January 3 - A Sweeping Social Agenda for Muscle-Flexing Majority |
January 3 - A Sweeping Social Agenda for Muscle-Flexing Majority |
January 3 - Bills Signed |
January 3 - Editor's Notebook: Table Stakes |
January 3 - Editor's Notebook: Table Stakes |
January 3 - House Homeland Chief Seeks Jurisdiction Over TSA, Permanent Status for Panel |
January 3 - House Homeland Chief Seeks Jurisdiction Over TSA, Permanent Status for Panel |
January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Legal Affairs |
January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Legal Affairs |
January 3 - Wanted: Solidly Free-Trade Democrat |
January 3 - Wanted: Solidly Free-Trade Democrat |
January 3 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 5 |
January 10 - Boxer's Short-Lived Rebellion Highlights Electoral Irregularities, Irritates Republicans |
January 10 - Buyer's Insertion Into Panel Chair Doesn't Sit Well With Veterans |
January 10 - California's Matsui Dies at 63; Speculation Centers on Widow for March All-Party Primary |
January 10 - Conservative Majority, Liberals in Dissent |
January 10 - Discordant Voices Need Not Apply as Bush Builds Harmonious Cabinet |
January 10 - Editor's Notebook: Push Me-Pull You |
January 10 - Fiercest Fight in Partisan War May Be Over Supreme Court |
January 10 - Former Rep. Shirley Chisholm Remembered for Opening Doors For Minorities and Women |
January 10 - In 109th, Less Means More on Quorums |
January 10 - Lewis Is Nobody's 'Yes Man' |
January 10 - Lewis Wins Favor of GOP Leaders -- and Coveted Appropriations Chair |
January 10 - No Pat on the Back for GOP As Intraparty Issues Dominate |
January 10 - Parliamentary Toolbox Full of Options To Renovate Filibuster Rules |
January 10 - Senate Sets Panel Budgets |
January 10 - Some Potential Supreme Court Nominees |
January 10 - Wasting Little Time, Freshman Leaps to Support Gonzales |
January 10 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 12 |
January 10 - Who Will Be at the Center of Any Supreme Court Nominations Fight? |
January 17 - Bills Signed |
January 17 - Chairman Emanuel's Committee Power Play |
January 17 - Dependable Bush Supporters Hang Back on Social Security |
January 17 - DNC Chief Hopefuls Dial '527' |
January 17 - Editor's Notebook: Wider Angle, Same Focus |
January 17 - GOP's Tough Talk on Deficit Up Against Costly Realities |
January 17 - Social Security: Players in Position |
January 17 - Views of Senate GOP, Bush Threaten Tighter Immigration |
January 17 - Will She or Won't She? Clinton Faces Choice on Nemesis Chertoff |
January 24 - 2005 Senate Committee Assignments |
January 24 - Client of the Month Club: Welsh Liberation Movement |
January 24 - Democrats Exercise Rule to Delay Gonzales Vote |
January 24 - Editor's Notebook: Opening Day |
January 24 - Newt: Hot or Not? |
January 24 - Schwarzenegger's D.C. Muscle Men |
January 31 - A Touch of Gray on Capitol Hill |
January 31 - Castle Continues Coin Quest With Bill |
January 31 - Editor's Notebook: Fact Finding |
January 31 - Rep. Moore's Court Date With Her Son |
February 7 - Bolder Party Lines for GOP Ethics Roster |
February 7 - Bush's State of the Union Address |
February 7 - Bush's To-Do List for Hill |
February 7 - Chambers Spar Over Spending Panels |
February 7 - Democrats' State of the Union Response |
February 7 - Editor's Notebook: Annual Report |
February 7 - Five Questions for Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo. |
