March 2 - Tied to Africa Famine Relief: House, Senate OK Credit Bills, But President Threatens Veto |
March 2 - South Dakotans Learn About Lobbying And Teach a Few Things on Capitol Hill |
March 2 - Threat of Vetoes: Emergency Africa Assistance Faces a New Round of Delays |
March 2 - Key Players: Chiles, Aspin Upcoming Arms Control Talks Used as Backdrop in MX Fight |
March 2 - Uncertain Senate GOP Sets Budget Sessions |
March 2 - House Members Reject Conference: Senate, House Pass Different Interstate Highway Measures |
March 2 - Boston Project Remains a Sticking Point |
March 2 - Reception of Committee Chairmen Cool: Study Renews Efforts to Hike 55 mph Limit |
March 2 - Waited 13 Months: Meese Is Confirmed by Senate In an Unusual Saturday Session |
March 2 - Essential Freshman Task: Staffing New Offices |
March 2 - Setting Up a Congressional Shop Back Home |
March 2 - The Long Goodbye Sets Off Louisiana Scramble |
March 2 - Not Everyone Approves of Senator's Flight: After Four-Year Wait, Garn Will Fly in Shuttle |
March 2 - Program Targeted for Budget Cuts: 39,000 Local Officials Await Decision on Revenue Sharing |
March 2 - Seeks a 'Market-Oriented' Policy: Administration's Farm Bill Aims To Reverse Course Set in 1930s |
March 2 - Rostenkowski Makes Pitch for Tax Overhaul |
March 2 - Round Three for 'Imputed Interest': Complicated Real Estate Taxes Likely to Confound Hill Again |
March 2 - A Victim of Economic Recovery? Expiration of Extra Jobless Aid Sparks Debate on Alternatives |
March 2 - House OKs Whistleblower Awards |
March 2 - Members, Union Chiefs Blast Pay-Cut Plan |
March 2 - Text of Presidential Press Conference -- Feb. 21, 1985 |
March 2 - Senate Committee Approves 'Superfund' Bill |
March 2 - Pentagon Program Could Face New Controls |
March 2 - Ruling a Victory for Reagan, Chemical Industry: EPA Allowed to Grant Waivers From Clean Water Act Rules |
March 2 - Arms Negotiators |
March 2 - Committee Ratios |
March 2 - McIntyre Suit |
March 2 - More Heat on Nicaragua |
March 2 - American Conservation Corps |
March 2 - Auto Quotas |
March 2 - Edwards Indictment |
March 2 - Export Controls |
March 2 - The Special Prosecutor as Special Protector |
March 9 - The 'Promised Land' Slipping From View? Senate Budget Cuts Defense, Balks At Domestic Reductions |
March 9 - Road to Defense Cuts: Familiar, But Rockier |
March 9 - Senate Debate Bogs Down: Stalled Africa Aid Bills Prompt Executive Steps to Free Funds |
March 9 - Administration Shifts Stance: Approval of Genocide Treaty Urged, But With Reservation |
March 9 - El Salvador Sanctions |
March 9 - Helsinki Commission |
March 9 - Russians in Washington |
March 9 - Ties Aid to Economic Reforms: Shultz Resists Members' Push To Speed Up Extra Israeli Aid |
March 9 - U.S.-Israel Trade Pact Progresses |
March 9 - President Vetoes Farm Credit, Africa Aid Bill |
March 9 - Senate Clears Bill Freeing States' Road Funds |
March 9 - Votes Later in March: Reagan Appears to be Gaining In Congressional MX Support |
March 9 - U.S. Negotiators Head for Geneva |
March 9 - Capitol Hill Taking a New Look at Apartheid |
March 9 - Blow to South Africa? Sanctions: From the Symbolic to the Economic |
March 9 - Despite South African Apartheid Policy Americans Continue to Go for the Gold |
March 9 - Tax Overhaul: The Crucial Lobby Fight of 1985 |
March 9 - Decision Trims Miranda Rule on Statements |
March 9 - Communication Is the Key: Democrats Gain Camaraderie But No Consensus on Message |
March 9 - Officials Seek Moderation in Party's Image |
March 9 - 45 Democratic Districts Targeted |
March 9 - Republicans Announce Election Drive |
March 9 - Benefits From Husband's Legacy: Cathy Long Seen as Favorite To Win Louisiana 8th Seat |
March 9 - Energy and Commerce Republicans Stay on 'Strike' |
March 9 - House Floor Scuffle |
