 January 3 - Mad Cow Case Fuels Debate Over Labeling |
| January 3 - Some Legislative Loose Ends Enough for Confident GOP |
| January 3 - Stevens Refuses to Pay Heed To Charges That He Should Step Down |
| January 10 - Democrats Weigh Final Stand Against Omnibus Spending Bill |
| January 10 - White House Revises Details Of Iraq Reconstruction Plan |
| January 17 - Defense: A Deficit Driver |
| January 17 - Lawmakers Call for Cuts, But Not in Their Programs |
| January 17 - Profile: David R. Obey |
| January 17 - Profile: Ted Stevens |
| January 17 - Putting Off the Pain |
| January 17 - The GOP's Internal Divide |
| January 17 - With Half-Trillion in Red Ink, U.S. Inc. Looks Bad on Paper |
| January 24 - Contentious Fiscal '05 Looms Over Signing of $820 Billion Omnibus |
| January 24 - NASA's New Budget Request Will Be Center Stage for Attacks On White House Space Initiative |
| January 24 - Pet Projects Prevail in Fiscal 2004 Omnibus |
| January 31 - Editor's Notebook: Piercing the Fog |
| January 31 - Tax Cuts, Spending Limits Divide Deficit-Conscious Republicans |
| February 7 - A Series of Hurdles to Jump For Those Seeking Funding |
| February 7 - Difficulty in Distinguishing The Earmarks From the 'Pork' |
| February 7 - Earmarks the Booming Way to Bring Home the Bacon |
| February 7 - Earmarks: Asked on One 'Project Questionnaire Sheet' |
| February 7 - Editor's Notebook: Piecemeal Politics |
| February 7 - Lawmakers Stud Omnibus With Earmarks |
| February 14 - Fiscal 2005's Intractable Budget Takes Halo Off Defense Funding |
| February 14 - House GOP Hard Line on Spending Cuts Warns That 'Everything Is on the Table' |
| February 21 - Less Money for Threat Reduction Program Prompts Complaints |
| February 21 - Opponents See New Arms Race In Push for Nuclear Research |
| February 28 - Amtrak: By the Numbers |
| February 28 - Congress Finds Itself Engaged In 'Same Old, Same Old' Debate Over Privatization of Amtrak |
| February 28 - Weapons: F/A-22 Raptor Fighter |
| March 6 - Delayed Supplemental Attacked For Disguising Iraq War's Cost |
| March 6 - Hill Agencies Get a Case of the 'Gimmes' |
| March 20 - Hobson Steps Up Fight Against Funding for Nuclear Weapon |
| March 20 - Leaders Win Just Enough Unity To Keep GOP Budget Moving |
| March 20 - When It Comes to Budget Rules, Congress Can Just Waive Goodbye |
| March 27 - 'Pay as You Go' Fight Threatens Budget Resolution Conference |
| April 3 - Republican Infighting Leaves Budget in Lurch |
| April 10 - Uneasy Republicans at Bush’s Side as Insurgency in Iraq Intensifies |
| April 17 - Deal on Pay-as-You-Go Rules a Must for Budget Resolution |
| April 17 - Snowe's Support Critical to Republican Tax Cuts |
| April 24 - Congress Steps Up Questioning On Spending Schedule for Iraq |
| April 24 - Moderate From Maine Expected to Play Key Role In Pay-As-You-Go Debate |
| May 1 - Authorizers Seek to Re-Establish Influence on Defense Spending |
| May 1 - Democrats Want a Full Accounting Of Bush's Supplemental Spending |
| May 1 - GOP Budget Resolution Stalemate Bad News for Party's Tax Agenda |
| May 8 - Bush Admits Higher War Cost With Request for $25 Billion |
| May 8 - Still 'No Deal' On Budget Resolution |
| May 15 - Appropriations Chairman: Hill's New Hardship Post |
| May 15 - Appropriators' Job Made Harder By Lack of Budget Resolution |
| May 15 - Claiming Appropriations Chair A Bit Trickier on House Side |
| May 15 - Hill to Bush: Strings Attached |
| May 22 - Budget's Demise Forces New Plans |
| May 22 - Odds Worsen for GOP Budget as Moderates Rebuff Latest Try |
| May 29 - Boeing Air Tanker Acquisition Delayed Past November Election As Senate Critics Challenge Deal |
