January 4 - Since the War Vote |
January 4 - Vote Against War Losing Its Punch |
January 4 - With Saddam Still in Power, Hill Ponders Next Step |
January 11 - DEFENSE SPENDING: As Bush Budget Nears Release, Lawmakers Dig In for Fight |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- Annual Business 1992 Budget: What To Do With the Peace Dividend |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- Annual Business The Defense Budget: A Pre-Emptive Strike? |
January 25 - DEFENSE: Bush Expected To Cut Back On Warheads, New Weapons |
January 25 - DEFENSE: Members Lobby Hard To Protect Endangered Submarine Project |
January 25 - How Pentagon Spending Grew |
January 25 - SECTION NOTE: Moscow Questioned POWs, KGB Veteran Insists |
January 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Seeks $645 Million for Ex-Soviet States |
January 25 - The Disappearing Dividend |
February 1 - Discretionary Caps (chart) |
February 1 - Economic Reality May Limit Hill's Urge To Outcut Bush |
February 1 - President Bush's Budget Takes Aim |
February 8 - Defense Budget Authority* (chart) |
February 8 - DEFENSE: Aspin, Cheney Spar Face-To-Face But Stay Far Apart on Budget |
February 8 - INTELLIGENCE: Chairmen Boren, McCurdy Urge Leaner, Revamped Operations |
February 8 - The Push To Scrap an Arsenal |
February 15 - DEFENSE BUDGET: Aspin Plan Backs Arms Production |
February 15 - FOREIGN POLICY: Regional Flash Points Demand Attention of Lawmakers |
February 15 - MILITARY PERSONNEL: Bush's Europe Troop Plan Faces Some Paring, Lawmakers Say |
February 22 - Armed Services Panels Begin To Ponder Spending Plans |
February 22 - Foreign Relations Moves Ahead On Question-Riddled START |
February 22 - INTELLIGENCE: Plans Aimed at More Efficiency May Cut Quality, Panel Told |
February 22 - SECTION NOTES: Committee OKs Refuge at Rocky Mountain Arsenal |
February 29 - Aspin v. Bush (chart) |
February 29 - DEFENSE BUDGET: Move To Cut Pentagon Spending Falls Short of Critics' Goal |
February 29 - INTELLIGENCE: Gates Tells of Enduring Threats To U.S., World Security |
February 29 - INTELLIGENCE: Report Traces Byrd's Influence On CIA's Choice of His State |
February 29 - Planning the Nation's Defense |
March 7 - Cleanup at Bases Slated To Close Will Take Its Toll in Money and Time |
March 7 - Cost of Closing (chart) |
March 7 - Hill Struggles To Assist Victims Of Post-Cold War Budget Cuts |
March 7 - INTELLIGENCE: Hearings Yield No Clear Path On the Road to Change |
March 7 - Lawmakers Look for Silver Lining Under Cloud of Closures |
March 7 - MILITARY PERSONNEL: Army's Cutback Procedures Win Unexpected Support |
March 7 - Nunn's Military Proposal |
March 7 - What To Do With Defense Savings? |
March 14 - SECTION NOTES: Members Chide Pentagon Over Draft Report |
March 14 - SECTION NOTES: Nunn Opposes Deeper Cuts In Defense Budget |
March 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bush Attacks Defense 'Pork,' Wants Add-Ons Removed |
March 21 - Hill Angry Again Over Iraq's Off-and-On Arms Compliance |
March 21 - The Seawolf's Ups and Downs |
March 28 - DEFENSE: Nunn Breaks From Democrats In Backing Bush's Request |
March 28 - Democrats Falter in Drive To Claim Peace Dividend |
March 28 - FOREIGN AID: Members Look to Bush To Lead On Aid to Ex-Soviet Republics |
March 28 - MILITARY PERSONNEL: Cheney Proposes Breaking Up 830 Guard, Reserve Units |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Cheney Spurns Legislation To Revamp Intelligence |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Hamilton Cites Sales Of Arms to Mideast |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Members Seek To Toughen Sanctions on Cuba |
March 28 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Time Running Out On Foreign Aid |
April 4 - Foreign Operations Appropriations (chart) |
April 11 - Nunn Assails Bush's Request For Space-Based Weapons |
April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Measure To Curb Nuclear Arms |
April 11 - Senate Yields to President On Size of Defense Cuts |
April 25 - Nuclear Weapons Complex Braces For Overhaul |
May 2 - Aspin Likely To Target Aircraft Sought by Navy, Air Force |
May 2 - Deciding the B-2's Fate |
May 2 - FOREIGN AID: Panels Moving To Help Ex-Soviets, But Domestic Concerns Linger |
May 2 - POWS: Open Doors but Little Evidence Greet Senators in Vietnam |
May 2 - SECTION NOTES: Watkins Threatens Layoffs At Carlsbad Waste Site |
May 2 - The Next Generation |
