 July 3 - What's Ahead |
| July 3 - Brake That Metaphor |
| July 3 - HOW THE WEST WAS WON: Oklahoma Takes the A-Train With Amtrak |
| July 3 - AID, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC: Senate Earmarks Around the World |
| July 3 - SENATORS PROTEST IMF SALES: Are Gold Miners Getting the Shaft? |
| July 3 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Hill's Privately Funded Trips: Well-Traveled Ethics Loophole |
| July 3 - Chart: The High Cost of Travel |
| July 3 - Frequent Travelers |
| July 3 - Charts: Major Sponsors and Destinations |
| July 3 - Congress' Most-Traveled Staff Member: A Montanan Involved in Telecom Issues |
| July 3 - BUDGET: Despite Ballooning Surplus, Budget Deal Is Not at Hand |
| July 3 - Republicans Turn Up the Volume On Tax Cut Refrain |
| July 3 - Political Maneuvering May Give Campaign Finance Issue a Boost |
| July 3 - Senate Confirms Summers At Treasury as Rubin Departs |
| July 3 - Special Counsel Rules Unveiled |
| July 3 - HEALTH: Clinton Pushes To Salvage Partial Victory on Health Care |
| July 3 - HEALTH: Clinton's Medicare Drug Subsidy Plan Is Criticized for Scope and Cost |
| July 3 - Medicare Plans Compared |
| July 3 - TECHNOLOGY: With Clinton Agreeing to Caps on Damages, Y2K Liability Legislation Clears Senate |
| July 3 - BANKING & FINANCE: Vote Margin on Financial Services Rewrite Gives House Leverage on Privacy Issues |
| July 3 - EDUCATION: GOP's Education Block Grants Move Forward in House Amid Debate on Teacher Quality |
| July 3 - ABORTION: House-Passed Ban on Evasion Of Parental Notification Laws Faces Senate Procedural Hurdles |
| July 3 - AGRICULTURE: Regional Rivalries Heat Up As House Panel Votes To Reject USDA's New Dairy Price Plan |
| July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel Approves Interior Bill; Democrats Hold Out Slim Hope Of More for Arts, 'Lands' Initiative |
| July 3 - Correction: Transportation Spending |
| July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury And Agencies Bill Passes |
| July 3 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Senate Passes Trademark Protection Bill |
| July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Backs Tax Cut In D.C. Bill |
| July 3 - Sen. Smith To Block Gun Measures |
| July 3 - Senate Bill Seeks To Accelerate FCC Review of Telecom Mergers |
| July 3 - Panel Backs Narrow Change In Endangered Species Act |
| July 3 - Senate Passes Bill To Promote Privatizing Satellite Business |
| July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Foreign Aid Languishes In an Age of Indifference |
| July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Foreign Operations Bill Passes Handily in Senate Despite Clinton's Objections |
| July 3 - DEFENSE: U.S. Won't Let ABM Treaty Stop Missile Defense Program, Nominee for State Post Says |
| July 3 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: House Panel Backs 4-Year OPIC Bill |
| July 3 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: North Korea Policy Faces New Strains |
| July 3 - FOREIGN POLICY: Meetings With Berger, Richardson Fail To Quell Senators' Concerns About Nuclear Security Leaks |
| July 3 - TRADE: Despite Ongoing House Debate, Ways and Means Votes To Renew Normal Trade Status for China |
| July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Military Construction Bill Approved |
| July 3 - Military Construction Highlights |
| July 3 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 2000 |
| July 3 - CHART: Bills To Watch (106th Congress -- First Session) |
| July 10 - What's Ahead |
| July 10 - CARDINALS' SINS: House Leaders' Forced March on Spending Still Lacks a Detailed Route Map |
| July 10 - Chart: Outlook for the 13 Appropriations Bills |
| July 10 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Sparks Fly, but So Does Cash, As 'The Torch' Takes Charge |
| July 10 - Chart: Senate Seats Up for Election in 2000 |
| July 10 - Will a Cold Shoulder Replace Post-Cold War Optimism? |
| July 10 - Economic Aid Goes Local |
| July 10 - Dissecting Dismantlement |
| July 10 - BUDGET: Members Confront the Reality Behind the Rosy Surplus Numbers |
| July 10 - Holbrooke Nomination Blocked by Lott, Others |
| July 10 - New Tax Proposals Released |