| May 29 - Unresolved Budget Resolution, Tight Calendar Threaten to Push Most Spending Bills Into Omnibus |
| June 5 - Agriculture: Programs Again Facing Cuts in Funding |
| June 5 - Bush's Figures Deeply Altered In Interior Bill |
| June 5 - CJS Bill Keeps Seat Reserved on Omnibus |
| June 5 - Defense Spending Will Stay on Schedule |
| June 5 - Democrats Watch GOP Squirm Under Tight Cap |
| June 5 - District of Columbia: Smooth Passage, or Usual Crop of Riders? |
| June 5 - Energy and Water: 'Everything Is in Play' as Bill Faces Pressure for Cuts |
| June 5 - First-Responder Debate Replays In House Draft |
| June 5 - Foreign Operations: Panels Trim Hefty White House Request |
| June 5 - Homeland Security Still a High Priority for Appropriators |
| June 5 - Interior: Firefighting Funding Takes Center Stage |
| June 5 - Labor-HHS-Education: Elections, Deficit Ensure a Fight for Money |
| June 5 - Lawmakers Aim to Avoid Posturing, Ensure Quick Passage of Defense Funding |
| June 5 - Legislative Branch: Capitol Police Force Expansion Funded |
| June 5 - Military Construction: Lawmakers Look to Beef Up Bush Request |
| June 5 - Transportation-Treasury: Appropriators Brace for Amtrak Battle |
| June 5 - VA-HUD Bill Expected to Give Appropriators a 'Hard Time' |
| June 5 - Young: War Cost Underestimated |
| June 12 - Amendment-Rich Defense Bill Faces Slow Going in Senate |
| June 12 - Defense Spending Bill Highlights |
| June 12 - Energy Subcommittee OKs Major Reduction in Funding For Yucca Waste Facility |
| June 12 - Homeland Bill Bars Offshore Company Bids |
| June 12 - House Republicans Rely On Democrat Murtha's Clout For Defense Bill's Success |
| June 12 - Nickles, Hoping to Go Out on High Note, Seeks Budget Deal With GOP Moderates |
| June 12 - Panel Rejects Bush Requests For Interior |
| June 19 - Georgian Pledges to Revisit Plan to Bankrupt Joint Economic Panel |
| June 19 - House Appropriations Chairman Fails to Block Language to Legalize Imports of Prescription Medicines |
| June 19 - House Appropriators Restore Army Corps Water Projects Targeted by White House |
| June 19 - House Passes Interior Bill After Hot Debate on Use, Stewardship of Federal Land |
| June 19 - House's Own Funding Bill Seeks to 'Set the Example' With Freeze on Spending |
| June 19 - In Debate Over Justice Funding, Democrats Aim to Make Sure Ashcroft Answers Questions |
| June 19 - Most Bush Defense Requests Approved |
| June 19 - No Argument on Homeland Money In Principle -- Just in Parceling It Out |
| June 19 - Sans Budget Resolution, Senate GOP Struggles to Control Appropriations |
| June 19 - Senate Defense Bill in Limbo as House Version Zips to Floor |
| June 26 - Appropriations: House OKs Bush's Energy, Water Request, but Adjusts Funding for Specific Projects |
| June 26 - Appropriations: House Panel Moves C-J-S Bill, Setting Stage for Floor Debate On Gun Ownership Records |
| June 26 - Appropriations: House Panel OKs Foreign Aid Package |
| June 26 - Appropriations: Legislative Branch Spending Freeze Touted as Model of Fiscal Restraint |
| June 26 - Appropriations: Senate Interior Bill Adds More For Land Buys |
| June 26 - Appropriations: Smaller Programs Hit Hard By Farm Bill Spending Cuts, But Food Safety Gets a Boost |
| June 26 - Appropriations: Stevens Sets Dizzying Pace in Senate To Push Defense Funding Through |
| June 26 - Defense Appropriations: Same Goals, Different Paths |
| June 26 - House Kills Multiple Amendments, Stops Try at 'Pay-as-You-Go' Revival |
| June 26 - Senate Democrats Parry GOP On Debt Limit Maneuver |
| July 3 - 'Just Say No' Sex Education Ignites Fractious Debate |
