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January 5 - Emerging Players: Rep. John M. Spratt Jr., D-S.C.

January 12 - Deficits and Recriminations

January 12 - From an Expensive Start, Spending Only Promises to Grow

January 12 - Security the Emerging Theme Of Election Year Issues

January 12 - Will They Still Serve Pina Coladas On the Lido Deck?

January 19 - Bush to Seek Domestic Cuts To Pay for National Security

January 19 - Kennedy Again Draws Liberal Line With Call to Roll Back Tax Cuts

January 26 - After Years of Surpluses, Lawmakers Brace For Debate Over Belt-Tightening

January 26 - New NASA Chief's Challenge: Restoring Accountability, Preserving Vision

February 2 - Bush Says National Security And Economic Revival Will Require Deficit Spending

February 2 - Daniels' Domestic Austerity Drive May Further Strain Relations With Hill

February 2 - The Challenges at Home

February 2 - Will a New Era of Deficits Be Bush's Budget Legacy?

February 9 - 'Performance' and Politics

February 9 - Agency-by-Agency: The President's Opening Bid

February 9 - Budget Hearing Turns Personal

February 9 - Death of a Stimulus Bill

February 9 - Defense Plans Praised, Domestic Squeeze Debated

February 9 - Parsing the Assumptions

February 16 - Deficit-Averse Republicans Struggle With Principles and Practicalities

February 23 - Democrats Say They Will Seek To Go Well Beyond Bush's Plan For Increasing Aid to Minority Colleges

February 23 - Enron's Accounting Woes Cast a Shadow On Debt-Limit Legerdemain

March 2 - Budget Work Takes a Back Seat To Parties' Symbolic Gestures

March 2 - Lawmakers Say 'No Way' To Highway Funding Cuts Triggered by Revenue Drop

March 2 - Resolution Lore

March 9 - CBO Sees Short-Term Surpluses But Does Not Count Stimulus Bill

March 9 - CBO's 'Slight' Underestimate

March 9 - House Farm Bill Gets a Boost Thanks to CBO Math Problem

March 16 - Appropriators' Challenge: Make Up FAA Revenue Lost in Air Travel Slump

March 16 - Conrad in Budget Spotlight With Little Room to Maneuver

March 16 - GOP's Budget Resolution Draft Follows Past Years' Path

March 16 - House GOP Forces Treasury's Hand By Delaying Vote on Debt Ceiling

March 16 - Senate at Serious Disadvantage As Farm Bill Heads to Conference

March 16 - Treasury Secretary Issues Dire Warning: Government Checks Would Stop

March 23 - Conrad's Budget Plan Approved in Committee But Faces Tough Fight on Senate Floor

March 23 - Debt Limit Left Hanging; Federal Books May Require Some Juggling

March 23 - Editor's Notebook: Our Preoccupations

March 23 - Senate Crunches Numbers on Farm Bill, But Big Changes Expected in Final Version

March 30 - Latest Supplemental Request Hits a Freer-Spending Hill

March 30 - Medicare, Social Security Report Urges Quick Congressional Action

March 30 - O'Neill May Have to Follow Vilified Predecessor's Lead in Shifting Funds

April 6 - Absent a Budget, Singular Spending Target An Increasingly Appealing Fallback

April 6 - Treasury's Juggling Act

April 13 - Appropriators See Their Ceiling For Fiscal 2003 Spending

April 13 - Will Absence of a Budget Plan Weaken the Democratic Message?

April 20 - Bush's Pre-Emptive Spending Challenge Sets Up Showdown With Appropriators

April 20 - Symbolism the Real Winner In House Vote to Extend Tax Cut

April 27 - New Pot of Federal Dollars Has Admirers From All Over

May 11 - GOP Eager to Raise Debt Ceiling With Minimal Political Pain

May 11 - Many in Congress Itching to Revisit Elements of the Just-Cleared Farm Bill

