 January 4 - Bills Signed |
| January 4 - Editor's Notebook: Bullfrogs and Balancing Acts |
| January 4 - Fast-Moving Events Challenge Frist's Debut at Senate Helm |
| January 4 - Frist's Senate Voting Record Shows Blend of Partisanship and Pragmatism |
| January 4 - GOP Faces Turning Point In Handling Race Relations |
| January 4 - History Provides Frist With Lessons On Senatorial 'Power of Persuasion' |
| January 4 - Lott Rebounds in New Role As Chairman of Rules Panel |
| January 4 - Race Issue Kept Gaining Momentum for Lott |
| January 4 - Senate Chairmen Await Go-Ahead |
| January 4 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 6 |
| January 11 - Bills Signed |
| January 11 - Democrats Cry Foul as GOP Eases Several House Rules |
| January 11 - Field of Hopefuls Complicates Non-Candidate Daschle's Job |
| January 11 - Frist Starts Up Steep Learning Curve In Taking Unpredictable Senate's Reins |
| January 11 - New House Resources Committee Chairman: Richard W. Pombo, R-Calif. |
| January 11 - New House Select Homeland Security Committee Chairman: Christopher Cox, R-Calif. |
| January 11 - Omnibus Gets Homeland Law Amendments |
| January 11 - Republican Pick for CBO Director Heats Up Budget Feud |
| January 11 - Republicans Mix It Up When Assigning House Chairmen for the 108th |
| January 11 - Resigned to Red Ink: The Cost of Wanting It All |
| January 11 - Top House Assignments for the 108th Congress |
| January 11 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 13 |
| January 18 - Attack on Cost of Malpractice Insurance Finds a Hands-On Advocate in Frist |
| January 18 - Editor's Notebook: Short Season |
| January 18 - Pro Quarterback Calls Right Signal As House Members Amble In to Vote |
| January 18 - Rare Partisan Rift Is Troubling For Senate Intelligence Panel |
| January 18 - Senate Leaders' Deal on Organizing Allows the Legislative Year to Begin |
| January 18 - Senate Legislative Writer Drafts Retirement |
| January 18 - Supreme Court's Copyright Ruling Could Mean Broad Powers for Congress |
| January 18 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 20 |
| January 25 - 'Eminently Approachable' Ohioan Keeps House, President in Touch |
| January 25 - 108th Congress Becomes First With a Boomer Majority |
| January 25 - Coveted Aisle Seats Go Quickly For State of the Union Address |
| January 25 - Editor's Notebook: Bush's Defining Year |
| January 25 - New GOP Whip Walking Fine Line Between Partisan and Conciliator |
| January 25 - President Eager to Test Agenda-Setting Power |
| January 25 - President's New Top Hill Lobbyist Is Big on Favors, Not Threats |
| January 25 - Texas Law Guarantees Speedy Election To Select Combest's Replacement in May |
| January 25 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 27 |
| February 1 - Appropriations Panels Remade To Oversee Homeland Spending |
| February 1 - Bush Uses State of the Union To Solidify Grip on Agenda |
| February 1 - Editor's Notebook: The New CQ |
| February 1 - New Caucus on Korea Aims to Ensure Congressional Voice on Long-Term Policy |
| February 1 - Pelosi Leaves Few Members Grumbling as She Reshapes Her Party's Committee Lineup |
| February 1 - Pelosi Pushes Some Democrats Off Panels |
| February 1 - Two-Member Committee Begins Historic Mission of Homeland Security Oversight |
| February 1 - What's Ahead: Week of Feb. 3 |
| February 8 - Disaster-Driven Spending Ramps Up Budget Stress |
| February 8 - Editor's Notebook: Central Casting |
| February 8 - Fiscal 2004 Budget: Branches of Government |
| February 8 - GAO-Cheney Lawsuit Dropped |
| February 8 - Solemn Shuttle Resolution Prompts a Senate Protocol |
| February 8 - What's Ahead: Week of Feb. 10 |
