Federal Updates

Congress passes 5-year spending plan
Late last week, Congress narrowly passed a 5-year, $14 trillion budget resolution establishing boundaries for the amount of money that Congress may spend during each of the next five fiscal years. The budget resolution includes $2.56 trillion for FY 2006.

TG Updates

AdvanTG Web enhancements now available
TG has updated AdvanTG Web™ with exciting new features. Many of these improvements are based on feedback from our customers.

TG names Jay Rhodes as new national account representative
Jay Rhodes is the newest addition to TG's national sales team. Rhodes is looking forward to providing unsurpassed customer service to TG's customers in Illinois and Missouri.

This, That, and the Other...

A recent Washington Post article looks at how the U.S.'s focus on counter-terrorism is changing the way courses like politics, computer networking, medicine, and firefighting are being taught and has spawned a whole new major — homeland security — at many schools. These schools are catering to students majoring in this new field by revamping curricula and research as they try to keep pace with the changes brought on by the 2001 terrorist attacks and take advantage of a large pool of homeland security money, the article reports. The federal government has spent more than $12 billion for homeland security research and development over the past four budget years. To read the article, visit www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2005/
04/29/AR2005042901344.html. Free site registration is required.