June 1 - Tax Reform Debate Opens With Reagan Plan |
June 1 - Tax Lawmakers Will Leave Fingerprints On Any Overhaul of the Federal Code |
June 1 - Key Terms of the Federal Tax Code |
June 1 - Battle Looms Over State, Local Tax Issue |
June 1 - Prior 'Reforms' Sometimes Have Gone Awry |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK Tough Task: Reaching An '86 Budget Accord |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK Programs Senate's Budget Would Eliminate |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK - Conflicting Priorities: House and Senate Budgets |
June 1 - President and CBO at Odds: The Basis for Budget Options, Forecasts Are Rarely Reliable |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK Policy Issues, Big Dollars at Stake: Senate, House at Odds Over Health Spending |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK - Administration's Deep Cuts Rejected: House, Senate Divided on Student Aid Cuts |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK House Would Increase Funding: Two Plans Disagree Sharply on Food, Housing for Poor |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK Senate Budget Includes Major Cuts: Chambers Differ on Highways, Mass Transit |
June 1 - House Democrats Unveil Plan on Nicaragua |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK - Could Affect Deficit Total: House, Senate Budgets Differ Over Oil Revenue Estimates |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK - House, Senate Split on Oil Reserve |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK - Budgets Seek Veterans Administration Savings: Senate Cuts Deep Into Health Care Programs |
June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK - Senate, House at Odds on COLAs |
June 1 - Attorney Advertising, Stock Cases Resolved: Court Refuses to Consider Disputed Indiana Election |
June 1 - Panels Find 'Free' Cuts in Military Construction |
June 1 - Weinberger's $4 Billion: Where Did He Find It? 'Midnight Surprise' Sparks Questions in Congress |
June 1 - Treaty Compliance a Concern: Aspin Seeks to Slow and Alter Reagan's 'Star Wars' Program |
June 1 - Provision in House Intelligence Bill: Panel Narrows Its Opposition To U.S. Role in 'Contra' War |
June 1 - Hussein: Optimism for Mideast Talks |
June 1 - Clash With Administration Seems Certain: Congress Again Drawing Up Long Water Projects Wish List |
June 1 - Israel Free Trade Agreement: A Potential Model |
June 1 - Panel Rules on Shoe Import Impact |
June 1 - Reagan's May 28 Address on Tax Reform |
June 1 - Rostenkowski Delivers Reply on Tax Reform Plan: Text of May 28 Democratic Response |
June 1 - Senate Judiciary to Review 'Superfund' Bill |
June 1 - Senate Passes 'Orphan Drug' Bill |
June 1 - Special Election Set in 1st District of Texas |
June 1 - Three Mile Island Restart Authorized |
June 8 - Congress Steps Up Pressure to End Apartheid |
June 8 - Freshman McConnell: Making a Mark on Policy |
June 8 - Rebuff to Reagan on South Africa: In the House, Tough New Trade Restrictions |
June 8 - Changed Political Climate: $38 Million in Non-Lethal Aid For 'Contras' Voted by Senate |
June 8 - Senate Approves Defense Authorization Bill |
June 8 - 'Star Wars' and the ABM Treaty |
June 8 - Senate Votes to Restrict Federal Wage Law |
June 8 - Legislators Begin Sifting Through Tax Proposal |
June 8 - Influencing the Tax Bill: Lobbyists Shift Their Attention to Capitol Hill |
June 8 - Health-Benefits Tax in Contention: Issue of Fringe-Benefit Taxes Only Partly Defused by Reagan |
June 8 - State, Local Tax Deduction Benefits |
