WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican heads of the two congressional intelligence committees urged the U.S. government on Friday to let the public help translate a massive backlog of documents captured in counterterrorism operations.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Friday approved and sent to President George W. Bush to sign into law a bill to boost the borrowing authority of the government's flood insurance program to $18.5 billion from $3.5 billion, to cover claims from Hurricane Katrina and other flood disasters.

AP - The House agreed to reinstate sales of mining lands at cheap prices as part of its budget cut plan approved Friday, a move that could transfer into private hands up to 20 million acres of public lands on Western ranges, national forests and even national parks.

AP - For Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose much-vaunted "year of reform" agenda was soundly beaten in a special election less than two weeks ago, a three-city trade mission in the Far East could not have come at a better time.

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was not the senior Bush administration official who told Washington Post editor Bob Woodward that White House critic Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, a Rice aide said Saturday.

AP - In a political universe unaccustomed to single-name celebrities there are 'Hillary' and 'Rudy.'

AP - Calling the Bush administration's fiscal policies reckless and broken, Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., urged the federal government on Saturday to rein in spending.

AP - Name: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

AP - It was no easy feat to get fractious House Republicans to vote for a budget bill that lays out nearly $50 billion in savings. Yet it may prove to be a cakewalk compared with upcoming talks with the Senate.

AFP - As mountains of raw intelligence go unanalyzed, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said that posting it on the Internet could speed up translation.

U.S. News & World Report - Republican leaders sat in shock in the House of Representatives as they watched a $142.5 billion spending bill for health and education go down in defeat. It was the worst such loss for the Republican majority in a decade as 22 members stood with a united Democratic Party. The mostly moderate Republicans objected to cuts in popular social welfare programs and, in some cases, the lack of earmarked pork barrel projects. ...

AP - Calling the Bush administration's fiscal policies reckless and broken, Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., urged the federal government on Saturday to rein in spending.

AP - The House agreed to reinstate sales of mining lands at cheap prices as part of its budget cut plan approved Friday, a move that could transfer into private hands up to 20 million acres of public lands on Western ranges, national forests and even national parks.

AP - A partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff is charged with conspiring to defraud American Indian tribes of millions of dollars in a scheme that lavished trips, sports tickets and campaign donations on a member of Congress.

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday blamed Washington for orchestrating his dispute with Mexico's president over U.S. free-trade accords, but he insisted Mexico would have to resolve the dispute.