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Spending Bills Stall as Congress Focuses on Leadership Races (Washington Post) - The House and Senate struggled yesterday to move ahead on major unfinished bills, amid the distractions of leadership elections and a growing impatience to end a long and bitter campaign year.

Meth Users Destroying Euro Bills with Habit (NPR) - Here is one more way that a drug habit eats up your money. German officials say that many people snort amphetamines using rolled-up Euros. Apparently when you mix methamphetamine with human sweat, you get sulfuric acid. The acid destroys the bills.

Lawmakers Filing Bills for Next Legislative Session (KGBT 4 Rio Grande Valley) - The 80th legislative session begins in January but Texas lawmakers can begin filing bills on Monday. Sate Representative Aaron Pena is doing just that.

Bills would keep US auditor in Iraq: lawmakers (AFP via Yahoo! News) - US lawmakers submitted bills to keep an auditor in Iraq to monitor reconstruction spending, after the office was to be closed in October 2007.

Antelope Valley Sewer Bills May Go Even Higher (RedNova) - By Jim Skeen, Daily News, Los Angeles Nov. 14--LANCASTER -- Lancaster residents could be facing higher sewer-service bills in the future after state water-quality officials imposed new restrictions for the community's sewage treatment plant expansion.

Govt to place amendment bills in Assembly session (Yahoo! India News) - The government will place 12 bills, most of them are amendment bills, at the Assembly session that will start from November 17 and come to an end on November 30. This was revealed today by Assembly Speaker Hasim Abdul Halim. The Bills are related to subjects like School Service Commission, stamp duty, forests, scheduled caste and scheduled tribe, North Bengal University, heritage properties, to

UK government outlines plans for clearer bills, energy use monitoring (Energy Business Review) - The UK government has outlined further plans to help consumers reduce the energy they use at home, including the use of new technology to help consumers track the energy they use, and clearer energy bills.

Migrants targeted in flurry of bills (Dallas Morning News) - AUSTIN – Texas lawmakers struck hard at illegal immigrants Monday, filing bills that would restrict birthright citizenship, bar them from getting state benefits such as health care and education, make it illegal for them to get business permits and tax them for sending money south of the border.

Georgia Power Wants To Hike Electric Bills To Pay For Fuel (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta) - ATLANTA -- Georgia Power wants to raise electric bills to cover its fuel costs -- a move that would hike a typical residential customer's bill by about $5.50 per month for 1,000 kilowatt-hours of power use.

Electric bills are likely to increase (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) - Georgia Power wants to raise electric bills by $416 million per year starting next year, the company said Monday. If granted, that would increase the typical residential customer's bill by about $5.50 per month for 1,000 kilowatt-hours of power use. The increase comes on top of a $5 per month the state Public Service Commission allowed the company to add to bills this summer. It's also