| February 15 - Cox's Challenge: Take Firm Control of Homeland Security Oversight |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus Completed, But More Budget Chores Loom |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Legislative Branch |
| February 22 - Boehner Offers Advice to Lott |
| February 22 - Congressional Tasks Ahead |
| February 22 - Key Senators Say Troubles At U.S. Olympic Committee Demand a Legislative Fix |
| February 22 - Lott Learns the Ropes: From Leader to Legislator |
| March 1 - A Fourth Democrat Lines Up Behind Estrada Nomination As GOP Senators Push for a Vote |
| March 1 - Editor's Notebook: Deliberate Speed |
| March 1 - History Fails to Dissuade Senators From Long-Shot Run at Presidency |
| March 1 - Party Unity Elusive as 2004 Hopefuls Shout, 'Look at Me' |
| March 1 - Shaky Ethics 'Cease-Fire' Could Collapse if Democrats File Complaints Against Oxley |
| March 1 - What's Ahead: Week of March 3 |
| March 8 - Aggressive White House Finds Hurdle in Grassley |
| March 8 - Editor's Notebook: Power Centers |
| March 8 - Gantlet of Senate Moderates Ready to Take On Bush Plan |
| March 8 - New Members Line Up for Slip-of-the-Tongue Fraternity |
| March 8 - Partisan Feud Over Estrada Tests Resolve, Unity of Parties in the Senate |
| March 8 - Rightward Drift of Senate Republicans Will Not Give Bush a Free Pass |
| March 8 - The Question Is: Will New Caucus Find Anyone Who Says They Don't Care About Homeland Security? |
| March 8 - The Senate's 'Iowa Farmer' Relies on His Own Judgment |
| March 8 - What's Ahead: Week of March 10 |
| March 15 - A Reshuffled Congressional Agenda |
| March 15 - Ad Hoc Panel To Look at Ethics Rules |
| March 15 - Moran's War Remark Stands Out In a Crowded Field of Gaffes |
| March 15 - Mud-Slinging Forgotten In Toast to Dick Armey |
| March 15 - Santorum Taking Advantage Of His High-Visibility Position |
| March 15 - The War Agenda: Congress Attends to Business, Waits for Word |
| March 15 - War Won't Unify Congress |
| March 15 - What's Ahead: Week of March 17 |
| March 22 - Congress Seeks to Find Its Voice as Iraq War Rages |
| March 22 - Democrats Divided Over Voicing Anti-War Sentiments |
| March 22 - Lawmakers Offer Perspective in the Final Hours Before War |
| March 22 - Tight Security Won't Stop Cheney's Key Vote |
| March 22 - War Voices: Daniel K. Inouye |
| March 22 - War Voices: John J. Duncan Jr. |
| March 22 - War Voices: John Shimkus |
| March 22 - War Voices: Stephen F. Lynch |
| March 22 - War Voices: Ted Stevens |
| March 22 - War Voices: Tim Johnson |
| March 22 - What's Ahead: Week of March 24 |
| March 29 - Editor's Notebook: Week to Week |
| March 29 - Effective House Leadership Makes the Most of Majority |
| March 29 - Former Sen. Moynihan Dies at 76; Colleagues Laud a Unique Voice |
| March 29 - Frist Says His Intention (nee Campaign Promise) Remains Set on Retirement After Two Terms |
| March 29 - House GOP's 'Stealth Whip' Knows the Power of Listening |
| March 29 - Moynihan Remembered in Legislation |
| March 29 - What's Ahead: Week of March 31 |
| April 5 - Editor's Notebook: War Powers |
| April 5 - Lawmakers Get in a Few Digs At Non-Allies in Iraq War |
| April 5 - What's Ahead: Week of April 7 |
| April 12 - Concessions to Moderates Imperil Early GOP Tax Cutting Accord |
| April 12 - Lieberman Ahead in Endorsement Race |
| April 12 - While Cubin's Words May Have Offended Millions, They Failed to Pass the House 'Unseemly' Test |
| April 19 - Editor's Notebook: Training Day |
| April 19 - GOP's Effectiveness Shows In Party Unity Votes |
| April 19 - House Ethics Committee Sets Sights on Regulations To Curtail Gift, Travel Abuses |
| April 19 - Influence-Packed Groups Score Big on the Hill |
