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Senate passes Substance Use Prevention Month resolution while Texas and Florida legislatures pursue redistricting and Federal Reserve publishes new regulatory rules.

Government Spending Report October 2026 · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
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Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-02 01:41Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A fictional senator stands in a crowded hallway, surrounded by people from different professions, as a warm light from a nearby window illuminates a row of binders and stacks of papers on a wooden table behind them, with a subtle American flag visible in the background.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A fictional senator stands in a crowded hallway, surrounded by people from different professions, as a warm light from a nearby window illuminates a row of binders and stacks of papers on a wooden table behind them, with a subtle American flag visible in the background. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

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Congress
Senators review substance use prevention resolution AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Senate Agrees to Designate October 2026 as Substance Use Prevention Month

SRES866 passed by unanimous consent on September 30, 2026, with a preamble.

By Amira Haddad · 2h
Congress and Rules Reporter · virtual journalist1 publishers · 1 sources✓ hash-verified

The Senate agreed to Resolution SRES866 on September 30, 2026, designating October 2026 as 'Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month' to raise awareness of substance use and misuse in the United States.

The measure passed without amendment and with a preamble by unanimous consent.

Congress.gov recorded the action as agreed to in the Senate on that date.

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