 July 2 - Court Rules Against Reagan in Power Clash |
| July 2 - Framers Made Conflict Between Branches Part of the Natural Constitutional Order |
| July 2 - Big Losers in Decision Include Nofziger, Deaver |
| July 2 - Dukakis Dominates Platform Drafting: Hoping to Attract More Votes, Democrats Offer Fewer Words |
| July 2 - Changes Will Affect '92 Process: Pressed by Jackson Demands, Dukakis Yields on Party Rules |
| July 2 - How States Allocated Democratic |
| July 2 - From Vanquished Governor to Presidential Nominee: Michael Dukakis' Phoenix-like Political Rebirth |
| July 2 - One-Time Insurgent Now Broad-Based Leader: For Jackson, the Promise of Something Greater |
| July 2 - Texas Treasurer to Deliver July 18 Address: Keynoter Richards to Aim Withering Wit at GOP |
| July 2 - Running the Show in Atlanta: Ringmasters Represent Geographic Mix |
| July 2 - Members Consider Honoraria Ban, Higher Pay |
| July 2 - Senate Stalled on Plant-Closing Notification |
| July 2 - Senate Committee OKs Minimum-Wage Boost |
| July 2 - Suit Filed Against Teamsters Union |
| July 2 - Moratorium Sought on Cashouts: Pension Surpluses: A Corporate Piggy Bank? |
| July 2 - Pension Plan Terminations, 1980-87 (chart) |
| July 2 - Sweeping Changes Proposed: Scandal Touches Off Skirmishing Over Procurement-Law Reform |
| July 2 - Pentagon Calls Amendments 'Death by Pinpricks': Members Go on the Offensive to Defend Bases |
| July 2 - 1976 Law Poses Key Hurdle to Closing Bases |
| July 2 - $282 Billion Spending Legislation: Contra, NASA Battles Loom on Defense Bill |
| July 2 - Seeking to Redress Burden-Sharing Imbalance |
| July 2 - New Program on Verge of Passage: Grants for Research Facilities: Experiment to End 'Earmarks' |
| July 2 - Manned Space Station in the Balance: Officials Consider Defying Hill on Private Station |
| July 2 - Senate Commerce Endorses Independent FAA |
| July 2 - TRANSPORTATION/COMMERCE NOTES: Fishing Vessel Safety |
| July 2 - TRANSPORTATION/COMMERCE NOTES: Telemarketing Fraud |
| July 2 - Pell Grants Would Be Made an Entitlement: House Education Panel Seeks To Curb Student-Loan Defaults |
| July 2 - Angolan Gets Sympathy, Little Fresh Support |
| July 2 - U.S. to Fund New Missile for Israel |
| July 2 - Day-Care Package Clears First Hurdle in House |
| July 2 - Child-Care Benefits, Work Policies (chart) |
| July 2 - Community, Migrant Health Centers |
| July 2 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES NOTES Congress Renews WIN Programs |
| July 2 - Deafness Institute, Trauma-Center Program Approved: House Panel OKs Bills on Nursing, Health Issues |
| July 2 - Prognosis Good as Housing Bill Goes to Senate |
| July 2 - NRA Promises a Battle: Handgun Waiting Period Added to Drug Bill |
| July 2 - SUPREME COURT NOTES: Abortion Statute Upheld |
| July 2 - SUPREME COURT NOTES: Congress Rebuffed on Libel Suit |
| July 2 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
| July 2 - Spending Bill for Energy and Water Approved |
| July 2 - Fiscal 1989 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
| July 2 - Interior Spending Measure Passed: House Meets Deadline on Appropriations Bills |
| July 2 - House Defies Reagan in Transportation Bill |
| July 2 - Bars Enforcement of Residency Rule: House Passes D.C. Funding Bill, With Rider |
| July 2 - Senate OKs Treasury-Postal Funding |
| July 2 - $6 Billion in Revenue-Raisers Added: Tax Panel Nears Completion Of 'Technical Corrections' Bill |
| July 2 - Difficult Road Ahead: House Banking Panel OKs World Bank Funds |
| July 2 - Veterans' Panel OKs Limited Judicial Review |
| July 2 - Panel Approves Agent Orange Benefits |
| July 2 - Energy/Environment Notes: Congress Gives School Districts More Time to Clean Up Asbestos |
