 January 6 - Among the 'Omnibus' Fine Print: Faith-Based Groups Get Funds; Snowmobile Rules Blocked |
| January 27 - Conservation Bill's Backers Court Bush |
| January 27 - The Price of Unauthorized Appropriations |
| January 27 - Writing Size of a Cut in the Budget Looms as Tax Turning Point |
| February 10 - EU to Make Up U.S. Aid Cuts |
| February 10 - The Republican Challenge: Roping the Fiscal Strays |
| February 17 - Bush's Fiscal Policy Proposals Close In on GOP Budget Writers |
| March 3 - A Budget Glossary |
| March 3 - Budget Schedule |
| March 3 - Bush's Sunny Budget Picture Leaves the Details Shaded |
| March 3 - Debt Reduction: Not So Fast |
| March 17 - Tax Cut's Viability Lies In Deep Dealmaking |
| March 24 - Nussle's Dueling Responsibilities |
| March 31 - Education Is Budget's Biggest Winner, But School Allies Still Aren't Happy |
| April 7 - GOP Pays Price for Collapse of Deal With Jeffords on Special Education Funds |
| April 7 - It's the Day of the Centrist As Bush Tax Cut Takes a Hit |
| April 7 - Law Designed for Curbing Deficits Becomes GOP Tool for Cutting Taxes |
| April 14 - Bush's Frugal Bottom Line Ensures a Rough Conference |
| April 14 - Cuts in Business Breaks Resisted |
| April 14 - Democrats Vow to Block Interior Rider |
| April 28 - After First Hundred Days, Bush Emerges as Pragmatic Warrior |
| April 28 - Bush Starts to Deal on Budget, Only Hardening Resolve of Some |
| April 28 - Senate GOP Seeks Broad Support For Bush's Reconciliation Plan |
| May 5 - Budget Deal's Ungainly Pause Is Inches From the Finish Line |
| May 12 - Democrats Leaving Their Stamp On Bush's Education Bill |
| May 12 - GOP Budget Resolution Squeaks By, But Implementation Will Be Tougher |
| May 19 - Agriculture: Pressure on the Margins |
| May 19 - Commerce, Justice, State: Priority Shift |
| May 19 - D.C.: Steering Clear of Riders |
| May 19 - Defense: Waiting for Rumsfeld |
| May 19 - Freeh's Contrite Visit to Hill Fails to Head Off Demands For Stronger Oversight of FBI |
| May 19 - Interior: Development Pains |
| May 19 - Labor-HHS: Focus on Education |
| May 19 - Legislative Branch: Paring Requests |
| May 19 - Military Construction: Marking Time |
| May 19 - Transportation: Diminished Discretion |
| May 19 - Treasury: More for IRS, Enforcement |
| May 19 - Veterans, Housing: HUD Face-Off |
| May 19 - Will Bush Turn His Veto Pen On a Fiscally Wayward GOP? |
| May 26 - Appropriations: Stretching Spending |
| June 2 - Appropriations Lineup |
| June 2 - Boehner and Miller: Bipartisan Allies Determined to Pass ESEA Overhaul |
| June 2 - No Big Pentagon Spending Boost In Bush Supplemental Request |
| June 2 - Senate Education Bill Already Bears New Chairman's Strong Imprint |
| June 9 - Agriculture Bill Would Spend Slightly More Than Bush Request, Reshuffle His Priorities |
| June 9 - Byrd: Different Expectations? |
| June 9 - Drug Records: Year's First Rider |
| June 9 - Environmentalists, Some Republicans Question Bush Priorities in Parks Budget |
| June 9 - Interior Panel Rejects Bush's Call For Cuts in Conservation Spending, Bars Funds for ANWR Exploration |
| June 9 - Tax Law Signed, Its Sunset Chided |
| June 9 - Under Tight Spending Ceilings, Democrats Lower Their Sights |
| June 16 - A Different Pork Fight |
| June 16 - Agriculture Spending Add-On Puts Fiscal Discipline to Early Test |
| June 16 - Education Bill Nears Final Hurdle With 'Deal Breakers' Swept Aside |
| June 16 - House GOP Appropriators Fend Off Effort to Ban Study Of Drilling in Arctic Refuge |
| June 16 - House Transportation Spending Bill Adds to President's Request For Roads and Aviation |
| June 16 - Legal Services Corporation's Future Appears Secure as the Agency's GOP Detractors Concede |
| June 16 - Not to Be Overlooked |
| June 16 - Supplemental Spending Bill May Be A Picture of Bipartisan Restraint |
| June 23 - Bush's Energy Exploration Plans Rebuffed in House Interior Bill |
| June 23 - Divisions in House Over Size Of Agricultural Aid Package Presage Farm Bill Battles to Come |
| June 23 - Energy and Water Spending Bill Revives Debate Over Missouri River Management |
| June 23 - House Judiciary Panel Approves New Justice Department Post For Overseeing FBI |
| June 23 - Leaders Vow Supplemental Bill Will Set Example of Restraint |
