 May 2 - The National Refuge System |
| May 3 - REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP: GOP Leaders Coax the Restive Right To Overlook Plan's Imperfections |
| May 3 - CHRONOLOGY: Clinton and the GOP Congress: A Rough Road to Agreement |
| May 3 - ELECTORAL IMPACT: Budget Votes Will Resonate In Election Years Ahead |
| May 3 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: GOP Linked to Foreign Funds In Recent Campaigns |
| May 3 - COMMITTEES: Funding Approved For House Panels |
| May 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Veto-Bait Provisions Ensnarl Emergency Spending Bill |
| May 3 - HOMEOWNERS: Protection Sought Against 'Reverse Mortgage' Scams |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: GOP Hints at Compromise On Fast-Track Authority |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Trade Agencies Reauthorization Approved by Ways and Means |
| May 3 - PUBLIC LANDS: Prospects in House Look Bright For Bipartisan Refuge Bill |
| May 3 - PUBLIC LANDS: Land Set-Aside by Clinton Prompts Outrage in Utah |
| May 3 - PRODUCT LIABILITY: Critics Ask for Bigger Changes As Panel OKs Overhaul Bill |
| May 3 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Panel Approves Bill To Ease Encryption Controls |
| May 3 - COMMERCE: Shipping Bill Advances |
| May 3 - COMMUNICATIONS: Panel Approves Bill To Create TV Ratings Based on Content |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: FAA Reauthorization Bill Passed by House |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Extensions Of Land-Idling Contracts |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: House OK's Bill To Continue Power Line Health Study |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Approves Dolphin-Safe Tuna Bill |
| May 3 - HOUSING: Local Discretion Emphasized As Debate on Overhaul Begins |
| May 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: GOP Caucus Rejects Proposals To Alter Confirmation Process |
| May 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Measure on Juvenile Crime Heads to House Floor |
| May 3 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Overwhelmingly Passes Foster Care Adoption Bill |
| May 3 - LABOR: House Education Committee Approves Job Training Bill |
| May 3 - LABOR: Herman is Confirmed Easily After Clinton-GOP Accord |
| May 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Passes Liability Bill |
| May 3 - FOREIGN AID: Markup for Programs Abroad Has Unusually Smooth Start |
| May 3 - FOREIGN POLICY: Gingrich Making Waves On Overseas Issues |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Backs Russia On Changes in Arms Treaty |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Cohen Promises More Money For New Weapons |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Debate on Chemical Arms Pact Is Not Over Yet |
| May 3 - CORRECTION |
| May 3 - SPECIAL ELECTIONS: Brickbats Fly in Contest To Replace Richardson |
| May 3 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Groping for a Record To Run On |
| May 3 - Leaders Seek Support For Budget Accord |
| May 3 - COVER STORY: Clinton, GOP Congress Strike Historic Budget Agreement |
| May 3 - Plan Would Cut a Variety of Taxes . . . And Modestly Curb Entitlements |
| May 3 - DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP: Clinton Presses Liberals to Accept A Dose of Fiscal Conservatism |
| May 10 - Recess Clock Ticking For Spending Bill |
| May 10 - BUDGET DEAL: Initial Elation Over Agreement Tempered by Tough Details |
| May 10 - GOP Outlines Ambitious Schedule |
| May 10 - Backtracking on Benefits |
| May 10 - BUDGET DEAL: Lawmakers React to Package With Grudging Acceptance |
| May 10 - Eleventh-Hour Windfall |
| May 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Finishes Supplemental Bill, But Smooth Passage Unlikely |
| May 10 - On the Menu: Paved Alaska? |
| May 10 - House vs. Senate Emergency Spending Bills, by Agency |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Contributions to International Institutions OK'd by Panel |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Authorization For Three Trade Agencies |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: House Subcommittee Moves Measure on Bank Branches |
| May 10 - COVER STORY: Tobacco Foes Smell a Victory In Coming Court Battles |
| May 10 - The Farmers' Advantage |
| May 10 - TRANSPORTATION: ISTEA Reauthorization Stalls Over Highway Funding |
| May 10 - Transportation Proposals |
| May 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Effort To Ease Restrictions Of Species Act Rejected |
| May 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Negotiations for Superfund Bill Hinge on Budget Agreement |
| May 10 - COMMUNICATIONS: FCC Rules on Phone Rates, Universal Access |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Votes To Limit Monument Designations |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Kerrey Says He May Offer Bill To Settle Encryption Issue |
