March 4 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Senate Vote on Tower To Dominate Floor |
March 4 - Both the Right and the Left See Minimal Vote Shifts |
March 4 - Committee Studies Report on Wright |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Joint Session of Congress Celebrates Bicentennial |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Biennial Funding for Committees |
March 4 - Bill Likely to Move Forward Despite Early Missteps |
March 4 - Foreign Direct Investment |
March 4 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Taxpayer, Consumer Concerns Trouble Bush Bailout Plan |
March 4 - Savings and Loan Rescue Plan Is the Biggest Bailout Yet |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Deficit Commission Issues Split Report |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Imports a Big Cause Of Slowdown in Growth |
March 4 - THE BUDGET: Robert Reischauer Selected As New CBO Director |
March 4 - Congress Not Only One Hurt By Defeat of Pay Raise |
March 4 - Rank and File Angry, Too |
March 4 - Mandatory Parental-Leave Bill Easily Clears House Panel |
March 4 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: BIA: Was Unaware Of Abuse, Fraud |
March 4 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Derwinski Confirmed for VA After Tough Questioning |
March 4 - COMMUNICATIONS: Democrats Unlikely to Block FCC's Price-Cap Plan |
March 4 - House Panel to Hold Inquiry Into High-Definition TV |
March 4 - AGRICULTURE: Darman, Yeutter Seem at Odds Over Farm-Bill Approach |
March 4 - SCIENCE: Lawmakers Blast NASA Budget |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Dual Minimum-Wage Plan Unveiled by Dole |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Section 89 Guidelines Released by IRS |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Watkins As Energy Secretary |
March 4 - New Drive Begun to Revise Visa-Allotment System |
March 4 - Visa Application Backlog Brothers, Sisters (chart) |
March 4 - GUN CONTROL: Curbs Proposed On Assault Weapons |
March 4 - REFUGEES: Bill to Ease Entry of Soviet Jews |
March 4 - CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: Bennett Headed for Approval As National 'Drug Czar' |
March 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Impeachment Cases Weighed In House Unit, Full Senate |
March 4 - Congress to Take a Hard Look At Vocational-Training Law |
March 4 - Sullivan Confirmed As HHS Secretary |
March 4 - Members May Target Referrals To Doctor-Owned Facilities |
March 4 - Physician Ownership Of |
March 4 - Senate Wages Partisan Duel On Fitness, Prerogatives |
March 4 - The Teflon Senator Slugs It Out |
March 4 - Alcohol and the Armed Services |
March 4 - Rejected Nominees |
March 4 - For Dodd, a Personal Dilemma? |
March 4 - Peace Prospects, New Elections Cloud U.S. Policy Options |
March 4 - U.S. Aid to El Salvador |
March 4 - The Talks: A Key Rebel Initiative |
March 4 - North Trial Temporarily Stops Over Use of Secret Memos |
March 4 - NICARAGUA: Administration Is Considering New Non-Lethal Contra Aid |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Congress Making New Try On Arms-Sale Curbs |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Mexico Urged to Boost Efforts in Drug War |
March 4 - GOP Planning to Woo Blacks To Widen Its Local Base |
March 4 - The Black Vote in 1988: Smaller Turnout (chart) |
March 4 - 1987-88 Congressional Election |
March 4 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Races for Congress Cost $458 Million |
March 4 - Ratings by Interest Groups Indicate Minor Shifts |
March 4 - How Interest Groups |
March 4 - How Interest Groups Rate Senators (chart) |
March 4 - Committee Report on Tower Shows Clear Party Split |
March 4 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Prism of Politics In Sonoma County |
March 11 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Impeachment Motion On Senate Floor |
March 11 - Solarz Looks Abroad to Find |
March 11 - ETHICS: Speakers Have Faced Trouble, But None Has Been Toppled |
March 11 - Wright Inquiry Nears End |
March 11 - Congress Begins Second Decade Under TV's Watchful Glare |
March 11 - Television in Congress |
March 11 - THE HOUSE: Gingrich to Run For GOP Whip |
March 11 - Brady Signals Shift in Policy Toward Debt Reduction |
March 11 - The Baker Fifteen (chart) |
March 11 - THE BUDGET: Next Step Begins In Budget Talks |
