 January 4 - Spending Power |
| January 18 - SEPARATION OF POWERS |
| January 25 - ENVIRONMENT |
| February 8 - 1997 Supplemental |
| February 8 - Budget: Revenues |
| February 8 - TRANSPORTATION |
| March 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Appropriations |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Appropriations |
| March 29 - COVER STORY |
| April 12 - Excerpts From Judge's Ruling |
| April 12 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| April 12 - History of Line-Item Veto Effort |
| April 12 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 19 - Swelling Supplemental Spending Bill Is Another Victim of Spring Floods |
| April 26 - APPROPRIATIONS |
| April 26 - AUTHORIZATION BILLS PASS HOUSE WITH LITTLE DEBATE |
| April 26 - Balanced-Budget Plan At Critical Stage |
| April 26 - Focus on Floods and Farmland |
| April 26 - Midyear Appropriations Bill |
| April 26 - SEPARATION OF POWERS |
| May 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Veto-Bait Provisions Ensnarl Emergency Spending Bill |
| May 3 - COMMITTEES: Funding Approved For House Panels |
| May 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Finishes Supplemental Bill, But Smooth Passage Unlikely |
| May 10 - DEFENSE: Cohen's Plan: Close More Bases To Pay for New Weapons |
| May 10 - House vs. Senate Emergency Spending Bills, by Agency |
| May 10 - On the Menu: Paved Alaska? |
| May 10 - Recess Clock Ticking For Spending Bill |
| May 10 - Transportation Proposals |
| May 10 - TRANSPORTATION: ISTEA Reauthorization Stalls Over Highway Funding |
| May 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Emergency Spending, But 'Automatic CR' Invites Veto |
| May 17 - Final Deal Expected On Spending Bill |
| May 17 - Of Paper and Parochialism |
| May 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Divided Republicans Go Home Without Passing Disaster Aid |
| May 24 - Budget Measures Await End of Holiday Recess |
| May 31 - A Threat From Small Fires |
| May 31 - Budget Blueprint May Guide Cuts |
| May 31 - Chairmen Disagree Over City's Request |
| May 31 - Combative Chairmen Often at Odds With Republican Leadership Agenda |
| May 31 - COVER STORY: Appropriations Season Begins With New Deal, Old Battles |
| May 31 - Focus on Troops' Quality of Life Continues |
| May 31 - Holding the Line on Project Spending |
| May 31 - Housing Programs Top Full Agenda |
| May 31 - Land, Arts Funding Are Hot Issues |
| May 31 - Maintaining Status Quo May Be Tough |
| May 31 - Old Issues May Get a New Touch |
| May 31 - Pro-Military Bent Likely To Persist |
| May 31 - Programs Expected To Have Easier Time |
| May 31 - Small Amounts, Big Fights |
| May 31 - Status of Major Legislation: 105th Congress |
| May 31 - U.N., Crime-Fighting Will Tighten Budget |
| June 7 - APPROPRIATIONS: Despite Expected Veto, Republicans Have No 'Plan B' On Disaster Aid |
| June 7 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Gender Issue Takes Prominent Role In House Markup for Pentagon |
| June 7 - ENERGY: Panel Makes Cuts In Turf Feud |
| June 7 - How the Bill Evolved |
| June 7 - INTELLIGENCE: Spy Agency Authorization Bills Advance in House, Senate |
| June 7 - Panels Push To Finish Budget-Deal Bills |
| June 7 - Politics Complicates Census Funding |
| June 7 - Status of Major Legislation |
| June 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Signs 'Clean' Disaster Aid After Flailing GOP Yields to Veto |
| June 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committees Race Against Time To Parcel Out the Money |
| June 14 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Panels Reject Further Base Closings, Differ Sharply on Arms Programs |
| June 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel's Plan for Paying U.N. Debt May Signal Breakthrough |
| June 14 - SECTION NOTES: NOAA Bill Spurs New Round In House Turf Fight |
| June 14 - Status of Major Legislation |
| June 14 - VETO MESSAGE: President Details Rejection Of Supplemental Bill |
| June 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Measure Emphasizes 'Quality of Life' |
| June 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Money Woes Seem Far Behind For Interior Measure |
| June 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Votes To Drop Aid Earmark for Egypt |
| June 21 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Passes Spy Agency Bill With Little Dissent |
| June 21 - Members Aim To Finish Balanced-Budget Bills |
| June 28 - After Break for Fourth, More Fireworks |
| June 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Albright's Push for Foreign Aid Gets Mixed Receptions |
| June 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel Gives Agriculture Few Increases in Funding |
| June 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Bill Advances to House With Hot Spots Still Hot |
| June 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Legislative Branch Decrease Recommended by Panel |
| June 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Bill Rolls Toward Passage |
| June 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Spending on Housing, Veterans Boosted by Subcommittee |
| June 28 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Pentagon Backers in House Settle For Modest Budget Increase |
| June 28 - Heading Down a Different Track |
| June 28 - Military Construction |
| June 28 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| July 5 - From Break to Recess, Agenda Is Packed |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Chairman Has High Hopes For Labor-HHS Measure |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Elimination of NEA Squeaks By As House Passes Interior Rule |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Highways Gain as Committee Approves Transportation Bill |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: House and Senate Showdown Expected On Energy, Water |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Committee Approves VA-HUD Spending Bill |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Measure Passes Easily in House |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Takes the Lead On Treasury-Postal Bill |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tobacco Farmers' Programs Saved in House Committee |
| July 12 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: After the Budget Deal, What's To Fight Over? |
| July 12 - DEFENSE: Senate Rebuffs Clinton Plan For Further Base Cutbacks |
| July 12 - Domenici Dug Deep for State's Ditches |
| July 12 - Senate Panel OKs Defense Spending |
| July 12 - Spotlight Remains On Money, Taxes |
| July 12 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 (as of July 11, 1997) |
| July 12 - VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| July 19 - Aid to Palestinians May Lapse |
| July 19 - Amendments Enliven Floor Debate on House Interior Spending Bill |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: 9th Circuit Part of Debate On Commerce Spending |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Measure Delayed By Other House Events |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congressional Staff To Get Cost of Living Increases |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes VA-HUD Spending With Deep Cut to AmeriCorps |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate Interior Bills Differ Over Land Purchases, Arts |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate May Lock Horns Over Energy-Water Spending |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lawmakers Poised to Accept Another Pay Freeze |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lawmakers Urged To Keep Bill Free of Extraneous Items |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Adds Money for Reserves, Guard, Family Housing |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Roads Would Get $23.6 Billion In Senate Transportation Bill |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Boosts Some Arms Programs, Sticks to Clinton's Basic Policies |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Bill To Reverse Long Decline in Foreign Aid |
| July 19 - Campbell Diverts Water Project Attack |
| July 19 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| July 19 - Fiscal 1998 Agriculture Spending |
| July 19 - Fiscal 1998 Interior Spending |
| July 19 - FOREIGN POLICY: Overseas Private Investment Bill Clears Several Hurdles |
| July 19 - Plate Is Filling Up As Recess Nears |
| July 19 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| July 19 - TRANSPORTATION: Lawmakers Watch Budget Bill As Funding Measure Stalls |
| July 26 - Abortion Battlegrounds |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Controversy Stymies Two Foreign Policy Bills |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Spending Bills Pass With Few Substantive Changes |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Would Have White House Prepay for Political Events |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Budget Allocation Quiets Rancor As Labor Bills Move to Floor |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Energy-Water Bill Passes by Wide Margin |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel Approves Defense Bill In Face of Veto Threat |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Backs Reimbursement Of Lawmakers' Legal Fees |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Sets New Hurdles For Interior Spending Bill |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Bill With Focus On Military 'Quality of Life' |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Bills Advance With Record Funding Levels |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Veterans, Housing Measure Gets Strong Senate Vote |
| July 26 - EDUCATION: Vocational Programs Win Passage in House |
| July 26 - Fiscal 1998 Agriculture Spending |
| July 26 - Fiscal 1998 Interior Spending |
| July 26 - Fiscal 1998 Transportation Spending |