| June 23 - Transportation Spending Bill Heads for Floor Fight Over NAFTA-Related Truck Safety Issue |
| June 30 - Energy Fights Saved for the Floor As Senate Interior Spending Bill Gets Quick Committee Approval |
| June 30 - House Agriculture Funding Bill Hangs Up Amid Renewed Debate Over Re-Importation of Drugs |
| June 30 - House Panel's CJS Spending Bill Would Scale Back Bush's Cuts For SBA, Law Enforcement |
| June 30 - House Passes Energy-Water Bill; GOP Moderates Join Democrats In Backing Great Lakes Drilling Ban |
| June 30 - Trim Supplemental Spending Bill May Bulk Up on Senate Floor |
| June 30 - Wielding the Waiver: PAYGO Rule, Budget Cap As Political Weapons |
| July 7 - Appropriations Season Heats Up As Democrats Say Bush Tax Cut Will Force Raiding of Trust Funds |
| July 14 - A Quiet Deal on Members' Pay |
| July 14 - Anti-Drug Aid for Colombia Tougher Than Ever to Sell |
| July 14 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending Bill Praised as 'Balanced,' Advances Quickly |
| July 14 - Customs Service a Big Winner In House Treasury-Postal Bill |
| July 14 - Defense Budget Boost 'in Play' |
| July 14 - Education Overhaul May Not Clear Until After August Recess, Creating a Drag on Labor-HHS Bill |
| July 14 - House Passes Agriculture Spending Bill With Drug Re-Importation Language, Increases for Research and Farm Loans |
| July 14 - Immigration Boost for Bush |
| July 14 - Interior Bill Heads to Conference After Passing Senate with Surprising Ease |
| July 14 - Missouri River Management Plan Would Be Bottled Up Until 2003 By Senate's Energy-Water Bill |
| July 14 - Shrinking Surplus Promotes Restraint As Supplemental Heads to Conference |
| July 14 - Transportation Spending Bill Goes to Senate With Compromise on Mexican Trucks |
| July 14 - Trust Funds Take Center Stage As Talk of 'Deficits' Is Revived |
| July 14 - VA-HUD Panel Boosts Spending for Science, Leaves Biggest Funding Battles for Later |
| July 21 - $7 if by Air, $3 if by Sea? |
| July 21 - Administration's Threatened Veto Of Compromise on Mexican Trucks Holds Up Transportation Spending Bill |
| July 21 - Agriculture Bill Heads for Senate Floor; Dorgan to Push Further Expansion Of Commerce With Cuba |
| July 21 - Democrats Try to Scale Back Colombia Anti-Drug Funds In Both Foreign Aid Bills |
| July 21 - House Backs Bush's Decision To Maintain China Trade Ties Despite Human Rights Concerns |
| July 21 - House, Senate VA-HUD Bills Diverge Over Public Housing, Anti-Crime Funding |
| July 21 - Midyear Spending Package Clears After Daschle Heeds Cheney's Appeal |
| July 21 - Senate CJS Bill Takes Contentious Stands On Immigration Law, Peacekeeping Funds |
| July 21 - Senate Passes Energy-Water Bill; Yucca Mountain Nuclear Funding Faces Reid's Opposition in Conference |
| July 21 - Smoother Ride For Legislative Spending Bill |
| July 21 - Treasury-Postal Service Spending Bill Poised for Solid House Passage |
| July 21 - Upgrades for Voting Machines |
| July 28 - Cheney's Office, Women's Gym Access Are Touchy Issues in Debate Over House Operations Measure |
| July 28 - Fall Clash Over Spending Priorities Could Set Course for Rest of 107th |
| July 28 - House Passes Justice Dept. Authorization |
| July 28 - House Passes Treasury-Postal Spending Bill As Senate Starts Moving a Similar Package |
| July 28 - Mexican Truck Safety Provision Holds Up Transportation Bill |
| July 28 - Senate Foreign Operations Spending Bill Would Cut Colombia Drug War Funds, Void Abortion-Related Aid Restrictions |
| July 28 - Tightening the Canadian Border |
| July 28 - Turf-Conscious Appropriators Again Control Fate of Bills Giving Fuel Royalties to States |
| July 28 - VA-HUD Spending Bill's Progress Slowed By Partisan Sparring in House |
| August 4 - Capitol Police, Staff Slated For Pay Raise |
| August 4 - House and Senate Speedily Dispatch VA-HUD Spending Bills |
| August 4 - Stopgap Bills Unlikely to Be Bush's Weapon of Choice in Fiscal Endgame |
| August 4 - Two House Committees Spar Over Best Approach To Budget Process Rewrite |
| September 1 - Armed Services Panels Go Out on Limb In Trying to Enact Bush's Full Request |
| September 1 - Blame Laid, Promises Revisited As Surplus Estimates Shrink |
| September 8 - Between the Lockbox And a Hard Place |