| April 19 - Interest Groups Make Sure Lawmakers Know the 'Score' |
| April 19 - What Led to the GOP Leadership Rift |
| April 26 - Appropriators Set Conditions For Capitol Visitor Center Funds |
| April 26 - Kerry's Complex Record and His Pursuit of the Presidency |
| April 26 - Santorum Is Latest in Rash of GOP Officials To Defend Remarks Rather Than Apologize |
| April 26 - Why Democratic Hopefuls Covet Congressional Endorsements |
| May 3 - Less-Than-Hard Ruling on Soft Money Sets Off Race to Supreme Court |
| May 3 - Moore's Warning for GOP: 'We're Watching You All' |
| May 3 - What's Ahead: Week of May 5 |
| May 3 - White House Doors Open for Lee Despite Often-Adversarial Stance |
| May 10 - Combest Staff Is Beneficiary Of a Short-Timer's Generosity |
| May 10 - Editor's Notebook: Improv at the Capitol |
| May 10 - Memories of Senate 'War' Surface As Frist Contemplates Filibuster Changes |
| May 10 - Murky Campaign Finance Ruling Puts 'Soft Money' Raising on Hold |
| May 10 - What's Ahead: Week of May 12 |
| May 17 - Bid to Curb Nominee Filibusters Tests Limits of GOP Risk-Taking |
| May 17 - Bills Signed |
| May 17 - Edwards Has the Style, Seeks to Prove Substance |
| May 17 - Edwards' Inner Circle |
| May 17 - Edwards' Key Votes |
| May 17 - Louisiana's Russell Long Dies at 84; Populist Senate Finance Chairman Championed Medicare, Social Security |
| May 17 - Sen. John Reid Edwards of North Carolina |
| May 17 - Texas Legislators' Walkout an Act That Wouldn't Play in Washington |
| May 17 - What's Ahead: Week of May 19 |
| May 24 - Editor's Notebook: Making Connections |
| May 24 - Jeffords Defends His Positions |
| May 24 - Republicans Looking to Trim Waste May Find They Are on a Snipe Hunt |
| May 31 - Can Chairmen Bury Tax Feud to Work Together on Medicare? |
| May 31 - Cheney Casts Deciding Vote on Six Key Issues |
| May 31 - DeLay Unscathed Following Texas Redistricting Uproar |
| May 31 - Editor's Notebook: The Reader's Pact |
| May 31 - Gephardt's Inner Circle |
| May 31 - Gephardt's Key Votes |
| May 31 - Gephardt's Uneven History Left Behind for 2004 Run |
| May 31 - GOP Infighting: Not Fatal |
| May 31 - GOP Turns to Cheney To Get the Job Done |
| May 31 - Jeffords' 'I' Helps GOP Moderates Gain Senate Leadership's Ear |
| May 31 - Party Lines in Senate Clearest in Fifty Years |
| May 31 - What's Ahead: Week of June 2 |
| June 7 - Democrats Regenerating for Long Haul to a Majority |
| June 7 - Editor's Notebook: Watch Your Back |
| June 7 - For Most States -- and Voters -- Once-a-Decade Redistricting Is Fine |
| June 7 - GOP Scrambles to Limit Damage of Child Tax Credit Controversy |
| June 7 - Hill Support Grows for Museum Of African-American History |
| June 7 - Initiatives to Ensure Congress Carries On After a Catastrophe Get Cool Receptions |
| June 7 - Judicial Nominations Fight Moves to Senate Rules Panel as Frist Takes On the Filibuster |
| June 7 - New House Member: Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas 19) |
| June 7 - Newest West Texas Lawmaker Looks to Build Consensus, Keep 'Spirit of Ronald Reagan' |
| June 7 - What's Ahead: Week of June 9 |
| June 14 - Bush Drug Plan Leaves Democrats Nursing a Co-Opted Agenda |
| June 14 - Editor's Notebook: Chamber of Deals |
| June 14 - From a Small Senate Office, Some Big Democratic Talent |
| June 14 - How House Democrats Got Their Groove Back |
| June 14 - Legislative Branch: Modest Increase Likely For Security, Visitor Center |
| June 14 - What's Ahead: Week of June 16 |
| June 21 - 'Unfunded Mandates' Law Not on Hill's Front Burner |
| June 21 - A Celebrity Senator Moving to the Democratic Center |
| June 21 - Editor's Notebook: The All-American Deal |
