January 4 - THE BUDGET: Bush Talks of Defense Cuts, Loosening Budget Pact |
January 11 - CORRECTION: Fiscal 1992 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations/Passage. |
January 18 - Errata |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- Annual Business 1992 Budget: What To Do With the Peace Dividend |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- Annual Business The Defense Budget: A Pre-Emptive Strike? |
January 25 - Budget Drama, Act II: Scenarios for Chaos |
January 25 - DEFENSE: Bush Expected To Cut Back On Warheads, New Weapons |
January 25 - DEFENSE: Members Lobby Hard To Protect Endangered Submarine Project |
January 25 - Discretionary Spending Caps (In billions of dollars) |
January 25 - How Pentagon Spending Grew |
January 25 - The Disappearing Dividend |
January 25 - Whispers of the 'S' Word |
February 1 - Budget Glossary |
February 1 - Budget Rules Under Fire |
February 1 - Bush Throws Down Gauntlet With Election-Year Plan |
February 1 - Discretionary Caps (chart) |
February 1 - President Bush's Budget Takes Aim |
February 1 - The Deficit: Trouble Ahead (chart) |
February 8 - Defense Budget Authority* (chart) |
February 8 - More 1992 Funds Sought |
February 8 - The Courthouse and Highway Cuts |
February 15 - FOREIGN POLICY: Regional Flash Points Demand Attention of Lawmakers |
February 15 - Spending for New Jobs Caught In Supplemental Squeeze |
February 22 - Israel: Appropriators Toughen Stance On Loan Guarantee Request |
February 22 - THE BUDGET: Bush-Democrats Stalemate Threatens Peace Dividend |
February 29 - Guarding the Power of the Purse |
February 29 - Leahy Hunts for Middle Ground On Israel Loan Guarantees |
February 29 - THE BUDGET: Two Budgets Better Than One, House Committee Decides |
February 29 - The Israel Options: Baker's Ultimatum |
March 7 - Finance Committee Sends Doomed Bill to Senate |
March 14 - THE BUDGET: Vote Postponed Again on Bill To Demolish Spending Walls |
March 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bush Attacks Defense 'Pork,' Wants Add-Ons Removed |
March 21 - Bush Goes On Economic Offensive |
March 21 - Stopgap Spending Bill on Horizon |
March 21 - THE BUDGET: Vote on Spending Walls Bill Put Off for Third Time |
March 28 - Congress' Clock Winds Down On Stopgap Funding |
March 28 - Democrats Hope Rescissions Will Be Two-Edged Sword |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Restores Highway Funds |
March 28 - Walls Erected by Budget Rules (chart) |
April 4 - Bush's Plan To Help Ex-Soviets Gets Good Reception on Hill |
April 4 - FOREIGN AID: Stopgap Bill Becomes Law After Deadline Threat |
April 4 - Foreign Operations Appropriations (chart) |
April 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Democrats Offer Own Cuts To Counter Bush Plan |
April 11 - Assigned Cuts (chart) |
April 11 - SPACE: Panel Challenges Appropriators To Fund Space Station, Shuttle |
May 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Tries To Outdo Bush In Anti-Pork Campaign |
May 2 - INTERIOR: Smithsonian Faces Cuts, Scrutiny |
May 2 - Is the Deficit Now Too Big For Congress To Tame? |
May 2 - Rescissions Packages (chart) |
May 2 - What the Budget Rules Say |
May 2 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Partisan Fights Set On Spending Cuts |
May 9 - Balanced-Budget Amendment Suddenly Comes to Life |
May 9 - Changing of the Guard |
May 9 - Democrats Keep Tight Rein On Rescissions Process |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Seeks Highway Funds Diverted by Courthouse |
May 9 - Turnover on Appropriations: Old-Guard Bastion in Flux |
May 9 - WHAT'S AHEAD: House To Move on Aid For Los Angeles |
May 16 - Amendment to Constitution Headed for Vote in June |
May 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Spending Dispute Stalls Rescissions Bill |
May 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves $494.7 Million In Aid for L.A., Chicago |
May 16 - Aspin Urges Shifting $7 Billion From Pentagon to Cities |
May 16 - Spending Pie Apt To Leave Chairmen Feeling Hungry |
May 16 - THE BUDGET: Conferees Snagged On Domestic Cuts |
May 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Rescissions Top Bush's Target, Change What Will Get Cut |
May 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Adds $1.45 Billion |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Defense Cutback Panel Gets Panel's OK |
May 23 - Senate, House Look for Ways To Cushion Spending Drop |
May 23 - THE BUDGET: Congress Adopts Fiscal 1993 Plan |
May 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Chairmen Slow To Cut Up Pie |
May 30 - NIH - The Big Picture |
May 30 - THE BUDGET: Opponents Launch Campaign To Stop Budget Amendment |
June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy Panel's Austere Budget Cuts Collider by $166 Million |
June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Urban Spending Bill Gets OK Despite Veto Threat |
June 6 - Authority vs. Outlays |
June 6 - Budget Amendment Pummeled As House Set to Vote |
June 6 - COMMITTEES: Democrats Pressure Whitten To Step Aside as Chair |
June 6 - Discretionary Spending (chart) |
June 6 - FOREIGN AID: Senate May Not Act on Funds Before Yeltsin Pays a Visit |
June 6 - Spending Panels Begin Wrestling With '93 Budget Reality |
June 6 - Urban Supplemental (chart) |
June 13 - A Winner At Last |
June 13 - Amendment's Fragile Bloc of Backers Undone by Last-Minute Defections |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committee Grimly Serves Greatly Reduced Pie |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Quayle's Council Under Attack |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Road Funding Promises Fall In $13 Billion Transit Bill |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Urban Aid Measure Stalled By Face-Off With Bush |
June 13 - APPROPRRIATIONS: Anxious Panel Offers Bill To Cut Hill Staff |
June 13 - Defeat of Budget Amendment Fans Anti-Deficit Flames |
June 13 - Energy and Water Development (Chart) |
June 13 - FOREIGN AID: Ex-Soviet Aid Takes Back Seat To Domestic Policy Debate |
June 13 - House Spending Allocations (chart) |
June 13 - Lean Energy Spending Bill Spreads the Pain Around |
June 13 - SECTION NOTES: Military Construction Bill Would Help Close Bases |
June 13 - State Budgets: Deceptive Models |
June 13 - Status of Appropriations |
June 13 - Waning Support for Foreign Aid Marked by Cut in Request |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: $1.1 Billion Urban Aid Bill Sent to President Bush |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Base Closures Get Big Boost In Military Spending Bill |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Legislative Branch Spending Gets Quick Panel Approval |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel OKs Money for Interior, Much of It Already Spent |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Throws Down Gauntlet On Navy Funding Choices |
June 20 - Discretionary Spending (chart) |
June 20 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
June 20 - House Denies Atom Smasher Its 1993 Expense Account |
June 20 - Panel Mows Into Foreign Aid; Longtime Allies Lose Out |
June 20 - Senate Panel Takes Its Turn (chart) |
June 20 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
June 20 - Surprise Vote Sounds Alarm For 1993 Spending Bills |
June 20 - Urban Supplemental (chart) |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Spending Bill Cuts Foreign Marketing Program |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Another Round Set In Freedom Fight |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Competitiveness Council Gets Funding Ax |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Nicks Its Own Funding To Stymie GOP Assault |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes, With Slight Trim, Military Construction Bill |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Gives Nod To D.C. Request |
June 27 - Balanced-Budget Redux |
June 27 - CORRECTION |
June 27 - FOREIGN AID: House Approves Spending Bill That Slashes Bush Request |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs More Than Panel's Coast Guard Appropriation |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Bill Easing Credit For Novice Farmers |
June 27 - Status of Appropriations 102nd Congress - Second Session |
June 27 - THE BUDGET: Panetta's Committee Tilting At the Deficit Windmill? |
June 27 - URBAN AGENDA: Framework for Aid Package Still Not Nailed Down |
June 27 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Hill Has Much Planned Before July 4 Recess |
June 27 - WIC APPROPRIATIONS (chart) |
July 4 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Big-Ticket Projects Remain Intact As House Passes Spending Bill |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Despite Urge To Cut Deficit, House Only Shaves Bills |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Fights in Offing Over D.C. Bill |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves Agriculture Bill With Core Programs Intact |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Goes After Funding For Executive Branch |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lawmakers Make Spending U-Turn |
July 4 - District of Columbia Spending (chart) |
July 4 - Interior Spending (chart) |
July 4 - On the Defense Front |
July 4 - Policy Dispute Delays Bill On Interior Spending |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: $23 Billion Draft Bill OK'd For Commerce, Justice, State |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Labor-HHS Spending Bill Gets Panel's Approval |
July 4 - Status of Appropriations 102nd Congress - Second Session |
July 4 - THE BUDGET: Senate Move Kills Amendment To Require Balanced Budget |
July 4 - Transportation Appropriations (chart) |
July 4 - Treasury, Postal Service Spending (chart) |
July 4 - Ways and Means Bill Highlights |
July 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Delivers Small Victory To U.S. Postal Service |
July 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: New Supplemental Moves in House |
July 11 - Bumpy Road to Courthouse |
July 11 - D.C. Spending Bill Passes House Despite Partners Law Criticism |
July 11 - D.C. Spending Bill Passes House Despite Partners Law Criticism |
July 11 - House Raids Foreign Aid To Fund Roads, Transit |
July 11 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
July 11 - THE BUDGET: GOP Backs Out of House Talks On Deficit Reduction |
July 11 - THE BUDGET: House Again Reverses Stand On Deficit Spending |
July 18 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
