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January 23 - The Virtual Casino

February 13 - TECHNOLOGY: Hill Weighs Legislative Restraints On Predicted Rush of Y2K Lawsuits

February 20 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Microsoft Amasses Forces For Its Next Fight -- In Congress

March 6 - TECHNOLOGY: Senate Backs Y2K Loans For Small Businesses; Liability Protections Advance

March 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Congress Considers How To Respond To a New Era of Cable Competition

March 13 - TECHNOLOGY: Broadcast Deal Is a Hopeful Sign For Lawmakers' Efforts To Help Satellite TV Compete With Cable

March 13 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Pro-Encryption Bill Gains Traction, But Administration Reiterates Law Enforcement Objections

March 27 - Encryption Bill Clears One Of Many Hurdles in House

March 27 - TECHNOLOGY: Bills To Foster Satellite TV As Competition to Cable Move to House Floor

March 27 - TECHNOLOGY: Senate Panel Approves Bill To Limit Lawsuits Arising From Y2K Computer Problem

April 17 - An Opening for Congress In the Internet's Fast Lane

April 17 - TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATIONS: Digital Haves and Have-Nots

April 24 - 'Obscene' E-mail Ban Upheld

April 24 - ON-LINE WASHINGTON: Lobbyists' Reports at Your Fingertips

May 1 - Lawsuit Dropped After CEO Of Netscape Quits Internet Panel

May 1 - TECHNOLOGY: Competition Heats Up for Cable As House Votes To Let Satellite TV Transmit Local Programming

May 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: NASA Reauthorization Bill Moving to Senate Floor Would Cap Space Station's Cost

May 8 - COMMERCE: House Is Ready To Limit Y2K Suits, But Administration's Opposition, Skepticism in Senate Portend Trouble

May 8 - HEALTH: Progress or Bust: The Push To Double NIH's Budget

May 15 - Beyond the V-Chip: New Proposals For Restraining Media Violence

May 15 - COMMERCE: White House Seeks To Reshape Y2K Liability Legislation As Battle Moves to Senate

May 15 - SCIENCE: NASA Bill Embroiled In Partisan Struggle Over Gore's Satellite Proposal

May 15 - Senate Panel Votes To Ban Most Domestic On-Line Betting; Offshore Operations Spotlighted

May 22 - TECHNOLOGY: Tough Conference, Possible Veto Await NASA Authorization Bill That Grounds Gore's Satellite Project

May 22 - TECHNOLOGY: With Tech Industry's Backing Intact, Y2K Liability Bill Gathers Momentum

May 29 - FCC Ups Funding for Internet Access

June 12 - Chart: High-Tech Industry Scorecard

June 12 - Inside the Industry's Lobbying Hard Drive

June 12 - Tech Bills in the Works

June 12 - TECHNOLOGY: High Tech Swarms the Hill As CEOs Turn Lobbyists

June 12 - TECHNOLOGY: Senate Poised To Pass Compromise Y2K Measure; Hatch Discounts Veto Threat

June 19 - COMMERCE: Encryption Bill OK'd; Security Still an Issue

June 19 - COMMERCE: Web Gambling Is the Target Of Senate Bill

June 19 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate's On-Site Proposal Would Keep Nuclear Waste Out of Nevada -- for Now

June 19 - TECHNOLOGY: Failure To Win Veto-Proof Senate Majority Tempers GOP's Triumph on Y2K Bill

June 26 - Liability-Sharing Bill Approved To Help Space Launch Industry

June 26 - TECHNOLOGY: Encryption Bill Approved As Stevens Appeals for Caution In Era of 'Cyber-Warfare'

June 26 - TECHNOLOGY: GOP Sits Down With White House After Businesses' Plea To Avert 'Catastrophe' on Y2K Liability

June 26 - TECHNOLOGY: Senate Panel Approves Internet Bills

July 3 - TECHNOLOGY: With Clinton Agreeing to Caps on Damages, Y2K Liability Legislation Clears Senate

July 17 - MILLENNIAL ISSUES: More Cash To Squash Year 2000 Bug?

July 17 - TECHNOLOGY: Deeply Divided Over Encryption Bill, House Looks to Clinton for a Deal

July 24 - Bliley Moving Quickly With On-Line Data Protections

July 24 - Deal To Insure Space Launches Clears Bill for Senate Floor

July 24 - House Votes To Limit Access To Chemical Storage Information

July 24 - TECHNOLOGY: Security-Minded Panel Votes To Limit Encryption Exports; Clinton Staying Out of Fray

July 24 - What the Y2K Law Will Do

July 31 - Committee Sets Conditions On U.S.-Russian Space Ties

July 31 - NASA Wins Back Some Funding After Strenuous Lobbying by Goldin

July 31 - Space Launch Insurance Bill Gets Thumbs Up From Panel

August 7 - 'Date Rape' Drug Penalties Gain House Committee Approval

August 7 - House Passes Tougher Penalties For Theft Of Intellectual Property

August 7 - House Passes Tougher Penalties For Theft Of Intellectual Property

August 7 - House Votes To Postpone Ergonomics Rules

August 7 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Senate Passes Penalties For Misuse of Trademarks In Internet Addresses

August 7 - Methamphetamine Crackdown Approved By Senate Judiciary

August 14 - Are Businesses About To Leapfrog Internet Access Legislation?

September 4 - Chart: Members of the Internet Caucus

September 4 - TECHNOLOGY: Chart: Internet Bills Multiply

September 4 - TECHNOLOGY: Regulating the Internet: Congress Asserts Domain

September 11 - Agencies' Technology Funding Doubled In House Science Vote

September 11 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Political Ground May Be Shifting Under Mine Operators

September 18 - TECH FAILURE: One Loss for Silicon Valley As Visa Bill Shelved

September 18 - TECHNOLOGY: White House Drops Controls On Encryption

September 25 - Separating the Science From the Fiction At Underground Test Site

October 2 - LAPTOP MAN EMERGES: Senate's Enzi Scores With Export Measure

October 9 - BLILEY VS. COBLE: Dispute Over Database Protection No Love Match

October 9 - TECHNOLOGY: E-Signature, Trademark Bills Advance

October 16 - TECHNOLOGY: Panel Approves E-Signature, Trademark Bills

October 16 - Web Site of the Week

October 23 - House Bill Would Give Agencies More Computer Security Options

October 30 - '.US' VS. THEM: House Seeks To Shield Voters From Porn

October 30 - TECHNOLOGY: House Passes Bill To Protect Names on Web

November 6 - TECHNOLOGY: House Panel Moves Internet Gambling Ban

November 6 - Three-Year NASA Authorization Wins Senate Passage

November 6 - TO THE RESCUE: On Task for On-Line Bingo

November 13 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Microsoft Antitrust Case Has Hill Weighing Its Role In High-Tech Regulation

November 13 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: House Passes Bill To Allow E-Signatures

November 20 - Internet Gambling Ban Wins Senate Approval

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Science - NASA Authorization

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Science - Space Launch

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Technology and Communications - Domain Names

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Technology and Communications - Electronic Signatures

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Technology and Communications - Encryption

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Technology and Communications - Internet Gambling

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Technology and Communications - Y2K Liability

December 4 - WESTWARD, HO!: Members Mine High-Tech's Fortunes in California

December 11 - Critics Say AT and T's 'Open Access' Would Still Shut Out Competitors

December 11 - SPACE: Hill Takes Hard Look at NASA After String of Space Failures

December 11 - TEAR GAS ROUND TWO: Will Labor-Green Alliance Succeed in 2000?

December 11 - TECHNOLOGY: Rural, Tech Interests Connect On Broadband Battleground

December 31 - BABY BELLWETHER: High-Speed Internet Access Debate To Accelerate