 November 1 - With Just a Week Left, Many Bills Remain |
| November 1 - Oversight: Lack of Focus Leaves GOP in Learning-Curve Limbo |
| November 1 - GOP Oversight Target: Big Government |
| November 1 - Oversight's Legal Underpinnings |
| November 1 - Dingell: Once Hated, Now Emulated |
| November 1 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: GOP Fails To Transform Probe Into 'Clinton's Watergate' |
| November 1 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: With Reluctance, Thompson Brings Hearings to an Abrupt End |
| November 1 - Senate Campaign Finance Hearings: Testimony During the Week of Oct. 27 |
| November 1 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Deal Smooths Path for Senate Exit; House Still Caught in Gridlock |
| November 1 - TRADE: Clinton Sways Few Democrats As House Sets Fast-Track Vote |
| November 1 - Decided Democrats |
| November 1 - THE ECONOMY: Despite Stock Market Gyrations, Washington Paints Rosy Picture |
| November 1 - 'Circuit Breakers': Black Monday's Child |
| November 1 - BANKING: House Financial Services Bill Faces Hurdles Before Floor |
| November 1 - APPOINTMENTS: Senate Confirms Fed Nominees |
| November 1 - TAXATION: IRS Bill Poised To Pass House; Senate Says There's No Rush |
| November 1 - TRANSPORTATION: Plenty of Blame, but Not Money, Marks Highway Bill's Demise |
| November 1 - ENVIRONMENT: House Passes Bill To Create Nuclear Waste Storage Site |
| November 1 - AGRICULTURE: House Passes Grazing Bill With Small Fee Increase |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Bill Clears Senate |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Controversial Interior Bill Heads for Clinton's Desk |
| November 1 - Corrections |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Likely To Cut Little From Transportation Bill |
| November 1 - COMMERCE: FCC's Newcomers Under Scrutiny |
| November 1 - Fiscal 1998 Transportation Spending |
| November 1 - LABOR: Privacy of Medical Records Under Hill Microscope |
| November 1 - Privacy Bills Pending |
| November 1 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: House Panel Calls for Action On Gulf War Health Care |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: National Tests Still Sticking Point As GOP Leaders Pull Out of Deal |
| November 1 - Educators Put Clinton Proposal For Exam to Their Own Test |
| November 1 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Religious Freedom Amendment Doesn't Have a Prayer in '97 |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Veto Pen Is Ready As He Signs VA-HUD Bill |
| November 1 - IMMIGRATION: Visa Program Gets Boost |
| November 1 - EDUCATION: Democrats Block Savings Bill |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: $750 Million Hemophilia Fund Approved by House Panel |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill To Change Veterans' Burial Rights |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes COLA For Veterans |
| November 1 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Defense Bill Poised To Clear Despite Threat of a Veto |
| November 1 - Defense Authorization |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Breakfast With Jiang Changes No Minds |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel Gauges Russian Response To NATO Expansion |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Parties Find Common Ground In Iran Sanctions Bills |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Compromise Eludes Foreign Aid Conferees |
| November 1 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Senate Votes To Override Vetoes of 36 Projects |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: Clinton Chooses Reservist As Air Force Secretary |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: Gen. Gordon Confirmed For Intelligence Post |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Foley, Fowler As Ambassadors |
| November 1 - ELECTION '97: North and South, Voters Look In Same Direction -- Taxes |
| November 1 - Ballots: Gay Rights to Patients' Rights |
| November 1 - OBITUARY: California Rep. Capps Dies of Heart Attack |
| November 1 - Correction |
| November 1 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| November 1 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| November 1 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: No Deficit To Kick Around Anymore |
| November 8 - Congress Into Overtime As Target Date Passes |
| November 8 - Tobacco Industry Courts the Hill With Compromise, Conciliation |
| November 8 - Tobacco PAC Contributions |
| November 8 - Costly Mix of Soldiers and Cigarettes Has Pentagon Saying No to Tradition |
| November 8 - No Sanctuary in the Capitol |
| November 8 - TOBACCO POLITICS: U.S. Looks to Canada's Example In Efforts To Curb Tobacco Use |
| November 8 - COVER STORY: Carlton: Small-Town Lawyer With a Big-Time Voice |
| November 8 - ADJOURNMENT: Storm Over Fast Track Means A Slow Track to Finish |
| November 8 - Countdown to Adjournment |
| November 8 - SENATE: Senate Conservatives Begin To Plot The Dividing Lines of 1998 |
| November 8 - Who's Who Among Senate Conservatives |
| November 8 - Key GOP Issues |
| November 8 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Three House Panels Serve Notice: Probe Is Far From Over |
| November 8 - ETHICS: Panel Dismisses Complaint Against Rep. DeLay |
| November 8 - Gingrich Decision To Postpone Vote Follows Week of Hill Arm-Twisting |
| November 8 - TRADE: Clinton Loses First Opportunity After All-Out Fast-Track Push |
| November 8 - Caribbean Bill Defeated |
| November 8 - TAXATION: IRS Overhaul Sails Through House, But Reality Check Waits in Senate |
| November 8 - Line-Item Veto: Veto Pen Comes Down Hard On a Small Alabama Town |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Crosscurrents Threaten To Sink Financial Services Compromise |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Group of Democrats Criticizes Clinton Plan To Aid Indonesia |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bankruptcy Bills To Help Farmers, Schools |