| July 10 - Richardson 'Ready To Move' On Nuclear Weapons Agency |
| July 10 - BANKING: Financial Services Overhaul Sees Home Stretch at Last |
| July 10 - Chart: Financial Services Bills Compared |
| July 10 - Chart: What a Difference A Year Makes |
| July 10 - HEALTH: Senate Braces for Managed Care Debate, With Lott Maneuvering To Derail Democratic Amendments |
| July 10 - Public Laws |
| July 10 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Spending Highlights |
| July 10 - Chart: Interior Spending Highlights |
| July 10 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| July 10 - Chart: Bills To Watch 106th Congress -- First Session |
| July 17 - What's Ahead |
| July 17 - MILLENNIAL ISSUES: More Cash To Squash Year 2000 Bug? |
| July 17 - TURNING THE SPIN TABLE: GOP Says Gephardt Leads 'Do Nothings' |
| July 17 - BY THE NUMBERS: Conceding Nothing on Abortion |
| July 17 - STOP WORK ORDER: This Dollar Bill Not Coming to a Wallet Near You |
| July 17 - TAXES: Big, Party-Defining Tax Cut Holds GOP's Hopes for 2000 |
| July 17 - Chart: Tax Bills Compared |
| July 17 - TAXES: Clinton, GOP Hope To Make History Out of Their Differences |
| July 17 - The Elusive 'Lockbox' |
| July 17 - History of Recent Tax Bills |
| July 17 - ENVIRONMENT: Deconstructing Dams: A Watershed for Congress? |
| July 17 - Logjam Over Water Projects |
| July 17 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Smith's Renunciation of GOP Leaves Senate Colleagues Unfazed |
| July 17 - POLITICS: Rep. Kasich Quits Politics On Two Fronts |
| July 17 - Managed Care Struggle Shifts To Unpredictable House |
| July 17 - Lesson Learned on Gun Control Vote, Senate GOP Unites on Patients' Rights |
| July 17 - Insurers' Latest Advertising Blitz May Outdo 'Harry and Louise' |
| July 17 - Health Care Bill Highlights |
| July 17 - HEALTH: Parties Concur on the Need, But Remain Far Apart on How To Add Medicare Drug Benefit |
| July 17 - TECHNOLOGY: Deeply Divided Over Encryption Bill, House Looks to Clinton for a Deal |
| July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Fiscally Cautious Interior Bill Passes House as Senate Prepares For Fights on Mining, Oil, Logging |
| July 17 - ENVIRONMENT: Archer's Plan for Superfund Would End Tax on Industry But Leave Liability Issue Open |
| July 17 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: House Republicans Hold Up PBS Reauthorization After Learning Democrats Received Donor Lists |
| July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Controversial Policy Riders Dog D.C. Spending Measure On Journey Through Committees |
| July 17 - Chart: D.C. Spending Highlights |
| July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Bill Would Slash Funds For Energy Department, Give Boost to Water Projects |
| July 17 - LAW & JUDICIARY: House Passes Bill To Limit States' and Localities' Power To Curb Religious Activities |
| July 17 - OBITUARY: Rep. George Brown Dies; Was Advocate for Science And Foe of Vietnam War |
| July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Spending Bill Faces Relatively Smooth Conference Despite Policy Struggles in House |
| July 17 - FTC Opposes Federal Regulation Of Internet Privacy |
| July 17 - House Panel Backs Pension Bill |
| July 17 - Clinton Request for More Funds Rekindles Census Fight |
| July 17 - House Corrects NHTSA Funding, Authorizes $107.9 Million |
| July 17 - Rhetoric but Little Action on Gun Control |
| July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Foreign Aid Bill Benefits From Last-Minute Budget Increase |
| July 17 - Most Wye River Money Postponed As Israel's Barak Comes to Town |
| July 17 - Chart: Foreign Operations Spending |
| July 17 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: North Korea Aid, Abortion May Dominate House Action On Scaled-Back State Bill |
| July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Rep. Lewis Shakes Up Pentagon, Asserts Defense Panel's Authority By Barring F-22 Fighter Purchases |
| July 17 - DEFENSE: Commission Outlines Steps To Address 'Chilling Reality' of Weapons Proliferation |
| July 17 - TRADE: With Strong White House Support, House Passes Africa Trade Bill Despite Dissension in Black Caucus |