February 7 - Frist Meets Former Patient in Iraq |
February 7 - Is Berger Off the Investigative Hook? |
February 7 - Ol' Blue Eyes: State of the Union Brings DeLay to Tears |
February 14 - Bush Budget: Legislative Branch |
February 14 - Editor's Notebook: Self-Appointed |
February 14 - Homeland Shifts Help Cox |
February 14 - Indexing Plan Touted As Saving 'Safety Net' |
February 14 - Lindsey Graham Biographical Information |
February 14 - Reid Has Inside Line to Senate Democrats |
February 14 - Sen. Reid to Business: Let's Do Some Deals |
February 14 - Senators Sit Out Appropriations Shuffle |
February 14 - Short and Sweet: Senate Frosh Master The Art of Brevity |
February 14 - South Carolina's Graham Stirs 'Solution Mix' |
February 21 - Biography of John D. Negroponte |
February 21 - Editor's Notebook: Panic Buttons |
February 21 - House Continuity Measure Gets Committee Approval |
February 21 - House Ethics Committee Shakeup Filters Down to the Staff Level |
February 21 - Negroponte Pick Praised |
February 21 - Specter Diagnosed With Hodgkin's, Vows to Stick to Judiciary Agenda |
February 21 - Stalemate Over Appropriations Panels Only Delays House-Senate Battle |
February 21 - The Hidden Costs of Being a Senator |
February 28 - Editor's Notebook: Defense Beat |
February 28 - Extreme Makeover: Ways & Means Edition |
February 28 - Manufacturers' Lobby Savors New Visibility |
February 28 - Treasury Vacancies Used as Leverage in Dispute Over Exports to Cuba |
March 7 - A Nip and Tuck Revives Spending Process |
March 7 - Client of the Month Club: Humble Bumbles |
March 7 - Editor's Notebook: Keeping Faith |
March 7 - House Passes Continuity Bill |
March 14 - Byrd Worries Congress Accidentally Gave Bush War Powers |
March 14 - Conduct Unbecoming in the House? |
March 14 - Doris Matsui |
March 14 - Editor's Notebook: Business Angle |
March 14 - Maryland's Sen. Sarbanes to Step Down |
March 14 - Political Class: The Real Meaning of 'BTUed' |
March 21 - At a Glance: Michael V. Hayden |
March 21 - Craig Crawford's 1600: The First Frist Primary |
March 21 - Daschle One of Few From His Senate Office to Land on K Street |
March 21 - Ethics Panel Still Stuck |
March 21 - GOP Quick to Tread Shaky New Ground |
March 21 - Lawmakers Vote to Give Gold Medal To First Sept. 11 Emergency Worker |
March 21 - Ohio Rep. Portman Picked for Trade Czar |
March 21 - Play Ball! Most Nationals Tickets Below Congressional Gift Threshold |
March 21 - Welcome to Democracy: Meet a Lobbyist |
March 28 - Editor's Notebook: Hard Right |
March 28 - Political Class: The Real Meaning of 'Some have said . . .' |
March 28 - Political Commentary: DeLay Under the Spotlight |
March 28 - Ringling Brothers in Washington: Elephants, Clowns, and Lobbyists |
March 28 - This Week: March 28-April 1 |
April 4 - A 'Superstar' Negotiator Takes Hill for President |
April 4 - A Team With Capitol and Lobbying Ties |
April 4 - Editor's Notebook: Open Window |
April 4 - Encouraging More Savings |
April 4 - Law Clears Way for House Clerk to Purge Old Documents |
April 4 - Political Economy: Follow the Money |
April 4 - Rhetoric Check: Bringing It On |
April 4 - Signs of Stress Showing In DeLay's Support Base |
April 4 - Social Security's Twofold Problem |
April 4 - When House Members Stumble |
April 11 - Editor's Notebook: Drug Therapy |
April 11 - Inside the Tom DeLay Alumni Association |
April 11 - Seniority, Loyalty And Political Needs Shape Makeup of Committees |
April 18 - DeLay Urged to Mount Public Defense |