| November 8 - TRANSPORTATION: Agreement To Rescue Amtrak May Be Around the Bend |
| November 8 - COMMUNICATIONS: Hold on Internet Taxation Faces Heavy Opposition |
| November 8 - Fiscal 1998 Interior Spending |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Narrow Product Liability Bill Gets Thumbs Down |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Republicans Say They May Cut White House's Budget |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Riders Confound Plans To Move Stripped-Down D.C. Bill |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senators, Clinton Agree on Plan For Safer Air Bags in Cars |
| November 8 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Lee Nomination, Splits Give GOP Pause on Affirmative Action |
| November 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Census Issue Delays Conferees As Obey Stalls Proceedings |
| November 8 - DRUGS: Republicans Close to Deal On Streamlining FDA |
| November 8 - EDUCATION: Recess Bell Rings on School Bills But GOP Vows To Fight On |
| November 8 - HOUSING: Seven Programs for Homeless Merged Into Block Grants |
| November 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Opposition Growing as Clinton Cuts More Home-State Items |
| November 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Compromise on National Testing Breaks Labor Bill Stalemate |
| November 8 - Goodling's Obsessions Test Cohorts |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Funding Increase For Charter Schools |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Renews Drug Czar Office, Institutes More Requirements |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes To Hire Lawyers To Help in Teamsters Case |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Inflation Increase In Veterans' Benefits |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Solicitor General Nominee Wins Praise at Hearing |
| November 8 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Vents Anger at China In Largely Symbolic Bills |
| November 8 - China Bills |
| November 8 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Bill Clears Despite Threat Of Veto Over Depots |
| November 8 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Poised To Pass Sanctions Against Those Who Aid Iran |
| November 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Moderates Spurn Deal On Abortion Provision |
| November 8 - INTELLIGENCE: Bill To Fund Spy Agencies Wins Final Passage |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Clinton Picks Army Secretary To Be VA Secretary |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Conferees Complete Action On Export-Import Bank Bill |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms 23 As Ambassadors |
| November 8 - ELECTION '97: 'Soft Money' Helps Propel GOP To Victory in Key Races |
| November 8 - For Gingrich, Very Sweet Victories |
| November 8 - Voters Just Said No |
| November 8 - New Member: Vito J. Fossella R-N.Y. (13) |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Firestone Says Yes to Special In Capps' California District |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: GOP Hierarchy Taps Comptroller To Take On Moseley-Braun |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Kim's Treasurer Sentenced In 1992 Campaign Case |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Reform Party Files Lawsuit Over Campaign Financing |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Rockefeller Passes on Race For Bumpers' Senate Seat |
| November 8 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Clinton Urges House Members To Follow Senate's Lead |
| November 8 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: This Session's Big Deals May Look Puny by '98 |
| November 15 - Editor's Note |
| November 15 - COVER STORY: The 'Comeback Kid': Down but Not Out |
| November 15 - ADJOURNMENT: Partisanship Returns To Hill, Limiting Legislative Output |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Boehner To Sue McDermott Over Tape of Phone Call |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Labor Probe Law Firm Charged With Conflicts of Interest |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Shuster-Lobbyist Relationship Prompts House Ethics Probe |
| November 15 - TRADE: Trade Agenda Left in Limbo By Failure of Fast Track |
| November 15 - Pacts Pending |
| November 15 - Is Clinton's Loss Foreign Leaders' Gain? |
| November 15 - LINE-ITEM VETO: Clinton Veto Halts Attempt At Line-Item Override |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: 'Reverse Mortgage' Scam Bill Fails To Beat Deadline |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Bill Authorizing New Quarters, Dollar Coin |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Amendments To Bankruptcy Code |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Mortgage Insurance Measure Will Wait for Next Session |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Omnibus Banking Bill Stalled By Committee Differences |
| November 15 - ENVIRONMENT: Westerners Adjust Their Sights And Take Home Some Wins |
| November 15 - Hard Times Ahead in Senate |
| November 15 - TRANSPORTATION: Amtrak Deal Comes Together In Final Minutes of Session |
| November 15 - State-By-State Breakdown of Highway Money |
| November 15 - TRANSPORTATION: Battle Over Highway Funding Ends With Stopgap Bill |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Scrapping School Voucher Plan, Congress Clears D.C. Bill |
| November 15 - COMMERCE: Round 1: Bliley Wants Release Of Tobacco Industry Papers |
| November 15 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Phone 'Clone' Bill Gets Senate OK |
