January 12 - Air Force Prepares Budget Battle for Fighter Planes |
January 26 - Three House Panels Move Stimulus Bill |
February 2 - House Democrats Pass Stimulus |
February 2 - Members to Panel: It's Not You, It's Me |
February 23 - Stimulus 2009: An $800 Billion Bet |
March 2 - Abstinence Programs Losing Their Hold |
March 2 - Big Plans, Big Costs, Big Deficits |
March 2 - House Passes Spending Omnibus |
March 2 - Not All Zoos Are Created Equal |
March 9 - GOP Amendments to Omnibus Fail |
March 9 - Political Economy: Bread and Circuses |
March 9 - Senate Delays Omnibus Passage |
March 16 - Earmarks: Here to Stay Or Facing Extinction? |
March 16 - Work Completed on '09 Omnibus |
March 23 - Administration Will Request $75.5 Billion for War Supplemental |
April 13 - Client of the Month Club: The City of Hartford, Conn. |
April 20 - Wide Support Seen for Supplemental |
May 4 - Hill to Provide $1.5 Billion to Fight Swine Flu |
May 4 - Political Economy: Promises, Promises |
May 11 - Highlights of House Supplemental Package |
May 11 - War Supplemental Bill Starts Moving |
May 18 - A Quiet Message: 'This Is My Show' |
May 18 - At the Top of His Game |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Agriculture |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Commerce-Justice-State |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Defense |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Energy-Water |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Financial Services |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Homeland Security |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Interior |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Labor-HHS-Education |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Legislative Branch |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Military Construction-Veterans Affairs |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: State-Foreign Operations |
May 18 - Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Transportation-Housing |
May 18 - House Passes War Supplemental |
May 18 - In the Spirits of Compromise |
May 25 - Senate Passes Supplemental Spending |
June 8 - Disputes in House Delay War Funds |
June 8 - Energy-Water Chairman to Recuse Himself |
June 8 - First Fiscal 2010 Spending Bill Advances |
June 8 - House GOP Responds to Obama Challenge to Find Budget Cuts |
June 15 - Agriculture Bill Would Increase Funds But Diverges From White House Plan |
June 15 - C-J-S Bill Would Boost NASA Funds; GOP Says It Would Spend Too Much |
June 15 - Clean-Water Programs Would Get Boost in Interior-Environment Bill |
June 15 - Committee OKs Homeland Security Bill |
June 15 - Conferees Reach Deal on Supplemental |
June 15 - House Aims to Move Fast on Spending Bills |
June 15 - Legislative Branch Bill Factors in Plans for House Building Renovations |
June 22 - Allocations for Senate Appropriations Subcommittees |
June 22 - Bill Would Boost Green Agencies And Restrict Detainee Transfers |
June 22 - Committee Backs 11 Percent Boost For Agriculture and Food Programs |
June 22 - Draft Bill Keeps Overseas Abortion Restrictions, Expands Family Planning |
June 22 - GOP Protest Impedes First Spending Bill |
June 22 - Homeland Spending Bill Would Revive Coast Guard Navigation Program |
June 22 - Legislative Branch Spending Bill Gains in Both House and Senate |
June 22 - Military Construction-VA Measure Moves Toward Advance Funding |
June 22 - War Spending Supplemental Sent to Obama |
June 29 - Committee Approves VA Spending; House Passes Advance Funding |
June 29 - Feedlot Exemptions From 'Cow Tax' At Center of Senate Interior Debate |
June 29 - Financial Services Panel Wants More For IRS, Less for D.C. School Vouchers |
June 29 - Funds Would Hold Steady for Energy-Water, but Fight Is Expected Next Year |
June 29 - Highlights of the House Transportation Package |
June 29 - Highway Bill Rolls Through Stop Signs |
June 29 - Policy Less Contentious Than Process As House Passes Homeland Funding |
June 29 - Senate Panel Approves 'Truly Bipartisan' C-J-S Bill |
June 29 - Slimmer Foreign Aid Bill Gains in House |
July 6 - Obama Pledges to Boost Volunteer Services Unmet |
July 13 - Agriculture Spending Bill Moves Forward |
July 13 - Coburn Refers Earmarkers to Founding Fathers |
July 13 - Cuba Trade, Auto Dealers, D.C. Budget Add Contention to a Catchall Package |
July 13 - Funding Hike for Water Infrastructure Would Still Leave Backlog of Projects |
July 13 - House Bill Would Overrule Obama on World Bank, IMF Conditions |
July 13 - Immigration Policies, Border Security Added as Bill Moves to Conference |