March 11 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Lobbyists Outline Complaints Over Bailout Proposal |
March 11 - Democrats Challenge Bush In Eastern Air Dispute |
March 11 - Law on Secondary Strikes |
March 11 - Congress' Minimum-Wage Hike May Involve Subminimum |
March 11 - Labor: Let's Make a Deal |
March 11 - FEDERAL WORKERS: 'Whistleblower' Compromise |
March 11 - LABOR: Parental-Leave Bill Passed by Panel |
March 11 - AGRICULTURE: Senate Committee Seeks Ways To Prevent Trading Fraud |
March 11 - Regulation of Futures Markets Has Contentious History |
March 11 - Alaska Oil-Drilling Measure May Turn Up Dry Again |
March 11 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Special Ethics Panel Releases Proposals |
March 11 - New 'Pepper Commission' Has Rocky Beginning |
March 11 - Backers of New JOBS Program Fear Shortage of Funding |
March 11 - EDUCATION: Administration Denies Request To Ease Student-Loan Rules |
March 11 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hastings Submits More Arguments |
March 11 - MEDICARE/MEDICAID: States Failed to Cover Costs For Poor, Study Shows |
March 11 - CONFIRMATION: Bennett Approved As 'Drug Czar' |
March 11 - LAW ENFORCEMENT: 'Hate Crimes' Bill Backed by Panel |
March 11 - Senate Spurns Bush's Choice In a Partisan Tug of War |
March 11 - The New Nominee: Dick Cheney |
March 11 - A Conflict as Old as the Republic |
March 11 - U.S. Japanese Warplane Deal Raises a Welter of Issues |
March 11 - Japan's Technology |
March 11 - Baker Seeking to Sell Congress On a New Policy Approach |
March 11 - STATE DEPARTMENT: Key Nominee Is Facing Query On His Past Business Ties |
March 11 - BASE CLOSINGS: House Panel Backs Realignment List |
March 11 - IRAN-CONTRA: President Never Ordered Lies, McFarlane Tells North Trial |
March 11 - 3rd District Race Resembles '88 Presidential Contest |
March 11 - THE SENATE: New Hampshire Conservative Humphrey to Quit in 1990 |
March 11 - President Addresses Critics: Denies 'Malaise' Exists |
March 11 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Dual Challenge Of Butler Derrick |
March 18 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Talks Pursued As Deadline Nears |
March 18 - The Speaker's Lieutenants Keep Engines Running |
March 18 - The Quiet Climb to Leadership |
March 18 - The Hard-Charging Scorekeeper |
March 18 - Speaker Braces for Trouble While Allies Grow Uneasy |
March 18 - Battle for Whip Pits Partisans Against Party Pragmatists |
March 18 - COMMITTEES: Staffer Reassigned Over Tape Flap |
March 18 - THE HOUSE: Probe of Fauntroy Extended 60 Days |
March 18 - Darman Aims to Deal Bush Into the Game This Year |
March 18 - TAXES: Cool Response On Capital Gains |
March 18 - TAXES: Urgency of LBO Issue Fades, But Action Still Possible |
March 18 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Members Press for Details On Brady Proposal |
March 18 - Lawmakers Pursue Efforts To Halt Eastern Strike |
March 18 - Fighting Lorenzo on Another Front |
March 18 - House Panel Clears Wage Bill, Overriding Bush Demands |
March 18 - FEDERAL WORKERS: 'Whistleblower' Compromise Passed Handily by Senate |
March 18 - Watkins Asks Panel for Time To 'Get Our Act Together' |
March 18 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Arctic-Drilling Plan Clears Committee |
March 18 - SECTION NOTES: Dairy-Program Savings Pass Both Chambers |
March 18 - SECTION NOTES: Democrats Plan to Monitor Price-Cap Impact |
March 18 - Bush Action on Gun Imports Cheers Backers of Curbs |
March 18 - Gun-Control Legislation: A History |
March 18 - THE BENCH: Chief Justice Urges Judicial Pay Hike |
March 18 - Trial of Judge Alcee Hastings To Go Forward in Senate |
March 18 - Child-Care Debate Intensifies As ABC Bill Is Approved |
March 18 - Bush Outlines His Child-Care Plan |
March 18 - HEALTH: Physician-Fee Schedule Urged For the Medicare Program |
March 18 - EDUCATION: Loan-Default Bill Passed by Senate |
March 18 - HOUSING POLICY: Cranston, Gonzalez Head Off In Different Directions |
March 18 - Senate Speeds Confirmation Of New Pentagon Chief |
March 18 - The Cheney File: Relatively Simple |
March 18 - Baker, Capitol Hill Near a Deal On New Dose of Contra Aid |
March 18 - North's Trial Tests Defense Of Obeying Higher-Ups |
March 18 - Obey Gives Baker Bad News: Expect Major Budget Cut |