April 18 - Editor's Notebook: Wired Nation |
April 18 - For DeLay, Shades of Wright and Gingrich? |
April 18 - Grading the Senate Freshmen |
April 18 - Political Economy: Dealing With Castro |
April 18 - The Players' Club: Which Former House and Senate Members Really Rule K Street |
April 25 - Congress in Transition |
April 25 - Congressional Soundbites |
April 25 - DeLay Investigation, New Ethics Rules Disrupt Panel |
April 25 - DeLay's Travels Top Other Leaders |
April 25 - Editor's Notebook: Fly Trap |
April 25 - House Leaders' Subsidized Travel |
April 25 - Jeffords and Hyde Enter, Exit Together |
April 25 - Linda Bond: Fundraising Dynamo |
April 25 - Political Class: The Real Meaning of 'Reasonable' |
April 25 - Resolution Would Limit Money Spent on Committee Mailings |
April 25 - Take the Embattled Leaders Test |
April 25 - Travel By Hill Aides Outpaces Their Bosses |
May 2 - 'Slippery Slope' Theorists Say End of Judicial Filibusters Could Be Start of Big Changes |
May 2 - Editor's Notebook: Foreign Focus |
May 2 - House Ethics: Republicans Blink |
May 2 - Key Dates for House Ethics |
May 2 - Lobbyists Enlisted to Whip the House |
May 2 - Portman Confirmed for Trade Post After Bayh Drops His Hold |
May 2 - Putting in Motion the 'Nuclear Option' |
May 2 - Senate Inches Ever Closer to Filibuster Showdown |
May 2 - The Top Lobbyist Whips |
May 2 - War of Words: Democrats Object to Abortion Report Language |
May 2 - Will Changes to the Players' Lineup Bring Success? |
May 9 - A Harsh Spotlight On Hill Travel |
May 9 - Bill Thomas' Many Faces |
May 9 - California Dairy Farmer Chosen to Fill Portman's Seat on Ways & Means |
May 9 - Don Young's Political Fishing Expedition |
May 9 - Editor's Notebook: Gambler's Itch |
May 9 - Essay: Senate and Sensibility |
May 9 - House Ethics Panel Opens for Business |
May 9 - Legislative Branch Appropriations: Capitol Center Complaints Persist |
May 9 - Report Language Revised |
May 9 - The APCO-Institute Interplay |
May 9 - Top Travel Sponsors |
May 16 - Democrats Take the Fight To DeLay's Home Turf |
May 16 - Editor's Notebook: One-Way Street |
May 16 - Frist Has No Room To Move |
May 16 - Key Votes on the Floor Regarding Bolton Nomination |
May 16 - Lott Is the Deal Seeker on Filibusters |
May 16 - Nonprofit Honoring Leahy's Hired Help |
May 16 - Political Commentary: Some Democrats May Fall to Friendly Fire on Travel Issue |
May 16 - Tribes Still Betting on K Street |
May 23 - A Parliamentary Puzzle |
May 23 - Driving Force on Ethics Keeps Both Sides in Line |
May 23 - Editor's Notebook: Costs of Survival |
May 23 - Maybe the Good Ol' Days Weren't |
May 23 - Rhetoric Check: Going Over the Line |
May 23 - The Ethics Committee's Other Democrats |
May 23 - The Senate's Point of No Return |
May 23 - This Week's Soundbites |
May 30 - Centrists Strike Back In Senate |
May 30 - Commemorative Crackdown: You Say You Want a Resolution? |
May 30 - Deconstructing the Judges Deal |
May 30 - DeLay Associates Violated PAC Law, Texas Court Rules |
May 30 - Editor's Notebook: Profile in Control |
May 30 - Frist Down, Not Out |
May 30 - Harvard Claims Most Grads in Congress |
May 30 - Senate Races Against the Nuclear Clock on Judges |
June 6 - A Moral Calling For a Liberal D.A. |
June 6 - Despite Filibuster Deal, NRSC Sends 'RINOs' Dough |
June 6 - Editor's Notebook: Reap the Wind |
June 6 - Hastert Urged to Junk Junkets, Tell Trip-Takers 'Just the Facts' |
June 6 - Media: Everyone's a Critic |
