 December 7 - GOP Is Opposed, Democrats Are Split: Success for Tax Bill in Doubt Despite Mild Reagan Support |
| December 7 - Ways and Means Vote on Tax Bill |
| December 7 - Tax-Writing Process Leaves Freshmen Cold |
| December 7 - Constitutional Test Hangs Over Budget Plan |
| December 7 - Budget Conference Leaders Agree on Key Points |
| December 7 - Up to $85 Billion in Savings Projected: Conferees Begin to Reconcile Versions of Deficit-Cutting Bill |
| December 7 - Compromise Reached Between Committees: House Debates $10 Billion Bill For Hazardous-Waste Cleanup |
| December 7 - Key Difference Threatens Conference: Senate, House Committee OK Farm Credit System Aid Bills |
| December 7 - Farm Bill Conferees Hope to Resolve Differences in Private |
| December 7 - Congress Clears New Limits on Textile Imports |
| December 7 - Bringing Down the Dollar's Value |
| December 7 - Budgetary Impact a Concern: Program to Help U.S. Exporters Delayed in Banking Committee |
| December 7 - A Tactical Revolution Engulfs Campaigns |
| December 7 - A New Breed of Consultant Joins the Fray |
| December 7 - Indefinite Leave of Absence: NASA Administrator Indicted On General Dynamics Project |
| December 7 - McFarlane Out as Foreign Policy Aide |
| December 7 - Senate Sidesteps Decision on PAC Spending |
| December 7 - New Senate Phone System Debated |
| December 7 - Procedural Changes Adopted: Senators Seeking to Improve 'Quality of Life' |
| December 7 - Weinberger Retreats on Joint Chiefs Reform |
| December 7 - Billions of Dollars Lost Currently: States Seek Power to Collect Taxes on Mail-Order Sales |
| December 7 - Both Sides Lobbying on Affirmative Action |
| December 7 - House Approves College Aid Reauthorization |
| December 7 - Congress Renews Cultural Agencies |
| December 7 - Expands Non-VA Treatment: President Signs Bill to Curb Cost of Veterans' Health Care |
| December 7 - Markup Continues on Nuclear Insurance System |
| December 7 - Panels Approve Waste-Disposal Bills |
| December 7 - State, Local Government Employees: Justices to Settle Suit on Right To Quit Social Security System |
| December 7 - Stopgap Funding Bill Moving; Veto Threatened |
| December 7 - New D.C. Abortion Limit Dropped |
| December 7 - Commerce/Justice/State Funds Clear |
| December 7 - Labor, Health and Human Services: $106.5 Billion Social Spending Measure Clears |
| December 7 - Fiscal 1986 Labor-HHS-Education Funding (chart) |
| December 7 - China Nuclear Power Curbs: Down to the Wire |
| December 7 - Conservatives Block Genocide Treaty |
| December 7 - Conditions on $22 Million Program: Central America Police Aid Advances on Hill |
| December 7 - Election Experts Going to Philippines |
| December 7 - Negotiations Continue: Senate, House Differ on COLAs For Disabled Vets, Survivors |
| December 7 - Gold Coin Authorization Sent to President |
| December 7 - Panel Endorses Call for Justice/EPA Probe |
| December 7 - Senate Approves Dawson Nomination |
| December 7 - House Passes Titanic Memorial Bill |
| December 7 - Senate Judiciary Agrees on Nomination Procedure |
| December 7 - Whitley Decides Against Sixth Term |
| December 7 - Zschau Announces Senate Candidacy |
| December 14 - 'Week of Hard Choices': Major Budget, Tax Decisions Mark Waning Days of Session |
| December 14 - Congress Enacts Far-Reaching Budget Measure |
| December 14 - Highlights of Budget Plan (chart) |
| December 14 - Synar Sues to Block Automatic Cuts |
| December 14 - Revisions to Budget Process Timetable |
| December 14 - Doubts About Enactment Remain: Conferees Make Some Progress On Deficit-Reduction Measure |
| December 14 - GOP Defeats Attempt to Consider Tax Bill |
| December 14 - House Republicans Outflank White House As Frustrations with the Tax Bill Boil Over |
| December 14 - Defense Add-Ons Revive Senate Turf Fight |