July 25 - 'Urban' Agriculture Spending Passes Senate Committee |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Ends Weeks of Delay, Approves Interior Spending |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Leftover Funding From War Sought for Other Projects |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Restores Collider, OKs Weaker Nuclear Test Ban |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Station Is Safe for Now, But Funding Fight Goes On |
July 25 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
July 25 - Congressional Double Whammy Hits FBI and DEA Budgets |
July 25 - CORRECTION: Agriculture appropriation |
July 25 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Senate Panel OKs Bill, But B-2, SDI May Inspire Floor Fights |
July 25 - Fiscal 1992 Defense Supplemental (chart) |
July 25 - Labor, HHS Spending (chart) |
July 25 - Legislators Must Move Fast To Meet Fiscal Deadline |
July 25 - Osprey Fans Keep the Faith |
July 25 - Panetta's Plan |
July 25 - Senate Panel Finagles Funds To Meet City's Request |
July 25 - Social Program Cuts Austere; Discomfort To Be Felt by All |
July 25 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
August 1 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bills Pare Administrative Costs But Try To Create Jobs |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves Supplemental After Line-Item Veto Fight |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Postal Spending Bill Would Lead To Rate Hike, Senators Say |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Alters, OKs Spending for D.C. |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Beats Back Three Assaults On Agriculture's $61.4 Billion |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Gets Pinch-Penny Bill, Will Likely Revive Old Issues |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Trims Construction Bill |
August 1 - Bush Veto Threat May Throw Monkey Wrench in Process |
August 1 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
August 1 - House Approves Small Tax Changes |
August 1 - House Bills vs. Bush's Request (chart) |
August 1 - Interior Spending (chart) |
August 1 - Labor, HHS, Education Spending (chart) |
August 1 - Members Unsure What Country Will Get for Price of Freedom |
August 1 - Panel OKs Interior Spending Bill Packed With Special Projects |
August 1 - Panel Preserves Budget Walls In Transportation Spending |
August 1 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
August 1 - VA, HUD, Independent Agencies (chart) |
August 1 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Appropriations, Taxes Demand Attention |
August 8 - Action on Tax Bill Slips |
August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: 'Donor' States Lose Highway Dollars In Senate Transportation Bill |
August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Tries To Spread Budget-Cutting Pain |
August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Bill Sees Usual Attempts To Change Mining, Timber Laws |
August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Measure Zips Through the Senate |
August 8 - Conferees Reach Agreement On Agriculture Spending |
August 8 - CORRECTION: Tax bill markup. |
August 8 - Critics Score Points Against SDI As Weapons Debate Begin |
August 8 - Energy and Water Development (chart) |
August 8 - Military Construction Spending (chart) |
August 8 - Senate Vote Signals Readiness To Limit Nuclear Testing |
August 8 - Status of Appropriations |
August 8 - Super Debate |
August 8 - TAXES: House Tinkers With Tax Code, Agreeing on Minor Changes |
August 8 - The Law on Mining |
August 8 - Transportation Spending (chart) |
August 15 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
August 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Spending Clears; Bush's Signature Likely |
August 15 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Spending Measure Left Hanging; Nunn Vows To Resume Efforts |
August 15 - Enterprise Zone Proposals |
August 15 - Status of Appropriations: |
August 15 - Wallop's Mission |
August 22 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
September 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: $20 Billion Bill for Andrew At Government's Door |
September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: ECONOMICS AND FINANCE |
September 5 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
September 5 - The Pressure Is On To Salvage 102nd Congress' Reputation |
September 5 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Congress Back To Face Backlog of Legislation |
September 12 - Abortion Face-Off Looms |
September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Air Base Dispute May Impede Action on Hurricane Relief |
September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Freedom Fighters Win Again Senate Keeps Space Station |
September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Social Security Riders Thrown From Senate Treasury Bill |
September 12 - Harkin Seeks $4 Billion Shift From Defense to Domestic |
September 12 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
September 12 - Supplemental Highlights (chart) |
September 12 - Treasury-Postal Service (chart) |
September 12 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Fight Over Homestead Looms in Senate |
September 19 - A Last Shot at 'Gag Rule' |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Save Super Collider But Can't Resolve Test Ban |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Spending Measure Offers SDI $3.8 Billion |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Israel Loan Guarantees Get Subcommittee OK |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Resists Adding Money To Popular Social Programs |
