 January 3 - COVER STORY: Budget Crunch Has a Service At War With Itself |
| January 10 - King of the Highways Plans Big Year, Despite Efforts to Tar His Record |
| January 10 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Administration Admits Loss In Line-Item Veto Lawsuit |
| January 17 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Federal Judge To Rule Soon On Line-Item Veto Lawsuits |
| February 7 - A Budget Glossary |
| February 7 - IMF Request Hits Snag |
| February 7 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Senate Nears Climactic Vote On Line-Item Vetoes |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: House Bans Development Of National Testing |
| February 14 - Key Points of Hogan's Ruling |
| February 14 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Line-Item Veto Struck Down Again; Appeal to High Court Imminent |
| February 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Livingston Reverses Decision, Plans Run for 12th Term |
| February 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: $287 Million in Projects Restored to 1998 Bill |
| February 28 - DEFENSE: Congress Might Not Seek Cuts To Offset Bosnia, Gulf Costs |
| February 28 - TRANSPORTATION: Governors' Pleas Nudge Senate Into Action on Highway Bill |
| March 7 - Rough Going for Supplemental Bill |
| March 7 - TRANSPORTATION: Senate's Solution to Road Wars: Deliver More Money |
| March 14 - Abortion Fight Puts IMF Bill on Veto Path |
| March 14 - THE BUDGET: GOP Splits Supplemental Request, Stalling Funds for U.N. and IMF |
| March 14 - TRANSPORTATION: In Race To Meet April Deadline, Senate Passes Highway Bill |
| March 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: GOP Plan To Challenge Clinton On Abortion Still Lacks Votes |
| March 21 - LEADERSHIP: Offsets Spat Marks Latest Chapter In House GOP's Struggle To Govern |
| March 21 - Panel OKs Supplemental -- With Strings |
| March 21 - TRANSPORTATION: Shuster Prepares for Onslaught Against Members' Projects |
| March 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: GOP's Abortion Curb Advances As House Democrats Fall Back |
| April 4 - Lagging Do-List |
| April 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Backs $147 Million For Anti-Missile Defense |
| April 4 - SECTION NOTES: Peace May Be Worth Keeping In Caucasus, McConnell Says |
| April 4 - Supplemental Bills Compared |
| April 4 - THE BUDGET: House Emergency Spending Measure Heads for Collision With Senate |
| April 18 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Livingston Straddles Republican Fault Line As He Hunts for Votes for Speaker's Job |
| April 18 - Transportation Bills Compared |
| April 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Plods Despite Urgent Needs Of Military, Disaster Aid |
| April 25 - END GAME: Don't Look for Many Pet Projects To Turn Into Road Kill |
| April 25 - FOREIGN POLICY: State Dept. Bill Depends on GOP Centrists |
| May 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Disaster Aid Supplemental Enacted, Stripped of IMF and U.N. Provisions |
| May 2 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Court Appears Ready To Send Line-Item Veto Power To the Chopping Block |
| May 2 - Town Struck Twice By Veto Pen Gets Money |
| May 9 - Appropriators Getting Antsy for Work |
| May 9 - DEFENSE: Intelligence Bills Target New Threats |
| May 9 - THE BUDGET: As Kasich Trolls for Votes, Appropriators Dust Off Plan B |
| May 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriators Embark on Punishing Year |
| May 16 - BUDGET: Kasich Drops Specific Cuts After Appropriators, Senate Flay His $100 Billion Plan |
| May 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Again Prepares To Clash With Clinton As Arduous Appropriations Season Begins |
| May 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Legislative Gridlock Taking Its Toll On Strategic Planning for Federal Programs |
| May 30 - The Year Congress Passed the Buck On Defense Funds |
| June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committees Flout Clinton's Plea For 'Emergency' Bosnia Funds |
| June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defying Administration, Panel Boosts Water Spending, Criticizes Nuclear Regulation |
| June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Approves Legislative Branch Funds With Little Discussion |
| June 6 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 (as of June 5, 1998) |
| June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Spending Bill Gets Fast Committee Approval, But Floor Fights Are Likely |
| June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: CBO, Consultants and Cemetery Enliven Subcommittee Debate Over House Budget Increase |
| June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Bill Liquidates Funding For Tennessee Valley Authority, But Senate Solidifies Its Stance |
| June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Treasury-Postal Bill Would Defer Hill Pay Raise, Limit FEC Officials' Terms |
| June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Spending Measure Becomes Conservatives' Vehicle For Critiquing Kyoto Treaty |
| June 13 - Chart: Energy-Water Development Spending |
| June 13 - Chart: Status of Appropriations FY99 |
| June 13 - Military Construction Bill Advances |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bid To Raise Mortgage Limit Proves To Be a Sticky Issue For House VA-HUD Panel |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Budget Hawks Fight Effort To Skirt Budget Caps for Year 2000 Computer Fix |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: CBO Gets Vote of Confidence As Legislative Branch Bill Is Sent to House Floor |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Funds for Pentagon Computers Are Stripped From House Bill; Bosnia Money Also Omitted |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Leaders' States Fare Best As House Panel Doles Out Military Construction Money |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Approves Agriculture Bill Despite Dairy Policy Dispute |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Zips Through Interior Bill, Leaving Tough Questions Such as NEA for Full House |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Renewable Energy a Winner As Senate Easily Passes Energy and Water Bill |
| June 20 - Appropriators to Pentagon: Accept Miami Digs or Move 'Em Out |
| June 20 - Chart: Agriculture Spending |
| June 20 - Chart: Defense Spending |
| June 20 - Chart: Energy-Water Development Spending |
| June 20 - Chart: Legislative Branch Spending |
| June 20 - Chart: Military Construction Spending |