| May 10 - HOUSING: Sweeping Overhaul of Program Heading Toward Showdown |
| May 10 - Heated Debate in Store for Senate Bill |
| May 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Flag Desecration Amendment Wins House Panel Approval |
| May 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: As Deal With Clinton Unravels, House OKs Juvenile Bill |
| May 10 - EDUCATION: Panels Reach Accord To Rework Program for Disabled |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: American Indian Senate Panel Approves Grant Programs |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill To Deny Prisoners Social Security |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Partial-Birth Abortion Critics Solicit More Senate Votes |
| May 10 - DEFENSE: Cohen's Plan: Close More Bases To Pay for New Weapons |
| May 10 - FOREIGN AID: Clinton Wins First Round in House On Money for Programs Abroad |
| May 10 - NOMINATION: Tenet Given Warm Reception By Intelligence Panel |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: 82 in House Back Separation Of Sexes in Army Training |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Let Hong Kong Keep Its U.S. Offices |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Eizenstat, Pickering Approved By Foreign Relations Panel |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Backs Change In Arms Control Treaty |
| May 10 - ELECTION '96: Panel Reaches Agreement On Protocol for Probe |
| May 10 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton: Plan Would Balance Budget While Bolstering Key Programs |
| May 10 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: On Radio, All Politics Is a Lot Less Vocal |
| May 10 - Overhaul Bill Shifts More Authority To Local Public Housing Officials |
| May 17 - Final Deal Expected On Spending Bill |
| May 17 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Focus on Tax-Exempt Groups Puts Heat on Republicans |
| May 17 - Barbour's National Policy Forum More Like Political Committee |
| May 17 - ETHICS: Gingrich To Pay Half of Penalty From His Own Pocket |
| May 17 - THE BUDGET: Both Sides Give Some, Get Some As House Panel OKs Resolution |
| May 17 - Earlier Deals Set the Stage |
| May 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Emergency Spending, But 'Automatic CR' Invites Veto |
| May 17 - Of Paper and Parochialism |
| May 17 - CORRECTION |
| May 17 - COMMERCE: Electric Utilities Deregulation Runs Into an Impasse |
| May 17 - ENVIRONMENT: Prospects in Senate Brighten For Rewrite of Species Law |
| May 17 - Tensions Mount Within House GOP |
| May 17 - TRANSPORTATION: Safety Issues Enter Debate On Highway Legislation |
| May 17 - A Funding Increase |
| May 17 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Panel Votes To Ease Rules On Encryption Exports |
| May 17 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: To Revitalize City, A Spate of Plans |
| May 17 - ENVIRONMENT: Tempers Rise Over Legislation To Establish Texas Dump |
| May 17 - COVER STORY: Republicans Feeling the Heat As Policy Becomes Reality |
| May 17 - Immigrant Vote Swings Democratic As Issues Move Front and Center |
| May 17 - Controversial Provisions |
| May 17 - ABORTION: Senate Heads for Showdown On Controversial Procedure |
| May 17 - HOUSING: Democrats' Support Boosts Hope For Success of Overhaul Effort |
| May 17 - EDUCATION: Program for Disabled Students Cleared by Senate |
| May 17 - LABOR: Democrats' Opposition Puts Comp Time Bill in Doubt |
| May 17 - Major IDEA Provisions |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: House Democrats Assure Passage of Jobs Bill |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Flag-Burning Measure |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Protection for Volunteers Approved by Judiciary |
| May 17 - ARMS CONTROL: GOP, Pentagon Cross Swords Over Anti-Missile Effort |
| May 17 - Anti-Missile Defense: Supersonic Duel With Almost No Room for Mistakes |
| May 17 - FOREIGN POLICY: Pact With Russia Eases Way For NATO Expansion |
| May 17 - TREATY: Russia Wins Shift In Arms Limits |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Cohen Sets Up Task Force To Streamline Pentagon |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Works on Implementation Of Chemical Weapons Ban |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Vote on CIA Nominee Delayed Pending Financial Inquiry |
| May 17 - Washington: Rep. Smith Becomes First To Challenge Murray |
| May 17 - NEW MEXICO: Big Green Party Vote Helps GOP's Redmond Roll |
| May 17 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Bill Redmond R-N.M. (3) |
| May 17 - ELECTION LAW: Court Lets Decision Stand On Alaska's Open Primary |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Field Forming Early In Kentucky 6th |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Ohio Senate Race Draws Democrat |
| May 17 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: In Presidential Races, Suburbs Are Key |
