 January 7 - A Tough Task |
| January 7 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Mandate Bill Is More Moderate Than Proposal in 'Contract' |
| January 7 - THE BUDGET: Rejuvenated Budget Amendment Must Clear a Few Obstacles |
| January 14 - Amendment Remains a Gamble Despite Its Popularity |
| January 14 - Budget Amendments: An Idea That Never Goes Out of Style |
| January 14 - Democrats Draw In the Reins On Mandates Legislation |
| January 14 - GOP Hits Brakes, Shifts Tactics |
| January 14 - Mandate Plans Compared (chart) |
| January 14 - THE BUDGET: 'Dynamic Scoring' On Hold for Now |
| January 14 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Congress To Consider Budget-Balancing |
| January 21 - Amendment Foes Hold Out Hope As Measure Heads to Floor |
| January 21 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: A Strategy for Clinton In the Deficit Wars |
| January 21 - HOUSE COMMITTEES: Budget |
| January 21 - Mandates Legislation Caught In a Shifting Current |
| January 21 - Senate Committees: Budget |
| January 21 - THE BUDGET: Kasich's Spending-Cut Plans Fall Behind Schedule |
| January 21 - Unfunded Mandates (chart) |
| January 21 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Mandates and Budget Mean Scrapes Ahead |
| January 28 - Amendment Vote a Big 'Contract' Win |
| January 28 - CBO DEFICIT PROJECTIONS (chart) |
| January 28 - In Historic Turn, House Passes Balanced-Budget Amendment |
| January 28 - Opposing Interests Brace For a Culture Clash |
| January 28 - PRESIDENTIAL RESCISSIONS: 'Line-Item Veto' Measure Speeds to House Floor |
| January 28 - Reischauer: Deficit Estimates Must Be Revised Upward |
| January 28 - Spending on Block Grants |
| January 28 - The States' 'Unfunded' Options |
| January 28 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Balanced-Budget Fight Moves to Senate |
| February 4 - As Budget Time Begins, Two Men Share a Daunting Task |
| February 4 - Budget Amendment's Fate Hinges On a Handful of Democrats |
| February 4 - CONGRESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Conservative O'Neill Is In Line To Run Hill Budget Office |
| February 4 - CORRECTION: Unfunded mandates |
| February 4 - ENDANGERED BUDGET '96 LIST: A Range of Budget Targets |
| February 4 - House Passes 'Contract' Priority To Curb Mandates on States |
| February 4 - Line-Item Veto Measure Moves to House Floor |
| February 4 - Revenue Losses (chart) |
| February 4 - Running a Debt, Amendment or No |
| February 4 - Text of Amendment |
| February 4 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Matters To Dominate |
| February 11 - A Budget Glossary |
| February 11 - BALANCED BUDGET: Senate Republicans Optimistic About Amendment's Future |
| February 11 - Budget Authority, Outlays |
| February 11 - Budget Timeline (chart) |
| February 11 - Clinton's Message to Congress: Seek No Cover Here |
| February 11 - Discretionary Spending (chart) |
| February 11 - ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: White House Sees Solid Growth Leading to 'Soft Landing' |
| February 11 - Fiscal 1996 Budget |
| February 11 - FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: Revenues |
| February 11 - FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: The President's Proposals, Listed by Categories |
| February 11 - Hawks Say Clinton's Budget Leaves Military Weakened |
| February 11 - Non-Traditional Programs Targeted |
| February 11 - PRESIDENT'S BUDGET MESSAGE: Clinton Outlines Priorities For Fiscal 1996 Spending |
| February 11 - President's Tax Cuts Draw Fire, Reopen Rifts Within GOP |
| February 11 - Receipts by Source (chart) |
| February 11 - SPENDING POWER: House Passes Line-Item Veto; Long Road Ahead in Senate |
| February 11 - Supplemental and Rescissions Proposals (chart) |
| February 11 - Supplemental Request Presents Test |
