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January 5 - Another Food Fight Likely

January 5 - Appropriations: Bruce Evans

January 5 - Appropriations: Omnibus Could Be Elusive

January 26 - Audit Report: 'Significant Risk' Of Afghan Waste

January 26 - Cochran: A 'Wide-Open Process'

January 26 - Old-School Appropriator Navigates New Spending Waters

February 2 - GOP in a Box On Immigration

February 2 - Return to the Brink: Keystone Showdown Could Lead to Shutdown

February 9 - Playing Defense

March 2 - All Roads Lead to '16

March 16 - Now What for the GOP?

March 30 - The Yucca 'Albatross'

April 13 - NIH: Stuck in Neutral

April 20 - As Door to Cuba Opens, Castro Foes Push Back

April 20 - Funding Options for the Nation's Infrastructure

April 20 - Many Fingers of Government Touch Cuba

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Agriculture

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Commerce-Justice-Science

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Defense

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Energy-Water

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Financial Services

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Homeland Security

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Interior-Environment

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Labor-HHS-Education

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Legislative Branch

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Military Construction-VA

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: State-Foreign Operations

April 27 - 2016 Appropriations: Transportation-HUD

April 27 - Balancing Act Begins on Appropriations

April 27 - Editor's Notebook: Payments and Paybacks

May 11 - Defense Budget Fight Makes Strange Bedfellows

May 18 - GOP Seeks Strategy Against Climate Rules

June 8 - Shaun Donovan: A CQ Weekly Profile

June 15 - Alzheimer's Research Gets a 'Bypass' Budget

June 15 - Anatomy of a Vote: Transportation Bill Narrowly Dodges Crash

June 15 - Dueling Diseases: The Race for Cure Dollars

June 15 - GOP Waves White Flag on Web War

June 15 - Military Role in Disease Research Questioned by Some

June 15 - The Common Defense: Army Not Strong in Budget Battles

June 22 - Big Trucks Stalled Despite Study

June 22 - How the 2013 Budget Deal Came Together

June 22 - In Jockeying for Budget Deal, Congress Courts Disaster

July 6 - Conway: Medicare's Venture Capitalist

July 6 - Senate's Young Guns Seek Foreign Policy Shift

July 13 - Army: Shrinking the Force

July 13 - Conversation: House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry

July 13 - F-35: What Comes After Stealth?

July 13 - Inside the Newsroom: Peeling Back the Pentagon Onion

July 13 - Nuclear Weapons: The Triad Trillion

July 13 - Price of Paranoia: Debating Defense Dollars

July 13 - Smith: Steering Through the Appropriations Storm

July 13 - The Common Defense: Still Grounded at Ground Zero

July 13 - The GOP's Self-Inflicted Confederate Wound

July 13 - With Housing Rule, Obama Wades Further Into the Politics of Race

July 20 - Beyond Pluto: The Fight for NASA's Soul

July 20 - Next Challenge for Cures Bill: The Senate

July 20 - Skimping on Homeless May Boost Budget Deficit

July 27 - Cardinal Sins Are Magnified in the House

July 27 - Endless Roadblocks for Highway Bills

July 27 - McConnell Puts Some Notches in His Belt

August 3 - Poachers Find Enemies in Defense Hawks

August 3 - Rum and Cigar Makers Wary of Cuba Thaw

August 3 - Spending Bill Safeguards Breast-Feeding in Capitol

August 3 - The Common Defense: The Costs of Keeping the Troops Happy

September 8 - Appropriations: Storm Clouds Forming

September 8 - Budget: Desperate for a Deal

September 8 - Debt Limit: No Drama Wanted

September 8 - Fall Legislative Preview: On the Edge of a Precipice

September 8 - Yearlong CR Would Slash Housing Aid

September 14 - 2015: GOP Congress Struggles to Contain Obama

September 21 - Anatomy of a Vote: Tensions High in Abortion Fight

September 21 - Boehner Squeezed Between Shutdown and Rebellion

September 21 - Hedger: The Pentagon's Man on Capitol Hill

September 21 - Obama Nudges Government Toward Better Behavior

September 21 - The 2013 Shutdown Revisited

September 28 - Exit Stage Right: Boehner's Departure Leaves House in Turmoil

September 28 - Five Anomalies That Didn't Make the Spending Stopgap

October 5 - Anatomy of a Vote: Stopgap Smoothed by Boehner's Exit

October 5 - Can the GOP Be Led?

October 5 - U.S. Eyes Wide Shut on Refugee Crisis

October 19 - F-35 Pilots Are Risking Their Necks

October 26 - Paul Ryan's Roadmap to the Top

November 2 - Chill With Russia Brings Nuclear Insecurity

November 2 - Latest Deal Undermines Prospect of Future Budget Cuts

November 2 - Lawmakers Look to Sesame Street to Boost Autism Research

November 2 - Winners and Losers of the Budget Deal

November 9 - Anatomy of a Vote: A Freewheeling Process Under Ryan

November 9 - Omnibus Preview: Ready to Rumble

November 9 - Omnibus Preview: Trying to Hitch a Ride

November 9 - Preview: Agriculture

November 9 - Preview: Commerce-Justice-Science

November 9 - Preview: Defense

November 9 - Preview: Energy-Water

November 9 - Preview: Financial Services

November 9 - Preview: Homeland Security

November 9 - Preview: Interior-Environment

November 9 - Preview: Labor-HHS-Education

November 9 - Preview: Legislative Branch

November 9 - Preview: Military Construction-VA

November 9 - Preview: State-Foreign Operations

November 9 - Preview: Transportation-HUD

November 16 - Anatomy of a Vote: Veterans Spending Bill a Useful Vehicle

November 16 - Fury Over Planned Parenthood Cools Ahead of Omnibus Talks

November 16 - Guns or Butter for Ukraine?

November 16 - In Fight Over Longer Trucks, Highway and Spending Bills Collide

November 30 - Border Protection Agency Looks for Outside Budget Help

December 7 - Obamacare Is in Play -- But Not Through Reconciliation

December 7 - Paying for Predictability: A Tale of Two FDAs

December 7 - Refugees Look to K Street for Help

December 7 - Struggles Ahead for FDA With E-Cigarettes

December 7 - Tale of the Tape: Rubio vs. Cruz

December 14 - Are We Running Out of Budget Offsets?

December 14 - Furman: A New White House Negotiator on Taxes

December 14 - In Omnibus Fight, McConnell Seeks to Avoid Past GOP Missteps