May 2 - Thurmond Nudging Out Warner For Top Armed Services Spot |
May 9 - House Panel To Put Its Stamp On SDI, B-2, Navy Aircraft |
May 9 - THE BUDGET: Defense-Foreign Aid Tradeoff Key to Conferees' Dealings |
May 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Spending Dispute Stalls Rescissions Bill |
May 16 - Armed Services' Imprint (chart) |
May 16 - Aspin Urges Shifting $7 Billion From Pentagon to Cities |
May 16 - Foreign Aid's Maze |
May 16 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Senate Panel, With Baker's Help, Approves Aid to Former Soviets |
May 16 - INTELLIGENCE: Bill To Cut Spending Gets OK; Agency Reshuffle Left Out |
May 16 - Support for Foreign Aid Wilting Under Glare of Domestic Woes |
May 16 - VETERANS: Health Bill Clears; Workers' Bill, Too |
May 16 - Where U.S. Aid Has Gone |
May 23 - DEFENSE: House Backs Sale Of Cobalt |
May 23 - Democrats Aim To Reignite Iraqi Aid Controversy |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Defense Cutback Panel Gets Panel's OK |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Back Weinberger In Iran-Contra Probe |
May 23 - Senate, House Look for Ways To Cushion Spending Drop |
May 23 - STRATEGIC WEAPONS: Anti-Missile Coalition Is Divided On Space vs. Ground Defense |
May 30 - Aspin Wants $274 Billion, $3 Billion Below Cap |
May 30 - Lessons Learned |
May 30 - POSTWAR IRAQ: Feuding Escalated By Documents |
May 30 - SECTION NOTES: Expanded Veterans' Benefits Approved by House Panel |
May 30 - WHAT'S AHEAD: House To Take Up Defense Measure |
June 6 - A Long and Winding Probe |
June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy Panel's Austere Budget Cuts Collider by $166 Million |
June 6 - Bipartisan Alliance Leaves Mark On Pentagon Spending Bill |
June 6 - Burden-Sharing Wins Support |
June 6 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: House Panel Moves To Tighten Economic Sanctions on Cuba |
June 6 - FOREIGN AID: Senate May Not Act on Funds Before Yeltsin Pays a Visit |
June 6 - Of Documents and Doctoring |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Merchant Marine Panel OKs Two Spending Bills |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Pell Urges Action In Yugoslavia |
June 13 - Defending Serbia |
June 13 - Paying Peacekeepers |
June 13 - SECTION NOTES: Military Construction Bill Would Help Close Bases |
June 13 - Senators Broach Using Military To Quiet Bosnia-Herzegovina |
June 13 - U.S. Security Aid (chart) |
June 20 - 'There Will Be No More Lies,' Yeltsin Vows to the Nation |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Base Closures Get Big Boost In Military Spending Bill |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Throws Down Gauntlet On Navy Funding Choices |
June 20 - Bush, Yeltsin Emerge From Cold War With a Smile and An Arms Agreement |
June 20 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
June 20 - JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Yeltsin Announce Accord On Speeding Arms Reductions |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Help for Homeless Vets Gets Quick Approval |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Endorse Ban On Nuclear Testing |
June 20 - Trading Up |
June 20 - Yeltsin Charges onto Capitol Hill, Charms the Life Out of Cold War |
June 20 - Yeltsin Drops a Bombshell |
June 27 - Administration Pushing Senate For Quick Action on START |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes, With Slight Trim, Military Construction Bill |
June 27 - CORRECTION: Military construction. |
June 27 - FOREIGN AID: House Approves Spending Bill That Slashes Bush Request |
June 27 - IRAN-CONTRA: More Indictments Are Possible |
June 27 - POWS: Pentagon Knew Soldiers Held After War, Panel Leaders Say |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Let Military File Malpractice Suits |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Expands Sanctions Against Serbians |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Nunn Urges Military To Help at Home |
June 27 - State Department Official Tells Of Warning About Saddam |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Big-Ticket Projects Remain Intact As House Passes Spending Bill |
July 4 - Blocking LTV Sale |
July 4 - Domestic, Election-Year Worries Fail To Derail Help for Russia |
July 4 - On the Defense Front |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: October Surprise Panel Vouches for Bush |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Sarajevo Airlift Inaugurated; Members' Views Divided |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Seeks Disclosure Of POW/MIA Files |