March 9 - House GOP Again Fails to Seat Indiana Republican |
March 9 - Select Committees Kept |
March 9 - GAO's Authority Over Agencies Questioned: Administration, Hill Snarled In Constitutional Confrontation |
March 9 - President Vetoes Farm Credit/Africa Aid Bill |
March 9 - Reagan's Statement on Veto |
March 9 - Conrail Sale |
March 9 - Garn Space Flight |
March 9 - GI Bill |
March 9 - Senate Committee Members Named |
March 9 - Statue of Liberty Coins |
March 9 - U.S.-Canada Salmon Treaty |
March 9 - Unemployment Rate Dips |
March 9 - House Democrats Help Breed GOP Rebels |
March 16 - Budget Plan Highlights |
March 16 - Senate Panel's Party-Line Vote OKs Budget |
March 16 - Report From Financial Forecasters: No Vote of Confidence |
March 16 - The Defense Budget: Past Blueprints for Cuts |
March 16 - Rudman: Cutting Payroll to Save the Buildup |
March 16 - Congress Again Faces Nuclear Waste Crisis |
March 16 - High-Level Waste Seeks a Permanent Home |
March 16 - Low-Level Waste Buried in Trenches |
March 16 - Would Reverse Court School Ruling: Bills Launched to Let Parents Of Disabled Win Legal Fees |
March 16 - More Funding Urged for Vaccine Research |
March 16 - Reagan Seeking Phase-out: Clean Water Debate to Focus On Sewage Grant Program |
March 16 - Other Cases Focus on Handicapped: Supreme Court to Scrutinize A Citizen's Right of Petition |
March 16 - 'Excludable' Aliens: Have They Any Rights? |
March 16 - Hill Awaits Reagan Details on Egypt, Israel Aid |
March 16 - 'Increasingly Skeptical' About Value: Obey: Reagan's Aid Priorities Spur Doubts About Program |
March 16 - Echoes of Iran, Nicaragua: Congress to Renew Fight on Aid to Philippines |
March 16 - Conservatives Press South Africa |
March 16 - Reagan Seeks Summit |
March 16 - Congress Seeks to Step Up Pressure on Japan |
March 16 - Price Is a Two-Thirds Cut: Major Ex-Im Lending Program Revived by Senate Committee |
March 16 - Budget Panel Votes to Stop Filling Oil Reserve |
March 16 - Comptroller's Office Criticized |
March 16 - House Committee OKs Fisheries Bills |
March 16 - Senate to Vote on MX; Some Seek Farm-Credit Link |
March 16 - Court Ruling Inconclusive on Contracting Law |
March 16 - Donovan Resigns; Must Stand Trial in New York |
March 16 - GAO Team to Do Recount in Indiana's 8th District |
March 16 - Proposals for Housing Cuts Denounced |
March 16 - Reagan Names Babson, Johansen to NLRB |
March 23 - Senate Hands Reagan Victory on MX Missile |
March 23 - Reagan Gets the Credit for MX Success As He Out-Communicated Opponents |
March 23 - The 'Undecideds': The Path to an 'Aye' Vote |
March 23 - The Committees: How They Voted on MX |
March 23 - The '86 Budget: A New Round of Dealing |
March 23 - Senate GOP Budget Plan Spreads Uneasiness |
March 23 - Senate Budget Committee - FY 1986 Plan |
March 23 - Major Provisions of the Senate Budget Committee Plan for Fiscal Year 1986 |
March 23 - Social Security, Defense at Issue: Shape of '86 Budget Proposal Still To Emerge in the House |
March 23 - Reaction to Reagan Plan: House Panels Offer Budget, Deficit-Cut Ideas |
March 23 - Democrats, Elderly Will Oppose: Bid to Rein In Social Security Faces Senate Floor Challenge |
March 23 - Rules on Draft Protest, Public Employee Rights: Court Strikes Down Limits On Independent PAC Outlays |
March 23 - Splits in Style, Substance: Deep Divisions Loom Behind House GOP's Apparent Unity |
March 23 - GOP Publicity Ploy May Put Legislative Program at Risk |
March 23 - States Appeal to Congress for AFDC Changes |
March 23 - Fight Looms Over Colorado River Threat: Congress Takes Up Renewal Of Endangered Species Act |
March 23 - Subcommittees Mark Up Programs: House Panel Opens the Door To Aiding Cambodian Rebels |
March 23 - Reagan Waives Curb on Salvador Aid |