June 6 - Texas Fundraising Case Big Dice Roll for DeLay |
June 6 - Who Will Replace Cox? Placing Bets on Likely Successors |
June 13 - Editor's Notebook: Bully Pulpit |
June 13 - Look Who's Talking -- Well, Sort Of |
June 13 - Pressing Against a Security 'Balloon' |
June 13 - Senate Confirms Bush Nominees |
June 13 - Some Sources Are More Top Secret Than Others |
June 13 - Wal-Mart Goes Lobby Shopping |
June 20 - Editor's Notebook: Report Card |
June 20 - Funds for Visitor Center, GAO, Horse Patrol Put on Waivers |
June 20 - House Democrats Lose in Effort to Rebuke Sensenbrenner Over Hearing on Patriot Act |
June 20 - House Puts Continuity Bill Language In Legislative Branch Spending Measure |
June 20 - Transportation Lobbyist Susan Perry Moonlights as Nationals Usher |
June 27 - About CQ's Study of District Demographics |
June 27 - Congress Sends Clear Message on Visitor Center Overruns |
June 27 - Durbin Takes to Floor to Apologize for Referring to Nazis in Speech |
June 27 - Editor's Notebook: Not Just Talk |
June 27 - Fur Flies on the Hill Over Pet Detection Standards |
June 27 - Meth and the Salesmen: Retailers, Congress Spar Over Plans to Restrict Drug Sales |
June 27 - Mixed Districts More Than the Sum of Their Parts |
June 27 - New Jack City: How Shamelessly on the Make Was Gaming Lobbyist Abramoff? |
June 27 - Terrorism Insurance Law Reauthorization Pits GOP Against Business |
June 27 - Two Years Later Congress Brokers Deal to Regulate Junk Faxing |
July 4 - Advise, or Relent? |
July 4 - COLA on Ice? Not in This House |
July 4 - Cunningham Might Be in a Shipload of Trouble |
July 4 - Editor's Notebook: Collision Course |
July 4 - House GOP Capitulates Again on Ethics |
July 4 - Long March of the Ninth Circuit Breakers |
July 4 - Nomination Battle Lines Harden |
July 11 - Color-Coding the CAFTA Vote |
July 11 - Dick Durbin's Tube Solution |
July 11 - Editor's Notebook: Paris on the Potomac |
July 11 - Five Questions for Brian Reardon, Partner, Venn Strategies |
July 11 - Fred Thompson's Supreme Balancing Act |
July 11 - Nerves Are Raw On House Judiciary |
July 11 - Self-Policing Lawmakers Resist Calls for Change on Ethics |
July 11 - The New Kids On K Street |
July 11 - Top Issues for Foreign Companies |
July 11 - U.S. Lobbying Firms Go Global |
July 18 - Congress in Transition |
July 18 - Congress May Muffle Prescription Drugs Sales Pitches |
July 18 - Cunningham Bows Out Amid Allegations |
July 18 - Democrats Look to Make GOP Ethics a Campaign Theme |
July 18 - Editor's Notebook: The Sound of Silence |
July 18 - Federal Interagency Body Could Block Unocal Sale |
July 18 - Hearings, Not Ads, Spell Fate of Court Nominees |
July 18 - More Advice, or More Consent? |
July 18 - Tom Cruise's Anti-Psychiatry Crusade Triggers Scientology-Affiliated Lobbying Drive |
July 18 - Trail to Social Security Overhaul Gets Murkier |
July 25 - Blaming the Messenger: Has Stuart Bowen Inspected Himself Out of a Job In Iraq? |
July 25 - Democrats' Scrutiny for Roberts |
July 25 - Editor's Notebook: Topic A |
July 25 - How a Granddaughter of Tip O'Neill Worked Her Way to the House Floor |
July 25 - New Items Crowd Out Old in Fall Agenda |
July 25 - Religious Broadcasters vs. Religious Families? |
July 25 - Revisiting the Rules of the Lobbying Game |
July 25 - The New Politics of Pension Plans |
August 1 - Advocacy Groups Wary of Roberts' Views |
August 1 - China's Top-Tier Lobbying Campaign |
August 1 - Congress Plans for Catastrophe, Measure Born in Wake of Sept. 11 |