| May 24 - Budget Measures Await End of Holiday Recess |
| May 24 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Partisan Jousting Shifts From House to Senate |
| May 24 - As Each Side Moves to Center, Plan Is Almost a 'Done Deal' |
| May 24 - Gephardt's Opposition |
| May 24 - BUDGET DEAL: For Majority in House, Agreement Was a Good Deal for Both Parties |
| May 24 - Shuster's Steamroller Stopped -- For Now |
| May 24 - Senate Does Little To Change Plan Despite Amendment Turmoil |
| May 24 - 1997 Budget Agreement (in billions of dollars) |
| May 24 - Budget Deal Spending by Function |
| May 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Divided Republicans Go Home Without Passing Disaster Aid |
| May 24 - BANKING: Under Treasury Plan, Congress To Decide Tough Issues |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Likely To Push Fast-Track Bill in the Fall |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Bank-Branch Bill Passes House |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce Subcommittee OK's Penny Pricing for Stocks |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Two-Year Budgeting Cycle Approved by Panel |
| May 24 - ENVIRONMENT: 'Dolphin Safe' Tuna Bill Wins House Passage |
| May 24 - ENERGY: Turf Fight by House Panels Puts Programs in Limbo |
| May 24 - CORRECTION |
| May 24 - PUERTO RICO: Panel OKs Measure On Island's Status |
| May 24 - REGULATION: Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Patent Overhaul |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Department Agrees To Idle More Farmland |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Resources Committee OKs Wildfire Prevention Bill |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Resources Subcommittee Approves NOAA Funding |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Committee Approves Oil Reserve Renewal |
| May 24 - ABORTION: Foes of Controversial Procedure Boosted by Strong Vote |
| May 24 - Several Senators Reverse '95 Votes |
| May 24 - The Switchers |
| May 24 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Volunteer Liability Limit Heads to President |
| May 24 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: House Panel OKs Medicare Plan |
| May 24 - DEFENSE: Cohen's Modernization Plan Gets Respectful Hearing |
| May 24 - Weapons Systems Highlighted In the Quadrennial Review |
| May 24 - FOREIGN POLICY: Foes of China's Trade Privileges Fight To Void Clinton Decision |
| May 24 - Intelligence: Senators Probe U.S. Assistance To Suspect in Marine Slayings |
| May 24 - INTELLIGENCE: Suit Seeks To Force Budget Disclosure |
| May 24 - TREATY: Senate Passes Bill To Enforce Chemical Weapons Ban |
| May 24 - COVER STORY: Suburbia: Land of Varied Faces And a Growing Political Force |
| May 24 - Defining Congressional Districts: What Makes a Suburb a Suburb? |
| May 24 - Clinton's Suburban Breakthrough |
| May 24 - Wealth, the Suburbs and Ticket-Splitting |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: California Poll May Encourge Feinstein, Bono Bids in '98 |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Foglietta's Rome Appointment Could Bring Back Blackwell |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: INS Delivers 500,000 Names For Sanchez-Dornan Probe |
| May 24 - SECTION NOTES: Reid Draws a Businessman As Prospective Challenger |
| May 24 - 1996 ELECTION: District Vote for President |
| May 24 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Campaign Reformers' Season of Despond |
| May 31 - Fiscal Matters Top List Upon Return To Work |
| May 31 - COVER STORY: Appropriations Season Begins With New Deal, Old Battles |
| May 31 - Combative Chairmen Often at Odds With Republican Leadership Agenda |
| May 31 - Maintaining Status Quo May Be Tough |
| May 31 - U.N., Crime-Fighting Will Tighten Budget |
| May 31 - Pro-Military Bent Likely To Persist |
| May 31 - Chairmen Disagree Over City's Request |
| May 31 - Programs Expected To Have Easier Time |
| May 31 - Old Issues May Get a New Touch |
| May 31 - Land, Arts Funding Are Hot Issues |
| May 31 - Budget Blueprint May Guide Cuts |
| May 31 - Small Amounts, Big Fights |
| May 31 - Focus on Troops' Quality of Life Continues |
| May 31 - Holding the Line on Project Spending |
| May 31 - A Threat From Small Fires |
| May 31 - Housing Programs Top Full Agenda |
| May 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: Justices Hear Arguments in Challenge To Presidential Line-Item Veto Law |
| May 31 - ENERGY: Flurry of Mergers Prompts Fear of Monopoly |
| May 31 - FOREIGN POLICY: Armenia's Special Relationship With U.S. Is Showing Strain |
| May 31 - RETIREMENT: Molinari To Trade Congress For Career in Television |
| May 31 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: FCC To Consider Free TV |
| May 31 - Status of Major Legislation: 105th Congress |
| May 31 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Budget Deal May Face Mutiny in the House |
