Monitor

Each week in "The Money Monitor," the RSC tracks how the bills passed by the House would affect authorizations, mandatory spending, appropriations, and federal government revenue. Because the House was out of session last week, no new spending was authorized. For more information, view "The Money Monitor" for the week of December 26-30, 2005, which includes some previously unavailable cost estimates and year-to-date totals, here:

http://www.house.gov/pence/rsc/doc/MM_122605.doc.

To access earlier editions of "The Money Monitor," click here: http://www.house.gov/pence/rsc/moneymonitor.shtml.

Legislative Activity

The House came into session briefly on Thursday, December 22, 2005, and passed the following legislative items by unanimous consent. Most Members were not in attendance.

H.R. 4647 -- To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of such Act (one-month extension) http://thomas.loc.gov/

S. 2167 -- To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (one-month extension) http://thomas.loc.gov/

S.Con.Res. 74 -- A concurrent resolution correcting the enrollment of H.R. 2863 (removing provisions from the Defense Appropriations bill that would have allowed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and distributed the revenues yielded from such drilling)

http://www.house.gov/pence/rsc/doc/LB_122205_noANWR.doc



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House Republican Study Committee (RSC)

Rep. Mike Pence, Chairman

Sheila Cole, Executive Director

Paul S. Teller, Deputy Director

Russ Vought, Policy Director

Derek Baker, Senior Legislative Analyst

Joelle Cannon, Legislative Analyst

Matt Lloyd, Communications Director

(202) 226-9717--phone (202) 226-1633--fax

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