
Privacy advocates, who usually find themselves opposing President Bush, are
urging him to veto a housing bailout bill because it would create a national fingerprint registry for mortgage industry workers.
The fingerprint part of the bill,
added by the Senate, is hidden in the lengthy bill, which appears to be about bailing out troubled homeowners.
The databased would encompass mortgage lenders, loan originators, and real estate agents.

President Bush may ask Congress to
consider legislation to combat global warming as early as this week. An unmanageable web of US regulatory law, as well as upcoming meetings with world powers, has motivated Bush to take action.
Currently businesses must follow three pieces of complex legislation: the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Clean Air Act.

President Bush bestowed the Medal of Honor, America's
highest military award, to the parents of a Navy special operations sailor killed in Iraq two years ago. Petty Officer Second Class Michael Monsoor, then a 25-year-old gunner, covered a grenade with his body — saving the lives of his comrades, but sustaining wounds that took his life shortly thereafter.
Becoming visibly emotional, Bush said, "Mr.