| February 11 - THE BUDGET: Conservative Economist O'Neill Picked for CBO Director |
| February 11 - THE BUDGET: More Hill Cutbacks Coming; Support Services Eyed |
| February 11 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Measures Still Dominate |
| February 18 - SECTION NOTES: Unfunded Mandates Bill Faces Final Hurdles |
| February 18 - SPENDING POWER: Floor Fight Now Likely Between Two Line-Item Veto Bills |
| February 18 - Where Helms Would Cut |
| February 25 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT: Measure Nears Winning Margin, But Nunn Withholds Support |
| February 25 - CORRECTION: Balanced-budget amendment. |
| February 25 - Nunn's the Word |
| February 25 - REPUBLICAN CONTRACT: Balanced-Budget Amendment and Line Item Veto |
| February 25 - Republicans Revisit Fiscal '95, Leave It $17 Billion Thinner |
| February 25 - The Undecided |
| February 25 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Amendment Vote Set Feb. 28 |
| March 4 - Amendment Vote History (chart) |
| March 4 - Bill Hits Partisan Objections |
| March 4 - Clinton Challenges Republicans To Move on Budget Details |
| March 4 - CORRECTION: Balanced-budget amendment |
| March 4 - Dole's Defeat May Have Impact On His Chances in Presidential Race |
| March 4 - GOP Says Proposed Cuts Fail To Pass Muster |
| March 4 - GOP's Balancing Act Gets Tricky As Budget Amendment Sinks |
| March 4 - Massive Spending-Cut Package Moves to House Floor |
| March 4 - Sparring Over 'Contract' |
| March 4 - SPENDING POWER: Line-Item Veto Bills Head to Floor |
| March 4 - Text of Amendment |
| March 11 - CORRECTION: Balanced-budget amendment. |
| March 11 - Discretionary Spending Caps (chart) |
| March 11 - House Budget Panel To Extend Freeze And Then Cut Another $100 Billion |
| March 11 - SPENDING POWER: Faced With Impasse, GOP Offers Line-Item Veto Compromise |
| March 11 - WHAT'S AHEAD: GOP's Tax Proposals Take Center Stage |
| March 18 - Five-Year Plan Cuts $190 Billion |
| March 18 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: GOP Attains a Top 'Contract' Goal As Mandates Bill Clears |
| March 18 - House GOP Pushes Budget Cuts As Political Stakes Mount |
| March 18 - Portman Forged Compromise |
| March 18 - SPENDING POWER: GOP Reaches Pact On Line-Item Veto |
| March 18 - Welfare, Spending Cuts Top Agenda |
| March 18 - Where the GOP Would Cut (chart) |
| March 25 - 1995 SPECIAL COMMITTEES REPORT: House Budget |
| March 25 - 1995 SPECIAL COMMITTEES REPORT: Senate Budget |
| March 25 - Line-Item Veto Compromise Easily Passes Senate |
| March 25 - Line-Item Veto: Senate, House Bills Compared |
| March 25 - Section Notes: President Signs Mandates Bill |
| April 1 - CQ Roundtable: Proposed Power Shift Recalls Nixon Move |
| April 1 - Getting Around to the Budget |
| April 8 - 100 DAYS AND COUNTING: Balanced Budget/ Line-Item Veto |
| April 8 - CORRECTION: Line-item veto. |
| April 8 - TAXES: Medicare Is Targeted for Large Cuts In Domenici's Risky Seven-Year Plan |
| April 15 - PROVISIONS: Unfunded Mandates Law |
| April 15 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Tasks Await Senate's Return |
| April 22 - THE BUDGET: Echoes of the Wars of '85 |
| April 29 - Deficit Dampens GOP's Hopes For a Budget Increase |
| April 29 - THE BUDGET: Senate Drafting Session Delayed To Build Support for Cuts |
| May 6 - CORRECTION: Defense budget. |
| May 6 - THE BUDGET: Medicare Trust Fund |
| May 6 - THE BUDGET: Medicare's Woes, While Nothing New Are Politically Charged This Year |
| May 6 - With Cuts Ahead, GOP Works To Build a Sense of Urgency |
| May 13 - Caustic Four-Day Scrap Portends A Long Haul in the Senate |
| May 13 - Comparing House, Senate Paths To a Balanced Budget by 2002 |
| May 13 - Daring Budgets Would Create Vastly Smaller Government |