July 4 - Standing Behind START |
July 4 - The Tailhook Factor |
July 4 - What They Are Saying |
July 11 - Cheney Skirts Past the Senate, Appoints Acting Secretary |
July 11 - FOREIGN POLICY: Bill Would Bolster Boycott Law |
July 11 - Gore's Stand on War |
July 11 - House Judiciary Democrats Seek Prewar Policy Probe |
July 11 - Israel Dilemma |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Leftover Funding From War Sought for Other Projects |
July 25 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Senate Panel OKs Bill, But B-2, SDI May Inspire Floor Fights |
July 25 - Fiscal 1992 Defense Supplemental (chart) |
July 25 - Osprey Fans Keep the Faith |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Affirms Ties To Hong Kong |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Seeks Solutions To Sex Bias in Military |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Pentagon Opens Files On POWs and MIAs |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Sales to Iran, Syria Documented In Records Released by Panel |
August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Trims Construction Bill |
August 1 - Democrats Stand Behind Bush But Call Him Soft on Saddam |
August 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Israelis To Visit U.S. To Discuss GE Money-Diversion Case |
August 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Senators Assail Decision To Sell Military Parts to Pakistan |
August 1 - MILITARY PERSONNEL: Women's Combat Role Debated As Chiefs Denounce Sex Bias |
August 1 - NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Congress Edges Closer to Ban On Underground Testing |
August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes for Increases For Vets' Disabilities |
August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Measure Zips Through the Senate |
August 8 - Critics Score Points Against SDI As Weapons Debate Begin |
August 8 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Democrats, Republicans Dig In, Trade Shots Over Iraq Policy |
August 8 - Military Construction Spending (chart) |
August 8 - Reports of Serbian Atrocities Intensify Calls for Force |
August 8 - To Soften Hardship |
August 15 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Spending Measure Left Hanging; Nunn Vows To Resume Efforts |
August 15 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Democrats' Request for Probe Of Iraq Policy Is Rejected |
August 15 - MIDDLE EAST: $10 Billion Package for Israel Wins Praise on the Hill |
August 15 - THE BALKANS: House, Senate Join Call for Force, Hope To Send Message to Serbs |
August 15 - Wallop's Mission |
September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: DEFENSE AND FOREIGN POLICY |
September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Air Base Dispute May Impede Action on Hurricane Relief |
September 12 - CORRECTION: Presidential position on SDI vote. |
September 12 - Harkin Seeks $4 Billion Shift From Defense to Domestic |
September 12 - MIDDLE EAST: Bush Acts on Loan Guarantees, Fighter Plane Sales to Saudis |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Spending Measure Offers SDI $3.8 Billion |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Israel Loan Guarantees Get Subcommittee OK |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: 2,100 Marines Dispatched To Waters off Somalia |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Byrd Insists on a Change In Ex-Soviet Aid Bill |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Expanded Internee Bill Passes In House |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: House Rejects Probe Of Gonzalez Leaks |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Urges Broadcasts Aimed at China |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill On Hong Kong |
September 19 - Senate Bill Avoids Showdown With $3.8 Billion for SDI |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: IMF, Israel Are Winners in Aid Bill As Action Shifts to Senate Floor |
September 26 - CUBA SANCTIONS: House Joins Senate in Backing Bills To Tighten Embargo |
September 26 - FOREIGN AID: Aid for Former Soviet Republics Nears Likely Approval |
September 26 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Agrees to 5 Percent Cut; Bill Moves to Conference |
September 26 - INVESTIGATIONS: 'October Surprise' Funds Approved |
