October 3 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Clinton Case Overshadows 105th's Legislative Legacy |
October 3 - From the Editor |
October 3 - LOBBYING: Insurance Agents' Muscle in House Helps Their Fight Against Extinction |
October 3 - PLAYERS: Senators Look Homeward But Keep an Eye on Al |
October 3 - Task Force on Sanctions Comes Up Empty-Handed |
October 3 - What's Ahead |
October 3 - POLITICS: For Women Candidates, An Uncertain Season |
October 3 - Three Endangered Senators |
October 3 - POLITICS: On the Stump in Beverly Hills: Gore as Campaigner-in-Chief |
October 3 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Impeachment Inquiry Vote May Signal Level of Partisanship To Come |
October 3 - Comparing the Resolutions |
October 3 - Impeachment Vote Has Extra Weight For Incumbents in Tough Races |
October 3 - Scandal Chronology |
October 3 - Independent Counsel Law Then and Now: Enough Irony for Both Parties |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bipartisanship Missing in Inaction As Appropriators' Time Runs Out |
October 3 - TAXES: Hill May Try For Minimal Tax Package |
October 3 - SOCIAL POLICY: With Social Security Ripe for Action, Can Clinton Seize the Moment? |
October 3 - SOCIAL POLICY: Conferees on Head Start Bill Agree To Emphasize Quality Over Program Expansion |
October 3 - BANKING: Financial Services Rewrite Wins Bank-Insurance Deal But Faces Senate Floor Fights |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Agriculture Spending Bill |
October 3 - EDUCATION: Student Loan Interest Rate Cut Heads for Clinton's Signature |
October 3 - TECHNOLOGY: Year 2000 Liability Shield Bill Clears |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Iron Out Differences Over VA-HUD Spending Bill |
October 3 - NASA Urged To Change Approach To Russia's Role in Space Station |
October 3 - HEALTH: Mammogram Notification Bill Clears |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Final Energy-Water Bill Ends Decades of Funding For Tennessee Valley Authority |
October 3 - Chart: Energy-Water Development Spending |
October 3 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Senate Panel Approves Bill To Overhaul GPO, But the Ink Isn't Dry Yet |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conference Report On Treasury-Postal Bill Fails To Reach House Floor |
October 3 - TRANSPORTATION: Alaskan 'Road to Life' Bill Passes in Senate as GOP Tries To Steer Around Veto Threat |
October 3 - Anti-Terrorism Bill Expands Authority for Executive Agencies |
October 3 - Labor-HHS Spending Bill Heads for House Floor |
October 3 - Local Programming Still Up In the Air With Satellite Bill |
October 3 - Senate Takes Up Internet Tax Moratorium |
October 3 - House and Senate Pass Bills To Delay New Border Checks |
October 3 - Medicare Managed Care Insurers Claim Financial Squeeze |
October 3 - Negotiators Try To Wrap Up Transportation Spending Bill |
October 3 - TRADE: How Two Fervent Free-Traders Helped Set Back 'Fast Track' |
October 3 - DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs to Senate Panel: Cuts Are Starting To Hurt |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Bill Sent to Clinton, Minus Some 'Readiness' Spending |
October 3 - Defense Bill Includes a Pet Project With a Civil War Connection |
October 3 - Chart: Defense Spending |
October 3 - Bookkeeping 'Out of Control' |
October 3 - Chart: Foreign Aid Spending |
October 3 - Compromise Improves Chances For Religious Persecution Bill |
October 3 - Intelligence Authorization Gets Conference Approval |
October 3 - U.S. Action Against Serbs Gathers Solid Hill Support |
October 3 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
October 3 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
October 10 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Partisan Year Concludes With Impeachment 'Excursion' -- GOP's Next Task: Managing The Impeachment Juggernaut |
October 10 - From the Editor |
October 10 - IMPEACHMENT: Are Judiciary Members' Jobs on the Line? |
October 10 - JUSTICE DENIED: A Fight To Extradite |
October 10 - What's Behind |
October 10 - The House Resolution |
October 10 - The 15 Charges |
October 10 - House Report on Campaign Finances Is Inconclusive About Clinton's Role |
October 10 - Senators View Proceedings With Cautious Anticipation |
October 10 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Politically Charged Vote Sets Tone For Impeachment Inquiry |
October 10 - Both Sides Invoke History's Mandate In Contentious Floor Debate |
October 10 - Scandal Chronology |
October 10 - ENERGY: Is Big Oil's Profit Well Starting To Run Dry? |