| July 26 - Fiscal 1998 Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| July 26 - Recess Clock Ticking On Budget Deal |
| July 26 - Status of Appropriations |
| July 26 - VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Community Fund Recipients Have Ties to the Clintons |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Fails To Complete Action On Foreign Operations Bill |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Bill That Calls For More B-2 Bombers |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: In Senate Commerce-Justice Bill, Crime Fighting Gets Spotlight |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Transportation Bill, Assuring Higher Spending Levels |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Small Legislative Spending Bill Could Present Big Problems |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Stevens 'Cracks a Few Heads' In Moving Senate Bills |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Weapons, Abortion To Spur Debate On Treasury Spending Bill |
| August 2 - Budget Backslapping Signals Recess Start |
| August 2 - SECTION NOTES: Export-Import Bank Gets Panel's Approval |
| August 2 - SECTION NOTES: SEC Reauthorization Approved By House Commerce |
| August 2 - STATE DEPARTMENT: Bill To Pay Off U.N. Debt, Revamp Agencies Stalls |
| August 2 - Status of Appropriations (Fiscal 1998) |
| August 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Resignation of Fund Officials May Smooth Way on Spending |
| August 9 - Fiscal 1998 Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| August 9 - Fiscal 1998 Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| August 9 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Can States Give Washington A Lesson in Veto Politics? |
| August 9 - Spending, Trade Issues Fill the Hopper |
| August 9 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| August 16 - PRESIDENTIAL VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Details Reasons for Using New Veto Power on Three Items |
| August 16 - Status of Appropriations |
| August 16 - Status of Major Legislation |
| August 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Stevens Mines the Federal Lode And Finds Nuggets for Alaska |
| August 30 - Big-Ticket Alaska Items |
| August 30 - House, Senate To Face Lengthy 'To Do' List |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Appropriations |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Defense and Foreign Policy |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: GOVERNMENT & COMMERCE |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Budget Agreement Overshadows Congress' Autumn Agenda |
| August 30 - September Dash To Run Smoother? |
| August 30 - Status of Appropriations |
| August 30 - TRANSPORTATION: House's Draft Authorization Bill Doesn't Talk Dollars and Cents |
| September 6 - A Few Bad Apples? |
| September 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Issue Again Promises To Ensnarl Foreign Aid Bill |
| September 6 - Controversial Issues To Dominate Week |
| September 6 - DEFENSE: Hope Seen for Compromise On B-2, Bosnia Disputes |
| September 6 - Status of Appropriations, Fiscal 1998 |
| September 6 - Transportation Funding |
| September 13 - A Surprise All Around |
| September 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Final 1998 Spending Measure Gets Off Ground in Senate |
| September 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Indian Policy Shift To Be Considered |
| September 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Stances on Education Programs Set Up Battle Over Labor Bill |
| September 13 - Dueling Committees Will Keep Up Heat |
| September 13 - LINE-ITEM VETO: Effort To Save 'Canceled' Items Moves Tentatively Forward |
| September 13 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Pentagon's Housing Fund Stressed By the Burden of History |
| September 13 - Military Construction: Smooth Sailing |
| September 13 - Souder's Stubborn Stance on Spending |
| September 13 - Status of Appropriations (as of Sept. 12, 1997) |
| September 13 - Teamsters' Ties to Democrats at Issue |
| September 13 - The Gloves Are on as Republicans Fight For Small Victories |
| September 13 - TRANSPORTATION: In Both Chambers, Shuster's Battle Is Turning Into All-Out War |
| September 20 - APPROPIATIONS: Hurried Treasury-Postal Bill Dodges Ban on Pay Raise |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: As Controversies Fade, Bill's Chances Brighten |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Agree To Fortify FDA's Tobacco Initiative |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conference Faces Big Divisions On Student Testing, Teamsters |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Conferees Shake Hands |
| September 20 - Appropriations: Legislative Branch Spending Ready for Final Votes |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Add-Ons Could Prompt Line-Item Veto |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel OKs D.C. Spending Bill, But Full-Scale Fights Loom |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Progress Remarkably Smooth On Fiscal '98 Spending Bills |
| September 20 - DEFENSE: Supporters of a Bigger B-2 Fleet Nearing End of the Runway |
| September 20 - Fiscal 1998 Military Construction Spending |
| September 20 - Fiscal 1998 Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| September 20 - Shuster's Position May Be Weakening |
| September 20 - Spending Bills Top List As Deadline Nears |
| September 20 - Status of Appropriations (as of Sept. 19, 1997) |
| September 20 - The Issues: From Religion to Taxes |
| September 27 - Appropriations Process: Down to the Wire |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Gives Clinton Leeway To Extend Bosnia Mission |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congressional Budget Reflects Desire To Show Self-Discipline |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Members Poised To Take Pay Raise For First Time in Five Years |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Members Press Side Issues, Cushioned by Stopgap CR |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Showdown Over Census Still in the Offing |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: TVA Funding Intact for a Year, But This May Be Its Last |
| September 27 - HOUSING: Public Housing Overhaul Bill Heads for Tough Conference |
| September 27 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| September 27 - VA-HUD Bill Hits Unexpected Obstacles |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Settle Differences Over VA-HUD Funding |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: D.C. Spending Debates Heat Up Over School Vouchers |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Fights Off Opposition To Move Commerce Bill |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Land Purchases Threaten Interior Spending Bill |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Clears $21.2 Billion Energy and Water Bill |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Spending Bill Comes Down to the Wire |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: With CR Done, Focus Now Is on Line-Item Veto |
| October 4 - Campaign Finance To Dominate |
| October 4 - CHART: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| October 4 - Defense Spending |
| October 4 - Energy-Water Development Spending |
| October 4 - Fiscal 1998 Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| October 4 - NEA Provides Some Good Theater |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: Albright Urged To Push Israel For Suspect's Extradition |
| October 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: D.C. Measure Squeaks By House With School Vouchers Intact |
| October 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves $49.8 Billion Agriculture Spending Bill |
| October 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Shelby Looks Out for Alabama, But Not Everyone Is Cheering |
| October 11 - EDUCATION: Expansion of 'Education IRAs' Approved by Ways and Means |
| October 11 - Fiscal 1998 Agriculture Spending |
| October 11 - Fundraising Issues Not Taking Break |
| October 11 - Next Bills Contain a Wealth of Targets |
| October 11 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Line-Item Boosters Reconsider As Clinton Vetoes Hit Home |
| October 11 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| October 11 - TRANSPORTATION: Senate Highway and Transit Bill Lurches Toward New Year |
| October 11 - VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| October 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy and Water Law Gets Line-Item Veto |
| October 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: President Uses a Delicate Touch In Vetoing Military Spending |
| October 18 - Frantic Pace Expected To OK Spending Bills |
| October 18 - INTERIOR: NEA Has Been Out of Touch, Its Own Report Says |
| October 18 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| October 18 - Veto List: From Spy Planes To Star Wars Spinoffs |
| October 18 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Outlines Reasons For Defense Veto Items |
| October 18 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton: Cuts Won't Harm Nation's Defense |
| October 18 - VETO MESSAGE: Federal Retirement Provision Draws Line-Item Pen |
| October 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Breaks Deadlock, Passes Interior Bill |
| October 25 - Countdown to Adjournment |
| October 25 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Conferees, Fearing 'Irrelevancy,' End Months-Long Stalemate |
| October 25 - EDUCATION: House Panel OKs Literacy Program |
| October 25 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Spending Bill Battles Loom Over End-of-Session Rush |
| October 25 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Stevens Waves Off Olive Branch From Raines on Vetoed Items |