September 26 - LABOR: Modest Jobs Plan May Develop From Deep in Defense Bill |
September 26 - MIDDLE EAST: Opponents Attack Sale to Saudis |
September 26 - MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS: Deprived of Plan to Shift Funds, Members Approve $8.39 Billion |
September 26 - Military Construction Spending (chart) |
September 26 - Pentagon as Cancer-Fighter? |
September 26 - POWS/MIAS: Witnesses Open Old Wounds; Tempers Flare in Hearing |
September 26 - SECTION NOTES: 750 Ex-Soviet Scientists Would Be Welcome |
September 26 - Senate Passes Spending Bill With Home-State Touches |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign DEFENSE -- Stormy Debate Ahead On Threat, Response |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign EUROPE -- Cold War's Allies May Turn Rivals |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign Further Reading |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign MIDDLE EAST --Whispers of Peace In a Volatile Region |
September 26 - Two Major Obstacles Dissolve As Time for Talk Winds Down |
September 26 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Continuing Resolution A Likely Prospect |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Cleared by Senate: Military Building |
October 3 - ARMS REDUCTION: With Cold War's Urgency Faded, The Senate Ratifies START |
October 3 - Bill Postpones Weapons Cuts But Lays the Groundwork |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Foreign Relations Backs China Radio Service |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Continuing 'October Surprise' Probe |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Refugee Protections |
October 3 - Senate Passes Foreign Aid Bill Backing U.S. Arms for Bosnia |
October 3 - SOVIET AID: Freedom Support Act Gets Final Senate Approval |
October 3 - Turning the Goals of One Presidency |
October 10 - $1.51 Billion Conversion |
October 10 - Bush Signs Defense Measure With SDI Cut, Cancer Funds |
October 10 - Cold War's Demise Shapes $26.3 Billion Spending Bill |
October 10 - Defense Authorization (chart) |
October 10 - EX-SOVIET AID: Attack Surfaces Over Sub Sale, But House Clears Aid Bill |
October 10 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
October 10 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Clears Authorization Bill But Doesn't Push Secrecy Issue |
October 10 - International Flight |
October 10 - Provisions of Ex-Soviet Aid Bill |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Defense Production Act Extended for Two Years |
October 10 - Spending Bill Trims Some Now, Sets Bigger Cuts in Motion |
October 10 - Unsinkable Science |
October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Shaves Personnel Spending But Slices Weapons Purchases |
October 17 - Defense Appropriations (chart) |
October 17 - Funding for Major Weapons (chart) |
October 17 - IRAQ: Boren Leads Renewed Request For Iraq-BNL Investigation |
October 17 - POWs/MIAs: Images in Laos Rice Paddy Divide Senate Panel |
October 17 - Silence and the CIA |
November 14 - IRAN-CONTRA: Panel Democrats, Republicans Seek Independent Counsels |
November 14 - POWS/MIAS: Senate Panel Races Deadline As Nation Honors Veterans |
November 21 - THE MILITARY: Roles for Women, Homosexuals Among Clinton's First Tests |
November 28 - POWS/MIAS: Kerry Urges Reward for Vietnam; Republicans Say It's Premature |
November 28 - SECTION NOTES: 'October Surprise' Probe Finds No Proof of Plot |
November 28 - SECTION NOTES: Nunn, Lugar Warn Against Lull In Help for Ex-Soviet States |
December 5 - 'America Will Answer the Call' On Somalia, Bush Says |
December 5 - Foreign Language |
December 5 - Helms' Hold Over Aid |
December 5 - Hill Backs Sending Troops |
December 5 - INVESTIGATIONS: Senate Wraps Up POW Probe But Big Question Remains |
December 5 - Suffering Spurs Unprecedented Step As U.N. Approves Deployment |
December 5 - UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Council Resolves To Ensure 'Secure Environment' in Somalia |
December 12 - Barr Nixes Independent Counsel, Cites 'No Reasonable Grounds' |
December 12 - SOMALIA: Operation Puts Sealift Fleet In Glare of Global Stage |
December 19 - A Centrist's Evolution |
December 19 - KEY HOUSE VOTES: 8. Strategic Defense Initiative |
December 19 - KEY SENATE VOTES: 8. Strategic Defense Initiative |
December 19 - KEY SENATE VOTES: 9. Nuclear Test Ban |
December 19 - SOMALIA: The Question at the Hearing: 'How Do We Get Out?' |