| July 3 - Despite Dawn of Iraqi Sovereignty, U.S. Commitment Remains Heavy |
| July 3 - Funding for Abstinence Programs |
| July 3 - Heavy Appropriations Workload Ahead |
| July 3 - Plan to Ease Truck Traffic Congestion Has Conferees Walking a Fine Line |
| July 3 - Senate Work on Spending Bills Has Many Waiting and Wondering What's Next |
| July 3 - Two Ways to Finance the Iraq War |
| July 10 - Commerce-Justice-State House Vote: As Time Goes By |
| July 10 - Conservative Riders Remain On D.C. Spending Bill |
| July 10 - Foreign Operations Spending Bill Rewards Afghanistan and Poland; Military Aid for Egypt Challenged |
| July 10 - House Passes C-J-S Funding Bill Amid Hot Debate, Extended Vote |
| July 10 - Military Construction Bill's Authorization Language Faces Test on House Floor |
| July 10 - Problems Are Just Beginning For Labor-HHS-Education Bill After Initial House Approval |
| July 10 - Speedy Debate on Homeland Funds Expected in Senate, but Other Bills Being Shunted to Autumn Agenda |
| July 10 - Upmanship Delays Senate Resolution Of Homeland Spending Bill |
| July 17 - Bickering Takes a Back Seat When Appropriators Consider Legislative Branch Spending Bills |
| July 17 - Conferees Make Quick Work of Defense Spending Bill, Bush to Sign Before Recess |
| July 17 - District Spending Bill Advances to Full House |
| July 17 - GOP Appropriations Strategy Uncertain as August Recess Looms |
| July 17 - House Appropriators Show Past Is Not Prologue |
| July 17 - House Debate on Foreign Aid Bill Turns Into Forum to Criticize U.S. Allies in Middle East |
| July 17 - House Passes Agriculture Spending Bill; Tobacco and Drug Import Provisions Unlikely to Survive Conference |
| July 17 - Labor-HHS Spending Bill Segues Through House Panel With New Disputes Attached |
| July 17 - Lawmakers May Try Budgetary End Run to Maintain Bipartisan Momentum on Military Construction Spending Bill |
| July 17 - Transportation-Treasury Bill's Sticking Points Are D??j? Vu All Over Again |
| July 17 - Tuition Plan Extended for D.C. Students |
| July 24 - 'Challenging' Funding Bill for Transportation, Treasury Likely to Spark Multiple Tussles |
| July 24 - Bush Gets Most of Request in Defense |
| July 24 - Cap-Busting Housing Provision in Military Construction Bill Ignites Budget Battle in House |
| July 24 - Defense Authorization on Slow Track as Spending Bill Sped to Enactment |
| July 24 - GOP Leaders Feel Home-State Pinch of Fiscal 2005 Budget Limits |
| July 24 - Largest Discretionary Spending Bill Wins Easy, Bipartisan Support in Both Chambers |
| July 24 - Spending Bill for the District Zips Through |
| July 24 - VA-HUD Appropriators Grapple With Tough Spending Limits |
| July 31 - Favored Programs in Labor-HHS Bill Face Appropriators' Rough Treatment |
| July 31 - Funding Bush's Space Requests |
| July 31 - Labor-HHS Appropriations: Contentious Amendments |
| July 31 - Research Groups Ask for More Money To Combat Agriculture Terrorism |
| July 31 - Three Pentagon Programs Targeted for Cuts |
| July 31 - Veto Threat Joins House Skirmish Over Level of NASA Funding |
| July 31 - Wary Congress Slashes Programs Topping Pentagon Transformation Agenda |
| August 7 - Drug Interdiction Follows the Money |
| August 7 - GOP Pushes to Keep 7(a) Loans |
| August 7 - House Plan to Trim EPA Budget Riles Environmental Activists, Targets State Clean Water Funds |
| August 7 - Lawmakers Gamble on Success of Pet Provisions in C-J-S Bill |
| September 4 - Relief for Storm-Ravaged Florida Is a Post-Recess Priority |
| September 4 - Senators Endorse Amtrak's Request to Boost Spending in Fiscal 2005 by 50 Percent Over Previous Year |
