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MarketWatch covered the bill earlier this month when it was approved by the Judiciary Committee:

Spyware bill gains momentum

Ruth Mantell, MarketWatch - May 2, 2007

The National Summit on America's Children is taking place today on Capitol Hill. The day-long session convenes national experts and academics on recent scientific findings and how they relate to early childhood development - a first step in making certain that federal policies on children reflect the latest scientific developments.

At 10:00 the Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing: "Iraq: Is Reconstruction Failing?" Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, will testify.

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Today marks the last day of the "The Food Stamp Challenge" by four Members of Congress - Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO). The Food Stamp Challenge is a public awareness initiative where public officials only eat food totaling $21 dollars for a week, the national average food stamp budget, to raise awareness of the Food Stamp program. These House Members have been blogging about their experiences at http://foodstampchallenge.typepad.com/.

From the Science Committee:

House Advances Major U.S. Competitiveness, Science/Math Education Package

(Washington, DC) Today, the U.S. House of Representatives followed through on a commitment to insure U.S. students, teachers, businesses and workers are prepared to continue leading the world in innovation, research and technology -- well into the future.

Today, Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sánchez sent a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, offering the White House one last chance at cooperation with the Committee's ongoing investigation into the US Attorney firings and noted that the evidence to date indicated that the White House played a central role in the matter. Conyers and Sánchez warned that absent voluntary cooperation, the Committee would be left with no alternative but to resort to compulsory process to obtain the needed information: