May 2 - House Passes Comprehensive Trade Measure |
May 2 - Making the Trade Bill |
May 2 - Highlights of HR3, the House-Passed Trade Bill |
May 2 - Debate Over the Gephardt Amendment... ...Masks Extent of Consensus on Trade Bill |
May 2 - Finance Committee Trade Markup Advances |
May 2 - The Contra Money Flow: Answers Anticipated |
May 2 - Contra Fund-Raiser Pleads Guilty, Names North |
May 2 - Senate Panel Backs Webster Nomination... ...After Questions on Contacts With North |
May 2 - One Option: Tear Down New Moscow Building Capitol Hill Moving to Counter Soviet Espionage at Embassies |
May 2 - Administration and Hill Weigh Request... ...By Pakistan for Advanced Radar Planes |
May 2 - Effort to Improve Floor Prospects: Republicans on House Panel Try to Revise Foreign Aid Bill |
May 2 - Senate Progress on 1988 Spending Plan Slows |
May 2 - Panel OKs $9.4 Billion Add-On Spending Bill |
May 2 - House Supplemental Totals (chart) |
May 2 - GOP Filibuster Possible on Floor: Senate Rules Committee OKs Major Campaign Finance Bill |
May 2 - Downey Takes Key Subcommittee: Leaders Say Ford Indictment Won't Slow Welfare Reform |
May 2 - Dingell, Markey Propose Takeover Measure |
May 2 - Another Step Forward for Labor's Job Risk Bill |
May 2 - House Panel Votes to Restrict Use of Polygraphs |
May 2 - Immigration Law Brings Anxiety, Ambiguity |
May 2 - El Salvador: Anatomy of a Change of Heart |
May 2 - Measure Would Raise $15 Billion: Wright Reverses His Position, Backs Bigger S and L Rescue Plan |
May 2 - House Panel OKs $17.7 Billion Housing Plan |
May 2 - Senate Panel OKs Grants to Clean Up Radon |
May 2 - Victory for Reagan Administration: Justice Department Upheld On Labeling of Canadian Films |
May 2 - Defense Bill Poses Funding, Policy Challenges |
May 2 - Fiscal 1988 Defense Authorizations: a Comparison (chart) |
May 2 - 'Catch-Up' on the Medical Front |
May 2 - Major Provisions of House Panel's Education Bill |
May 2 - Senators OK Bilingual Education Changes |
May 2 - April 28 Session With Reporters: Reagan Faces Questions On Arms Control, Iran-Contra |
May 2 - House Energy OKs Health Service Corps Bill |
May 2 - Senate Agriculture Panel Stalls on Farm Credit |
May 2 - Wall Named to Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
May 2 - Dukakis Enters Presidential Race, Laxalt on His Way |
May 2 - Panel OKs Antitrust Review of Partnership Mergers |
May 2 - Protections for Retirees in Bankruptcies Cleared |
May 2 - Senate Rules OKs FEC Authorization |
May 9 - Will 'Super Tuesday' Mean Southern Trouble? |
May 9 - 'Super Tuesday' Rules, State-by-State (chart) |
May 9 - Tentative 1988 Primary/Caucus Schedule (chart) |
May 9 - Hearings Begin With Look at Secord Network |
May 9 - The Money: How Much, and Where Did It Go? |
May 9 - Despite Atmosphere of Bipartisanship... ...Members Divide on Political Agendas |
May 9 - Another Guilty Plea in Walsh's Iran-Contra Probe |
May 9 - Behind the Bright Lights, Light Moments |
May 9 - Senate Adopts Democrats' Fiscal 1988 Budget |
May 9 - Senate Budget Summary (chart) |
May 9 - Showdown Looms Over Increasing Federal Debt Ceiling |
May 9 - Major Assumptions of Senate-Passed Budget |
May 9 - Fiscal 1988 Budgets by Function Compared (chart) |
May 9 - Byrd Scrambling to Save Funding Bill: Deficit-Conscious Senators Bar Action on Supplemental |
May 9 - AIDS Victim Rep. McKinney Dies |
May 9 - House Leaders Protest 'Gag Order' on Ford |
May 9 - Arms Control, Funding at Issue: House Rebuffs Reagan Views On Defense Spending, Policy |
May 9 - Having No Truck With Pentagon Mitsubishis |
May 9 - ABM Treaty the Key: Senate Panel Lays Groundwork For Showdown on 'Star Wars' |
May 9 - Finance Committee Approves Trade Measure |
May 9 - Major Provisions of House-Passed Trade Bill |
May 9 - House Panel Approves Catastrophic Care Plan |
May 9 - Comparison of Catastrophic Care Proposals (chart) |
May 9 - Senate Taking Catastrophic Cue From House |
May 9 - Health Notes: House Moves to Close 'Gray Market' for Drugs |
May 9 - Are Men-Only Clubs Inappropriate for Judges? |
May 9 - Inquiry Begins on Meese's Role in Wedtech |
May 9 - Obscenity Standard Clarified in Second Case: High Court Says Rotary Clubs Not Entitled to Exclude Women |
May 9 - Hart, the Outsider, Quits White House Race |
May 9 - Wright, White House Plan Rejected: House Sides With S and L Lobby On Rescue of Insurance Fund |
May 9 - House Agrees to Limit Check Holds |
May 9 - Farm Credit Bailout to Cost at Least $6 Billion |
May 9 - Marketing Loan Battlefield Shifts to Trade |
May 9 - House Panel Approves Nuclear Insurance Bill |
May 9 - Bill Would Limit Grand Canyon Flights |
May 9 - Help for Oil and Gas Industry: House and Senate Vote to Repeal Fuel Use Act |
May 9 - Excerpts of Testimony From First Three Days: Iran-Contra Hearings Open, Secord Testifies Before Panel |
May 9 - Conferees Agree on Disaster Relief Bill |
May 9 - House Committee Approves Oil Spill Bill |
May 9 - House Panel Votes to Make Fairness Doctrine Law |
May 9 - Senate Panel OKs Bilingual Education Bill |
May 9 - Airport Programs Reauthorization Introduced |
May 9 - Hollings Lifts 'Hold' on Webster Nomination |
May 9 - Sen. Karnes Given Committee Assignments |
May 9 - Gary Hart: Downfall of a Rootless Candidate |
May 16 - 'Pork' Rejected by House Subcommittee: Airport Reauthorization Plans OK'd by House, Senate Panels |
May 16 - Difficult Conference Ahead: Senate Rejects the House Plan To Rescue S and L Insurance Fund |
May 16 - Permanent 'GI Bill' Sent to the White House |
May 16 - Excerpts From Congressional Hearings: Secord, McFarlane Testify Before Iran-Contra Panel |
May 16 - Disaster Relief Bill Goes to President |
May 16 - Farm Credit Markup Begins Slowly |
May 16 - House Committee OKs 'Fairness Doctrine' Bill |
May 16 - Panel Approves SBA Changes |
May 16 - Senate Committee Lineups Set |
May 16 - Senate Committee OKs Veterans' Training Bill |
May 16 - Senate Panel OKs State Department Bill |
May 16 - U.S. Won't Let Illegal Salvadorans Stay |
May 16 - House GOP Prepares for Leadership Shuffle |
May 16 - Bitterness Lingers From GOP Assignments |
May 16 - Helping Contras 'Body and Soul': Unfolding Story of Arms Deals Points to Active Reagan Role |
May 16 - Confusing Policy Is Laid to Boland Law |
May 16 - Another Day, Another $10 Million |
May 16 - Documents Show Congress Was Misled: Memos Detail North's Role in Contra Network |
May 16 - More Than 'Milk and Cookies' |
May 16 - Sen. Nunn at the Center: Critical Showdown Over SDI Under Way on Capitol Hill |
May 16 - House Slashes President's SDI Request... ...In Move to Slow Push for Deployment |
May 16 - Fiscal 1988 Defense Authorizations (chart) |
May 16 - Parliamentary War Erupts Over Defense Bill |
May 16 - Weinberger Letter Kicks Up Fuss: One Panel Defers, Another OKs Fiscal 1988 NASA Authorization |
May 16 - Partisan Feuding Stalls FY 1987 Supplemental |
May 16 - Fiscal 1987 Supplemental Totals (chart) |
May 16 - Budget Talks Set as Congress Raises Debt Limit |
May 16 - Signal of Fiscal Restraint From Democrats... ...May Presage New Strength for the Budget |
May 16 - Conferees Debate Defense and Taxes, Decide Nothing |
May 16 - Five More Panels Join the Act: Senate Committees Continue To Work on Trade Measures |
May 16 - Hill Campaign Spending Hits All-Time High |
May 16 - The Leading Campaign Spenders, 1985-86 (chart) |
May 16 - Connecticut 4th Special Election: Moderates Expected to Lead In Race to Succeed McKinney |
May 16 - Denies Any Wrongdoing: Meese Asks Special Prosecutor To Examine Ties to Wedtech |
May 16 - Congress Faces Major Fight Over AIDS Testing |
May 16 - Reauthorization Ready for House Floor: Panel OKs Higher Spending Under Older Americans Act |
May 16 - 'Family Leave' Bill Moves Forward in House |
May 23 - Safety Sought in Moving Hazardous Materials |
May 23 - The Do's and Don'ts of Cleaning Up |
May 23 - Estimated Transportation of Hazardous Materials |
May 23 - Links in Contra Arms Network Tell Their Stories |
May 23 - Contra Cash Flow: Tracing the $34 Million |
May 23 - The Other Iran-Contra Agenda: Reagan Allies Using Hearings As Platform to Boost His Policy |
May 23 - Boland Amendments: A Review |
May 23 - Senate Confirms Webster for CIA |
May 23 - Tax Questions Tie Up Conference on Budget |
May 23 - Anticipated Revenue Gains From Selected Tax Increases (chart) |
May 23 - Senate Schedule Begins to Slip: Export Controls, Foreign Debt Addressed in Banking Panel Bill |
May 23 - Kelley Approved for Federal Reserve |
May 23 - Regulators Warn of Strains on Insurance Fund |
May 23 - Heated Fights Over AIDS Testing, Immigration: Senate Finally Begins Debate On Fiscal 1987 Supplemental |
May 23 - The CCC Plows a Furrow for Other Spending |
May 23 - Whitten Seldom Wastes an Opportunity... ...Especially When It Comes to Agriculture |
May 23 - Old-Fashioned Democrat Simon Joins '88 Field |
May 23 - Fading 'Sunshine' Reforms: Few Complaints Are Voiced As Doors Close on Capitol Hill |
May 23 - The Power to Delay, Obstruct: Senate GOP Flexes Muscles of the Minority |
May 23 - 1985-86 PAC Contributions Detailed |
May 23 - Senate Panel Moves Bill Restricting Lobbying |
May 23 - A Question of Prerogatives: Dispute Over the ABM Treaty Stalls Defense Bill in Senate |
May 23 - Victory for Growing Democratic Solidarity: House Approves a $289 Billion Defense Bill |
May 23 - Panel's Toughened Stand on Contracting... ...Pre-empts the 'Procurement Reformers' |
May 23 - But Court Rebuffs Suits by Military Personnel: Ruling on Old Civil Rights Law A Victory for Ethnic Groups |
May 23 - Overturning Supreme Court: Bill to Revive Anti-Bias Laws OK'd by Senate Labor Panel |
May 23 - Reagan Administration Objects: Civil Rights Groups Push Hard For Stronger Fair-Housing Law |
May 23 - Reynolds' Promotion Angers Senate Democrats |