October 10 - ENERGY: Oil Dependency Forces U.S. To Balance Economic, Foreign Policy Interests |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Gains Ground in Struggle Over Catchall Spending Bill |
October 10 - Lawmakers Tackle Mountain of Issues In Pre-Adjournment Rush |
October 10 - TAXES: Timely Deal On Tax Credits Questionable |
October 10 - ETHICS: House Panel Issues Findings On Rep. Kim |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: The Housing Bill That Compromise Built |
October 10 - Chart: VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
October 10 - EDUCATION: Vocational Education Overhaul Measure Clears, Heads for Clinton Signature |
October 10 - BANKING: Financial Services Overhaul Appears To Die in Senate, A Victim of Friendly Fire |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Bill Stalls Even After Second Conference Yanks Disputed Provisions |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Stalls; Programs May Be Wrapped Into Omnibus Spending Measure |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate Struggle Toward Compromise on Home Health Care Payments |
October 10 - EDUCATION: President Expected To Sign Head Start Reauthorization, Focusing on Program Quality |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Rift Over Farm Aid Leaves Agriculture Bill Searching for Life After Veto |
October 10 - Chart: Agriculture Spending |
October 10 - SCIENCE: Spend More on Space Station Or Kill It, NASA Chief Tells Critical House Members |
October 10 - Private Space Shuttles Backed |
October 10 - TAXES: Senate Bill To Place Moratorium On New Internet Taxes |
October 10 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Clears Reauthorization Of Nutrition Programs, Extending Aid to Low-Income Teens |
October 10 - FINANCE: Bankruptcy Law Rewrite Hangs in the Balance As Senate Democrats Balk |
October 10 - EDUCATION: Senate Votes To Authorize Two-Year Program To Combat Illiteracy |
October 10 - COMMUNICATIONS: Copyright Bill For Digital Age Advances |
October 10 - TECHNOLOGY: House Passes Internet Smut Restrictions |
October 10 - Baseball Antitrust Exemption Bill Cleared to Clinton |
October 10 - Creation of Utah Monument Deemed Politically Motivated |
October 10 - Music Copyright Measure Clears After Compromise on Royalties |
October 10 - Parks Bill Defeated in House; Democrats Blame 'Rancid Pork' |
October 10 - House Acts To Delay Fee Increase Paid by Satellite Companies |
October 10 - House Panel Approves FAA Funding Without Adding Flights |
October 10 - Long-Delayed Nomination To 9th Circuit Court Confirmed |
October 10 - Senate Clears Bill To Restore SSI Benefits to Certain Immigrants |
October 10 - Congress Clears Legislation To Expand Charter School Aid |
October 10 - Prison Sentences Toughened For Methamphetamine Dealers |
October 10 - Senate Clears Bill To Delay New Border Checks |
October 10 - DEFENSE: Progress on Anti-Missile Program Dulls Bark and Bite of GOP Critics |
October 10 - Anti-Missile Evolution |
October 10 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Religious Persecution Bill Overcomes 11th-Hour Snags On Way to Enactment |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Allay Republican Objections To $14.5 Billion IMF Credit Line |
October 10 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: U.S. Offers a Final Chance For Serbs To Avert Air Strikes, Saying 'Time Is Running Out' |
October 10 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Intelligence Bill Clears With Small Rise in Spending, Expanded Wiretap Authority |
October 10 - EXCERPTS: Considering Impeachment: 'Do We Have a Duty To Look Further or To Look Away?' |
October 10 - EXCERPTS: GOP Cites 15 Possible Felonies By Clinton; Democrats Say Case Is 'Overstated' and 'Strained' |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton, in Veto Message, Asks Congress To Provide Better Safety Net for Farmers |
October 10 - Chart: Status of Major Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
October 10 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
October 17 - From the Editor |
October 17 - GOODIES: These Are a Few of Their Favorite Things |
October 17 - HR1757 Held Hostage |
October 17 - 20 MORE YEARS: Hold That Mouse |
October 17 - What's Ahead |
October 17 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Riding the Omnibus Off Into the Sunset |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: This Year's Surplus-Spending Binge Will Compound Next Year's Headaches |
October 17 - Thwarted by Split Over Taxes, GOP Looks To Next Year |
October 17 - EDUCATION: Debate on Education Policy Crystallizes Campaign Themes |
October 17 - Riley Promotes Education On the Campaign Trail |