| October 25 - TRANSPORTATION: Senate Weighs Alternatives To Massive Highway Bill |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Compromise Eludes Foreign Aid Conferees |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Bill Clears Senate |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Likely To Cut Little From Transportation Bill |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Veto Pen Is Ready As He Signs VA-HUD Bill |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Controversial Interior Bill Heads for Clinton's Desk |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: National Tests Still Sticking Point As GOP Leaders Pull Out of Deal |
| November 1 - Corrections |
| November 1 - Educators Put Clinton Proposal For Exam to Their Own Test |
| November 1 - Fiscal 1998 Transportation Spending |
| November 1 - IMMIGRATION: Visa Program Gets Boost |
| November 1 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Deal Smooths Path for Senate Exit; House Still Caught in Gridlock |
| November 1 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Senate Votes To Override Vetoes of 36 Projects |
| November 1 - Oversight: Lack of Focus Leaves GOP in Learning-Curve Limbo |
| November 1 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| November 1 - TRANSPORTATION: Plenty of Blame, but Not Money, Marks Highway Bill's Demise |
| November 1 - With Just a Week Left, Many Bills Remain |
| November 8 - ADJOURNMENT: Storm Over Fast Track Means A Slow Track to Finish |
| November 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Census Issue Delays Conferees As Obey Stalls Proceedings |
| November 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Compromise on National Testing Breaks Labor Bill Stalemate |
| November 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Opposition Growing as Clinton Cuts More Home-State Items |
| November 8 - Congress Into Overtime As Target Date Passes |
| November 8 - Countdown to Adjournment |
| November 8 - DRUGS: Republicans Close to Deal On Streamlining FDA |
| November 8 - Fiscal 1998 Interior Spending |
| November 8 - HOUSING: Seven Programs for Homeless Merged Into Block Grants |
| November 8 - INTELLIGENCE: Bill To Fund Spy Agencies Wins Final Passage |
| November 8 - Line-Item Veto: Veto Pen Comes Down Hard On a Small Alabama Town |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Conferees Complete Action On Export-Import Bank Bill |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Funding Increase For Charter Schools |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Riders Confound Plans To Move Stripped-Down D.C. Bill |
| November 8 - TRANSPORTATION: Agreement To Rescue Amtrak May Be Around the Bend |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce-Justice Funding Goes Down to the Wire |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Clears Labor Measure |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Relents on Abortion Curb But Blocks IMF, U.N. Money |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Scrapping School Voucher Plan, Congress Clears D.C. Bill |
| November 15 - Editor's Note |
| November 15 - Fiscal 1998 Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Resolution Raps Russia For Religious Discrimination |
| November 15 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| November 15 - TRANSPORTATION: Amtrak Deal Comes Together In Final Minutes of Session |
| November 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: President Vetoes Projects In Interior, Agriculture |
| November 22 - Fiscal 1998 Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Despite Veto Threat, Clinton Signs Defense Bill |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Intelligence Authorization Gets Clinton Signature |
| November 22 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| November 29 - Editor's Note |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, 1st Session: Defense and Foreign Policy |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Appropriations |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Economics and Finance |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Government and Commerce |
| December 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce Veto Cuts $5 Million |
| December 6 - First Session Highlights |
| December 6 - Foreign Aid Spending |
| December 6 - Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa. |
| December 6 - RETIREMENT: McDade To Call It Quits After 18 House Terms |
| December 6 - Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska |
| December 6 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| December 13 - A Tug of War Over Dues, Principles |
| December 13 - Highlights: Spending |
| December 13 - PROVISIONS: What the Budget Bill Does |
| December 13 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
| December 20 - Key Senate and House Votes |
| December 20 - Public Laws |
| December 20 - RECESS NOTES: Compromise on Coverage For Mentally Ill Reached |
| December 20 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1998 |