| July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Military Construction Bill Passes |
| July 17 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Taiwan Leader's Comment Roils U.S. Officials |
| July 17 - Corrections: House Votes |
| July 17 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| July 17 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
| July 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Finds Caps and Cuts Cramp Its Spending Style |
| July 24 - What's Ahead |
| July 24 - 'WE GOT WHAT WE WANTED': GOP Moderates Hang Tough on Taxes And Savor a Rare Victory |
| July 24 - Who Killed the Udall Scholarships? |
| July 24 - Conference Intrigue |
| July 24 - RULE REVERSAL: GOP Hopes To Rein In A Senatorial Prerogative |
| July 24 - Bumping Ever Harder Against Caps, GOP Sticks With Its Story |
| July 24 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Democrats Hope To Win By Staying Unified in Defeat |
| July 24 - Forbes' Independent Streak Persists During His Debut as a Democrat |
| July 24 - TAXES: No Time To Compromise: GOP Tax Cutters Charge Ahead |
| July 24 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: McCain Ponders Modifications As Lott Decides To Allow Debate On Campaign Finance Bill |
| July 24 - EDUCATION: House Passes GOP Plan For Education Block Grants |
| July 24 - HEALTH: GOP Persists In Opposing Transplant Plan |
| July 24 - House GOP Leaders Struggle To Bridge Party's Divisions Over Managed Care Overhaul |
| July 24 - D.C. Bill Amended To Allow Medical Marijuana Vote Tally, Needle Exchange Program |
| July 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Austere Commerce-Justice-State Bills Move Through Congress |
| July 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Appropriators Approve Energy-Water Bill As Opposition Broadens |
| July 24 - Chart: Energy and Water Bill Highlights |
| July 24 - COMMERCE: Intended To Protect Minors, Bill on Internet Alcohol Sales Is Stage for Industry Showdown |
| July 24 - AGRICULTURE: Rosy Outlook for Crop Insurance Bill Could Be Undercut by Program's Cost |
| July 24 - TECHNOLOGY: Security-Minded Panel Votes To Limit Encryption Exports; Clinton Staying Out of Fray |
| July 24 - Chart: Interior Spending Highlights |
| July 24 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Donor-List Controversy Revitalizes Critics of Public Broadcasting |
| July 24 - Deal To Insure Space Launches Clears Bill for Senate Floor |
| July 24 - House Panel Votes To Keep 4 Dams |
| July 24 - Bliley Moving Quickly With On-Line Data Protections |
| July 24 - House Votes To Limit Access To Chemical Storage Information |
| July 24 - Lott Tries To Work Around Obstructions To Youth Crime Bill |
| July 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Puts Pentagon on Notice With Move To Hold Up F-22 |
| July 24 - Chart: Defense Spending Highlights |
| July 24 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: House Passes State Department Bill, Leaving Tough Issues of Abortion And U.N. Debt Until Conference |
| July 24 - Chart: State Department Bills Compared |
| July 24 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Central Asian Trade Measure Goes Forward |
| July 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel Votes To Slash International Development Aid As Democrats Charge Betrayal |
| July 24 - Chart: Foreign Operations Spending |
| July 24 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Senate, White House Agree On a New Nuclear Agency As House Studies Options |
| July 24 - Correction: Africa Trade |
| July 24 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Taiwanese President's Comment Inspires GOP To Renew Attack On Clinton's 'One China' Policy |
| July 24 - Helms Applauds Clinton's Choice for AID's Top Job |
| July 24 - Lott's Opposition to Holbrooke Hardens |
| July 24 - Senators To Seek Vote On Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
| July 24 - What the Y2K Law Will Do |
| July 24 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| July 24 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
| July 31 - What's Ahead |
| July 31 - NORMALIZING RELATIONS: Senate Tells State Department To Establish an Outpost on the Hill |
