October 7 - What's Ahead |
October 7 - Gramm: Clinton's Fed Appointments 'Finished' |
October 7 - Nikes May Swoosh Through Duty-Free |
October 7 - A Hand From Specter |
October 7 - CQ's Take on Debates |
October 7 - Reid Blocks Yucca Ads |
October 7 - An Immovable President Meets Irresistible Pork |
October 7 - McCain's Anti-Pork Speeches Play Well on Stump, Fall Flat in Senate |
October 7 - Tax Proposals Could Hitch Ride On Year-End Spending Bill |
October 7 - The Likeliest Survivors |
October 7 - Panel Likens Missing E-Mail To Watergate |
October 7 - Shuster Calls Action 'Overkill' After Ethics Panel Reproves Him For Misconduct, Rules Violations |
October 7 - Yates Dead at 91; Illinois Democrat Was House Institution |
October 7 - Well-Timed Push on H-1B Bill Gives Businesses All They Asked |
October 7 - Drug Re-Importation, Cuba Sanctions Addressed in Compromise Agriculture Bill |
October 7 - House Panel Approves Groundwork For Medicare Giveback Bill, With Lobbies Tugging From Both Sides |
October 7 - Hill Reauthorizes Program Of Visa Waivers for Traveling Between U.S., 29 Nations |
October 7 - Negotiators Reach VA-HUD Deal That Embraces Most Clinton Priorities But Keeps Some GOP Policy Riders |
October 7 - Chambers Pass Interior Bill With Big, Bipartisan Increase In Funding for Public Lands |
October 7 - Both Parties View Prospective Veto Of Energy-Water Spending Bill As Leverage in Presidential Race |
October 7 - CJS Conferees Haggle Over Peacekeeping, Tobacco, Immigration; Ban on Honoraria for Judges Retained |
October 7 - Transportation Bill Provides Big Spending Increase for Airports, Tightens Drunken Driving Standard |
October 7 - House Passes Conference Report On Sex Trafficking, Compensation For Victims of Terrorism |
October 7 - House Passes Measure To Help States Process Backlog of DNA Evidence |
October 7 - Hate Crime Language Fails In Defense Bill |
October 7 - House Backs HIV Testing of Alleged Rapists |
October 7 - Auto Safety Oversight Bill Advances to House Floor But Faces Holds in Senate |
October 7 - Treasury-Postal Bill Advances As Side Deal Adds More Money For IRS, Anti-Terrorism Efforts |
October 7 - Bankruptcy Overhaul Hung Up Over Provision Affecting Liability Of Certain Abortion Protesters |
October 7 - AIDS Funding Formula May Change |
October 7 - Auto Dealer Arbitration Bill Stalls in Senate Judiciary |
October 7 - Bill Calls for GAO Review Of New Federal Rules |
October 7 - Bill Would Allow Medicaid To Cover Breast, Cervical Cancer |
October 7 - Internet Privacy Protection Bill Appears Dead for the Year |
October 7 - Move to Reduce Stock Fees Approved by House Commerce |
October 7 - Senate OKs Aid for Rural Areas Dependent on Timber |
October 7 - Substitute Electronic Crime Bill Adopted by Senate Judiciary |
October 7 - Conferees Agree to Expand Military Retirees' Medical Benefits |
October 7 - Deal on Radiation Exposure |
October 7 - Intelligence Bill Conferees to Focus On Senate-Proposed Sanctions In Drug-Trafficking Cases |
October 7 - Milosevic's Ouster Likely to Spur End of Sanctions on Yugoslavia, But Lawmakers Split on Economic Aid |
October 7 - Byrd Pushes to Give Steel Firms A Cut of Anti-Dumping Fines |
October 7 - House Ties Debt Relief for Russia To Cessation of Missile Sales |
October 7 - Third World Debt Relief Still Stalled |
October 14 - What's Ahead |
October 14 - It Keeps Growing, and Growing. . . |
October 14 - Outgoing Senators Share Some Wealth |
October 14 - Seriously Humorous |
October 14 - Shelby Spins Out |
October 14 - The Challenge of Support |
October 14 - Decision Time: Issues Facing the Next President |
October 14 - The Surplus And the Baby Boomers |
October 14 - Information Technology's Anxious Side |
October 14 - The Many Shades of Trade Policy |