| September 4 - The Nation's Debt: Creative Accounting |
| September 4 - Waiting Game on Appropriations Bills Has Risks for Democrats and Republicans |
| September 11 - Congress Travels a Familiar Path On Cuba Ban, Privatization Issues In 2005 Transportation-Treasury Bill |
| September 11 - Democratic Determination For Higher Homeland Security Spending Gets Foiled Again |
| September 11 - Hill Resigned to Near Impossibility Of Pre-Election Omnibus Bill |
| September 11 - House Passes Labor-HHS Spending Bill After Cutting Deal on Overtime Rules |
| September 11 - Less Resistance to Labor-HHS |
| September 11 - Provisions in Agriculture Spending Measure To Ease Trade With Cuba Sets Up Battle Between Midwest, Florida Voters |
| September 11 - VA-HUD Bill Drafted With Controversy |
| September 18 - Congressional Pay Raise Passes Annual 'Test' |
| September 18 - Election-Year Partisanship Leads to Rejection of Food Labeling Language In Agriculture Spending Bill |
| September 18 - Homeland Security Funding Bill Wins Unanimous Senate Passage After Democratic Add-Ons Fail |
| September 18 - Parties Unite on Money for Sudan Crisis; Omnibus Likely for Foreign Operations |
| September 18 - Rare Harmony on C-J-S Spending Bill Should Yield a Successful Conference |
| September 18 - Senate Appropriators Expedite Eight Bills |
| September 18 - Senate Avoids Conflagration Over Cap on Military Family Housing Program -- For Now |
| September 18 - Senate Interior Spending Bill Will Put Tangential Issues at Center Stage on the Floor |
| September 18 - Some GOP Leaders Avert Their Eyes as Drought Aid Added to Hurricane Bill |
| September 18 - Specter's Labor-HHS Funding Shifts Give Boost to Social Policy Programs |
| September 18 - Supplemental Attracts Riders |
| September 18 - The Youngs and the Restless: Chairmen Duel on House Floor |
| September 25 - 'Electoral Smoke' Over Florida Keeps Cuba Travel Ban Rider Off Transportation-Treasury Bill |
| September 25 - Dairy Amendment a Fillip to Eclectic VA-HUD Spending Bill |
| September 25 - Foreign Operations Bill Sent to Conference After Senate Adds Funds to Fight 'Genocide' |
| September 25 - Military Construction Measure Passed by Senate, but Conferees Inherit a Roster of Problems |
| September 25 - More Spending Bills Go Lame-Duck as GOP Squabbles Over Limits |
| September 25 - Senate Says No to Usual Load of New Social Policy Riders in Passing D.C. Spending Bill |
| September 25 - Senate VA-HUD Spending Bill Calls for Lots of Checks With Few Balances |
| September 25 - Smooth Conference Seen for Legislative Branch Bill, But It May Join Omnibus |
| October 2 - Editor's Notebook: Sleep Deprived |
| October 2 - Passage of Stopgap Spending Measure Leaves All to Post-Election Omnibus |
| October 9 - Appropriators, Hemmed In by Clock, Work to Pass Homeland, Aid Package |
| October 9 - Conferees Look to Move Past Military Construction Bill Delays Involving Housing, Disaster Relief |
| October 9 - Congress' Score Now Two for 13 as D.C. Spending Bill Clears |
| October 9 - For House, Fiscal Defibrillators |
| October 9 - High-Priority Homeland Security Bill Stalemated by Parochial Add-Ons |
| October 16 - Ample Earmarks Ease the Way for Military Construction Bill |
| October 16 - House vs. Senate Intelligence Overhaul Plans |
| October 16 - Hurricane Relief Highlights |
| October 16 - Senators Fight Over Turf in Revamp Of Homeland Security Oversight |
| October 16 - Victims of Withering Drought Join Hurricane Casualties in Aid Package |
| October 30 - Dairy Price Support Program Plays Into Presidential Race But Congress Isn't Cowed |