June 8 - House OKs EPCA Reauthorization |
June 8 - New Deadlines, Stiff Penalties Proposed: Governors Agree on Disposal Of Low-Level Nuclear Waste |
June 8 - Consensus Lacking on How to Boost Trade: Doubts About Export Program May Derail Farm Policy Changes |
June 8 - House Members Push Pesticide Law changes |
June 8 - Subcommittee Markup Continues: Housing Panel Agrees to Trim Authorization by $437 Million |
June 8 - Court Ruling Spurs New School Prayer Drive |
June 8 - Court OKs Mandated-Benefit Laws |
June 8 - Incumbents Relied More on PAC Gifts in 1984 |
June 8 - Top 15 PACs in 1984 -- chart |
June 8 - Shapiro Wins Jersey Gubernatorial Primary: A 'New Ideas' Democrat Will Face Kean in November |
June 8 - Agencies Told to Obey Contract Law |
June 8 - Committee Vote on Reynolds Could Be Close |
June 8 - Hill Pushing for Crackdown on Soviet Spying |
June 8 - The U.N. and the Soviet Advantage |
June 8 - 'Finger in King Hussein's Eye': Administration Seeks to Avert Hill Setback Over Jordan Arms |
June 8 - Supplemental Appropriations Action: House Narrowly Votes to Cut Funding for 31 Water Projects |
June 8 - Panel Approves Interstate Banking Measure |
June 8 - Budget Conference to Begin; Clashes Likely |
June 8 - House Passes Bill to Preserve Olmsted Legacy |
June 8 - Imputed Interest |
June 8 - Resolution on 'Man's Inhumanity to Man' Loses |
June 8 - Devine Drops Out |
June 8 - House Democrats May Seek More Defense Cuts |
June 8 - House Passes Bill to Curb Medicare Abuses |
June 8 - Presidential Libraries |
June 8 - Senate Passes Maritime Authorization Bill |
June 15 - Congress Pressures Reagan Against Jordan Aid |
June 15 - House, in Dramatic Shift, Backs 'Contra' Aid |
June 15 - House, Senate 'Contra' Bills: What They Do |
June 15 - Lobbying by Church, China: Foreign Policy Provides Arena For New Round Over Abortion |
June 15 - State Department Authorization Bill: Senate Votes to End Ban on Angolan Rebel Aid |
June 15 - Budget Conference Gets Off to a Slow Start |
June 15 - Economists, Labor Criticize Reagan Tax Plan |
June 15 - Administration Opposed: Senate Resolves Sewer Fight, Passes Clean Water Rewrite |
June 15 - Liability Issues Remain Unresolved: 'Superfund' Bill Ready for Action by Senate |
June 15 - House Votes Freeze on Refugee Assistance |
June 15 - Previous Testimony Challenged: Reynolds Nomination Hits Snag in Judiciary |
June 15 - House Judiciary Takes Up Authorization: Senate Confirms Full Board of Legal Services Corporation |
June 15 - Administration, Major Museums Opposed: Art Dealers Seek Relief on Import of Artifacts |
June 15 - Reagan Decides to 'Go the Extra Mile' for SALT |
June 15 - 'Missilectomy' on Poseidon Submarine Would Bring Navy's Program Full Circle |
June 15 - Rules, Floor Fight Expected: House Committee Easily OKs Nationwide Banking Measure |
June 15 - Issue Tossed Back to Congress: High Court Gives Green Light To Regional Banking Accords |
June 15 - Many Cases Undecided as Term Nears End |
June 15 - Administrative Cases at Issue: Subcommittee Bills Disagree On Handicapped Legal Fees |
June 15 - Credits Called Equity Measure: Reagan Continues to Push Tuition Tax Breaks |
June 15 - Proposal Could Cost Government $1 Billion: Helms, Rose at Odds Over Plan To Revamp Tobacco Subsidies |
June 15 - Bills Would Suspend Wheat Vote |
June 15 - HHS Orders Medicare Rate Freeze |
June 15 - Protective Services, Legal Aid: Panel OKs Advocacy Program On Behalf of the Mentally Ill |
June 15 - Asbestos Issue Hits Congress Close to Home |
June 15 - Task Forces Review Election Contests |
June 15 - Panel Pushes Judicial Review of VA |
June 15 - Panel Rejects Additional Cuts in Housing Bill |
June 15 - Senate Panel Hopes to Cut VA Health Costs |
June 15 - Text of Reagan's Statement on SALT II |
June 15 - Reagan Letter on Aid to Nicaraguan Rebels |
June 15 - Panel Would Expand Food Stamp Eligibility |
June 15 - Nicaragua Aid, Water Projects Included: Senate Panel, House Approve Supplemental Funding Bills |
June 15 - GOP Seeks 'Great Leap Forward' in East Texas |
June 15 - Party Conventions Nominate Slates: Diversity Meets Conservatism In Virginia Statewide Contests |
June 15 - Gandhi Backs Talks on Afghanistan |
June 15 - Bill Would Refocus Medical Education Aid |
June 15 - Closing the 'Revolving Door' |
June 15 - NRC Reauthorization Passed by Senate |
June 15 - Dingell Opposes Bill on Toxic Air Pollution |
June 15 - Markup Postponed on CPSC Legislation |
June 15 - Meese Urges Crackdown on 'Money Laundering' |
June 15 - Senate Commerce OKs Anti-Takeover Bill for TWA |
June 15 - Shoe Import Quotas Urged |
June 22 - House Meets Reagan Partway on Defense Plans |
June 22 - Reagan Gets Limited Go-Ahead on Nerve Gas |
June 22 - Money for 'Air Marshals': Reagan, Hill Find Options Few In Response to Terrorist Acts |
June 22 - A Skeptical Congress Moves on Jordan Aid |
June 22 - Measure Would Allow Sharing of Information: Intelligence Panel Adds 'Contra' Aid to Its Bill |
June 22 - Members Cite Lack of Candor: Reynolds Nomination in Peril As Committee Delays Vote |
June 22 - Appropriations Panel Votes Funds: House Judiciary Approves Legal Services Bill |
June 22 - Panel OKs Corporate Merger Bill |
June 22 - Conferees Debate, Reject Budget Alternatives |
June 22 - Farmers May Get to Vote: 'Market-Oriented' Crop Plan Wins House Subcommittee OK |
June 22 - Bill Would Ease Farm Bankruptcy Rules |
June 22 - Disagreement Threatens Farm Export Subsidies: Panels Differ Over Preference for U.S. Ships |
June 22 - A Week With Rep. Robert T. Matsui: Lobbyists Begin to Make a Case Against Passage of Tax Overhaul |
June 22 - Matsui: Friend to Business and the Poor |
June 22 - Reagan Tax Plan Targets 'Checkoff' System |
June 22 - Safe Drinking Water Bill Approved by House |
June 22 - Committees Squabbling: House Action Sought Soon On Clean Water Act Renewal |
June 22 - Family Planning Legislation Fails in House |
June 22 - House Votes to End Aid to HMOs |
June 22 - Key Senators Seek Accommodation: House Defies Veto Threat, Approves NIH Authorization |
June 22 - Panel Fails to Agree on Radioactive Waste Bill |
June 22 - Proposal Could Save $6 Billion: House Panel OKs Bill to Abolish 'Wasteful' Synfuels Corporation |
June 22 - Senate OKs Oil Reserve Extension |
June 22 - Rules on Obscenity, Cabinet Immunity: Court Tightens Age-Bias Ban, Takes New Church-State Cases |
June 22 - Right of Petition No Barrier to Libel Suits |
June 22 - Schroeder Says 'Whistleblower' Office Failed |
June 22 - Senate OKs NOAA Authorization |
June 22 - Text of June 18, 1985 Presidential News Conference |
June 22 - Senate Adds Jordan Aid, Passes Supplemental |
June 22 - Water Cost-Sharing Proposals |
June 22 - Time Running Short: Feuding in House Energy Panel Snags Renewal of 'Superfund' |
June 22 - Panel Approves $16.3 Billion for Housing Aid |
June 22 - A New Push for Trade Law Overhaul |
June 22 - Export Act Renewal: End of the Road in Sight |
June 22 - Horner Nominated for OPM Job |
June 22 - Seger Confirmed for Federal Reserve Board |
June 22 - Senate Rules OKs Line-Item Veto Bill |
June 22 - Bill to Relax Gun Controls Headed for Floor |