March 18 - Obey's Roadmap for Cuts |
March 18 - Refugee Funds Sought |
March 18 - Proposed 'Mini Marshall Plan' Encounters Budget Strains |
March 18 - Aid to the Philippines (chart) |
March 18 - BASE CLOSINGS: Pain in Members' Home States Fails to Move Minds on Hill |
March 18 - CONFIRMATION: Senate Approves Eagleburger For State Department Job |
March 18 - GOP Candidate No Shoo-In In 4th District Contest |
March 18 - Seat Vacated by GOP's Cheney Could Go to Either Party |
March 18 - PROVISIONS: 'Whistleblower' Compromise Breezes Through Senate |
March 18 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Cheney Meet the Press: Discuss Views, Concerns |
March 18 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Senatorial Dilemma: Wallop, Armstrong |
March 25 - WHAT'S AHEAD Thrift Industry Bill To Take Shape |
March 25 - Gingrich's Selection as Whip Reflects GOP Discontent |
March 25 - From Bomb Thrower to GOP Whip |
March 25 - ETHICS: House Democrats Grow Edgier As Wright Probe Drags On |
March 25 - SECTION NOTES: Dingell His Drops Inquiry Into Misrepresentation |
March 25 - SECTION NOTES: Rep. Oakar Defends Payroll Practices |
March 25 - Producers Press for Renewal Of Steel Import Quotas |
March 25 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Markup of FSLIC Bailout Bill Due Following Recess |
March 25 - THE BUDGET: Hill, White House Negotiators Break for Easter Recess |
March 25 - SECURITIES INDUSTRY: SEC Focuses on Global Fraud |
March 25 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: IADB Accord on New Capital |
March 25 - Space Station Seeks Allies And Funding in Congress |
March 25 - Space Station Spending |
March 25 - Tight Budgets, Unlikely Alliances |
March 25 - Sen. Mikulski Wants It All |
March 25 - House Defies Threatened Veto, Passes Minimum-Wage Bill |
March 25 - Minimum Wage, 1938-Present (chart) |
March 25 - Tom Ridge's 'Awkward Position' |
March 25 - 'Whistleblower' Protection Bill Cleared Easily by House |
March 25 - Reprisals Related By EEOC Worker |
March 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Marked Up to Assist Small-Town Rail Service |
March 25 - SECTION NOTES: LaFalce Reveals Cosponsors For Section 89 Repeal |
March 25 - Nunn-McCurdy Plan Ignites National Service Debate |
March 25 - Proposals for National or |
March 25 - IMPEACHMENT: Charges Against Judge Nixon Are Voted by House Panel |
March 25 - Court Ruling May Give Impetus To Drug-Testing Measures |
March 25 - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Antitrust Shield Approved |
March 25 - Partisan Bidding War Erupts Over Aid to Poor Children |
March 25 - HEALTH: AMA, Other Groups Target Physician-Fee Proposal |
March 25 - Bush, Hill Agree to Provide Contras With New Aid |
March 25 - Election of Rightist Cristiani Puts Washington on Hold |
March 25 - TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE: Bush Seeking to Modify Deal For Japanese Warplanes |
March 25 - Dogged if Futile Trench War Planned by Some on Hill |
March 25 - Election of Rightist Cristiani Puts Washington on Hold |
March 25 - IRAN-CONTRA: North's Secretary Hall Tells Of Altering Documents |
March 25 - STATE DEPARTMENT: House Unit Backs Funding Boost |
March 25 - Low Voter Turnout Prompts Flurry of Reform Bills |
March 25 - SECTION NOTES: House to Consider Poll-Closing Bill |
March 25 - SECTION NOTES: Wyoming GOP Chooses House Candidate |
March 25 - LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Activity Drops Off In November |
March 25 - NOVEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Corporations and Businesses |
March 25 - NOVEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Interest Groups |
March 25 - NOVEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Labor Organizations |
March 25 - NOVEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: State, Local and Other Governments |
March 25 - NOVEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Miscellaneous |
March 25 - NOVEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Trade Associations |
March 25 - OCTOBER LOBBY REGISTRATIONS |
March 25 - FOREIGN POLICY AGREEMENT: Bipartisan Agreement Reached On Central America Policy |
March 25 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: President Lauds Policy Accord Reached With the Congress |
March 25 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Abortion Debate Is Far From Over |