| June 21 - Legislative Branch Bill Short-Funded |
| June 21 - McCain's 'Pork' Resolution Annoys Appropriations Chairman |
| June 21 - What's Ahead: Week of June 23 |
| June 21 - With DeLay Setting a Partisan Tone, House Stands Firm on Child Credit |
| June 28 - Being No. 1 in Both Chambers Is Rare for Congressional Bills |
| June 28 - Bob Stump, Best Known for Veterans Support, Mild Manner, Dies at 76 |
| June 28 - Capitol Police, Architect Put on Short Fiscal Rations In Legislative Branch Bill |
| June 28 - High Court Ruling on Internet Filters Acknowledges Power of the Purse |
| June 28 - James Strom Thurmond |
| June 28 - Lawmakers May Resume Capitol Dome Tours |
| June 28 - Recent History of HR 1 and S 1 |
| June 28 - Senators Uneasy With Proposal to Alter Filibuster Rule on Judicial Nominations |
| June 28 - Tributes to Longest-Serving Senator Laud Thurmond's Capacity to Change |
| July 5 - 'Thomas Machine' Extends Beyond California's 22nd District |
| July 5 - A Rough but Steady Hand at Helm of Ways and Means |
| July 5 - How Past Ways And Means Chairmen Made Their Mark |
| July 5 - Lieberman Keeps Moderation as His Democratic Byword |
| July 5 - Making Law Is Job No. 1 For California's Thomas |
| July 5 - Supreme Court to Review Charge of Gerrymandering In GOP Pennsylvania Remap |
| July 5 - What's in Store for Congress |
| July 12 - Combative Conference Expected After House, Senate Pass Disparate Legislative Branch Spending Bills |
| July 12 - Davis Wins Two, Loses One in Busy Week |
| July 12 - DeLay's Conservatism Solidifies GOP Base for Bush |
| July 12 - Despite Missteps, DeLay and Blunt Close Ranks, Stay Unified |
| July 12 - Editor's Notebook: Leader by Example |
| July 12 - House Revisits Capitol Slave Labor Issue |
| July 12 - In Texas Redistricting Game, DeLay Holds the High Cards |
| July 12 - Votes in the 108th So Far: Quantity Up, Quality Questionable |
| July 12 - What's Ahead: Week of July 14 |
| July 19 - Cardinals Are Politicians, Too |
| July 19 - Chairman Roberts Trades Pugnacity For Pragmatism in Intelligence Probe |
| July 19 - Editor's Notebook: The Indiana Parable |
| July 19 - Fracas in Ways and Means Overshadows Approval Of Pension Overhaul Measure |
| July 19 - Kucinich Strives to Beat The Unbeatable Foe |
| July 19 - Kucinich's Inner Circle |
| July 19 - Kucinich's Key Votes |
| July 19 - Nominee Pryor Becomes Secondary In Partisan Fight Over His Nomination |
| July 19 - Rep. Dennis John Kucinich of Ohio |
| July 19 - What's Ahead: Week of July 21 |
| July 26 - A Chairman's Apology |
| July 26 - Contrite Chairman Does Not Quell Calls for More GOP Comity |
| July 26 - Thomas Promises He Will Change, But How Remains to Be Seen |
| July 26 - What's Ahead: Week of July 28 |
| July 26 - Will Republicans Push the President To Wield Veto Against His Own Party? |
| August 2 - Democrats OK With Campaign Reality: 'Gephardt Has Left the Building' |
| August 2 - Editor's Notebook: The Week That Was |
| August 2 - Hill Clamors for Report's Full Release, Repairs to Declassifying Process |
| August 2 - Two Years Later, Lawmakers Still Adjusting to Role of Consoler |
| August 9 - Editor's Notebook: Hasta la Vista |
| August 9 - GOP Draws on Image of American Icon for 2004 |
| August 9 - Hollings' Retirement Continues Exodus of Southern Democrats |
| August 9 - Sen. Daniel Robert Graham of Florida |
| August 30 - After His Accident, Rep. Janklow Must Again Decide Political Future |
| August 30 - Can Deal-Making Survive Bush's Falling Numbers? |
| August 30 - Challenge to Campaign Finance Law Is Eleven Lawsuits in One |
| August 30 - Editor's Notebook: Mark Your Calendars |
| August 30 - Energy Inquiry Hobbled by White House |
