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Saturday 9 February 2008

The Week Ahead

There is a busy week forecast for the House of Representatives, with 23 bills scheduled for consideration under the suspensions procedure plus H.R. 3521 - Public Housing Asset Management Improvement Act of 2007 (Rep. Sires – Financial Services). The House will do all this on a 4 day week, as it is not sitting on Monday.

The Senate will meet on Monday, when it resumes consideration of S.2248, the FISA Amendments Act.

Both the Houses of Parliament will be on Spring Half Term Recess. BBC Parliament will continue to broadcast. The schedule can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcparliament/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4480&day=today. The Archbishop of Canterbury's controversial speech on Sharia law will be broadcast at 1am & 4am on Sunday morning; 8am on Monday. There will be political broadcast from C-Span at noon on Sunday - and recordings of committees will be broadcast during the week. [All times GMT].