| November 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Independent Counsel Law Draws a Fickle Audience |
| November 15 - Complex and Often Confusing Ways To Appoint Independent Counsels |
| November 15 - Independent Counsels: The Investigations |
| November 15 - DRUGS: FDA Measure Looks Healthy After GOP Concessions |
| November 15 - Most Provisions Kept in FDA Bill |
| November 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Democrats Block Formal Vote As Lee Nomination Fails |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce-Justice Funding Goes Down to the Wire |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Clears Labor Measure |
| November 15 - Fiscal 1998 Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| November 15 - HUMAN SERVICES: President Expected To Sign Foster Care Adoption Bill |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Children's Literacy Measure Passed by House |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Waxman As Solicitor General |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans' Benefits Rights Bill Cleared by Senate |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans' Burial Rights Bill Cleared in Senate |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Vote on Satcher Delayed Until 1998 by Senate |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Relents on Abortion Curb But Blocks IMF, U.N. Money |
| November 15 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Passes Iran Sanctions, But Bill Stalls in Senate |
| November 15 - DEFENSE: Cohen Unveils Cost-Cutting Plan To Raise Money for Weapons |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeks Reports on Diplomats Accused of Crimes |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Hill Clears Reauthorization Of Export-Import Bank |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Calls for Strike at Iraq As Last Resort on Inspections |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Final China Bill, Radio Free Asia Funding |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Resolution Raps Russia For Religious Discrimination |
| November 15 - DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Labor's Clout May Be Fleeting Despite Fast-Track Victory |
| November 15 - Gephardt: Fast Track to Spotlight |
| November 15 - RETIREMENTS: McHale Won't Run for Fourth; Dellums Expected To Quit |
| November 15 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Says He Is Still Confident Of Fast Track's Ultimate Passage |
| November 15 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| November 15 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| November 15 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Civil Rights Pendulum Swings Against Lee |
| November 22 - LEADERSHIP: Gingrich, Aides Rediscover Unity, But Coup Attempt Still Echoes |
| November 22 - COVER STORY: Electric Power Competition: Slow Burner, Lots of Heat |
| November 22 - Revenue From Power Sales |
| November 22 - Plans for Competition, State-by-State |
| November 22 - COVER STORY: Utility Group Takes to Airwaves With Ads Aimed at Lawmakers |
| November 22 - TRANSPORTATION: Emotional Issues Are Playing Big Role in Airbag Debate |
| November 22 - REGULATION: Federal-State Tobacco Dispute May Land in Congress |
| November 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: President Vetoes Projects In Interior, Agriculture |
| November 22 - Editor's Note |
| November 22 - HEALTH: Managed Care Faces Showdown Over Federal Regulation |
| November 22 - Pending Bills on Managed Care |
| November 22 - LAW/JUDICIARY: More Challenges to Clinton Nominees Cause Judicial Stalemate |
| November 22 - CLARIFICATION |
| November 22 - Fiscal 1998 Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Despite Veto Threat, Clinton Signs Defense Bill |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: High-Tech Coalition Offers List of Priorities |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Teamsters Head Disqualified From Seeking Re-Election |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: FDA Streamlining Measure Signed by Clinton |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Foster Care Adoption Bill Signed Into Law |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Intelligence Authorization Gets Clinton Signature |
| November 22 - CALIFORNIA: House GOP's Electoral Fortunes May Lie in the Golden State |
| November 22 - Dellums: Journey of an Outsider |
| November 22 - Departing the Hill |
| November 22 - Pension First, Then Sentence |
| November 22 - Correction |
| November 22 - NEVADA: Rep. Ensign Will Make Run For Reid's Senate Seat |
| November 22 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| November 22 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| November 22 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Reno Could Burst Critics' Balloons |
| November 29 - Editor's Note |
| November 29 - COVER STORY: Lawmakers Gingerly Step Into the Information Age |
| November 29 - Technology Has Its Limits |
| November 29 - Mr. Smith E-Mails Washington: Constituents On Line |
| November 29 - ELECTRONIC CONGRESS: Phone Banks To E-Mail |
| November 29 - INFORMATION: Web Sites, Networks and E-Mail Help Hill Kick the Paper Habit |
| November 29 - Studios Beam Members From Hill to Hometown |
| November 29 - ELECTRONIC CONGRESS: C-SPAN: From Novelty To Institution |
| November 29 - ENVIRONMENT: 'Greenhouse' Issue Heats Up As Kyoto Talks Approach |
| November 29 - Options, Legislative and Presidential |
| November 29 - Who's Going |
| November 29 - Environmental Terms |
| November 29 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Battle Over Lee Could Escalate With Recess Appointment |
| November 29 - Cost To Campaign |
| November 29 - ELECTIONS: New Study Confirms Big Jump In 1996 Campaign Spending |
| November 29 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Congress Shaking Its Money-Maker |