| December 14 - New Business Tax Rejected: House Approves $10 Billion Bill For Hazardous-Waste Cleanups |
| December 14 - House Approves Ocean Dumping Bill |
| December 14 - Abortion Fight Averted: Senate Panel Reauthorizes Aid For Family-Planning Programs |
| December 14 - 'Gigantic Loophole' Charged: Senators' Mail Costs Disclosed; Cranston Tops List in Spending |
| December 14 - Senator's Quarterly Mass Mail Volumes and Costs |
| December 14 - House Approves Day-Care Center |
| December 14 - House, Senate Telephone Systems |
| December 14 - Restaurant Workers' Unionizing Drive |
| December 14 - House Panel Seeks to Help U.S. Firms Compete |
| December 14 - OPIC Authorization Measure Clears |
| December 14 - Senate Confirms Otis Bowen as HHS Secretary |
| December 14 - Reagan's Statement on Balanced Budget Bill |
| December 14 - House OKs Regional Low-Level Waste Bills |
| December 14 - Four-Day Extension Voted: Congress Continues Working On Stopgap Funding Measure |
| December 14 - Pension Plan Deadline Extended |
| December 14 - Conference Gets Some Young Blood |
| December 14 - Funding Flows in Wake of Flood |
| December 14 - Commerce/Justice/State Funding Bill Clears (chart) |
| December 14 - Furor Erupts Over New Curbs on Nuclear Pact |
| December 14 - Killed: Genocide Measure |
| December 14 - Micronesia Compact Cleared; Vote Thwarted on Armenians |
| December 14 - Upcoming: Angola Aid |
| December 14 - Major Disputes Remain: Farm Bill Conferees Accept New Target-Price Program |
| December 14 - Farm-Credit Negotiators Near Agreement |
| December 14 - Dairy Price Supports Extended |
| December 14 - Senate Committee Approves Scanlon for CPSC |
| December 14 - Senate Subcommittee OKs Higher Education Bill |
| December 14 - Short-Term Tax, Program Extensions Cleared |
| December 14 - Congress Clears Bill on Flexitime for U.S. Workers |
| December 14 - Ferraro, Thornburgh Decide Against Senate Bids |
| December 14 - House OKs 3.4 Percent Veterans' COLA |
| December 14 - House to Vote on Extension of RCRA Deadline |
| December 14 - Rep. Dannemeyer Enters Senate Race in California |
| December 14 - Senate Finance OKs New Waterway Taxes |
| December 21 - Adjournment by Attrition: Historic Votes, Long Nights Cap Final Weeks of Congress |
| December 21 - $368.2 Billion Omnibus Spending Bill Cleared |
| December 21 - Creative Thinking on the CR Front |
| December 21 - Highlights of Funding Bill |
| December 21 - Stevens: In the Thick of the Fight |
| December 21 - Deficit-Reduction Bill Goes Down to the Wire |
| December 21 - Oil-State Members Gamble All - And Lose |
| December 21 - House Votes to Extend Cigarette Tax, Medicare Fee Limits |
| December 21 - Farm Bill Offers Limited 'Win' for All Sides |
| December 21 - Spending Capped at $13 Billion: Bill Expands Food Stamp Benefits, Eligibility |
| December 21 - Major Provisions of Farm Bill Conference Report |
| December 21 - Bailout Requires Separate Appropriation: Congress Clears Aid Bill for Farm Credit System |
| December 21 - Override Off Until Aug. 6: After Last-Minute Reagan Veto, Textile Forces Look to Rematch |
| December 21 - Reauthorized Through Fiscal 1988: Development Program Survives Jobs Concern |
| December 21 - Budget Cuts Leave Mark on Foreign Arms Aid |
| December 21 - For Israel, No 'End-Run' on Gramm-Rudman Cutbacks |
| December 21 - Foreign Aid Appropriations, Fiscal 1986 |
| December 21 - 'Grave Concerns' of Bipartisan Experts: Congress Wary of Fairness of Philippine Election |
| December 21 - Aiding Angolan Rebels |
| December 21 - Assistance to Liberia |
| December 21 - British-Irish Accord Praised |
| December 21 - Contempt Citations Voted |
| December 21 - Money for Latin Police Forces Blocked in Late Senate Action |
| December 21 - $10.5 Billion for FY '86 Approved: Members Balk at Heavy Transportation Cuts |
