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Below is an update from the State Department:
The State Department is cooperating with the Philippines Typhoon Disaster Relief Fund established by The mGive Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization, to coordinate donations via mobile phones to benefit victims of the typhoon.
CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS – FOREIGN POLICY
Sept. 20, 2012; Updated 6:06 p.m.
By John M. Donnelly and Emily Cadei, CQ Staff
House appropriators raged Thursday about the continuing flow from Pakistan into Afghanistan of fertilizer that forms the main ingredient in the roadside bombs that are killing about half the troops who die in the war zone.
Today Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) introduced the Reducing Environmental Barriers to Unified Infrastructure and Land Development (REBUILD) Act of 2011. The legislation builds upon the success of the NEPA Pilot Program, enacted as part of SAFETEA-LU bill, which was signed into law in August 2005.
After the current continuing budget resolution expires at 12:01 a.m. Friday, all "nonessential" government employees will be sent home until Congress passes and the president signs a budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2011.
The head of the Interior Department defended Obama's fiscal 2012 budget request for the agency during a hearing before the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee.