September 4 - What's Ahead |
September 4 - THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Assessing the Spectrum of Veto Threats |
September 4 - FOSTER PARENT TAKES ACTION: DeLay Puts His Stamp on 'Compassionate Conservatism' |
September 4 - THE FISCAL TIES THAT BIND: Time for a New 'Dog' To Have His Day? |
September 4 - TECHNOLOGY: Regulating the Internet: Congress Asserts Domain |
September 4 - TECHNOLOGY: Chart: Internet Bills Multiply |
September 4 - BUDGET: GOP Gropes for a Way Out of Appropriations Morass |
September 4 - Obey Hones a Maddening Mix: Being Difficult but Right |
September 4 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: A Guide to the Coming Debate On Campaign Finance Overhaul, From Soft Money to Issue Advocacy |
September 4 - LAW & JUDICIARY: FBI Admissions Revive Uproar Over Handling of Waco Standoff; Hyde Won't Join Burton in Hearings |
September 4 - Washington Notes |
September 4 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Lawmakers Rethink Assumptions About Politics of Gun Control |
September 4 - BANKING: Clamor Over Consumer Privacy Has Banks on the Defensive |
September 4 - BANKING: With Economy Thriving, Hill's Attitude Toward the Fed Remains Relatively Laissez Faire |
September 4 - HEALTH: Right To Sue Remains Toughest Issue In Debate Over Managed Care Bills |
September 4 - Twenty-One Who Dared |
September 4 - DEFENSE: Conferees Boost Defense Budget, Stressing Readiness, Innovation |
September 4 - Anti-Missile Debate Deferred |
September 4 - Conferees' History Homework |
September 4 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Farm-State Democrats' Visit To Cuba Highlights Debate Over Whether to Ease Embargo |
September 4 - Clinton Attacks Foreign Aid Cuts |
September 4 - Leach Plans Hearings On Russian Money Laundering |
September 4 - World Affairs Notes |
September 4 - Former House Member Named As Special Envoy to Sudan |
September 4 - Chart: Members of the Internet Caucus |
September 4 - Bills Signed |
September 4 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
September 4 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
September 11 - What's Ahead |
September 11 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: McCain-Feingold's Next Move? |
September 11 - INVESTIGATING THE FBI: Danforth the Senator: A Blend Of the Lawyerly and the Righteous |
September 11 - Democrats' Wish List |
September 11 - Only 14 Months Left To Shop for Leaders of 2001 |
September 11 - FOREIGN POLICY: Hastert Leads the Charge In Colombia Drug War |
September 11 - Lawmakers Have Second Thoughts About Drug War 'Certification' Law |
September 11 - Voices and Stances In Colombia Policy Debate |
September 11 - Annals of the Drug War |
September 11 - TAXES: Eager To Hack at Estate Tax, Foes Welcome New Allies |
September 11 - Newspapers Take Special Interest |
September 11 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Forced To Abandon Big Tax Cut, GOP Takes On Federal Spending |
September 11 - No Predictable Finale To This Appropriations Spectacle |
September 11 - LAW & JUDICIARY: GOP Leaders Press Waco Probes Despite Danforth's Appointment To Head Independent Inquiry |
September 11 - ETHICS: Baucus Rebuts Ex-Aide's Claim Of Harassment |
September 11 - HEALTH: New GOP Managed Care Bill Puts Hastert in Predicament |
September 11 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Political Ground May Be Shifting Under Mine Operators |
September 11 - Interior Lawyer's Opinion Becomes Focus of Debate |
September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate's Work on Interior Bill Delayed by Oil Royalty Filibuster; Logging Restrictions Defeated |
September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes VA-HUD Cuts, Setting Up Conflict With Senators Who Want Larger Spending Bill |
September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senators Maneuver for Showdown On Fuel Efficiency Standards In Transportation Bill |
September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Narrowly Adopts D.C. Spending Legislation Democrats Call 'Tyrannical' |
September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Conferees Add Presidential Pay Raise, Restore Funding for IRS |
September 11 - BANKING & FINANCE: Minimum Wage Backers Target Bankruptcy Bill |
September 11 - Clinton Presses For Privacy Law |
September 11 - Agencies' Technology Funding Doubled In House Science Vote |
September 11 - Arlington Cemetery Burials Addressed in Veterans' Bill |
September 11 - Assisted Suicide Measure Slows in House Judiciary |
September 11 - Democrats Demand Full Debate, Blocking Lott's Move on FAA Bill |
September 11 - House Opposes Clemency For Puerto Rican Nationalists |
September 11 - Members Work for Compromise On Utility Price Deregulation |
September 11 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Timor Crisis Ignites New Debate On Use of U.S. Troops Overseas |
September 11 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Bill To Punish Iran Arms Aid Nears Passage |
September 11 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Gilman: Reject Beijing's Idea Of 'One China' |
September 11 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
September 18 - What's Ahead |
September 18 - PAST AS PROLOGUE: No Consolation Prize for Lazio -- 'My Heart's in Legislation' |
September 18 - Some Very Select Committees Past |
September 18 - PASS THE ASPIRIN: GOP Mulls Pre-emptive Strike on Fiscal 2001 Caps To Avoid Pre-election Showdown With Clinton |
September 18 - TECH FAILURE: One Loss for Silicon Valley As Visa Bill Shelved |
September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Parties Tailor Hill Agendas To Win Seniors' Loyalty |
September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Medicare Reinvention Recedes |
September 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Damage Control Heads Up Republican Fiscal Agenda |
September 18 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Narrower Campaign Finance Bill Still a Long Shot in Senate |
September 18 - Chart: Campaign Finance Bill Highlights |
September 18 - Correction: Budget |
September 18 - TAXES: GOP's Hopes for Unity Dim As Impending Clinton Veto Fails To End Tax Cut Debate |
September 18 - HEALTH: Employers Ratchet Up Opposition To Managed Care Legislation |
