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January 5 - Appropriations: Omnibus Could Be Elusive

January 5 - Budget: Reconciliation Bill Expected

January 5 - Debt: Calm Replaces the Storm

January 5 - Issue of Wildfire Costs Rekindled

January 12 - Dynamic Scoring System Has Republicans Revved

January 12 - Elmendorf to Stay at CBO While Republicans Ponder Replacement

January 26 - A Bottomless Pit at the Pentagon

January 26 - Cochran: A 'Wide-Open Process'

January 26 - Old-School Appropriator Navigates New Spending Waters

February 9 - Editor's Notebook: Opening Bids

February 9 - Playing Defense

February 9 - The Tax Tango Begins

March 2 - All Roads Lead to '16

March 16 - A New Fiscal Scold Steps Up In the Senate

March 23 - New Numbers-Cruncher Has a Fine Line to Walk

March 23 - Vote-a-Rama to Test the Senate

April 20 - Funding Options for the Nation's Infrastructure

April 20 - Highway Funding Still Under Construction

April 27 - Balancing Act Begins on Appropriations

April 27 - Editor's Notebook: Payments and Paybacks

April 27 - Warnings Sounded For Disability Fund

May 11 - A Reboot for Nuclear Agency

May 11 - Defense Budget Fight Makes Strange Bedfellows

June 8 - Crossing the Aisle for a Caucus

June 8 - Shaun Donovan: A CQ Weekly Profile

June 22 - How the 2013 Budget Deal Came Together

June 22 - In Jockeying for Budget Deal, Congress Courts Disaster

June 22 - Interview: Americans for Prosperity's Tim Phillips

July 6 - Congress Overlooks Athens of the Caribbean

July 6 - Rebirth of a Presidential Salesman

July 13 - Conversation: House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry

July 13 - Ex-Governors Are Deal-Makers in the Senate

July 13 - F-35: What Comes After Stealth?

July 13 - Inside the Newsroom: Peeling Back the Pentagon Onion

July 13 - Price of Paranoia: Debating Defense Dollars

July 13 - Smith: Steering Through the Appropriations Storm

July 13 - The Common Defense: Still Grounded at Ground Zero

July 20 - Skimping on Homeless May Boost Budget Deficit

July 27 - Endless Roadblocks for Highway Bills

July 27 - McConnell Puts Some Notches in His Belt

July 27 - Revenue Potential in Question as Lawmakers Eye Petroleum Reserve

August 3 - The Common Defense: The Costs of Keeping the Troops Happy

September 8 - Appropriations: Storm Clouds Forming

September 8 - Budget: Desperate for a Deal

September 8 - Debt Limit: No Drama Wanted

September 8 - Fall Legislative Preview: On the Edge of a Precipice

September 8 - Highways: Searching for a Pot of Gold

September 8 - Taxes: Extenders Are Best Bet

September 14 - Key Legislative Achievements Tell the Story of Congress

September 14 - Power Game: Seven Decades of Drama

September 21 - Anatomy of a Vote: Tensions High in Abortion Fight

September 21 - Boehner Squeezed Between Shutdown and Rebellion

September 21 - The 2013 Shutdown Revisited

September 28 - Exit Stage Right: Boehner's Departure Leaves House in Turmoil

October 5 - A Tea Party Laboratory on the Prairie

October 5 - Anatomy of a Vote: Stopgap Smoothed by Boehner's Exit

October 5 - Can the GOP Be Led?

October 26 - Crash Course: Leadership Novice Ryan Takes the Reins

October 26 - GOP's Rocky Reconciliation Test

October 26 - Paul Ryan's Roadmap to the Top

October 26 - Ryan's Rise Could Boost Tax Overhaul

November 2 - Anatomy of a Vote: Barn Is Cleared for the New Speaker

November 2 - Latest Deal Undermines Prospect of Future Budget Cuts

November 2 - Winners and Losers of the Budget Deal

November 9 - Anatomy of a Vote: A Freewheeling Process Under Ryan

November 9 - Conversation: New Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady

November 9 - Mass Transit Sings the Blues

November 9 - Omnibus Preview: Ready to Rumble

November 9 - Omnibus Preview: Trying to Hitch a Ride

November 9 - Preview: Agriculture

November 9 - Preview: Commerce-Justice-Science

November 9 - Preview: Defense

November 9 - Preview: Energy-Water

November 9 - Preview: Financial Services

November 9 - Preview: Homeland Security

November 9 - Preview: Interior-Environment

November 9 - Preview: Labor-HHS-Education

November 9 - Preview: Legislative Branch

November 9 - Preview: Military Construction-VA

November 9 - Preview: State-Foreign Operations

November 9 - Preview: Transportation-HUD

November 16 - Biosimilars Seen as Way to Rein in Medicaid Drug Costs

November 16 - Fury Over Planned Parenthood Cools Ahead of Omnibus Talks

November 16 - Highway Beautification Funds Targeted by GOP

December 7 - Anatomy of a Vote: Senate Still Holds Its Fire on Guns

December 7 - Struggles Ahead for FDA With E-Cigarettes

December 14 - Are We Running Out of Budget Offsets?

December 14 - Furman: A New White House Negotiator on Taxes

December 14 - In Omnibus Fight, McConnell Seeks to Avoid Past GOP Missteps

December 14 - Next Stop on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor: Funding Crisis