| May 13 - Democrats Protest Budget Figures As House Panel OKs Resolution |
| May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Proposed Defense Budget Follows Clinton Plan |
| May 13 - The Budget Process |
| May 13 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget To Dominate In Both Chambers |
| May 20 - APPROPRIATIONS SPECIAL REPORT: Today's Appropriators Preside Over a Shrinking Empire |
| May 20 - Braced for Austerity, House OKs GOP Budget Resolution |
| May 20 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Parties Must Unite On Entitlements |
| May 20 - House OKs Conference Report On Fiscal '95 Rescissions |
| May 20 - SPENDING POWER: House Pushes Negotiations On Line-Item Veto |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: A Look at Budget Process |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: Budget Totals (chart) |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: Function-by-Function |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: House Resolution Hit List To Balance the Budget |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: New Spending Caps (chart) |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: Parties Square Off Over Student Loans |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: Reconciliation |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: Taxes, Defense Are Flash Points As Senate Prepares To Vote |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: The Alternative Budgets |
| May 20 - THE BUDGET: The Debt Ceiling 'Hammer' |
| May 20 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Senate To Continue Work on Budget |
| May 27 - CORRECTION: House Budget |
| May 27 - LSOs Are No Longer Separate, But the Work's Almost Equal |
| May 27 - THE BUDGET: A Pressure Group Splinters |
| May 27 - THE BUDGET: Highlights of Senate Plan |
| May 27 - THE BUDGET: Republicans Against Gramm |
| May 27 - THE BUDGET: Senate Adopts Blueprint, Settles For Conditional Tax Cut |
| May 27 - THE BUDGET: Senate Resolution Hit List To Balance the Budget |
| May 27 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Issues Await After Recess Break |
| June 3 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Budget Reconciliation A Collision Course |
| June 3 - THE BUDGET: Conference's Biggest Task: Bridging Gap on Tax Cuts |
| June 3 - THE BUDGET: House, Senate |
| June 3 - THE BUDGET: The Arduous Budget Talks of 1990 May Offer a Map to the Road Ahead |
| June 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Trimming Legislative Fat Inspires Cries of 'No' |
| June 10 - CORRECTION: Senate Vote Caption 221 |
| June 10 - SPENDING POWERS: Clinton Criticizes Republicans For Line-Item-Veto Delay |
| June 10 - THE BUDGET: The Question: Is Ending a Tax Break The Same as Raising Taxes? |
| June 17 - Clinton Shifts Tactics, Proposes Erasing Deficit in 10 Years |
| June 17 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Clinton Presents Proposal For Balanced Budget |
| June 17 - THE BUDGET: Clinton Budget Proposal Compared With House, Senate Plans |
| June 17 - THE BUDGET: Details of the Clinton Proposal |
| June 17 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget, Environment Top Busy Week |
| June 24 - Final Budget Resolution Compared With House, Senate Plans |
| June 24 - In Farm Debate, GOP Risks Cultivating Enemies |
| June 24 - Last-Minute Maneuvers Forge A Conference Agreement |
| June 24 - THE BUDGET: Forecasts: |
| June 24 - THE BUDGET: Keeping Tax Cuts Conditional |
| June 24 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Appropriations, Budget Again Top Priorities |
| July 1 - Congress Gives Resounding Yes To Balanced-Budget Plan |
| July 1 - Proposed Spending by Function For |
| July 1 - THE BUDGET: 1993: A Nail-Biter for the White House |
| July 1 - THE BUDGET: Budget Totals (chart) |