October 17 - ENERGY: Can Richardson End The Nuclear Waste Wars? |
October 17 - In Nevada, Total Agreement Makes for Heated Debate |
October 17 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Clinton Probe Assumes Low Profile As Lawmakers Await Election Returns |
October 17 - Correction: Impeachment Inquiry |
October 17 - Scandal Chronology |
October 17 - POLITICS: Conservative Southern Democrats Seek House Seats -- and Credibility |
October 17 - ETHICS: Panel Drops Final Gingrich Ethics Charges |
October 17 - TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATIONS: Congress Haltingly Begins Writing The Book on Internet Regulation |
October 17 - COMMERCE: Disney Locks In 20 More Years Of Protection for Its Characters Under Copyright Extension Bill |
October 17 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Assailed Development Agency Retains Enough Hill Support To Win a Five-Year Reprieve |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Spending Includes Additional Billions For Schools, Medical Research |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce-Justice-State Money Could Be Suspended Next June Unless Census Dispute Is Settled |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tax Breaks Are Added to Farm Aid Bill |
October 17 - HOUSING: Bill To Ease Home-Buying Stalls in Senate |
October 17 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Compromise Revives Measure To Increase Visas For Highly Skilled Workers |
October 17 - Correction: Head Start |
October 17 - HEALTH: Home Health Agencies Poised To Win Higher Medicare Payments, Postponement in Cutbacks |
October 17 - BANKRUPTCY: Bankruptcy Code Overhaul Slips Away |
October 17 - Congress Clears Bill To Reduce Securities Suits |
October 17 - House Clears Measure To Combat Money Laundering |
October 17 - Popular Anti-Bribery Bill Snagged in Satellite Dispute |
October 17 - TECHNOLOGY: A Weakened 'Slamming' Bill Sent to Senate |
October 17 - Alaska Road Project Re-Routed To Avoid Wilderness Area |
October 17 - Congress Clears Legislation To Expand Charter School Aid |
October 17 - Dozens of Parks Projects Get A New Lease on Life |
October 17 - House Calls for Sanctions Against Steel-Dumping Nations |
October 17 - NASA Gains Permission To Transfer Funds for Space Station |
October 17 - Pared-Back FAA Reauthorization Could Kick Off 'Year of Aviation' |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Deal Gives Clinton IMF Credit; GOP Wins Conditions on Loans |
October 17 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: House Passes Bill To Combat Persecution |
October 17 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Lawmakers Cautious of Kosovo Deal |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Defense Spending Includes Substantial Boosts for Anti-Missile Systems, Intelligence |
October 17 - Fate of Chemical Arms Bill Remains Uncertain |
October 17 - House Clears Bill To Keep Tabs On Diplomats Linked to Crimes |
October 17 - PROVISIONS: Public Housing Overhaul |
October 17 - EXCERPTS: Clinton Says Budget Reflects Wise Choices In 'This Moment of Prosperity' |
October 17 - EXCERPTS: GOP Calls Budget Deal a Victory For Constitutional Government |
October 17 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
October 17 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
October 24 - From the Editor |
October 24 - A Few More of Their Favorite Things |
October 24 - GOOBERS: 'Peanut Police' Handcuffed |
October 24 - What's Ahead |
October 24 - POLITICS: Elections Expected To Produce Modest Gains for Republicans |
October 24 - POLITICS: Senate: GOP on the March |
October 24 - Chart: Republicans' Position Strengthens; Democrats' Endangered List Lengthens |
October 24 - POLITICS: House: The Scandal Recedes |
October 24 - POLITICS: Governors: States of Suspense |
October 24 - Chart: 24 Republican-Held Governorships |
October 24 - Chart: 11 Democratic-Held Governorships |
October 24 - POLITICS: The Disengaging Voter |
October 24 - POLITICS: The Impeachment Factor |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Wraps Up and Heads Home On a Trail of Broken Budget Caps |
October 24 - Head-Shaking, Not Hand-Clapping, Follows Capitol Hill's Closing Act |
October 24 - Grasshopper Research and Much More: A Roster of Pet Projects |
October 24 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Lawyers Spar Over Rules for Clinton Probe |
October 24 - Scandal Chronology |
October 24 - SCIENCE: As Glenn Suits Up for Launch Again, Is America Focusing on the Right Stuff? |
