It's children's health deja vu all over again, with Congress looking like it'll pass a bill expanding health coverage to up to 4m low income kids (or 2m according to conservative estimates). This version looks a lot like the bill Congress couldn't get past a Bush veto last month; but with minor changes Dems hope they'll win over some Republican votes, although probably not enough to override a second expected veto.

The House votes on a "trade adjustment" bill that would give greater income props and training to workers downsized by free-trade bills and jobs moving to China and India. The House also plans votes on a small business measure, HR 3867, and a bill that'd collect royalties from mineral companies mining federal lands, HR 2262.

The Senate weighs in on an Amtrak bill, S 294, that would give the rail line and other passenger services $11b over six years.

Budget battles a brewing: With a budget the president has promised to nix (for being $22b pricier than his own), Congress is figuring out how to get its '08 spending bills past a veto without caving or getting too much political egg on its face. Its likely solution is to send the president the budget in bulk packages he can't refuse (instead of 12 separate bills). The first veto-proof pack, for example, would combine the defense and military construction bills (Bush like) with labor-health-human-services-education bills (Bush no like).