| July 2 - Text of the Opinion: Supreme Court Upholds Independent-Counsel Law |
| July 2 - PUBLIC LAWS: (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 1477) |
| July 2 - Congress Clears Student-Loan Changes |
| July 2 - Congress in Brief: The Week's Highlights |
| July 2 - Congress in Brief: What's Ahead |
| July 2 - House, Senate Panels OK Public Broadcasting Bills |
| July 2 - Senate Panel Approves NBS Reauthorization |
| July 2 - Court Blocks PLO Office Closing |
| July 2 - House Panel Approves Satellite TV Measure |
| July 2 - House Passes Bill to Protect Workers From Suit |
| July 2 - Panel OKs Bills on Ex-Presidents, Investigations |
| July 2 - Procurement Office Renewal Wins Committee OK |
| July 2 - Senate Passes Government Ethics Reauthorization |
| July 2 - Dukakis Puts Glenn in Spotlight |
| July 2 - Maryland GOP Picks New Senate Nominee |
| July 2 - President Signs Polygraph-Limit Bill |
| July 2 - Rail-Line Aid Wins Committee OK |
| July 2 - Reagan Signs Catastrophic-Care Bill |
| July 2 - Tennessee 2nd Special Election Primary Aug. 25 |
| July 9 - Who Will Running Mate Be? Scrutiny of Dukakis Campaign Covers All - Including Dessert |
| July 9 - Democratic Convention Delegation Profiles |
| July 9 - Primary Recap: |
| July 9 - Taking Stock of the Jackson Districts (chart) |
| July 9 - 1988 Democratic Primary Results (chart) |
| July 9 - 1988 Democratic First-Round Caucus Results (chart) |
| July 9 - 1988 Republican Primary Results (chart) |
| July 9 - 1988 Republican First-Round Caucus Results (chart) |
| July 9 - A Two-Year Odyssey to Nomination: |
| July 9 - 17 Counts Cited: Panel Calls for Impeachment, But Hastings Vows to Fight On |
| July 9 - Nixon Impeachment Hearings to Continue |
| July 9 - Congress Sheds Few Tears: Meese's Resignation Marks End of an Era |
| July 9 - Gun Lobbies Take Aim at Drug-Bill Provision |
| July 9 - Plane Incident Raises Questions on Gulf Policy |
| July 9 - Text of Reagan's Letter to Congress |
| July 9 - Congress Could 'Disapprove' the List: House Edges Closer to Easing Base Closings |
| July 9 - Defense Bill Conference Completed |
| July 9 - Controversial Issues Sidestepped: Senate Easily Passes Foreign Aid Funding Bill |
| July 9 - Hill Opposition to Kuwait Arms Sale Grows |
| July 9 - Multinational Sanctions Encouraged: House Panel OKs U.S.-South Africa Trade Ban |
| July 9 - Davis-Bacon Revision Pulled From Defense Bill |
| July 9 - Minimum Wage: Too Hot to Handle? |
| July 9 - Members of Congress Included: House Version of Lobbying Bill Less Restrictive Than Senate's |
| July 9 - Southern Democrats Bolt: House Orders Its Conferees To Slash Cost of Welfare Bill |
| July 9 - Health Corps, Animal-Drug Bills Approved: House Panel OKs Health-Professions Subsidies |
| July 9 - Interior's Motives Questioned: Alaskan Land-Exchange Plan Criticized as 'Unfair to Public' |
| July 9 - Senate OKs Advance Notice of Plant Closings |
| July 9 - Who Switched Votes in the Senate? |
| July 9 - Life Insurance Industry 'On Notice' |
| July 9 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS NOTES: Markey Presses Market Bill, SEC Backs One Vote Per Share |
| July 9 - House Panel Nears Action on Bank Regulation Bill |
| July 9 - Couple Gets Heard With Persistent Lobbying |
| July 9 - Bill Headed for Conference: Senate Agrees 92-0 to Revamp SBA Minority Business Program |
| July 9 - Stance on FY 1988 Spending Reversed: OMB's Miller Backs Away From Report-Language Battle |
| July 9 - Abortion, Residency Rule, Gay Rights: Senate Snarled Over D.C. Funding Measure |
| July 9 - Senate Clears Energy/Water Funding Bill |
| July 9 - Congress in Brief: The Week's Highlights |