May 11 - Supplemental Bill a Vehicle For Fights Over Policies, Not Money

May 18 - Many Divisions Yield Gloomy Forecast For Upcoming Appropriations Season

May 25 - After Struggle for House Passage, Spending Fight Is in the Senate

May 25 - Riders on the House Supplemental

June 8 - Senate Panel Approves $5.7 Billion Increase For Nation's Highways

June 8 - Senators See Spending Ceiling

June 15 - House Republican Leaders Ponder Vote on Raising the Debt Limit After Senate Passes Its Own Bill

June 15 - Major Battle Brewing Over Minor Dollar Differences

June 22 - Earmarks Causing Headaches

June 22 - GOP Shrugging Off Treasury's June 28 Deadline for Boosting Borrowing Limit

June 29 - Editor's Notebook: What's Possible

June 29 - House GOP Leaders Take Political Risk, Win Enactment of Higher Borrowing Ceiling

June 29 - Midyear Spending Deal Likely in Early July; Democrats, Bush Harden Fiscal '03 Lines

July 6 - GOP Leaders See Some Benefit In Lame-Duck Spending Session

July 13 - Gloomier OMB Forecast Adds Fuel To Fiery Budget Talks

July 13 - President's Hard Line on Spending Shatters Brief Bipartisan Consensus

July 20 - Conservatives Compel Hastert To Set Early Test of Spending Limits

July 27 - Traditional Shifting of Funds Raises Hackles on Homeland Security

August 3 - Lawmakers' Keen Sense of Political Risk Trumps Avowed Goal of Budget Deal

August 31 - Revenue Decline a Tepid Issue for Voters Despite Democratic Finger-Pointing

August 31 - Stock Market Tumble, Tax Breaks Blamed for Federal Revenue Drop

August 31 - White House Hopes to Take Hard Line On Labor, Health and Education Spending

September 7 - GOP Moderates Call Funding Level Set by Leaders Unworkably Tight

September 7 - Senate Fine-Tunes Budget Deal

September 7 - Workers' Rights Issues Looming Over Homeland Security Debate

September 14 - Spending Bills Likely to Wait For Lame Duck

September 21 - Bush Takes Page From Clinton In Appropriation Showdown

September 28 - Budget Conservatives, Appropriators Square Off on First Continuing Resolution, Auguring Worse Conflicts Ahead

September 28 - Guns and Butter, Again

September 28 - State Department Bill Includes Final Payoff of U.N. Arrears

September 28 - The High Cost of Might

September 28 - War May Not Hurt Economy

October 3 - House Backs Justice Authorization

October 5 - Formulation of Long-Term Stopgap Is Yet to Be Determined

October 12 - House GOP Leaders Frustrated In Drive for Longer-Term CR

October 12 - OMB Burns Midnight Oil Trying to Plan For Homeland Security Department

October 19 - GOP Declares Victory Despite Unfinished Business

October 19 - Senate Approves Resolution To Curb New Tax Cuts And Entitlement Programs

October 19 - Thomas Wants to Halt Medicare Cuts for Doctors

October 26 - Simplifying the Tax Code Is Key to Overhaul Proposals

November 2 - Few Foresee Progress During Lame Duck On Stalled Fiscal 2003 Spending Bills

November 9 - More Partisan Budget Panel Expected

November 9 - Tax Cut Becomes Top Priority

November 9 - Veteran Appropriator May Try Bush

November 16 - Appropriators Make a Point with PAYGO

November 16 - Bush Team in Driver's Seat on Fiscal Policy

November 16 - Emboldened Bush Aims To Break Budget Busters

November 16 - Rise of the 'Growth Hawks'

November 23 - GOP Majority in Both Houses No Guarantee That Appropriators Can Stay Under Bush's Budget Cap

November 23 - GOP Weighs Critical Staff Shifts To Grease the Legislative Gears

November 23 - Three Budget Process Referees

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Budget Enforcement

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Debt Limit Increase

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2003 Budget Resolution

December 7 - GOP Leaders Plan Omnibus Blitz To Meet Bush's Budget Demands

December 14 - Calio's Assertive Style Moves Legislation, But Hill Republicans Have Paid a Price

December 14 - Party Unity Vote Study: Bracing for Battles Postponed