| September 8 - Education Bill May Create Senate Logjam |
| September 8 - GOP Assuaged, Senate to Begin Work on CJS |
| September 8 - House Military Construction Bill Advances |
| September 8 - Panel Defers Rider Battles On D.C. Bill |
| September 8 - Wariness of Farm Bill's Long-Term Cost Could Set Tone for Budget Debates |
| September 15 - Controversial Add-On To Be Revisited After Senate Unanimously Passes Bill Funding Commerce, Justice and State |
| September 15 - Emergency Funds to Be Divided Between Recovery and Retaliation |
| September 15 - Obey Sounds a Solitary Warning Against Carte Blanche |
| September 15 - Quiet Tension Over Spending |
| September 15 - Tax Relief for Victims' Families |
| September 22 - D.C. Spending Bill Heads for House Vote |
| September 22 - Military Construction Bill Passes House; Pentagon Protection Raises Concern |
| September 22 - Spending Consensus Sought |
| September 22 - Treasury-Postal Spending Bill Is Easily Passed by Senate As Members Forgo Amendments |
| September 29 - Construction Bill Heads To Conference |
| September 29 - House-Passed D.C. Bill Would Allow Health Benefits For Gay Employees' Partners |
| September 29 - Tentative Spending Deal Reached As Politics of the Surplus Recede |
| September 29 - War Bonds to the Rescue? |
| October 6 - Brandishing Bush Letter, Lawmakers Close In on Seven Appropriations Bills |
| October 6 - Bush Calls for IDEA Rewrite |
| October 6 - Foreign Operations Spending Bill On Choppy Course in Senate |
| October 6 - Panel Clears Way for Labor-HHS Bill Despite Ongoing Split Over Education Funds |
| October 13 - Appropriators Make Two Solid Strides Toward Finishing Spending Bills |
| October 13 - Carefully Balanced Labor-HHS Bill Nearly Toppled by a Forgotten Pledge |
| October 13 - D.C. Spending Bill in Senate Would Allow Health Benefits For Gay Domestic Partners |
| October 13 - Defense Bill Takes a Step |
| October 13 - Normally Contentious Interior Bill Moves Cleanly Through Conference |
| October 20 - Emergency Spending Measure Puts Bush Budget Chief on the Spot |
| October 20 - Interior Bill Sails Through Congress But Budget Woes May Cut Deep Next Year |
| October 20 - Mexican Trucks Still the Crux |
| October 20 - Military Construction Bill Clears After Compromise on Funding For Scheduled Base Closures |
| October 20 - Rep. Sununu to Challenge Sen. Smith, Heeding Call From GOP Insiders Worried About Incumbent's Electability |
| October 20 - Senate Judicial Nominations Spat Again Frustrates Appropriators |
| October 20 - Top Appropriators Steer Money To Home State Projects |
| October 27 - Administration Asks Senate To Defer Farm Bill Until 2002, But Harkin Vows to Press Ahead |
| October 27 - Adversity for Ethnic Lobbies |
| October 27 - Building Anti-Terrorism Coalition Vaults Ahead of Other Priorities |
| October 27 - Byrd's Plan for Stimulating Economy: $20 Billion in Public Works Spending |
| October 27 - Conferees on Education Overhaul Dismiss Whispers of 'Next Year' |
| October 27 - Conferees Purge Controversial Items From Treasury-Postal Service Bill, Provide Preview of 2003 Priorities |
| October 27 - Foreign Operations Bill Still Snagged On Family Planning, Anti-Drug Aid |
| October 27 - House Panel's Military Spending Bill Likely to Grow by Tens of Billions For Homeland Defense |
| October 27 - Lawmakers Say Supplemental Spending Must Grow Further to Deal With Threats |
| October 27 - Senate Passes Agriculture Spending Bill After Dropping Disputed Provisions On Cuba Sanctions, Drug Re-Importation |
| October 27 - War Bonds Bill Passes House; Senate Unsure |
| October 27 - What's Ahead: Week of Oct. 27th |
| November 3 - Annual Spending Process Takes a Back Seat to Security Issues |
| November 3 - CJS Conferees Struggle With Funding Levels |
| November 3 - Energy-Water Bill Clears After Conferees Scale Back Nuclear Non-Proliferation Funds |
| November 3 - Labor-HHS Spending Bill Hits Snag As Policy Disputes Erupt in Senate |
| November 3 - Legislative Branch Bill Clears With More for Capitol Police, Extra Offices in Visitor Center |
| November 3 - Parity for Mental Health Care |
| November 3 - Treasury-Postal Service Bill Clears With Perennial Debates Subdued |
| November 3 - Ways and Means Republicans Push to Boost Funding Now For Medicare+Choice Program |