| July 31 - THE WASTELAND: As Superfund Bill Awaits Markup, The Only Constant Is Change |
| July 31 - AUGUST RECESS: In Summertime, the Leaving's Not Easy |
| July 31 - Chart: Bills That Might Clear Before Summer Recess |
| July 31 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Fall Agenda: Taxes, Spending, Health -- and House Control |
| July 31 - Chart: Looming Issues for the Fall |
| July 31 - Labor-HHS Bill Pays the Price In Hastert's Pre-Recess Drive |
| July 31 - BANKING & FINANCE: SEC Fees Hand Government An Embarrassment of Riches |
| July 31 - TAXES: Hasty Conference, Certain Veto Face Senate-Passed Tax Cut Bill |
| July 31 - Tax Bills Compared |
| July 31 - Tax Bills Offer Something for Everyone, Especially Core GOP Constituencies |
| July 31 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Revived Ban on Policy Riders In Senate Appropriations Bills May Inconvenience Both Parties |
| July 31 - HEALTH: Managed Care Fight Finds GOP Torn Between Doctors, Insurers |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriators Concoct a VA-HUD Bill, But Full House, Senate May Make Changes |
| July 31 - NASA Wins Back Some Funding After Strenuous Lobbying by Goldin |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: Republicans Lament Spending Caps, Then Advance an Array of Cuts In Commerce-Justice-State Bill |
| July 31 - TECHNOLOGY: 'Electronic Signature,' On-Line Database Bills Move |
| July 31 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Senate Poised to Prohibit Misuse Of Brand Names in Web Addresses; Separate Trademark Bill Clears |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Drops Policy Riders From Interior Spending Bill, But Rewrites Might Pass Muster |
| July 31 - Correction: Interior Appropriations |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Energy-Water Bill That Differs Sharply From Senate's On Water Projects, Nuclear Arms |
| July 31 - Chart: Energy and Water Bill Highlights |
| July 31 - LAW & JUDICIARY: House Names Negotiators, But Juvenile Crime Bill Will Lag New School Year |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes D.C. Spending Bill; Democrats Hope To Soften GOP Policy Riders in Conference |
| July 31 - Chart: D.C. Spending Highlights |
| July 31 - HEALTH: Bill To Tighten Regulation Of 'Date Rape' Drugs Moves Forward in House |
| July 31 - AGRICULTURE: Cuts Ensure Crop Bill Gets A Go-Ahead |
| July 31 - COMMERCE: Panel Moves Dairy Compact Authorization |
| July 31 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: House Passes Bill for Study Of Rules' Costs |
| July 31 - LAW & JUDICIARY: House Bill Would Allow TV in Court |
| July 31 - BANKING: Export-Import Bank Logjam Continues |
| July 31 - Bill Would Require Meatpackers To Disclose Livestock Prices |
| July 31 - Showdown Imminent Over FAA |
| July 31 - Space Launch Insurance Bill Gets Thumbs Up From Panel |
| July 31 - Bills Would Curb Union 'Salting,' Defray Companies' Legal Costs |
| July 31 - Chairman Steps Up Pressure For Documents in Hatch Act Case |
| July 31 - Route 66 Preservation Measure Is Cleared to President |
| July 31 - Small-Business Loan Programs Get Boost in House Measure |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: House GOP Vows To Hold Up Foreign Operations Spending Bill If Abortion Riders Are Challenged |
| July 31 - Correction: Family Planning |
| July 31 - Members Raise Concerns About Pledges To Aid Balkans |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: $4 Billion Difference May Delay Defense Spending Bill Until Fall |
| July 31 - Anti-Missile Money Reduced |
| July 31 - TRADE: China's Human Rights Record Dominates Debate as House Votes To Keep Trade Doors Open |
| July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Adopts Conference Report |
| July 31 - Chart: Military Construction Highlights |
| July 31 - Lott Expected To Allow Vote On Holbrooke -- With Conditions |
| July 31 - Rules on Arms Transfers Approved |
| July 31 - Senate Panel May Be on Verge Of Marking Up Sanctions Bill |
| July 31 - Committee Sets Conditions On U.S.-Russian Space Ties |
| July 31 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| July 31 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