March 23 - Administration Attitude Unclear: One Africa Aid Bill Clears; Funding Measure Lags Behind |
March 23 - Argentine's Warning |
March 23 - Congress Clears Bill Revising Helsinki Panel |
March 23 - New Rebukes to Chile |
March 23 - Brock Selected to Replace Donovan at Labor |
March 23 - House Panel Agrees on Export Act Renewal Bill |
March 23 - Israel Trade Pact Progresses on Hill |
March 23 - Bills Would Close Bureaucrats' Revolving Door |
March 23 - Committee Faults Paradyne Contract |
March 23 - Energy Department Authorization Starts Moving |
March 23 - House Energy Subcommittee Ratios Set |
March 23 - One Fish Research Bill Passed, Another Rejected |
March 23 - Reagan Opposes Extending Extra Jobless Benefits |
March 23 - Defense Authorization Markups Beginning |
March 23 - FEC Sues Two PACs Linked to Sen. Helms |
March 23 - Maritime Authorization Approved |
March 23 - Reagan Scrubs Plans for Department of Trade |
March 23 - Supplemental Funding for ICC Approved |
March 23 - Ways and Means Hearings on Tax Simplification |
March 30 - House Gives President the Go-Ahead on MX |
March 30 - To Les Aspin, MX Victory Brings Some Pain |
March 30 - Switches and New Faces: Advantage, Reagan |
March 30 - House Freshmen Play a Minor Role But Have Their Say on a Major Issue |
March 30 - Democrats Unveil Long-Term MX Plan |
March 30 - Sidestepping Most Controversies: Senate Panel, Moving Quickly, Marks Up $12.8 Billion Aid Bill |
March 30 - Conferees Agree on Food Aid for Africa |
March 30 - Panel Votes South Africa Sanctions |
March 30 - On Contras, the Panel Agreed ...? |
March 30 - Unemployment Aid Extension Pressed on Hill |
March 30 - Democrats Oppose Raising Costs to Patients: Medicare Eyed for More Cuts As Congress Seeks Savings |
March 30 - Medicare: The Promise and the Reality |
March 30 - Unity of Lobby Groups Likely to Shatter As Congress Looks for Medicare Cuts |
March 30 - Members Seek Permanent Aid for Homeless |
March 30 - Bipartisan Bills on Homeless Offered in Both Chambers |
March 30 - Despite 1984 Cuts, Reforms: Embattled Synfuels Program On the Budget-Cutting Block |
March 30 - Synfuels: More Energy Than in the Mideast But Costs Soar, and Management Stumbles |
March 30 - Small Business Panel Acts to Protect Agency |
March 30 - GAO Bid Protest |
March 30 - GI Bill |
March 30 - Presidential Libraries |
March 30 - Court to Rule on Legality of Gerrymandering |
March 30 - Powell's Return Eases Court Problems |
March 30 - Text of March 21 Presidential News Conference |
March 30 - House Votes Increase in Committee Funding |
March 30 - Dispute Likely Over Groundwater Protection: Congress Seeks to Tighten 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act |
March 30 - Some in Chemical Industry Endorse Regulation: Bills on Toxic Pollutants Picking Up Support |
March 30 - While Awaiting Reagan Plan: Tax Overhaulers' Next Chore Is Generating Public Support |
March 30 - Prognosis Good for Medicare Fund |
March 30 - Meetings, 'Hard Choices' Continue: Much Talk, Little Action on Fiscal 1986 Budget |
March 30 - Fiscal 1986 'Views and Estimates': Reports Filed With House Budget Committee |
March 30 - Potential Delay for Sale: Antitrust Chief Removes Self From Conrail Negotiations |
March 30 - Senate Panel Backs Israel Trade Pact |
March 30 - Senate Urges U.S. Retaliation Against Japan |
March 30 - Defense Authorization Markups to Continue |
March 30 - Increase Proposed for Science Foundation Budget |
March 30 - Index of Economic Indicators Up in February |
March 30 - Sen. D'Amato to Chair Helsinki Commission |
March 30 - Hearings Set on Textile Import Restraints |
March 30 - House Committee Reports FEC Authorization |
March 30 - Reagan Extends Controls on High-Tech Exports |
March 30 - Sanctuary Workers Sentenced |
March 30 - Senate Extends Biomass Program Eligibility |