October 14 - Education: High Expectations, Limited Means |
October 14 - Health Care Costs Poised To Surge Again |
October 14 - Defining, Asserting the National Interest |
October 14 - A Strange Calm on Capitol Hill As GOP Opts for Unrushed Exit |
October 14 - Go Home and Fight or Stay and Vote: Embattled Incumbents' Dilemma |
October 14 - White House Draws Hard Line On Stopgap Spending Bills in Effort To Budge GOP in Policy Disputes |
October 14 - GOP Leaders Seek to Maneuver Tax Cut Bills Past Conservatives Who Object to Surge in Spending |
October 14 - Panel's Limited Immunity Grant May Not Shield Shuster From Federal Prosecution |
October 14 - Rep. Vento Remembered As Friend of Environment And 'the Little Guy' |
October 14 - Hill Clears Auto Safety Measure With Some Concessions to Industry |
October 14 - Senate Clears Crime Bill Reauthorizing Violence Against Women Act and Criminalizing Trafficking in Persons |
October 14 - Clinton Promises His Signature On Compromise VA-HUD Bill |
October 14 - Clinton Warns Republicans Of Need to Involve White House In Final Talks to Rescind Medicare Cuts |
October 14 - Agriculture Spending Measure Heads for Senate Floor As Clinton Indicates Support |
October 14 - Senate Passes Energy-Water Bill After Stripping Out Restrictions On Management of Missouri River |
October 14 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending Remains Hung Up on Immigration, Tobacco, FCC Licensing Proposals |
October 14 - 'Mini-Omnibus' Treasury, Postal, Legislative Branch Spending Bill Clears With Phone Excise Tax Repeal |
October 14 - Bankruptcy Bill Heads for Final Vote; Veto a Near Certainty Over Omission Of Provision on Abortion Protesters |
October 14 - Conferees Reach Accord On Needle Exchange Issue, Freeing D.C. Spending Bill |
October 14 - Pipeline Safety Bill Dies in House |
October 14 - House Clears Bill To Extend Visa Waiver Program |
October 14 - House Clears Bill To Stabilize Rural Town Payments |
October 14 - House Passes Bill to Help Cover Poor Women's Cancer Treatment |
October 14 - Move to Raise H-1B Visa Fees Heading to President |
October 14 - NASA Reauthorization Cleared by Senate |
October 14 - Defense Authorization Bill Clears In Debate Tinged by Mideast Crises |
October 14 - Intelligence Bill Clears Despite Concerns About Classified Leaks Penalties |
October 14 - Conferees Agree on Increase In Foreign Aid, Still Grapple With Abortion-Related Restrictions |
October 14 - GOP Cautious on North Korean Thaw |
October 14 - Senate Clears Bill Allowing Syrian Jews Residency in U.S. |
October 14 - Senate Votes to Revive Expired High-Tech Export Law for a Year |
October 14 - Clinton Cites Missouri, California Provisions In Vetoing Energy-Water Appropriations Bill |
October 21 - What's Ahead |
October 21 - High-Tech May Not Mean High Support |
October 21 - Republicans Expected to Welcome Back Floor Votes |
October 21 - Traficant May Get 'Beamed Out' of Democratic Caucus |
October 21 - Neither Party Likely to Win Clear-Cut Control of Agenda |
October 21 - House Control Teeters |
October 21 - Glittering Prize in State Elections: Control of House Redistricting |
October 21 - GOP Likely to Hold Senate |
October 21 - A Wider Net, a Record Haul |
October 21 - GOP May Lose Governorships |
October 21 - Initiatives: Vouchers, Tax Cuts |
October 21 - Consensus Builds to Wrap Up War of Words on Spending Bills |
October 21 - Fate of Tax Cut, Minimum Wage Package Rests on Reaching Deal With Clinton On Education and Health Issues |
October 21 - Baucus Sued By His Former Chief of Staff |
October 21 - Congress Sends Project-Laden VA-HUD Measure to Clinton |
October 21 - The Old College Try Pays Off |
October 21 - Senate Poised to Clear Bankruptcy Overhaul Bill; Clinton Uncaps Veto Pen |