August 1 - Could Rick Santorum's Book Sabotage His Re-election Bid? |
August 1 - Dianne Feinstein's Roberts Dilemma |
August 1 - Legislation Would Move Chertoff Up in Line of Succession to Presidency |
August 1 - Media: Blogs and Ideologues |
August 1 - Political Economy: Breather Lessons |
August 1 - Private Eyes Try Getting Tough on Congress |
August 1 - Senate Clears More Funds For Capitol Visitor Center |
August 8 - Banking on Terror? |
August 8 - Grumpy Old Men Target DeLay |
August 8 - Industry Aims to Break Up 'Big House Inc.' |
August 8 - It's Schmidt in September for Ohio's 2nd District |
August 8 - New Member Bio: Jean Schmidt |
August 8 - Real Estate Racks Up Victories in Congress |
August 8 - Recess Appointments by Bush |
August 15 - Charlie Wilson's Movie Deal |
August 15 - In the Energy Bill It's Texas Fold 'Em for Enron |
September 5 - Editor's Notebook: Disaster Management |
September 5 - Insurance Groups Take Exception to Estate Tax Repeal |
September 5 - Spending Bills, Roberts' Nomination and Now Disaster Relief Crowd an Already Tight Schedule |
September 5 - Ten Most Costly U.S. Catastrophes |
September 5 - Will Republicans Pay Political Price for a Confluence of Calamity? |
September 12 - Editor's Notebook: Oil Bath |
September 12 - New Orleans Flood Bumps Up Bottom Line on Food Stamps |
September 12 - Partisan Finger-Pointing Over Katrina |
September 12 - Revamped Agenda Focuses on Relief |
September 12 - This Year, Sept. 11 Anniversary Resolution Passes With Little Fanfare, Debate |
September 12 - WTO Case Overtakes Bettors in Home Stretch |
September 19 - A Battleship Gets Conscripted into the Culture Wars |
September 19 - Editor's Notebook: From the Ground Up |
September 19 - Phase Two of Katrina: Rebuild |
September 19 - Roberts Opens With 'No Agenda' |
September 19 - Signing Statements Add Weight to Presidential Pen |
September 26 - Conservatives Challenge Rebuild of Gulf Coast |
September 26 - Fiscal Disunity Plagues the GOP |
September 26 - Frist's Stock Sale Gets a Look From U.S. Attorney and SEC |
September 26 - The Deficit's Hard Truths |
October 3 - A Familiar Road for Former Leader |
October 3 - Blunt's 'Low-Key' Leadership Style |
October 3 - Damage Control by Frist After HCA Sale |
October 3 - Debacles, DeLay and Disarray |
October 3 - DeLay Charges Stem From Three-Year Probe |
October 3 - Does DeLay Issue Mean Lone Stars' Slippage? |
October 3 - Panel Sticks to Rule That Serving in the Senate Is a Full-Time Job |
October 3 - Political Commentary: Are Ethics Enough to Get Democrats in Power? |
October 3 - Scrambling to Fill DeLay's Major Shoes |
October 3 - The Jack Factor: Abramoff Could Be DeLay's Next Challenge |
October 3 - The Slow Decline of a GOP 'Godfather' |
October 10 - Craig Crawford's 1600: The Post-Bush Party |
October 10 - Defining Moment Awaits Court Pick |
October 10 - DeGuerin: Lawyer for 'The Hammer' |
October 10 - John D. Dingell's House of Memories |
October 10 - Miers-Casey Conundrum: Santorum Weighs Vote Against Re-Election Hopes |
October 10 - Owens' 'New School' Proposal Sparks Feud Among Black Colleges |
October 10 - When Majority Leaders Attack |
October 17 - Daniel R. Coats' Call to Arms |
October 17 - HCA Inc.: A Hospital Chain's Quest for Pull |
October 17 - Helping Business Break 'Patriot' Ranks |
October 17 - Panel Staff Aims to Demystify Miers |
October 17 - This Week: Week of Oct. 17-21 |
October 24 - Behind DeLay's Feisty Pose, a Fight for Survival |