| June 20 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| June 20 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Albright's Overtures to Iran, Request for Overseas Spending Are Met Coolly in Congress |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Anti-Abortion Amendment Rides Through the House On Agriculture Spending Bill |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Battles Over Kyoto Treaty May Delay House Action On VA-HUD Spending Bill |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Raises the Stakes In Dispute With Republicans Over Census-Taking Method |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Preserves Special Fund for Future Probes |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Throws Down Gauntlet, Rejecting Clinton's Agenda In House Labor-HHS Bill |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Bill Includes Funding For Arts, Despite GOP Efforts To Avoid Controversial Issue |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Management of Recreation Area At Center of Larger Struggle Over Funding for TVA |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Bill Passes |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Parties Join To Oppose Treasury Bill |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: WIC Plan OK'd With Measures To Curb Fraud |
| June 27 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| June 27 - WORLD VIEW: House Funds Military Projects In Key Members' Districts, Deletes Money for Bosnia |
| July 4 - Chart: Interior Spending |
| July 4 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| July 4 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| July 4 - Chart: VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| July 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Amtrak a Winner as Senate Subcommittee Approves $47.5 Billion Transportation Bill |
| July 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Surprise Health Care Rider Added to VA-HUD Bill Leaves Spending in Limbo |
| July 11 - Bumpers' Last Charge |
| July 11 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| July 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Chafing Under Constraints Of New Transportation Law, Appropriators Face Hard Choices |
| July 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Decision on Census Money Provides a Sample Of the Brinksmanship Ahead |
| July 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Farmers' Woes Produce Variety Of Possible Solutions as Senate Passes Agriculture Bill |
| July 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Members Shoot Holes In Treasury-Postal Bill |
| July 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Is Loaded With Hot-Button Issues |
| July 18 - Chart: Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| July 18 - Chart: Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| July 18 - Clinton Gives Up On Line-Item Veto Fight |
| July 18 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: Senate Moves Swiftly on VA-HUD; House Gets Caught Up in Debate Over Housing Overhaul |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Little Compromise Goes a Long Way In Interior Spending Debate |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Armey, Livingston Go Toe-to-Toe Over $18 Billion Package for IMF |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: District of Columbia Bills Differ Over Transportation, Economic Development |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Restricts Rulemaking on Global Warming |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Manages To Avoid Controversy on Spending Bill For Legislative Branch |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate's Commerce-Justice Bill Attracts a Swarm of Amendments |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate's Transportation Bill Leaves Plenty of Room For Dispute in Conference |
| July 25 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| July 25 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Action on Treasury-Postal Bill Is Suddenly Halted After Dispute Over Term Limits at FEC |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conference Report On Military Construction Gets Speedy House Approval |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Transportation Bill, Leaves Coast Guard, FAA Funding To Be Settled in Conference |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: School Voucher Fight Likely As D.C. Spending Bill Heads for House Floor |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Defense Spending Bill, Backing U.S. Troop Levels in Balkans |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Spending Bill Goes to Conference With Side Issues in Tow |
| August 1 - Chart: Military Construction Spending |
| August 1 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Throws Book at Prosecutors, Passing Tough Rules on Conduct |
| August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: School Vouchers, Other Issues Push Parties Into Confrontation Over District of Columbia Bill |
| August 8 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| August 15 - Chart: Interior Spending |
| August 15 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| August 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: Despite the Ominous Rumblings, Another Train Wreck Looks Unlikely |
| August 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP's War on Pet Projects Bogs Down in Temptation |
| August 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: Modest Drop in Defense Spending Feeds Concerns About Readiness |
| August 22 - Budget Hawks Deride Research Grants As Wasteful Spending |
| August 22 - Chart: Defense Spending |
| August 22 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| August 22 - From the Editor |
| August 22 - Hot-Button GOP 'Riders' |
| August 22 - No Chance for a Nonfat Bill As Special Projects Flourish |
| August 22 - Opportunities Abound for Congress To Fund Local Needs in VA-HUD |
| August 22 - Projects Added to Interior Bill Defy Easy Labeling |
| September 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Aid to Russia, IMF Funds Lead Debate As Senate OKs Foreign Operations Bill |
| September 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Is First Spending Bill At the Finish Line |
| September 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Treasury-Postal Bill After GOP Postpones Debate On Term Limits for FEC Staff |
| September 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Spurns House Cuts In Labor-HHS Spending; Clinton Praises 'Good First Step' |
| September 5 - Chart: Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| September 5 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| September 5 - Chart: Transportation Spending |
| September 5 - Chart: VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Leaders Less Than Eager For Fiscal Face-Off With Clinton |
| September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Spending Measure Inches Its Way Through Senate |