October 21 - Agriculture Spending Bill Sent to Clinton |
October 21 - Senate Acts To Reauthorize Oil Reserve |
October 21 - Everglades Restoration Bill Glides Through House, Heads for Difficult Conference |
October 21 - Tempers Flare as Democrats Push To Add More Education Funding To Labor-HHS Measure |
October 21 - Commodity Exchange Reauthorization Passes House, but Senate May Stall Over Swaps Exemption Issue |
October 21 - Medicare 'Giveback' Bill Advances; White House Objects Strongly To Amount of Money for HMOs |
October 21 - House Clears Bill to Extend Shared Risk for Space Launches |
October 21 - House Passes Grain Regulations |
October 21 - Senate Passes Bill Updating Rules for FTC Merger Reviews |
October 21 - Supreme Court Refuses to Hear D.C. Congressional Rights Case |
October 21 - Three Bills Cleared to Clinton Would Benefit Veterans |
October 21 - Congress Adds Modestly To Clinton's Pentagon Budget |
October 21 - Bill Mandates Widespread Polygraphing At Nuclear Laboratories |
October 21 - Armenian Resolution Vote Canceled at Clinton's Request |
October 21 - Foreign Aid Conferees at Impasse |
October 21 - Panel Plans Hearing on Gore's 1995 Arms Deal With Russia |
October 28 - What's Ahead |
October 28 - Majority and Mortality, a Morality Play |
October 28 - Funny Thing Happened to GOP Tax Bill in Negotiations |
October 28 - Need a Building Named? 'Suspension' Bills Fill Calendar |
October 28 - Symbolism and Stalemate Closing Out 106th Congress |
October 28 - Insurers' Queasiness About Costs Helped Sink GOP Prescription Drug Bill |
October 28 - Coalition of Interests, Budget Surplus Won New Benefits for Military Retirees |
October 28 - A Rising Republican's Quest for Balance |
October 28 - Ballooning the Bottom Line: Blame Enough for Two Parties |
October 28 - Tax, Wage Bill Hurtles Toward Veto After GOP Adds Disputed Policy Riders |
October 28 - Labor-HHS Spending Measure Is Likely Candidate for Omnibus |
October 28 - Senate Clears Reauthorization Of 1965 Older Americans Act In States-vs.-Nonprofits Compromise |
October 28 - President Adds Medicare Payment Bill To List of Prospective Vetoes |
October 28 - Senate Hands Clinton CJS Bill; Immigration Issues at Heart of Veto Threat |
October 28 - Rural TV Improvement Measure, Low-Power FM Radio Restrictions Hitch Ride on CJS Spending Bill |
October 28 - Water Resources Bill Resurrected As Negotiators Divert Provisions That Faced Senate Opposition |
October 28 - Commodity Law Rewrite Push Intensifies |
October 28 - Tax Bill Rider Seeks to Block Suicide Law |
October 28 - Senate Girds for Showdown Vote On Bankruptcy Overhaul Measure; Other Key Changes May Move Separately |
October 28 - McCain Seeks Deal With White House On Blocking Children's Access To Internet Pornography |
October 28 - Broad Bill to Foster Home Ownership Passes House but Stalls in Senate As Time for Compromise Runs Out |
October 28 - Bond Program Would Pay for Rail Corridors |
October 28 - Oil Reserves Sole Subject Of Energy Bill |
October 28 - Anti-Poverty Package Caught Up In Clinton's Threat to Veto Overarching Tax Relief Package |
October 28 - Congress Clears Measure To Restore Estuaries |
October 28 - GOP Drops Contempt Measure Against Watchdog Group |
October 28 - Health Research Package Clears |
October 28 - House Clears Bill to Extend Coastal Barrier Program |
October 28 - House Defeats Bill to Expand Math and Science Education |
October 28 - Senate Clears Grain Rules Bill After Watershed Dam Deal |
October 28 - Aid for Russia |
October 28 - Foreign Aid Bill Gives Clinton Requested Debt Relief Funding |
October 28 - Dissension in Senate Stalls Anti-Terrorism Bill |
October 28 - Export Control Bill Is Up in the Air |
October 28 - Tougher Sanctions on Sudan Are Unlikely to Get Past Senate |