June 22 - Kennedy, Stark Unveil Health Bill |
June 22 - New Chairmen for Two House Subcommittees |
June 22 - Orphan Drug Bill Passed by House |
June 22 - Senate Energy Votes to Revive Home Audits |
June 22 - Congress and the Country: Speaker's Job Transformed Under O'Neill |
June 29 - Congress Plans Busy Month Following Recess |
June 29 - Hill Considers Ways to Boost Airport Security |
June 29 - Already on the Books |
June 29 - Families Also Would Benefit: House Bills Would Compensate U.S. Employees Taken Hostage |
June 29 - Threat of Terrorist Attacks: Panel Backs $3.5 Billion to Protect Embassies |
June 29 - Bid to Avert 'Purge' of Conservatives: Helms, Allies Delay Confirmation of Envoys |
June 29 - Panel Thaws on Iceland Nomination |
June 29 - New Tax Revenues Suggested: Budget Negotiations Resume As Senators Offer New Plan |
June 29 - 'Imputed Interest' Rules Change: Senate Votes to Ease Tax Loss On Loans for Property Sales |
June 29 - Tax Plan Revenue Figures Challenged |
June 29 - Senate Judiciary Rejects Reynolds Nomination |
June 29 - Few Major Changes From Committee Version: After a Welter of Amendments, House Passes Defense Measure |
June 29 - ASAT Test Curb: Victory for Reagan Critics |
June 29 - Senate Subcommittee Action: Bill to Improve Prosecution Of Child Molesters Approved |
June 29 - Dole on the Job: Keeping the Senate Running |
June 29 - Gun Legislation Ready for Action by Senate |
June 29 - Silent Prayer Amendment Moving: School Prayer Advocates Split Over Best Approach to Issue |
June 29 - House Passes Curb on Patent Fees |
June 29 - Replaces Measure Vetoed Last Year: Bill on Attorneys' Fees Approved by House |
June 29 - House, Senate Divided: Foreign Aid, Water Disputes Delay Talks on Supplemental |
June 29 - Subcommittee OKs HUD, Agency Funds |
June 29 - House Bill Includes Slight Increase: Appropriations Panel Scraps Over Spending for Congress |
June 29 - Treasury Money Bill Boosts IRS Staff |
June 29 - 'Superfund' Bill Clears First House Hurdle |
June 29 - Cost-Sharing Compromise Adopted: House Committee Approves Water Projects Authorization |
June 29 - Will the 'Six-Year Itch' Strike Again in 1986? |
June 29 - Six-Year Itch? |
June 29 - New Party Chairman Takes Control: DNC Approves Kirk's Plans To Alter Democrats' Image |
June 29 - Business, GOP Assail Plant-Closing Aid Bill |
June 29 - Bill Protects Unionized Building Jobs |
June 29 - Fire, Earthquake Protection |
June 29 - House Panel Wants Notice of Office Closings |
June 29 - Landsat Commercialization |
June 29 - Regional Compacts Get Subcommittee OK: Low-Level Nuclear Waste Bill Gains House Panel Approval |
June 29 - Bill Would Extend Daylight-Saving |
June 29 - DOE Could Fund Demonstration Projects: House Panel Votes to Kill Synfuels Corporation |
June 29 - House Subcommittees Complete Work: Congress Reacts to Pressure; Quickens Action on Farm Bill |
June 29 - Negotiations Finally Succeed: Congress Clears Bill to Renew Main Law Regulating Exports |
June 29 - Senate Confirms Yeutter to Top Trade Post |
June 29 - Raft of Decisions Announced: Court Again Spells Out Limit On Accommodating Religion |
June 29 - Court Sets Content Test in Some Libel Cases |
June 29 - Congress Clears Energy Crisis Measure |
June 29 - House Passes Farm Bankruptcy Bill |
June 29 - Soil Conservation Plan Unveiled by Block |
June 29 - Statue of Liberty Coin Bill Cleared |
June 29 - House Approves Drug Labeling Bill |
June 29 - House Rejects FEC Reauthorization |
June 29 - Merchant Marine Committee OKs Bill on Oil Spills |
June 29 - New Federal Pay Regulations to Take Effect |