July 13 - Labor, HHS, Education Departments Get Funding Boosts in House Bill |
July 13 - Senate Committee Approves, House Passes Veterans' Spending Bill |
July 13 - Senate Passes Legislative Branch Spending Bill With One Earmark |
July 20 - Funding Bill Maintains Weapons Disputes |
July 20 - House Appropriations Moves Labor-HHS-Education Draft Over GOP Objections to Bill's Cost |
July 20 - House Gives Financial Programs a Boost |
July 20 - House-Passed Bill Increases Funding For Natural Gas Vehicles, Hydropower |
July 20 - Shortfalls Drive Down Transportation Funds |
July 27 - House's Biggest Domestic Spending Bill Would Go Above Obama's Request |
July 27 - Murtha Relents on Funds for Fighters As Panel Approves Defense Spending |
July 27 - Political Economy: Same Old Song and Dance |
July 27 - Transportation Appropriations Bill Heads to Senate With 25 Percent Boost |
August 3 - House Drops F-22, but Veto Still Possible |
August 3 - Religious Groups Get Earmarks Too |
August 3 - Senate Backs $1 Billion in Earmarks But Not Bidding on Grants, Contracts |
August 3 - Senate Bill Would Spend Less on High-Speed Rail Than House Version |
August 3 - Senate Panel Accounts for Stimulus, Still Beefs Up Labor-HHS Spending |
August 10 - Chinese Poultry Imports Top Conflicts in Agriculture Spending Bill |
August 10 - Earmarking for a Terrorism Museum |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Agriculture Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Defense Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Energy-Water Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Financial Services Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Homeland Security Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Interior-Environment Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Military Construction-VA Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: State-Foreign Operations Appropriations |
September 7 - Fall 2009 Outlook: Transportation-HUD Appropriations |
September 7 - High Cost of Taming Wildfires |
September 14 - Health Care Bill Could Hinge on Byrd Rule |
September 14 - Senate Keeps Some, Not All Initiatives |
September 21 - Democrats Join Republicans to Deny ACORN New Federal Funding |
September 21 - Senate Would Allow Guns Aboard Trains |
September 28 - Senate Boosts Funding for EPA, Interior |
September 28 - Stopgap Bill Moves to Senate for Approval |
October 5 - As Three-Month Highways Extension Is Signed, States Lose Some Money |
October 5 - Conferees' Deal Boosts Dairy Payments, Removes Ban on Chinese Poultry Imports |
October 5 - Legislative Branch Spending Bill Including Stopgap Measure Cleared |
October 5 - Olympics Loss, Taxpayers Gain? |
October 5 - Political Class: Inside Washington's Lexicon |
October 5 - Senate Sets Bill With Little for Yucca, More for Nuclear Safety and Energy |
October 12 - Agriculture Spending Bill Clears Congress, Would Lift Poultry Ban |
October 12 - Conferees Agree on Guantanamo Limits |
October 12 - Conferees to Spar Over F-35 Engine Left Unfunded in Senate Defense Bill |
October 12 - Steering Away From Earmark Rules |
October 19 - C-J-S Bill Gets Hung Up Over Adding Immigration Question to Census |
October 19 - House Adopts Homeland Report; GOP Move on Detainees Thwarted |
October 19 - Senate Clears Energy-Water Bill; Yucca Nuclear Waste Funding Slashed |
October 26 - Second-Guessing Obama on F-35's Second Engine |
October 26 - Senate Clears Bill That Would Limit Moving Detainees From Guantanamo |
November 2 - Interior Bill Signed, Doubling the Funding for Array of Water Projects |
November 2 - One Month Late, Seven Bills to Go |
November 9 - Citizenship Spat Skirted, and C-J-S Bill Passes |
November 9 - Coburn Tangles With Political Scientists |
November 16 - 'Infrastructure Bank' Pushed as Funding Source |
November 16 - 'Tis the Season for Floor Votes |
November 23 - Senate-Passed Bill Includes Advance Funding for Vets' Medical Programs |
December 7 - A Frenetic Holiday Season on Hill |
December 14 - Democrats Hope for a One-Two Punch on Appropriations |
December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Commerce-Justice-Science |
December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Financial Services |
December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Labor-HHS-Education |
December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Military Construction-VA |
December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: State-Foreign Operations |
December 14 - Fiscal 2010 Package: Transportation-HUD |
December 28 - Columbus Foundation Sails On and On |
December 28 - Six-Bill Package Shows Majority Wishes |