 January 12 - Air Force Prepares Budget Battle for Fighter Planes |
| January 26 - Three House Panels Move Stimulus Bill |
| February 2 - House Democrats Pass Stimulus |
| February 2 - Members to Panel: It's Not You, It's Me |
| February 23 - Stimulus 2009: An $800 Billion Bet |
| March 2 - Abstinence Programs Losing Their Hold |
| March 2 - Big Plans, Big Costs, Big Deficits |
| March 2 - House Passes Spending Omnibus |
| March 2 - Not All Zoos Are Created Equal |
| March 9 - GOP Amendments to Omnibus Fail |
| March 9 - Political Economy: Bread and Circuses |
| March 9 - Senate Delays Omnibus Passage |
| March 16 - Earmarks: Here to Stay Or Facing Extinction? |
| March 16 - Work Completed on '09 Omnibus |
| March 23 - Administration Will Request $75.5 Billion for War Supplemental |
| April 13 - Client of the Month Club: The City of Hartford, Conn. |
| April 20 - Wide Support Seen for Supplemental |
| May 4 - Hill to Provide $1.5 Billion to Fight Swine Flu |
| May 4 - Political Economy: Promises, Promises |
| May 11 - Highlights of House Supplemental Package |
| May 11 - War Supplemental Bill Starts Moving |
| May 18 - A Quiet Message: 'This Is My Show' |
| May 18 - At the Top of His Game |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Agriculture |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Commerce-Justice-State |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Defense |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Energy-Water |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Financial Services |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Homeland Security |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Interior |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Labor-HHS-Education |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Legislative Branch |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Military Construction-Veterans Affairs |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: State-Foreign Operations |
| May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Transportation-Housing |
| May 18 - House Passes War Supplemental |
| May 18 - In the Spirits of Compromise |
| May 25 - Senate Passes Supplemental Spending |
| June 8 - Disputes in House Delay War Funds |
| June 8 - Energy-Water Chairman to Recuse Himself |
| June 8 - First Fiscal 2010 Spending Bill Advances |
| June 8 - House GOP Responds to Obama Challenge to Find Budget Cuts |
| June 15 - Agriculture Bill Would Increase Funds But Diverges From White House Plan |
| June 15 - C-J-S Bill Would Boost NASA Funds; GOP Says It Would Spend Too Much |
| June 15 - Clean-Water Programs Would Get Boost in Interior-Environment Bill |
| June 15 - Committee OKs Homeland Security Bill |
| June 15 - Conferees Reach Deal on Supplemental |
| June 15 - House Aims to Move Fast on Spending Bills |
| June 15 - Legislative Branch Bill Factors in Plans for House Building Renovations |
| June 22 - Allocations for Senate Appropriations Subcommittees |
| June 22 - Bill Would Boost Green Agencies And Restrict Detainee Transfers |
| June 22 - Committee Backs 11 Percent Boost For Agriculture and Food Programs |
| June 22 - Draft Bill Keeps Overseas Abortion Restrictions, Expands Family Planning |
| June 22 - GOP Protest Impedes First Spending Bill |
| June 22 - Homeland Spending Bill Would Revive Coast Guard Navigation Program |
| June 22 - Legislative Branch Spending Bill Gains in Both House and Senate |
| June 22 - Military Construction-VA Measure Moves Toward Advance Funding |
| June 22 - War Spending Supplemental Sent to Obama |
| June 29 - Committee Approves VA Spending; House Passes Advance Funding |
| June 29 - Feedlot Exemptions From 'Cow Tax' At Center of Senate Interior Debate |
| June 29 - Financial Services Panel Wants More For IRS, Less for D.C. School Vouchers |
| June 29 - Funds Would Hold Steady for Energy-Water, but Fight Is Expected Next Year |
| June 29 - Highlights of the House Transportation Package |
| June 29 - Highway Bill Rolls Through Stop Signs |
| June 29 - Policy Less Contentious Than Process As House Passes Homeland Funding |
| June 29 - Senate Panel Approves 'Truly Bipartisan' C-J-S Bill |
| June 29 - Slimmer Foreign Aid Bill Gains in House |
| July 6 - Obama Pledges to Boost Volunteer Services Unmet |
| July 13 - Agriculture Spending Bill Moves Forward |
| July 13 - Coburn Refers Earmarkers to Founding Fathers |
| July 13 - Cuba Trade, Auto Dealers, D.C. Budget Add Contention to a Catchall Package |
| July 13 - Funding Hike for Water Infrastructure Would Still Leave Backlog of Projects |
| July 13 - House Bill Would Overrule Obama on World Bank, IMF Conditions |
| July 13 - Immigration Policies, Border Security Added as Bill Moves to Conference |
| July 13 - Labor, HHS, Education Departments Get Funding Boosts in House Bill |