September 19 - Disaster Relief Package Clears in Brisk Fashion |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Approves Bill On Digital Audio Tape |
September 19 - Spending Bills vs. Bush's Request (chart) |
September 19 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
September 19 - Supplemental Highlights (chart) |
September 19 - Told To Cut or Face Vetoes, Democrats Capitulate |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Another Space Program Spared As Conferees Set Funding |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Cut $200 Million, Pave Way to Approval |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Clears Energy Spending With Nuclear Test Ban Intact |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Divisive Proposals Dropped |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: IMF, Israel Are Winners in Aid Bill As Action Shifts to Senate Floor |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Negotiators Leave Veto Bait In District Spending Bill |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Conferees Yield, Cut Millions, Labor Provisions |
September 26 - Interior Bill's Negotiators Levy New Fee on Miners |
September 26 - Legislative Spending (chart) |
September 26 - MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS: Deprived of Plan to Shift Funds, Members Approve $8.39 Billion |
September 26 - Military Construction Spending (chart) |
September 26 - Pentagon as Cancer-Fighter? |
September 26 - Senate Passes Spending Bill With Home-State Touches |
September 26 - Spending Bills Slim Down |
September 26 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
September 26 - The Diminutive Downsizing: Hill Funds Cut 1.25 Percent |
September 26 - Two Major Obstacles Dissolve As Time for Talk Winds Down |
September 26 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Continuing Resolution A Likely Prospect |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Cleared by Senate: Military Building |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Government Funding Bill Moves Through House |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lean Spending Bills Are Likely To Squeeze By on Schedule |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Members Force Vote on Device To Trim Spending Bills |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: No Beefs as Pork Doubles; Hill Mutely Clears Bill |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate OKs Legislative Funding After Vowing 15 Percent Cut |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Slight Increases for Most; CJS Bill Clears Quickly |
October 3 - Bill Postpones Weapons Cuts But Lays the Groundwork |
October 3 - CORRECTION: Supplemental. |
October 3 - DISASTER RELIEF: Bill Would Ease Banking Rules |
October 3 - District of Columbia Spending (chart) |
October 3 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Funding Bill Clears With Restrictions |
October 3 - Highway Act's Promises on Hold As Transportation Bill Clears |
October 3 - Interior Spending (chart) |
October 3 - MEMORANDUMS OF DISAPPROVAL: As End of Congress Nears, Bush Turns Often to Veto |
October 3 - Modest Interior Spending Bill Clears With Little Fuss |
October 3 - Senate Passes Foreign Aid Bill Backing U.S. Arms for Bosnia |
October 3 - Short but Grim Conference Meets Bush's Demands |
October 3 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
October 3 - THE BUDGET: Perot, Commission Make Bids To Put Deficit in Spotlight |
October 3 - Transportation Spending (chart) |
October 3 - Transportation Spending (chart) |
October 3 - Treasury-Postal Spending (chart) |
October 3 - VA, HUD, Independent Agencies (chart) |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: 13 Spending Bills Clear Below Budget Caps |
October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Devoid of Trouble, Bill Goes To Bush |
October 10 - Bush Signs Defense Measure With SDI Cut, Cancer Funds |
October 10 - Carper's Compromise |
October 10 - Cold War's Demise Shapes $26.3 Billion Spending Bill |
October 10 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending (chart) |
October 10 - Defense Authorization (chart) |
October 10 - Drawn-Out Denouement Mirrors Character of 102nd Congress |
October 10 - EX-SOVIET AID: Attack Surfaces Over Sub Sale, But House Clears Aid Bill |
October 10 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
October 10 - International Flight |
October 10 - Labor-HHS-Education Spending (chart) |
October 10 - Legislative Funding Total Is Less Than Last Year's |
October 10 - Legislative Spending (chart) |
October 10 - Spending Bill Trims Some Now, Sets Bigger Cuts in Motion |
October 10 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
October 10 - Unsinkable Science |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Shaves Personnel Spending But Slices Weapons Purchases |
October 17 - CORRECTION: Legislative appropriations/ Supreme Court decision. |
October 17 - Defense Appropriations (chart) |
October 17 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
October 17 - THE BUDGET: Five Campaign-Season Plans May Point Way on Deficit |
October 31 - Status of Appropriations: 102nd Congress - Second Session |
November 7 - Changes Afoot for Appropriations |
December 12 - All the Right Moves |