| August 30 - Fall Agenda: Filibuster Rule Change |
| August 30 - John Rhodes, House GOP Leader Noted for Advising Nixon to Quit, Dies of Cancer at Age 86 |
| August 30 - Management by Objective: How Frist Deals in 51-49 Senate |
| August 30 - Same Bench, but McCain-Feingold Law Still Faces Uncertain Fate in High Court |
| August 30 - What's Ahead: Week of Sept. 1 |
| August 30 - What's in Store for Congress in 2003 |
| September 6 - Always Considered an Awkward Fit, Janklow's Future in Washington Remains Up in the Air |
| September 6 - Bills Signed |
| September 6 - Editor's Notebook: Doubts and Debts |
| September 6 - Linder Backs Change in E-Mail Rules, Warning Panel Not to 'Punish Everybody' |
| September 6 - Members Likely to Get Raises |
| September 6 - Texas GOP Outlasts Renegades, Prepares for New Congressional Map; Democrats Put Their Hope in Court |
| September 13 - Back and Forth in Court on Fundraising Rules |
| September 13 - Bipartisanship Rings Faintly on Sept. 11 |
| September 13 - Campaign Finance Law's Future Uncertain After Day in Court |
| September 13 - Editor's Notebook: The Job Machine |
| September 13 - Gingrich, Foley Urge Permanent Status for Homeland Panel |
| September 13 - Presidential Aspirations Have Democrats on Defensive in Southeast Senate Races |
| September 13 - Senate Hallway or Bust: Of VPs, Status and Statuary |
| September 13 - What's Ahead: Week of Sept. 15 |
| September 20 - Congress to Shut Down House Corrections Office |
| September 20 - Continuity Debate Continues |
| September 20 - Costly Capitol Visitor Center Survives In $3.5 Billion Conference Agreement On Legislative Branch Spending |
| September 20 - Editor's Notebook: Conference Calls |
| September 20 - Players in the Medicare Conference |
| September 20 - Stay Tuned: FCC Deregulation Temporarily Thwarted By Dorgan Amendment, Senate |
| September 20 - What's Ahead: Week of Sept. 22 |
| September 27 - Caucuses Bring New Muscle to Legislative Battlefield |
| September 27 - Chances of Veto-Less Term for Bush Dim as Feistiness Grows on Hill |
| September 27 - Congress Clears Bill to Fund Itself, Includes Cuts for Police, Architect |
| September 27 - Congressional Caucuses, A to Z |
| September 27 - Editor's Notebook: High Anxiety |
| September 27 - Republican Study Committee Revels in Conservative Clout |
| September 27 - Search Is On for Filched Antiquities In Move to Buy Back Senate History |
| September 27 - Surge in International Caucuses Changing Free-Trade Debate |
| September 27 - What's Ahead: Week of Sept. 29 |
| October 4 - Editor's Notebook: Sources of Capital |
| October 4 - Lawmakers Disregard Bush Criticism Regarding 'Technical Corrections' |
| October 4 - New Tensions Test the Limits Of Bush's Sway in Congress |
| October 4 - Recent Congressional Rejections of Bush Policy |
| October 4 - Senate Democrats Boycott Vote on Leavitt for EPA To Protest Bush Policies |
| October 4 - Tough Question in Capitol Shooting Case: Is It Fair to Try the Temporarily Sane? |
| October 4 - What's Ahead: Week of Oct. 6 |
| October 11 - Dreier to Moonlight as Go-To Guy On Schwarzenegger's Transition Team |
| October 11 - For Grassley, the Devil Is in the Detailees |
| October 11 - Homeland Security Chairman Proposes First-Responder Bill In First Big Test for Committee |
| October 11 - Texas Completes Unusual Redistricting and Readies for GOP Stampede Next Year |
| October 11 - What's Ahead: Week of Oct. 13 |
| October 18 - Editor's Notebook: Beating the Clock |
| October 18 - GOP Banks on Disputed Texas Remap To Deliver Workable House Majority |
| October 18 - GOP Pushing to Quench Public's Thirst for Action |
| October 18 - Moving Deadlines |
| October 18 - What's Ahead: Week of Oct. 20 |
| October 25 - Bills Signed |
| October 25 - CBO Accustomed to Pressure |
| October 25 - Endorsing Their Raises Is Now What Senate Candidates Do |
| October 25 - The Strength of These Women Shows in Their Numbers |
| October 25 - Toothless 'Motion to Instruct' Conferees Gives House GOP a Little Rebel Room |
| October 25 - What's Ahead: Week of Oct. 27 |
| November 1 - Congress Weighs Pros, Cons Of the 'Omnibus' Approach |
| November 1 - CRS Reports Get De-Linked From Pilot Program |
| November 1 - What's Ahead: Week of Nov. 3 |
| November 8 - Editor's Notebook: Politics of Last Resort |
| November 8 - Fletcher's Move to Kentucky Statehouse Leaves Voters Few Options in 6th District |
| November 8 - GOP Corporate Tax Bill Hits Intra-Party Hurdle |
| November 8 - Graham's Exit Saddles Democrats With Open-Seat Fight in Florida |
| November 8 - Maneuvering to Pass Drug Bill May Leave Everyone Unhappy |
| November 8 - Party Unity Votes Show 'Mavericks' Stay With Herd |
| November 8 - Senate GOP Risks Backlash With 30-Hour 'Talkathon ' On Judicial Nominees |
| November 8 - The Might of the Right |
| November 8 - What's Ahead: Week of Nov. 10 |
| November 15 - A GOP-Redefined Filibuster Raises Questions, Stirs Debate |
| November 15 - CQ's Cochran Wins Dirksen Award |
| November 15 - Editor's Notebook: Congress Unfiltered |
| November 15 - Frist Sheds Low-Key Style For High-Octane Finish |
| November 15 - From the Editor |
| November 15 - Judicial War Far From Over |
| November 15 - Representatives' Key Votes |
| November 15 - Senate Takes Page From P.T. Barnum, With Santorum in Center Ring |
| November 15 - Senators' Key Votes |
| November 15 - Strategies on Judicial Nominations for 2004 |
| November 15 - Talkathon a Practice for 2004 |
| November 15 - What's Ahead: Week of Nov. 17 |
| November 22 - Breaux Stands to Finish on Top Whatever His Career Plans |
| November 22 - GOP Squabbling Nearly Derails Year-Ending Omnibus Bill |
| November 22 - What's Ahead: Week of Nov. 24 |
| November 22 - White House Budget Director Bolten Earns Hill Kudos for Low-Key Style |
| November 29 - Editor's Notebook: What Counts |
| November 29 - Feud With Democrats Over Judges Keeps Frist's Cloture Score Down |
| November 29 - Hatch Aide Put on Administrative Leave Following Leaked Democratic Memo |
| November 29 - Late-Night Medicare Vote Drama Triggers Some Unexpected Alliances |
| November 29 - Long Back-and-Forth House Vote Ran Afoul of Democrats, not Rules |
| November 29 - Pelosi Puts Leadership on the Line With Drive to Unify Democrats |
| December 6 - Islamic Group Sues Rep. Ballenger For His Remarks About Terrorism |
| December 6 - Janklow Trial's Outcome Piques Interest of Political Hopefuls |
| December 6 - Remember How He Got the Job? Majority Leader Plans Civil Rights Tour |
| December 6 - Senators Might Take Judges Case to Court |
| December 6 - What's Ahead: Week of Dec. 8 |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Continuity of Congress |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Filibuster Rule |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Highlights |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
| December 13 - Democrats Still Upbeat Despite Losses on Big Bills |
| December 13 - Ethics Panel Mulls Smith Case |
| December 13 - Former Sen. Paul Simon Remembered for Integrity, Inspiration to Others |
| December 13 - GOP Hones 'Can Do' Pitch To Party Base, Swing Voters |
| December 13 - Janklow to Resign in January After Manslaughter Conviction; Special Election Set for June |
| December 13 - Legislative Legacy of 2003: Congress Hands Bush Big Wins |
| December 13 - Senators Pack a Sharper Edge |
