PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Some pretty good news, according to Mark Tapscott:

National Journal’s Peter Cohn is reporting an agreement among Senate and House negotiators to cap spending in the emergency spending bill for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Gulf Coast hurricane recovery to $94.5 billion.

The total would include, according to Cohn, the $92.5 billion originally requested by President Bush and approved by the House of Representatives, plus an additional $2.3 billion to fund avian flu preparations. The National Journal is a subscription-only publication, so I can’t provide a link to the full article.

Keep your eye on the ball. Er, and your hand on your wallet.