| July 9 - Congress in Brief: What's Ahead |
| July 9 - Cost of Closing Thrifts Put at $15.2 Billion |
| July 9 - Drought-Relief Legislation Planned |
| July 9 - Real-Estate-Appraisal Reform |
| July 9 - Filing Surprises in Wisconsin, Rhode Island |
| July 9 - House Panel Approves Health Bill |
| July 9 - Senate Republicans Offer Anti-Drug Proposal |
| July 9 - Shaw Gets Slot on Ways and Means |
| July 9 - Congress Clears NTSB Reauthorization |
| July 9 - New Copyright Fees for Satellite TV Operators |
| July 9 - Panel Approves Funds for Superconductivity |
| July 16 - Dukakis and the Search for a New Hurrah |
| July 16 - The 1988 Democratic National Convention |
| July 16 - Insiders Seek Soul Possession: Democrats Struggle to Define Their Destiny |
| July 16 - Ethnic Whites Are Crucial: Dukakis Shows Potential for Broad Fall Appeal |
| July 16 - '88 Democratic Primary Vote: A Breakdown (chart) |
| July 16 - SAMPLE COUNTY VOTES (chart) |
| July 16 - Bentsen: Safe and Bold Hardball Tactics Carry the Day: Dukakis Plays the Texas Card |
| July 16 - Bentsen Lures Texans and Comforts Insiders |
| July 16 - 30 Years Later, Bentsen Uses Lone Star Loophole: LBJ Law Once Again Muddles Texas Politics |
| July 16 - Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen: A Solid Establishment Man Able and Willing to Maneuver |
| July 16 - 'Tory' Bentsen Walked a Fine Line in 1970 |
| July 16 - Bentsen's Key Votes Since 1983: |
| July 16 - 1980 and 1984 Presidential Elections (chart) |
| July 16 - State Delegations' Hotel Assignments (chart) |
| July 16 - Dispute on Minority Report: Comity on Platform Collapses As Angry Jackson Forces Dig In |
| July 16 - Hill Opposition Could Be Intense: Reagan May Bypass Congress On Iran Air Compensation |
| July 16 - Reagan to Press Arms Sales to Kuwait |
| July 16 - Hill Sets Stage for Contra-Aid Debate |
| July 16 - Hill Weighs Bills to Avert Procurement Abuses |
| July 16 - House Modifies, Passes Base-Closing Bill |
| July 16 - Senate OKs Cabinet Status, Judicial Review for Vets |
| July 16 - Simpson Fights a Lonely, Losing Battle Arguing That 'Veteran Mania' Must End |
| July 16 - Bush's Endorsement Is Added Bonus: Welfare Conference Begins, Buoyed by Bentsen's Selection |
| July 16 - House Votes New Deafness Institute |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Committees Seek to Promote Technology for Handicapped |
| July 16 - Health Notes: FDA Revision |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Health Professions |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Nursing Shortage |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Preventive Health |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Sexually Transmitted Ills |
| July 16 - Bentsen Selection Has Senate Reverberations |
| July 16 - Outlook Improved for House Bill: Senate Committee Approves Parental-Leave Legislation |
| July 16 - House Committee Approves Student-Loan Bill |
| July 16 - NASA Wins, UDAGs Lose in Senate HUD Bill |
| July 16 - Far More Than Administration Sought: Senate Approves $10.6 Billion For Transportation Programs |
| July 16 - Riders Burden D.C. Spending Bill |
| July 16 - New Clean-Air Compromise Put Forth |
| July 16 - Senate Shifts Oil Drilling Speedup to Alaska |
| July 16 - Prognosis Uncertain: House, Senate Move to Revive Pesticide Bills |
| July 16 - Energy/Environment Notes: Bills on Indoor Air Pollution, Manassas Battlefield Advance |
| July 16 - Both Votes Seen as Veto-Proof: Trade, Plant-Closing Bills Win Strong House Backing |
| July 16 - House Panel OKs Tax Bill; Senate Outlook Dim |
| July 16 - Economic Affairs Notes: Ruling Yields Windfall to S and Ls, Panels Back Canada Trade Bill |