| October 30 - Lame-Duck Omnibus Scenarios Depend on Nov. 2 Coin Toss |
| October 30 - More Money for Iraq -- Soon |
| October 30 - Talks Will Start $8 Billion Apart |
| November 6 - Lame-Duck Session May Offer a Crystal Ball Into Next Year |
| November 6 - Process in Flux Awaits New Head of House Spending Panel |
| November 6 - Senate Appropriations in the 109th Congress |
| November 13 - Line-Item Veto Not on Agenda Despite Talk by President |
| November 13 - Omnibus or 'Mini-bus?' |
| November 13 - Pressure Mounts on Hill Leaders To Move Lame-Duck Omnibus |
| November 20 - Digging for Funds for Yucca |
| November 20 - GOP Hands Appropriations Success to Bush |
| November 20 - House Passes $300 Million In Sudan Aid |
| November 20 - Intelligence Authorization: 'Nice, but Not Must-Pass' |
| November 20 - Omnibus Expectations |
| November 20 - Omnibus-Wielding Majority Finds Power in the Package |
| November 27 - Agriculture Appropriations: Safeguarding the Food Chain |
| November 27 - Behind the Omnibus' Tax Return Provision Flap |
| November 27 - Bill to Help Digital Satellite TV Clears |
| November 27 - C-J-S Appropriations: Trouble-Free, for a Change |
| November 27 - C-J-S Programs Honor Hollings |
| November 27 - Denied Their Smoke and Mirrors, Appropriators Hold to Limits |
| November 27 - Editor's Notebook: On & Off the Bus |
| November 27 - Energy and Water Appropriations: The Battle for Yucca Mountain |
| November 27 - Foreign Operations Appropriations: Funding the AIDS Battle |
| November 27 - Hyde Abortion Restrictions Expanded |
| November 27 - Interior Appropriations: Managing Public Lands |
| November 27 - Labor-HHS Appropriations: No Apple for Education |
| November 27 - Legislative Branch Appropriations: Making a Point With Cuts |
| November 27 - SBA Reauthorization Revived, Then Cleared in Omnibus |
| November 27 - Term-Limited Chairmen Send Funds To Florida, Alaska One More Time |
| November 27 - Transportation-Treasury Appropriations: Amtrak Plan Sidetracked |
| November 27 - VA-HUD Appropriations: NASA and Earmarks Galore |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Agriculture Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Capitol Hill Gridlock Leaves Programs in Limbo |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice State and Judiciary Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Defense Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Disaster Aid Supplementals |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: District of Columbia Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Energy and Water Development Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2005 Budget Resolution |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Homeland Security Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Interior Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Military Construction Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Overview and Fiscal 2005 Omnibus |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Project Bioshield Authorization |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Restriction on Federal Abortion Funding |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Transportation, Treasury Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Veterans, Housing, NASA and EPA Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: War Supplemental |
| December 4 - Cumberland Island Protections May Be Extinct Under Omnibus |
| December 11 - Appropriators Less Than Thrilled by DeLay Plan to Recast Panels |
| December 11 - Correcting Resolution on Tax Return Language Ties Up Last Loose End |