| July 13 - Senate Committee Approves, House Passes Veterans' Spending Bill |
| July 13 - Senate Passes Legislative Branch Spending Bill With One Earmark |
| July 20 - Funding Bill Maintains Weapons Disputes |
| July 20 - House Appropriations Moves Labor-HHS-Education Draft Over GOP Objections to Bill's Cost |
| July 20 - House Gives Financial Programs a Boost |
| July 20 - House-Passed Bill Increases Funding For Natural Gas Vehicles, Hydropower |
| July 20 - Shortfalls Drive Down Transportation Funds |
| July 27 - House's Biggest Domestic Spending Bill Would Go Above Obama's Request |
| July 27 - Murtha Relents on Funds for Fighters As Panel Approves Defense Spending |
| July 27 - Political Economy: Same Old Song and Dance |
| July 27 - Transportation Appropriations Bill Heads to Senate With 25 Percent Boost |
| August 3 - House Drops F-22, but Veto Still Possible |
| August 3 - Religious Groups Get Earmarks Too |
| August 3 - Senate Backs $1 Billion in Earmarks But Not Bidding on Grants, Contracts |
| August 3 - Senate Bill Would Spend Less on High-Speed Rail Than House Version |
| August 3 - Senate Panel Accounts for Stimulus, Still Beefs Up Labor-HHS Spending |
| August 10 - Chinese Poultry Imports Top Conflicts in Agriculture Spending Bill |
| August 10 - Earmarking for a Terrorism Museum |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Agriculture Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Defense Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Energy-Water Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Financial Services Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Homeland Security Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Interior-Environment Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Military Construction-VA Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: State-Foreign Operations Appropriations |
| September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Transportation-HUD Appropriations |
| September 7 - High Cost of Taming Wildfires |
| September 14 - Health Care Bill Could Hinge on Byrd Rule |
| September 14 - Senate Keeps Some, Not All Initiatives |
| September 21 - Democrats Join Republicans to Deny ACORN New Federal Funding |
| September 21 - Senate Would Allow Guns Aboard Trains |
| September 28 - Senate Boosts Funding for EPA, Interior |
| September 28 - Stopgap Bill Moves to Senate for Approval |
| October 5 - As Three-Month Highways Extension Is Signed, States Lose Some Money |
| October 5 - Conferees' Deal Boosts Dairy Payments, Removes Ban on Chinese Poultry Imports |
| October 5 - Legislative Branch Spending Bill Including Stopgap Measure Cleared |
| October 5 - Olympics Loss, Taxpayers Gain? |
| October 5 - Political Class: Inside Washington's Lexicon |
| October 5 - Senate Sets Bill With Little for Yucca, More for Nuclear Safety and Energy |
| October 12 - Agriculture Spending Bill Clears Congress, Would Lift Poultry Ban |
| October 12 - Conferees Agree on Guantanamo Limits |
| October 12 - Conferees to Spar Over F-35 Engine Left Unfunded in Senate Defense Bill |
| October 12 - Steering Away From Earmark Rules |
| October 19 - C-J-S Bill Gets Hung Up Over Adding Immigration Question to Census |
| October 19 - House Adopts Homeland Report; GOP Move on Detainees Thwarted |
| October 19 - Senate Clears Energy-Water Bill; Yucca Nuclear Waste Funding Slashed |
| October 26 - Second-Guessing Obama on F-35's Second Engine |
| October 26 - Senate Clears Bill That Would Limit Moving Detainees From Guantanamo |
| November 2 - Interior Bill Signed, Doubling the Funding for Array of Water Projects |
| November 2 - One Month Late, Seven Bills to Go |
| November 9 - Citizenship Spat Skirted, and C-J-S Bill Passes |
| November 9 - Coburn Tangles With Political Scientists |
| November 16 - 'Infrastructure Bank' Pushed as Funding Source |
| November 16 - 'Tis the Season for Floor Votes |
| November 23 - Senate-Passed Bill Includes Advance Funding for Vets' Medical Programs |
| December 7 - A Frenetic Holiday Season on Hill |
| December 14 - Democrats Hope for a One-Two Punch on Appropriations |
| December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Commerce-Justice-Science |
| December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Financial Services |
| December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Labor-HHS-Education |
| December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Military Construction-VA |
| December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: State-Foreign Operations |
| December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Transportation-HUD |
| December 28 - Columbus Foundation Sails On and On |
| December 28 - Six-Bill Package Shows Majority Wishes |