| July 1 - THE BUDGET: Medicare Cuts Yet To Be Fleshed Out |
| July 1 - THE BUDGET: Reconciliation |
| July 1 - THE BUDGET: Rescissions Bill Runs Aground |
| July 1 - UPDATE: Comparison of Budget Plans |
| July 8 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: GOP Moves the Ball - Perhaps Too Quickly |
| July 15 - Furor Over First Spending Bills Promises a Stormy Summer |
| July 15 - New Spending Caps (chart) |
| July 15 - Rescissions Bill May Finally Move |
| July 15 - SECTION NOTES: Lawmakers' Pay Raises Endangered Again |
| August 5 - A Year of Reckoning Over The Power of the Purse |
| August 5 - SPENDING POWER: GOP Renews Drive On Line-Item Veto |
| August 5 - THE BUDGET: Republicans, White House Still Far Apart on Budget Issues |
| August 12 - Senate Adds Billions in Weapons To Clinton Budget Request |
| September 2 - Clinton and Congress Speeding Toward Collision Over Budget |
| September 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Balanced-budget amendment. |
| September 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Fiscal 1996 budget resolution. |
| September 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Line-item veto. |
| September 2 - GOVERNMENT and COMMERCE: Unfunded mandates. |
| September 9 - GOP Focuses on Resolving Overhaul Disputes |
| September 9 - THE BUDGET: A History of Reconciliation |
| September 9 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Welfare, Budget Issues Top Senate Agenda |
| September 16 - Many of GOP's Details Unknown As Fiscal Deadlines Loom |
| September 16 - THE BUDGET: House Easily OKs 'Lockbox' Bill |
| September 16 - THE BUDGET: Republicans Outline Medicare Plan To Hit $270 Billion Budget Target |
| September 23 - Discretionary Spending (chart) |
| September 23 - For Sale: Government Assets To Reduce Budget Deficit |
| September 23 - Gingrich Places Hold On D.C. Budget Bill |
| September 23 - GOP Ready To Take Debt Limit To the Brink and Beyond |
| September 23 - RECONCILIATION: Finding Ways Around Disaster |
| September 30 - CORRECTION: Reconciliation history. |
| September 30 - RECONCILIATION: Panel Urges Sale Of Island |
| September 30 - SPENDING POWER: Major Disputes Face Conference On Line-Item Veto Measure |
| September 30 - Stopgap Bill Allows GOP, Clinton Six More Weeks of Haggling |
| September 30 - THE BUDGET: Revised Price Index Gaining Favor |
| September 30 - THE BUDGET: Tick-Tock: The Weeks Ahead |
| October 7 - CORRECTION: Defense spending. |
| October 7 - RECONCILIATION: Challenges From Chafee |
| October 7 - RECONCILIATION: Comparing House, Senate Versions Of Republican EITC Proposals |
| October 14 - Pivotal Floor Votes Are Up Next As GOP Budget Lurches Ahead |
| October 14 - RECONCILIATION: Committee Action Compared |
| October 14 - RECONCILIATION: Interest Groups Take Sides |
| October 14 - RECONCILIATION: Questions Persist About Virtue of Selling Government Assets |
| October 21 - RECONCILIATION: House, Senate Bills Differ Sharply |
| October 21 - RECONCILIATION: Proposed |
| October 21 - Sparring Over a Debt Extension |
| October 21 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget-Reconciliation Up Next in House |
| October 21 - With Floor Votes Looming, GOP Hurries To Fine-Tune Budget |
| October 28 - Budget Bills Embrace Plans For Leaner Farm Policy |
| October 28 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Republicans Targeting Clinton's Few Wins |
| October 28 - Historic Votes Add Momentum As Conferees Start Work |
| October 28 - THE BUDGET: In the House, GOP Leadership Scores Comfortable Win |
| October 28 - THE BUDGET: Problem Areas for Negotiators |
| October 28 - THE BUDGET: Reconciliation Now a Major Tool |
| October 28 - THE BUDGET: Senate GOP Appeases Moderates, Gets Majority Behind Bill |
| October 28 - THE BUDGET: The House's Budget Changes |
