January 7 - Congress Clears Flood Insurance Bill in First Vote on Disaster Aid |
January 7 - Debate on Sandy Aid Takes Two Tracks |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Agriculture Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Defense Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Energy-Water Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Financial Services Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2013 Appropriations Overview |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Homeland Security Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Interior-Environment Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Military Construction-VA |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: State-Foreign Operations Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Transportation Appropriations |
January 21 - House Passes Bill Providing Sandy Aid |
January 21 - Key Senate Vote of 2012: Sandy Emergency Relief |
January 28 - Hagel at the Helm: A Non-Nuclear Option? |
February 4 - Debt Limit Deadline Postponed Until May 19 as Senate Clears Bill |
February 4 - Senate Clears, President Signs $50.5 Billion Disaster Relief Bill |
February 11 - Unused Iraq Funds Could Go Toward Embassy Security Under Senate Bill |
February 18 - Refueling Tankers Face Twin Troubles |
February 25 - Sequester Frustration |
March 4 - How the Sequester Will Be Implemented |
March 4 - No Shortage of Sequester Proposals, Just a Shortage of Agreement |
March 11 - Continuing Irresolution |
March 11 - Discretionary Default: Sequester Hits Hardest on Yearly Appropriations |
March 11 - Pentagon Can Withstand Cuts, Conservative Groups Say |
March 11 - Stopgap Spending Bill Passes in House |
March 18 - Liberal Lion Enters Defense Hawks' Den |
March 18 - Senate Nears Endgame on CR |
March 18 - Sequester Bites Into Medicare Abuse Savings |
March 25 - Highlights of the Final Fiscal 2013 CR |
March 25 - Trying to Stay 'Army Strong' |
March 25 - With Little Ado, CR Sent to Obama's Desk |
April 8 - Don't Blame the Budget Process; It's Politics |
April 15 - Defense: Pentagon Budget Request Dodges Tough Decisions |
April 15 - Highlights of Obama's Budget Request |
May 20 - Appropriators Vote for More Money Than Requested for Border Agencies |
May 20 - Navy's Shipbuilding Plan Takes Fire From Hill |
May 20 - Panel Bill Would Boost Spending, Address Benefits Claim Backlog |
June 3 - Abortion Policy, Brazil Extradition Come Up in Spending Bill Markup |
June 3 - Attempts to Soften Sequester Are Focus of Action on First Spending Bill |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Agriculture |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Commerce-Justice-Science |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Defense |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Energy-Water |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Financial Services |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Homeland Security |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Interior-Environment |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Labor-HHS-Education |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Legislative Branch |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Military Construction-VA |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: State-Foreign Operations |
June 3 - Fiscal 2014 Appropriations: Transportation-HUD |
June 3 - Panel Adopts Spending Plan That Assumes Sequestration In Fiscal 2014, Axes Domestic Programs, Spares Defense |
June 3 - Spending Gridlock Builds Pathways to Sequester |
June 3 - Stuck on Sequester |
June 10 - Defense Spending Measure Approved With Levels Well Above Sequester |
June 10 - House Panel Approves Spending Bill With Deep Cuts to Food Aid Programs |
June 10 - House Passes Fiscal 2014 Homeland Bill |
June 10 - Veterans Aid Concern Steers House Bill |
June 10 - Zombie Bases Prove Hard to Kill |
June 17 - Appropriators Take Jabs at Pentagon |
June 17 - House Panel Backs Agriculture Bill With Cuts to CFTC, WIC Program |
June 24 - A Discretionary Spending Gap |
June 24 - Despite Cap Concerns, Funding for Military Construction, VA Approved |
June 24 - Energy Programs Reduced Below Sequester Levels in House Draft |
June 24 - Funding Increase for Agriculture Programs, FDA Approved by Panel |
June 24 - President's Transportation Initiatives Big Losers Under House Panel's Plan |
June 24 - Seeking Some Fresh Ideas on Stink Bugs |
July 8 - 'Trade-offs' vs. 'Responsible Investments' in Transportation-HUD Bills |
July 8 - Disparate Energy-Water Bills Advance |
July 15 - Bill Criticized for Cuts to Grants for State and Local Law Enforcement |
July 15 - Cairo's Coup Rattles Relations |
July 15 - Democrats Wait for Full Committee to Challenge Financial Services Bill |
July 15 - House Votes to Cut Back on Renewables |
July 15 - Panels Advance Bills That Would Boost Legislative Branch Spending |
July 15 - Senate Bill Would Increase Funding for Health and Education Programs |
July 22 - Bill Would Reduce IRS Budget, Cut Spending for Financial Services |
July 22 - House Panel Approves $3.2 Billion Spending Bill for Legislative Branch |
July 22 - House Panel Approves NASA Bill Over Democrats' Funding Complaints |
July 22 - Navy's Future in Bahrain Questioned |
July 22 - Senate Calls for Increase in C-J-S Spending, House for Decrease |
July 22 - Slim State-Foreign Operations Bill Approved by House Subcommittee |
July 29 - A 'Gold-Plated' Bomb Upgrade |
July 29 - IRS Is Focus of Debate During Senate Markup of Financial Services Bill |
July 29 - Panel Approves Significant EPA Cuts in Interior-Environment Spending Bill |
July 29 - Panels Adopt Foreign Operations Bills With Budgetary, Policy Differences |
July 29 - Privacy vs. Security on Center Stage |
July 29 - Senate Votes Down Transportation Cuts |
August 5 - Defense Spending Measure's Future Uncertain After Approval in Senate Appropriations Committee |
August 5 - Transportation-HUD Bills Stall |
September 9 - Seeking Redemption With No Quick Fix |
September 9 - Spending Cuts, Continued |
September 16 - GOP Divided Over Spending Plans |
September 23 - Highlights of the House's Fiscal 2014 Continuing Resolution |
September 23 - House CR Would Gut Health Care Law |
September 23 - Shutdown Showdown |
September 30 - Aid Spending Takes Time |
September 30 - Have DHS's Missions Grown Too Expensive? |
September 30 - Once More Unto the Brink |
September 30 - Senate Passes 'Clean' CR |
September 30 - Smaller, but Smarter: The Military's Chance to Remake Itself |
October 7 - Congress Clears Military Pay Bill Prior to Government Shutdown |
October 7 - GOP Looks Beyond Shutdown |
October 7 - Rethinking Flattops for Flatter Budgets |
October 21 - As It Backs Away From Fiscal Crisis, Congress Names Budget Conferees |
October 21 - Battle Over, but 'War' Continues |
October 21 - Cardinals With Clipped Wings |
October 21 - Highlights of the Continuing Resolution and Debt Limit Deal |
October 28 - Appropriations: Top Line May Be Within Easy Reach |
October 28 - C.W. Bill Young Dies at Age 82 |
October 28 - Fiscal Crisis Watch, Week 4: Intermission |
November 4 - Budget Talks Could Bring Limited Deal |
November 18 - House Appropriations Panel Reshuffles 'Cardinals' |
December 2 - Conferees Aim Low to Avoid Missing |
December 9 - Groundwork, but No Deals Yet on Budget, Farm Bill, 'Doc Fix' |
December 9 - House GOP Fills Vacancies on Appropriations Panel |
December 9 - New England Fishermen Ask for a Safety Net |
December 9 - Preserving Nature Isn't a Walk in the Park |
December 16 - Budget Deal Moves to Senate |
December 16 - Compromise Is No Big Deal |
December 16 - Foreign Militaries, Domestic Tension |
December 16 - Special Ops Seeks Greater Authority |