| July 16 - Drought-Relief Bills Attract Scores of Add-Ons |
| July 16 - House Panel Approves Food-Stamp Bill |
| July 16 - Ambassadorial Nominations Advance |
| July 16 - Congress Clears Defense Authorization Bill |
| July 16 - Congress Clears S and L Moratorium Extension |
| July 16 - Congress in Brief: The Week's Highlights |
| July 16 - Congress in Brief: What's Ahead |
| July 16 - House Gets Peek at Supplemental Spending Bill |
| July 16 - House GOP Adopts Rules Changes |
| July 16 - House Panel OKs Animal Patent Bill |
| July 16 - House Republicans Want Fazio off Ethics Panel |
| July 16 - Judge Nixon Testifies at Impeachment Inquiry |
| July 16 - Senate Panel OKs Postal, Budget Bills |
| July 16 - Thornburgh Nominated to Succeed Meese |
| July 16 - Costello Wins Illinois 5th Special Primary |
| July 16 - Hearing-Aid Bill Passed by Senate |
| July 16 - Public Broadcasting Reauthorization Advances |
| July 16 - Senate Committee Prods States on Drunken Driving |
| July 16 - Senate Judiciary Rejects Siegan Nomination |
| July 16 - Senate Passes SBA Reauthorization |
| July 23 - Marching From Atlanta, Their Eyes on the Prize |
| July 23 - Some New Language Could Plague Dukakis: Platform Compromise Yields Benefits, Risks |
| July 23 - Three Minority Planks Rejected: Dukakis-Jackson Pact Yields Nine Platform Amendments |
| July 23 - Building a November Victory: Map Leaves Democrats Little Room for Error |
| July 23 - Favorable Sign for Dukakis: |
| July 23 - A Possible Democratic Target List |
| July 23 - Conversations With Delegates: Running With the Ticket, Not Away From It |
| July 23 - A Powerful Will to Win: From Day One, Unity is the Convention Theme |
| July 23 - Package Signed on Eve of Convention: Home-State Budget Crisis: A Test for Dukakis |
| July 23 - Key Ballots at the 1988 Democratic Convention (chart) |
| July 23 - McKay's Verdict on Meese Cuts Both Ways |
| July 23 - Lines Forming for Another Contra-Aid Battle |
| July 23 - Stinger Sale Proposed for Greece |
| July 23 - Congress Stalled on Market-Regulation Bills |
| July 23 - Securities Issues Confronting Congress |
| July 23 - 1988 Technical-Corrections Bill: Major Provisions |
| July 23 - Should It Go in Omnibus Bill? House Leaders Weigh Drug Tests For Air, Bus, Truck, Rail Workers |
| July 23 - Counsel Choice Nears in Wright Case |
| July 23 - Pentagon Ally Stratton to End House Career |
| July 23 - Over GOP Protest, Hill Clears Defense Bill |
| July 23 - Iran Reverses Stance on Gulf Cease-Fire |
| July 23 - Defense Authorizations for Fiscal 1989 (chart) |
| July 23 - 'Race to the Finish Line': Nomination in Hand, Dukakis Pledges 'Era of Greatness' |
| July 23 - Accepts Veep Nomination Bentsen Calls for 'Equality of Opportunity' |
| July 23 - Stresses 'Common Ground': Jackson Talks of Hope, Dreams As He Weaves 'Quilt of Unity' |
| July 23 - Richards Sets the Stage: Keynote Speech Skewers Bush, Stirs Democrats |
| July 23 - Text of July 18 News Conference: Dukakis, Jackson, Bentsen Team Up in a Show of Unity |
| July 23 - PUBLIC LAWS (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 1854) |
| July 23 - ACLU Comes to North's Defense |
| July 23 - CONGRESS IN BRIEF: The Week's Highlights |
| July 23 - CONGRESS IN BRIEF: What's Ahead |
| July 23 - Moratorium on Welfare Penalty Payments |
| July 23 - U.S. Support for Angola Rebels to Continue |
| July 30 - Both Parties Seek to Patch Gaps in Their Image |
| July 30 - Vying for a Political Edge |
| July 30 - Child-Care Measure Faces Floor Fight: Senate Labor Committee Approves ABC Bill |
| July 30 - House GOP Adopts Old Democratic Plan: Tax Credit Pushed as Alternative to Wage Hike |
| July 30 - Still Exceeds Senate Version by $1.6 Billion: House Offer on Welfare Bill Pares Total Costs Somewhat |