October 24 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Congress May Sharpen Scrutiny Of Giant Corporations |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Medical Research and Education Are Big Winners in Spending Bill |
October 24 - Chart: Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
October 24 - Correction: Labor-HHS Spending |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: D'Amato Gains Political Boost From Broadening Coverage Of Breast Cancer Treatment |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Some Controversial Riders On Transportation Spending Fall by the Wayside |
October 24 - Chart: Transportation Spending |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Spending Rises for Forest Service And Parks; Administration Prevails On Clean Water, Climate Initiatives |
October 24 - Chart: Interior Spending |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Mixed Bag of Amendments Gives District of Columbia 'Lemons With the Sweets' |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Home Health Care Agency Relief Plan To Be Financed Partly by Taxes on Prizes |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Hill Gives Energy-Water Added Money |
October 24 - TECHNOLOGY: Telephone 'Slamming' Bill Dies in Senate |
October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Volley of Last-Minute Spending Signals Shift in War on Drugs |
October 24 - Chart: Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
October 24 - Clinton Expected To Sign Identity Fraud Bill |
October 24 - Digital Copyright Protection Treaties Approved in Senate |
October 24 - Satellite Provision Resolved, Anti-Bribery Bill Clears |
October 24 - Senate Authorizes Payments for Hemophiliacs With AIDS |
October 24 - Senate Confirms Henney As FDA Commissioner |
October 24 - ACLU, Other Groups File Suit Over Internet Smut Legislation |
October 24 - Spectrum Licensing Language Deleted From Spending Bill |
October 24 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Clinton Gains Last-Minute Victories On Foreign Policy Priorities |
October 24 - Chart: Foreign Aid Spending |
October 24 - State Department Bill Vetoed |
October 24 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Lawmakers Step Up Criticism Of Clinton's Policy on Kosovo As Serbians Fail To Withdraw |
October 24 - Defense Authorization, Appropriations Bills Signed |
October 24 - Last-Minute Approvals Omit Some Clinton Nominations |
October 24 - Senate Declines To Consider Tariff Suspension Measure |
October 24 - Zinni Blasts Plan To Support Anti-Saddam Groups in Iraq |
October 24 - Linking Payment of U.N. Dues With Curbs on Family Planning Is 'Unacceptable,' Clinton Says |
October 24 - PROVISIONS: Tax Provisions |
October 24 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
October 24 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
October 31 - From the Editor |
October 31 - HOUSE: Speaker, Other Leaders Help Their States |
October 31 - Louisiana Blockade |
October 31 - Daschle: Farmers, Indians |
October 31 - DEMOCRATS: Byrd Targets New Prison |
October 31 - SENATE: Lott Bags His Limit |
October 31 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: National Parks, Private Funds: Trouble in Paradise? |
October 31 - SCIENCE: Sentiment Soars as Glenn Leaves the Senate Far Behind |
October 31 - POLITICS: This Year's State Ballot Initiative Could Be Next Year's Federal Legislation |
October 31 - Highlights of State Ballot Measures |
October 31 - POLITICS: Parties, Interest Groups Pour Money Into Issue Ads |
October 31 - POLITICS: Negative Campaigning: Denounced, Denied -- And Indispensable? |
October 31 - BUDGET: Fiscal 1998 Budget Surplus: $70 Billion |
October 31 - BUDGET: Reappointment Unlikely, CBO Chief Bows Out |
October 31 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Parties Resume Positioning for Clinton Probe |
October 31 - Scandal Chronology |
October 31 - ABORTION: The Abortion Rights Battle: Energizing for the Next Session |
October 31 - COMMERCE: Action in the War on Tobacco Moves Away From Capitol Hill |
October 31 - TECHNOLOGY: Hoping To Fend Off Regulation, High-Tech Industry Steps Up Its Campaign Contributions |
October 31 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Strong Dose of GOP Skepticism Greets Clinton's Mideast Pledges |
October 31 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Political Reality Could Hamper Aid to Brazil |
October 31 - FOREIGN POLICY: Institutes Urge U.S. To Update Foreign Service |
October 31 - Clinton Signs Bill To Combat Religious Persecution |
October 31 - Republicans Continue Sniping At Clinton's Handling of Kosovo |
October 31 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
October 31 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |