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Dear Colleagues, Earlier this week the US Senate & House conferees approved the FY 2006 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill. "SCIENCE The conference agreement provides $3,632,718,000, instead of $3,666,055,000 as proposed by the House and $3,702,718,000 as proposed by the Senate. Specific funding allocations and earmarks proposed by the House and Senate are superceded by the allocations and earmarks listed in this joint explanatory statement. High Energy Physics.-The conference agreement provides $723,933,000 for high energy physics research. The control level is at the High Energy Physics level. An additional $10,000,000 is provided for research on the international linear collider and for upgrades to the neutrino research program. The conferees support the DOE/NASA Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) and encourage the Department to move JDEM forward aggressively to accomplish this important research. " The full bill can be found at: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_reports&docid=f:hr275.109.pdf#page=150 The roll call can be found here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll580.xml Norman Graf