September 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Funds Squeezed From Labor-HHS Help Senate Appropriators Make Fast Work of VA-HUD Bill |
September 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Air Passenger, Auto Fuel Provisions Are Rejected as Senate Passes $49.5 Billion Transportation Bill |
September 18 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Spending Highlights |
September 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury Bill Includes Pay Raises for All |
September 18 - TECHNOLOGY: White House Drops Controls On Encryption |
September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Rewrite of Older Americans Act Sets Stage for Floor Fight Over Control of Jobs Programs |
September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Assisted-Suicide Ban Approved By House Judiciary Panel; Senate Filibuster Threatened |
September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: House GOP's Fetal Protection Bill Reawakens Democrats' Fears Of Attack on Abortion Rights |
September 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Royalty Debate Has Final Hold On Interior Bill |
September 18 - D.C. Spending Bill Clears |
September 18 - Lott Seeks To Force Action On Stalled Bankruptcy Bill |
September 18 - Clinton Won't Fully Comply With Clemency Subpoena |
September 18 - House Passes Authorization For Air Traffic Control Programs |
September 18 - House Passes R and D Authorization For Department of Energy |
September 18 - White House Misses Deadline For Relinquishing Waco Papers |
September 18 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Capitol Hill Is Unimpressed With Patchwork Policy in Asia |
September 18 - DEFENSE: Congress Nears Final Action On Defense Authorization Measure Mandating New Nuclear Agency |
September 18 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Despite Albright's Pressure, Congress Reluctant To Fulfill Clinton's Foreign Aid Pledges |
September 18 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
September 25 - What's Ahead |
September 25 - Multi-Member Districts Get a Hearing |
September 25 - SOLITARY JOURNEY: John Shadegg, Man in the Middle Of Managed Care Liability Debate |
September 25 - THE FINAL PUSH: Chart: Outlook for Bills in Conference |
September 25 - THE MONEY CHASE: GOP Polishes Fundraising Machine in California Race |
September 25 - ENVIRONMENT: High-Level Acrimony In Nuclear Storage Standoff |
September 25 - Separating the Science From the Fiction At Underground Test Site |
September 25 - TRANSPORTATION: Congress Pressured to Meet Trucker Fatigue Issue Head-On |
September 25 - TAXES: Spotlight Turns to 'Extenders' As GOP Seeks Tax Strategy |
September 25 - Goals and Costs of Extenders |
September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Hastert's Determined Effort To Wrap Up Spending Bills Gets Disappointing Results |
September 25 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Senate GOP Leaders Expand Agenda of Investigations Again, This Time To Bipartisan Annoyance |
September 25 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Partisan Impasse May Block Confirmation Votes on Judges For Remainder of Session |
September 25 - Brown's Defeat Is First in Memory for 'Widow's Mandate' |
September 25 - ETHICS: House Probes Hilliard's Use of Campaign Fund |
September 25 - House Gets Its First Clean Audit |
September 25 - Appeals Court Reinstates Suit By Boehner Against McDermott |
September 25 - Delaware Gov. Carper To Run For Roth's Senate Seat |
September 25 - Former Baucus Staffer Unveils Sexual Harassment Complaint |
September 25 - HEALTH: House Nears Managed Care Vote With GOP Leaders Still in a Bind |
September 25 - Chart: House Health Care Bills Compared |
September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel Moves Labor-HHS Bill With Accounting Gimmicks Galore |
September 25 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Gun Control Compromise Remains a Distant Prospect, But Hyde Vows To Keep Trying |
September 25 - LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: GOP Hopes Minimum Wage Bill With Tax Benefits Will Lure Votes And Disarm Democrats |
September 25 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Health Care Expansion For Vets Passes |
September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Conferees Face Wide Gaps Over Mining, Grazing, Drilling While Veto Threat Hovers |
September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes VA-HUD Bill That Differs Sharply With House On Rental Subsidy Program |
September 25 - AGRICULTURE: New Dairy Price Plan's Backers Are Confident of Victory Despite Losing House Vote |
September 25 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Narrow House Passage of Bill To Federalize Many Class Actions Heartens Supporters and Critics |
September 25 - Banking Bill Conference Off To Slow Start |
September 25 - Dairy Dispute Stalls Agriculture Bill |
September 25 - Senate Panel Approves Weaver For Export-Import Bank Board |
September 25 - House Bill Would Limit Liability Of Machine Tool Manufacturers |
September 25 - Justice Files Fraud Lawsuit Against Tobacco Industry |
September 25 - Agreement Reached On Energy-Water Funding Bill |
September 25 - Bill Would Require President To Consult On Monuments |
September 25 - Senate Votes To Release Airport Construction Funds |
September 25 - DEFENSE: Flap Over New Nuclear Agency Fails To Derail Defense Bill |
September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Bill Negotiators Race the Clock for a Deal On F-22 Production Money |
September 25 - TRADE: 'Dual Use' Reauthorization Proposes Much Shorter List Of Export-Controlled Items |
September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Foreign Aid Conference Stalled By Fresh Abortion Dispute |
September 25 - Colombian President's Aid Request Gets Favorable Response on Hill |
September 25 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Summers, Talbott Defend Policy In First Round of Hearings On Corruption in Russia |
September 25 - NOMINATIONS: Arms Control Nominees Still in Limbo |
September 25 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Declares Republican Tax Bill 'Would Leave America Permanently in Debt' |
September 25 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
September 25 - Chart: Bills To Watch |