| November 3 - What's Ahead: Week of Nov. 5 |
| November 10 - ADJOURNMENT: A Different Kind of Rush for the Holidays |
| November 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Members Challenge Presidents Threat To Veto Emergency Spending Bill |
| November 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Spending Bill Clears After Deal On Drinking Water, Drug-Related Crimes |
| November 10 - Labor-HHS Conferees to Contend With Mental Health Benefit Dispute, Education Overhaul Bill Delay |
| November 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees on Foreign Operations Bill Grapple Over Abortion-Related Issues Again |
| November 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Republicans Repel Efforts To Add to $40 Billion Emergency Fund |
| November 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Wheeling and Dealing |
| November 17 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Stimulus Deal May Materialize Amid Smoke of Partisan Warfare |
| November 17 - Free of Controversial Add-Ons, Commerce-Justice-State Bill Enjoys Timelier Hill Passage |
| November 17 - Labor-HHS Bill Could Be Used By Lawmakers to Pry Funds Loose For Energy Assistance Program |
| November 17 - Transportation Spending Bill Held Up by Mexican Truck Issue |
| December 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Spending Package Moves Toward Senate Floor And Likely Showdown With Bush |
| December 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Bill Set to Clear As Bush Wins Key Provision Opening U.S. to Mexican Trucks |
| December 1 - Earmarks, Back With a Vengeance |
| December 1 - Highlights of Trucking Deal |
| December 1 - House-Passed Bill Boosts Pentagon Funds For Heavy Weapons, More Agile Forces |
| December 1 - Once-Profligate Courthouse Spending Is Now a Showcase for Hills Restraint |
| December 1 - Projects Often Go to Shakiest Players |
| December 8 - Authorizers, Appropriators Square Off Over the Use of Gas Tax Revenue To Fund Pet Projects |
| December 8 - D.C. Spending Measure Goes To President |
| December 8 - Putting Kentucky On the Road to Mexico |
| December 8 - Rep. Johnson Offers Deal On 'Mental-Health Parity' In Labor-HHS Package |
| December 8 - Republicans Take Delight In Daschle's Apparent 'Byrd Problem' |
| December 8 - Senate Nears Passage of Defense Bill With Controversial Aircraft Leasing |
| December 8 - White House Shows Some Muscle In Supplemental Spending Clash |
| December 15 - Conferees on Defense Spending Face Substantial Differences Over Shipbuilding and Overhaul |
| December 15 - House Votes to Increase Efforts To Fight AIDS Worldwide |
| December 15 - House, Senate Grapple Over Spending Bills; White House Stays Focused on Bottom Line |
| December 15 - No Urgency on Debt Ceiling |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Agriculture Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Anti-Terrorism Supplemental Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Appropriations Summary |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Budget Process |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Defense Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: District of Columbia Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Energy and Water Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fiscal Year 2001 Supplemental -- Defense |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Interior Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Military Construction Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Transportation Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Veterans, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations |
| December 22 - Appropriations Season Concludes, But Big Battles, Red Ink Await Next Year |
| December 22 - B-2's Success in Afghanistan Reinvigorates Proponents |
| December 22 - Congress Clears Defense Bill; Boeing Wins Plan to Lease New Tankers for Refueling |
| December 22 - Final Foreign Operations Bill Focuses on Traditional Priorities; Afghanistan to Be Addressed Later |
| December 22 - Homeland Security Measures, Including Bio-Terrorism Programs, To Head to Conference in January |
| December 22 - Labor-HHS Bill Boosts Funding, Steers Clear of Controversy |
| December 22 - Supplemental Highlights |