October 24 - Conflict Arises Over Freezing Pay Increase for Lawmakers |
October 24 - Five Questions for Alan Davidson, Washington Policy Counsel, Google Inc. |
October 24 - George Felix Allen Biographical Information |
October 31 - A Steep, Uncertain Road to Second Term Recovery for Bush |
October 31 - After Rare Decision to Break Tradition, Rosa Parks to Lie in Repose in Rotunda |
October 31 - Budget Rebels Step Into the Gap |
October 31 - Editor's Notebook: Power Vacuum |
October 31 - GOP of Three Minds on Next Social Security Step |
October 31 - GOP's Three Social Security Camps |
October 31 - Mike Pence's World of Absolutes and Ambition |
October 31 - The Republican Study Committee's Six Checkpoints for Legislation |
November 7 - Departures Lead to Congress in Transition |
November 7 - Dueling Priests: Musical Judges for DeLay |
November 7 - Editor's Notebook: Rules of the Game |
November 7 - Fall in New England: How Blue? |
November 7 - House Banking Chairman Bowing Out |
November 7 - Ney Documents Are Subject of Subpoena In U.S. Investigation of Abramoff |
November 7 - Senate Lights Go Down, Tempers Go Up |
November 7 - Wal-Mart's Standing Behind Its Interests |
November 14 - 'B-1' Dorgan Takes Aim With Abortion Bill |
November 14 - Blogs Bulk Up in Beltway |
November 14 - Flu Fuels Humane Society's 'Bird's Eye View' Agenda |
November 14 - From the Capitol to the Statehouse |
November 14 - House Panel to Probe CIA-Related Leaks, Leaving Prewar Investigation to Senate |
November 21 - CBO Chief to Leave at Year's End, His Job Filled by Deputy for Now |
November 21 - Club for Growth Targets the Embattled Center |
November 21 - Congress Un-Earmarks Alaska's Bridge of Sighs |
November 21 - Sen. Coburn Fails to Win Enough Support to Practice Medicine for Pay |
November 21 - Senate Ethics Clears Shelby in Classified Information Leak Probe |
November 28 - Democratic Minority Seeks Its Manifesto |
November 28 - Editor's Notebook: Back to the Future |
November 28 - If DeLay Case Goes to Trial, It Won't Be Before January, Texas Judge Says |
November 28 - Precedent Heeded, But Not Revered on High Court |
November 28 - Scanlon Plea Reflects Badly on the Hill |
November 28 - The Cross-Dressing Campaign |
November 28 - The New Politics of Capitol Infotainment |
December 5 - 'Holiday' on Ice |
December 5 - Cape Wind Fear: Project Gets Senate's Full Attention |
December 5 - Cunningham Admits Taking Bribes, Quits |
December 5 - From Congress to Confinement |
December 5 - Israel's Phone Initiative |
December 5 - Kolbe News Sets Up Arizona Race |
December 5 - The Lobbying Vanguard |
December 12 - Campbell Holds California Seat for GOP |
December 12 - Campbell's Biographical Data |
December 12 - Client of the Month Club: Medialink Worldwide Inc. |
December 12 - DeLay's Legal, Political Fates Entwined |
December 12 - GOP's Ethics Homework |
December 12 - Judge Takes a Shot at Gun Suit Ban |
December 12 - Menendez's Biographical Information |
December 12 - Photo Essay: The Local Roots of a Washington Player |
December 12 - Rep. Menendez Tapped for Senate Seat |
December 12 - Then and Now in Congressional Directory |
December 26 - Bills Signed |
December 26 - Former Wisconsin Sen. Proxmire, Iconoclast and Critic, Dies at 90 |
December 26 - High Court Reviewing Texas' House Map |
December 26 - Pushback Grows Over Bush and War |
December 26 - The Funding Perils of a Low Profile |
December 26 - What's at Issue in Texas Remap Challenge |