| December 21 - Fiscal 1986 Transportation Funds (chart) |
| December 21 - Counterintelligence Move: Members Seek Detail About Reagan Lie-Detector Policy |
| December 21 - Housing Rewrite Put Over Until New Session |
| December 21 - Illinois Candidates File |
| December 21 - Will Seek Senate Re-Election: Kennedy Declares He Is Out Of 1988 Presidential Contest |
| December 21 - Reagan's Letter on Tax Bill -- Dec. 17, 1985 |
| December 21 - Reagan's Remarks on Gramm-Rudman-Hollings -- Dec. 17, 1985 |
| December 21 - President Reagan's Veto Message on Textile Quotas -- Dec. 17, 1985 |
| December 21 - House Reverses Self, Passes Major Tax Overhaul |
| December 21 - President's Fabled Power of Persuasion . . . . . . Switches GOP Votes, Resurrects Tax Bill |
| December 21 - Chronology of Tax Overhaul Bill |
| December 21 - Switched Votes on the Tax Bill Rule (chart) |
| December 21 - Credit for Campaign Contributions Altered, Extended |
| December 21 - Effort to Repeal Key Provision Fails: Congress Begins to Feel Pinch Of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings |
| December 21 - Defense Funds: Deferring the Painful Choices |
| December 21 - Disposal Deadlines Set: Low-Level Nuclear-Waste Bill Cleared for President Reagan |
| December 21 - Arms Sale Vetoes |
| December 21 - Benefits for Relatives of Crash Victims |
| December 21 - Government Employees' Travel Expenses |
| December 21 - House Votes to Extend RCRA Deadline |
| December 21 - Dorgan Bows Out of N.D. Senate Race |
| December 21 - Kennickell Confirmed as GPO Head |
| December 21 - New Conrail Bid Offered |
| December 21 - Smokeless Tobacco Health Warnings Urged |
| December 21 - Veterans' COLA Bill Clears |
| December 21 - Perspective: Out of the Budget Debate, Some Good Will |
| December 21 - Congress and the Country: Georgia Politics: A World Unto Itself |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary On Balance, a Year of Taking the Initiative |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary AGRICULTURE |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary APPROPRIATIONS |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary BANKING/COMMERCE |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary INSIDE CONGRESS |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary DEFENSE |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary ECONOMIC AFFAIRS |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary EDUCATION |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary ENERGY |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary ENVIRONMENT |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary FOREIGN POLICY |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary HEALTH |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary HOUSING/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary HUMAN SERVICES |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary LABOR |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary LAW/JUDICIARY |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary TRADE |
| December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary TRANSPORTATION |
| December 28 - Despite Decline in the Budget, Defense Programs Will Survive |
| December 28 - Fiscal 1986 Appropriations for Defense (chart) |
| December 28 - Only 60 Days Left for Agency: Synthetic Fuels Program Killed In Interior Appropriations Bill |
| December 28 - Final Fiscal 1986 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
| December 28 - Earlier Conference Agreement Cut .6 Percent: |
| December 28 - Senate Panel Urges Reforms: House Begins Security Review In Wake of Messenger's Arrest |
| December 28 - Bills on Bullets, 'Designer Drugs' Advance |
| December 28 - Delay Set for Sentencing Guidelines |