| October 28 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Easier Time Predicted For Budget Conferees |
| November 4 - Budget-Reconciliation Conferees |
| November 4 - Clashing Needs: Budget Cuts Vs. Money for Food Stamps |
| November 4 - GOP Leaders Seek Agreements As Deadlines Drive Action |
| November 4 - RECONCILIATION: A Flurry of Amendments |
| November 4 - RECONCILIATION: Down, but Not Out |
| November 4 - RECONCILIATION: House, Senate Banking Panels Ready To Agree on Thrifts |
| November 4 - RECONCILIATION: Key Welfare Money Provisions Remain in Budget Bill |
| November 4 - RECONCILIATION: Senate's Last-Minute Changes Kept Floor Action Lively |
| November 4 - THE BUDGET: GOP Rifts Delay Spending Bills |
| November 11 - Conferees Agree on Plan To Bolster Thrift Fund |
| November 11 - Fight Over Interim Measures Previews a Bigger Battle |
| November 11 - Istook Amendment's Wild Ride |
| November 11 - Retroactive Cuts Appeal to GOP |
| November 11 - Short-Term Debt Extension OK'd |
| November 11 - SPENDING POWER: Senate May Give In On Line-Item Veto |
| November 18 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: '95 Sounds May Echo Far Into Future |
| November 18 - PRESIDENTIAL VETO MESSAGE: Temporary Rise in Debt Limit Is Vetoed by President |
| November 18 - RECONCILIATION: Longtime Programs Would Topple In Plan To Reap $12.3 Billion in Cuts |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Ex-Official Urges New Process For Intelligence Budget |
| November 18 - SPECIAL REPORT - 'Train Wreck' Engineered by GOP Batters Party and House Speaker |
| November 18 - SPECIAL REPORT - Breathing Room Under Debt Ceiling |
| November 18 - SPECIAL REPORT - Budget Battle Came Sooner Than Either Side Expected |
| November 18 - SPECIAL REPORT - Budget Showdown: Day by Day |
| November 18 - SPECIAL REPORT - RECONCILIATION: Congress Readies Budget Bill For President's Veto Pen |
| November 18 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Resolution Uncertain In Budget Impasse |
| November 25 - BUDGET: 'CR' Ends Shutdown, Sparks Talks |
| November 25 - Reality of Tough Job Ahead Dampens Joy Over Deal |
| November 25 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget, Bosnia on Tap After Holiday Break |
| December 2 - Democratic Coalition Comes Together To Build Leverage for a Budget Plan |
| December 2 - Problems in Opening Round Could Signal Bigger Woes |
| December 2 - RECONCILIATION: Budget Veterans Square Off In the Search for Common Ground |
| December 2 - RECONCILIATION: The Negotiators |
| December 9 - GOP's All-or-Nothing Approach Hangs on a Balanced Budget |
| December 9 - Harsh Rhetoric on Budget Spells a Dismal Outlook |
| December 9 - Highlights of Clinton's Proposal To Balance Budget in Seven Years |
| December 9 - PRESIDENTIAL VETO MESSAGE: Profound Differences' Cited In Veto of Budget Plan |
| December 9 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget, Bosnia Top A Difficult Week |
| December 16 - As Budget Talks Break Down, Finger-Pointing Escalates |
| December 16 - INDIANS: Senate Panel OKs Bureau Overhaul |
| December 16 - RECONCILIATION: Negotiators Get Some Wiggle Room With Revised Figures From CBO |
| December 16 - RECONCILIATION: Rubin's Footwork Frustrates GOP |
| December 16 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Holds Up Plans For Adjournment |
| December 23 - Bipartisan Group Unveils Budget |
| December 23 - Budget Battles Set To Continue After Christmas Cease-Fire |
| December 23 - Day by Day: Talks Wax and Wane As Anger, Miscues Punctuate Week |
| December 23 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Congress Clears Stopgap Bill |
| December 23 - SECTION NOTES: Agencies' Funding Caught In Battle Over Budget |
| December 23 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Congress Departs but Work On Budget To Go On |