May 23 - Criminal Penalties for Airline Violations |
May 23 - Malpractice Suits by Military Personnel |
May 23 - More Time to Study Mergers: Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Measures |
May 23 - Members Split Along Party Lines: Panel Agrees to $17.3 Billion Housing, Development Plan |
May 23 - Bill Would Make Employers Provide Insurance |
May 23 - New Medicare Plan May Include Drug Coverage |
May 23 - Partisan Wrangling Marks Work on Welfare |
May 23 - Floor Fight Certain: Job Risk, Double-Breasting Bills Approved by House Labor Panel |
May 23 - House Avoids Fights in Passing Education Bill |
May 23 - Energy Panel Retreats After Contractors Object |
May 23 - Consumer Protection Commission Under Fire: All-Terrain-Vehicle Accidents Spur Congressional Concern |
May 23 - Air Traffic Control Research OK'd |
May 23 - Cities Are Not Pleased: U.S. Barges Would Be Required for Sewage |
May 23 - Week Three of Iran-Contra Hearings: The Courier and the Contra Testify Before Special Panel |
May 23 - 'Thank You, Ollie North' |
May 23 - PUBLIC LAWS |
May 23 - Hastings Counsel Appointed |
May 23 - Saudi Arms Sale Delayed After Gulf Incident |
May 23 - Two Senate Committees Shift Subcommittee Jobs |
May 23 - Committee Approves Computer Security Bill |
May 23 - House Committee OKs Uniform Poll-Closing Bill |
May 23 - House Science Panel Approves NSF Authorization |
May 23 - Kentuckians Choosing Gubernatorial Nominees |
May 23 - Panel Would Speed Federal Payments |
May 23 - Senate Passes Computer Matching Bill |
May 23 - Perspective: Speaker Style: Jim Wright and the FSLIC Bill |
May 23 - The Beltway Mentality: Illness or Illusion? |
May 30 - Oil Slump: Bad for Exxon or Bad for Everyone? |
May 30 - Oil-State Members Run Into Opposition... ...As They Push for Tax on Imported Crude |
May 30 - Final Senate Passage Stalled: Fiscal 1987 Supplemental Bill Snags on Budget Objections |
May 30 - Senate Votes to Delay Immigration Sanctions |
May 30 - Spending Panels Will Start Work Without Budget |
May 30 - Major Provisions, 1987 Supplemental Funding Bill |
May 30 - 'Reflagging' of Kuwaiti Ships to Follow: Reagan to Report to Congress On Plan to Guard Oil Tankers |
May 30 - The Hearings: A Political Truth or Consequences |
May 30 - State Department, CIA Roles: Web of Contra Supply Effort Seems to Touch More Officials |
May 30 - S1127: Bill's Highlights |
May 30 - Senate Panel Approves Medicare Expansion |
May 30 - Four-Year Reauthorization Passed: House Votes Higher Spending Under Older Americans Act |
May 30 - Pelosi Favored in Special Election |
May 30 - Wilkinson Nominated for Kentucky Governor |
May 30 - Cameras an Accepted Feature Now: After One Year of Television, Senate Is Basically Unchanged |
May 30 - Major Impact Expected in States: Preventive-Detention Statute Is Upheld as Constitutional |
May 30 - Panel Looks at Contra Aid, Record-Keeping |
May 30 - Bill to Bar Unscrupulous Doctors OK'd |
May 30 - FSLIC Bill Stalled in House |
May 30 - House Votes to Increase VA Care Payments |
May 30 - Reagan Signs Disaster Relief Bill |
May 30 - Deaver Trial Postponed |
May 30 - House Approves Changes for SBA |
May 30 - House Passes West Virginia Rivers Bill |
May 30 - Panel Recommends Increase for Coast Guard |
May 30 - Plans for New Senate Subway Advance |