| September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Approves Foreign Aid Bill Despite Threat of Veto |
| September 12 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fical 1999 |
| September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Continuing Resolution Buys Lawmakers Little Time To Move Stalled Spending Bills |
| September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Foreign Aid Bill Fails To Resolve Deep Divisions Over IMF Funding |
| September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Legislative Branch Bill Completed |
| September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lott Pulls Interior Bill As Debate Bogs Down In Muddle of Add-Ons |
| September 19 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Bill Endangered By Struggle Over Efforts To Aid Distressed Farmers |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Can the Surplus Be Saved? Clinton, Congress Waver |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Increases Allotment For Capitol Police as It Clears Second of 13 Spending Bills |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy-Water Bill Conferees Agree To Give Less to TVA, More to Corps of Engineers |
| September 26 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| September 26 - Defense Spending May Rise |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bipartisanship Missing in Inaction As Appropriators' Time Runs Out |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Iron Out Differences Over VA-HUD Spending Bill |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conference Report On Treasury-Postal Bill Fails To Reach House Floor |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Bill Sent to Clinton, Minus Some 'Readiness' Spending |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Final Energy-Water Bill Ends Decades of Funding For Tennessee Valley Authority |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Agriculture Spending Bill |
| October 3 - Chart: Defense Spending |
| October 3 - Chart: Energy-Water Development Spending |
| October 3 - Chart: Foreign Aid Spending |
| October 3 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| October 3 - Defense Bill Includes a Pet Project With a Civil War Connection |
| October 3 - Labor-HHS Spending Bill Heads for House Floor |
| October 3 - Negotiators Try To Wrap Up Transportation Spending Bill |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Gains Ground in Struggle Over Catchall Spending Bill |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Allay Republican Objections To $14.5 Billion IMF Credit Line |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton, in Veto Message, Asks Congress To Provide Better Safety Net for Farmers |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate Struggle Toward Compromise on Home Health Care Payments |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Stalls; Programs May Be Wrapped Into Omnibus Spending Measure |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Rift Over Farm Aid Leaves Agriculture Bill Searching for Life After Veto |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: The Housing Bill That Compromise Built |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Bill Stalls Even After Second Conference Yanks Disputed Provisions |
| October 10 - Chart: Agriculture Spending |
| October 10 - Chart: Status of Major Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| October 10 - Chart: VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| October 10 - Lawmakers Tackle Mountain of Issues In Pre-Adjournment Rush |
| October 10 - SCIENCE: Spend More on Space Station Or Kill It, NASA Chief Tells Critical House Members |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce-Justice-State Money Could Be Suspended Next June Unless Census Dispute Is Settled |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Compromise Revives Measure To Increase Visas For Highly Skilled Workers |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Deal Gives Clinton IMF Credit; GOP Wins Conditions on Loans |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Spending Includes Additional Billions For Schools, Medical Research |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Defense Spending Includes Substantial Boosts for Anti-Missile Systems, Intelligence |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tax Breaks Are Added to Farm Aid Bill |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: This Year's Surplus-Spending Binge Will Compound Next Year's Headaches |
| October 17 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| October 17 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| October 17 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Riding the Omnibus Off Into the Sunset |
| October 24 - A Few More of Their Favorite Things |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Wraps Up and Heads Home On a Trail of Broken Budget Caps |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: D'Amato Gains Political Boost From Broadening Coverage Of Breast Cancer Treatment |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Hill Gives Energy-Water Added Money |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Home Health Care Agency Relief Plan To Be Financed Partly by Taxes on Prizes |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Medical Research and Education Are Big Winners in Spending Bill |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Mixed Bag of Amendments Gives District of Columbia 'Lemons With the Sweets' |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Some Controversial Riders On Transportation Spending Fall by the Wayside |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Spending Rises for Forest Service And Parks; Administration Prevails On Clean Water, Climate Initiatives |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Volley of Last-Minute Spending Signals Shift in War on Drugs |
| October 24 - Chart: Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| October 24 - Chart: Foreign Aid Spending |
| October 24 - Chart: Interior Spending |
| October 24 - Chart: Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| October 24 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| October 24 - Chart: Transportation Spending |
| October 24 - Correction: Labor-HHS Spending |
| October 24 - Defense Authorization, Appropriations Bills Signed |
| October 24 - Grasshopper Research and Much More: A Roster of Pet Projects |
| October 24 - Head-Shaking, Not Hand-Clapping, Follows Capitol Hill's Closing Act |
| October 31 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| November 14 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| November 14 - Legislative Summary: Appropriations |
| November 21 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
| December 12 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