| July 30 - Drought Bill Would Help Farmers, Incumbents |
| July 30 - Senate Passes $1.5 Billion Food Bill for the Needy |
| July 30 - Contra Aid Entangled in U.S., Regional Politics |
| July 30 - Covert Action Plan Against Noriega: When a Secret Is Not a Secret, Hackles Are Raised on the Hill |
| July 30 - Troubled Future in Senate: Ways and Means Backs Apartheid Sanctions Bill |
| July 30 - Bentsen Gets Panel Support for Narrow Tax Bill |
| July 30 - $5.9 Billion Left for All New Programs: OMB Fiscal '89 Budget Report Puts Hill Democrats in a Bind |
| July 30 - Republicans Split as Reagan Eyes Defense Veto |
| July 30 - Canada Bill Submitted, OPIC Measure OK'd |
| July 30 - Some Consider Vote Fruitless: Judiciary Members Reluctant To Deal With Insurance Issue |
| July 30 - Weary House Panel OKs Bank-Deregulation Bill |
| July 30 - Highlights of the House Bank-Deregulation Bill |
| July 30 - Judiciary Committee Votes to Impeach Hastings |
| July 30 - Conyers Hears Echoes of Civil Rights Struggle |
| July 30 - $1 Billion Over Two Years: Homeless-Aid Reauthorization Readied for Quick Floor Action |
| July 30 - Chicago Lawyer Will Conduct Wright Inquiry |
| July 30 - Labor-HHS Funding Bill Passed: Curbs on Abortion Funding Relaxed Slightly by Senate |
| July 30 - Penalty Urged on Pension Cash-outs |
| July 30 - Amendments Held for Second Measure: House OKs 'Dire Emergency' Supplemental Bill |
| July 30 - Appropriations Set at $15 Billion: Commerce, Justice, State Funding Approved |
| July 30 - Senate Passes Agriculture Spending Bill |
| July 30 - Health Notes: Crisis Nurseries |
| July 30 - Health Notes: House Passes Bill to Tighten Regulation of Medical Devices |
| July 30 - Health Notes: Public Health Programs |
| July 30 - Bill to Protect Aviation 'Whistleblowers' OK'd |
| July 30 - Government Operations Notes: Boost in Transition Funds OK'd; House Raises Veterans' Benefits |
| July 30 - House Gives Nod to Land Exchange |
| July 30 - Park Service Reorganization Sent to Senate |
| July 30 - House Passes Fish and Wildlife Bills |
| July 30 - Veto Predicted: House Votes to Limit Logging in Alaska Forest |
| July 30 - Endangered-Species Bill Passed: Senate Votes for Shrimpers Over Sea Turtles |
| July 30 - Two Upscale Colorado Districts in the Spotlight (chart) |
| July 30 - FEC OKs Money for Democrats: Protesting Bentsen's Funding, GOP Seeks Court Intervention |
| July 30 - April 1988 Lobby Registrations: Corporations and Businesses |
| July 30 - Clean Air Act, Banking Action Interest Lobbyists During April |
| July 30 - April 1988 Lobby Registrations: Foreign Government |
| July 30 - April 1988 Lobby Registrations: Interest Groups |
| July 30 - April 1988 Lobby Registrations: Labor Organizations |
| July 30 - April 1988 Lobby Registrations: State and Local Governments |
| July 30 - April 1988 Lobby Registrations: Trade Associations |
| July 30 - April 1988 Lobby Registrations: Miscellaneous |
| July 30 - Congress Clears Hearing-Aid Bill |
| July 30 - Congress in Brief: The Week's Highlights |
| July 30 - Congress in Brief: What's Ahead |
| July 30 - Senate Banking OKs Two S and L Bills |
| July 30 - Senate Panel OKs International SEC Action |
| July 30 - House Panel Approves Bill to Lessen Radon Threat |
| July 30 - Interior Panel OKs Bills Reorganizing Two Offices |
| July 30 - Panel Weighs Options to Enforce North Subpoena |
| July 30 - Senate Approves Internment Conference Report |
| July 30 - Del. Sunia Charged With Payroll Fraud |
| July 30 - House Votes to Extend Anti-Drug Programs |
| July 30 - Senate Panel OKs Trauma-Care Bill |
| July 30 - Ways and Means Voices Reservations on Drug Bill |
