 January 3 - Profiles in Power: Leaders Without Portfolio |
| January 3 - The Influential Committees: Money and Issues |
| January 3 - State Delegations: Power's Payoffs and Pitfalls |
| January 3 - Press Coverage: It's What You Do That Counts |
| January 3 - Influence on the Hill: Having It and Using It |
| January 3 - From Clay to Johnson: The Exercise of Power |
| January 3 - $4 Billion in Supplemental Appropriations Sought |
| January 3 - Committee Assignments, Chairmanships |
| January 3 - New Student Loan Program Sought |
| January 3 - Administration, Europeans Square Off on Tariffs |
| January 3 - New Life for Highway Bill? |
| January 3 - St Germain Faces Possible Challenge at Banking |
| January 3 - The Hill Leaders: Their Places on the Ladder |
| January 10 - Congress Opens With Partisan Skirmishing |
| January 10 - Budget and Deficit Targets (chart) |
| January 10 - Little New in $1 Trillion 1988 Budget Request |
| January 10 - Weariness Over Budget Impasse Leads... Leads Some to Speak Aloud About Tax Hikes |
| January 10 - Baseline Budget Projections (chart) |
| January 10 - Hill Experts Dispute Fiscal 1988 Deficit Estimate |
| January 10 - A Glossary of Budget Terms |
| January 10 - Cutting the Deficit: Most Administration Proposals Are Hardy Perennials |
| January 10 - Budget Proposes $18.7 Billion in Spending Cuts... |
| January 10 - Health/Human Services: Budget Cuts in Health and Welfare Raise Hackles on Hill |
| January 10 - Agriculture: President Urges Congress to Overhaul Farm Programs |
| January 10 - Education: Reagan Targets Student Aid for Deep Spending Cuts |
| January 10 - Housing: HUD Budget Would Be Slashed by 28 Percent |
| January 10 - Foreign Affairs: Military Aid - Including Contra Money - Is Priority |
| January 10 - Defense: Debate Centers Not on Size of Pie, but How to Divide It |
| January 10 - Defense Money: Where Does It Go? (chart) |
| January 10 - Energy/Environment: Familiar Refrain: Reagan Proposes, Congress Opposes |
| January 10 - Research and Development: Reagan Requests More Funds for Military, Space, AIDS |
| January 10 - Federal Salaries: Pay Raise Proposed for Congress, Other Top Officials |
| January 10 - Reagan Proposes Merit Pay System |
| January 10 - Proposed Top-Level Salaries (chart) |
| January 10 - Transportation/Commerce: Amtrak Sale, Mass Transit Funding Cuts Proposed |
| January 10 - Law/Judiciary: More Funds Sought for Immigration Law, Prisons |
| January 10 - Reagan Administration Economic Assumptions (chart) |
| January 10 - Budget Authority and Outlays by Agency (chart) |
| January 10 - Budget Authority by Function (chart) |
| January 10 - Contained in His 1988 Budget Proposal: Text of President Reagan's Fiscal 1988 Budget Message |
| January 10 - Sweeping Legislation Expected: Democrats off Starting Blocks In Effort to Enact a Trade Bill |
| January 10 - Aspin Ousted as Armed Services Chairman |
| January 10 - Lugar vs. Helms, First Round |
| January 10 - Only a Few Remain to Be Handed Out: House Leaders Make Committee Assignments |
| January 10 - Partisanship Marks Launching of Iran Panels |
| January 10 - Report Confirms Arms-for-Hostages Goal |
| January 10 - First Confrontation of New Year: House Rejects Reagan Offer, Passes Clean Water Bill Again |
| January 10 - Clean Water Funding for the States (chart) |
| January 10 - Babbitt, Kemp Edge Closer to Presidential Bids |
| January 10 - Kunin Elected Governor in Vermont |
| January 10 - Recount to Resume in Indiana's 3rd District |
| January 10 - Rep. Biaggi Under Investigation in New York |
| January 10 - Rep. Sala Burton Denies Resignation Rumors |
| January 10 - The New South and the Democratic Senate |
| January 17 - Four Battling for Armed Services Chairmanship |
| January 17 - Stiff Challenges to Reagan Program: Key Players Mirror Democrats' Defense Odyssey |
| January 17 - Taking a Look at the Four Contenders For the Armed Services Chairmanship |
| January 17 - Hill Drumbeats Increase for a Reagan Apology |
| January 17 - Texts of Administration Documents Justifying Arms-for-Hostages Deal |
| January 17 - Carter's Iran Dealings: A Valid Comparison? |
| January 17 - Democrats Want Quick Action: Party Unity, Not Bipartisanship, Sets Tone for Budget Debate |
| January 17 - 'Security Aid' Totals, Fiscal 1986-88 |
| January 17 - Democrats Agree to White House Request: In Gesture to President Reagan, Senate Delays Clean Water Vote |
| January 17 - Kennedy Off and Running With Liberal Agenda |
| January 17 - Highway/Mass Transit Bill at Stake: Foes of 55 mph Highway Limit Plan to Challenge House Rule |
| January 17 - Homeless Aid Gets Boost From House Leaders |
| January 17 - Court Upholds State Pregnancy Leave Law |
| January 17 - Pocket-Veto Case Declared Moot |
| January 17 - Acid Rain Bill Introduced in Senate |
| January 17 - Appliance Efficiency Standards Reintroduced |
| January 17 - IRS Says No Changes Likely in W-4 Tax Form |
| January 17 - Anti-Smoking Groups Unveil Agenda |
| January 17 - Congressional Pay Raise Still on Track |
| January 17 - Senate Appropriations: New Subcommittee Heads |
| January 17 - Stark Holds Off Challenge at Ways and Means |
| January 24 - Aspin Makes Comeback at Armed Services |
| January 24 - Seniority System Thriving in Congress Despite Challenges in House, Senate |
| January 24 - Ranking Republican on Foreign Relations: In Victory for Seniority System, Helms Wrests Post From Lugar |
| January 24 - Court Rejects Administration Deferral Authority |
| January 24 - Members' Desire for a Deficit 'Summit' May Lead to a Debt-Limit Confrontation |
| January 24 - 'It's Not an Easy Task': Staffing, Paper Flow Pose Delays For House, Senate Investigations |
| January 24 - Draft Report: Finding Fault With Reagan Aides |
| January 24 - S and L Group Has Own Plan: Fight Brews Over Bailing Out Ailing Savings Insurance Fund |
| January 24 - Police, NRA Brace for Rematch on Gun Control |
| January 24 - Hastings Responds to Charges |
| January 24 - Court Rules on Clean Water, Voting Rights |
| January 24 - Verification Debate Stalls Nuclear Test Pacts |
| January 24 - The Two Treaties: What They Would Do |
| January 24 - Passed by Overwhelming Margin: Senate Clears Clean Water Bill, Urges President Not to Veto It |
| January 24 - Clean Water Bill Authorizations (chart) |
| January 24 - Local Officials Gird for Fight Over Federal Aid |
| January 24 - House Passes $90 Billion, Five-Year Package: Speed Limit Stays a Roadblock For Highway, Mass Transit Bill |
| January 24 - New Senate Democrats Back Billboard Use |
| January 24 - GOP Picks New Orleans for 1988 Convention |
| January 24 - Homeless Aid Bill Advances in the House |
| January 24 - IRS Now Plans Overhaul of W-4 Tax Form |
| January 24 - Campaign '88: Presidential Ins and Outs |
| January 24 - Drug Testing Urged for Transportation Workers |
| January 24 - More Talk of 'Competitiveness' in Trade |
| January 24 - Rep. Hiler the Winner in Indiana 3rd |
| January 24 - Senate Debates Committee Funding |
| January 31 - The Israel Link: Questions, but No Blame |
| January 31 - Policy Made by 'Amateurs': Senate Report Lays Out Details Of Iran, Contra Arms Dealings |
| January 31 - Conflicts Loom Between Counsel, Probers Over Granting of Immunity to Witnesses |
| January 31 - Hot Potato Tossed to House: Senate Votes to Bar Pay Raise For Congress, Other Officials |
| January 31 - Economic Forecast Counts on Trade Improvement |
| January 31 - Newest Budget Panel Members Confront Jargon, Turf Battles and a Looming Deficit |
| January 31 - Fiscal 1988 Budget by Function: $1.024 Trillion In |
| January 31 - $50 Million for Emergency Food and Shelter: New Homeless Aid Approved Despite Budget-Busting Fears |
| January 31 - No New Initiatives Offered in State of the Union |
| January 31 - High Court Holds the Line on Miranda Rule |
| January 31 - New 'Moment-of-Silence' Test Set |
| January 31 - Prospects Good for Bill Limiting Check Holds |
| January 31 - Before a Joint Session of Congress Jan. 27: Text of President Reagan's State of the Union Address |
| January 31 - President Reagan's Message to Congress Accompanying His Economic Report -- Jan. 29, 1987 |
| January 31 - As Delivered by Wright and Byrd: Democratic Response to State of the Union -- Jan. 27, 1987 |
| January 31 - White House Plans Not Ready Yet: Congress Takes Ball and Runs After State of the Union Punt |
| January 31 - Senate Panel Revives Indian Health Care Bill |
| January 31 - Members Criticize Plan for Nuclear-Waste Disposal |
| January 31 - Omnibus Education Bill Unveiled in House |
| January 31 - Senate Committee OKs Appliance Standards Bill |
| January 31 - Senate Votes to Extend Drought and Flood Benefits |
| January 31 - Reagan Vetoes Clean Water Bill |
| January 31 - Rep. Anthony Names Regional Chairmen for DCCC |
| January 31 - Senate Refuses to Cut Funds for Its Committees |
| January 31 - Senators Offer Bill Requiring SALT II Compliance |
| January 31 - New Judicial Impeachment Proceedings Likely |
| January 31 - Rep. Burton Will Not Run Again, May Step Down |
| January 31 - Rep. Nelson Re-elected Space Panel Chairman |
| January 31 - Washington Snow Job: 'Take the Money, Please!' |
