 January 4 - Rangel: Share Sacrifice By Reinstating Draft |
| January 11 - New House Armed Services Committee Chairman: Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. |
| January 11 - Republicans Mix It Up When Assigning House Chairmen for the 108th |
| January 11 - War: Deficit-Maker Supreme |
| January 18 - Eroding Support Leaves Bush In Foreign Policy Minefield |
| January 18 - White House Feelers to Iran Employ Lawmakers' Touch |
| January 25 - Lawmakers Scan Possibilities For Peaceful Nuclear Solution |
| February 1 - Criticism Getting Louder About Looming Attack on Iraq |
| February 1 - Democrats Holding Administration To High Standard of Proof |
| February 1 - Pentagon's Proposed Changes Strike Some As Difficult, Dangerous and Destabilizing |
| February 8 - Democrats Say Votes Against Iraq Resolution Led to More Engagement |
| February 8 - Fiscal 2004 Budget: Army Corps of Engineers |
| February 8 - Fiscal 2004 Budget: CIA |
| February 8 - Fiscal 2004 Budget: Defense |
| February 8 - Senate Democrats Press for Diplomatic High Ground on Iraq |
| February 8 - Shuttle Disaster Opens Dialogue On NASA's Future and Funding |
| February 15 - 'Mobile Offshore Base' Proposal Has Slew of Powerful Opponents |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus Completed, But More Budget Chores Loom |
| February 15 - Lawmakers Likely to Limit New High-Tech Eavesdropping |
| February 15 - Light, Swift Military Units Face First Test on Capitol Hill |
| February 15 - Stealth Operating Budget For Homeland Command? |
| February 22 - Bush Promises War Spending Largess, But Lawmakers Say Otherwise |
| February 22 - Democrats' Anti-War Lawsuit Faces Daunting Legal Precedent |
| February 22 - Making a Case Against War |
| March 1 - Design for Agile Combat Ships Reflects New Face of Sea War |
| March 1 - Navy's Plans for Smaller Ships Put Big Yards on Lobby Alert |
| March 1 - Second Thoughts on Iraq Resolution Not Enough to Prompt a Revote |
| March 8 - Democrats Reluctantly Join in Senate's Approval of Treaty on Nuclear Arms Reduction |
| March 8 - GOP Tax Cutters Stumble Out of the Gate, Bloated Military Bill Pulled From House Floor |
| March 8 - Pentagon Seeks Expanded Exemptions From List of Environmental Laws |
| March 8 - Policies Need to Catch Up With Data-Tracking Tech |
| March 8 - The Pentagon's Exemption Wish List |
| March 15 - Lugar Calls Course on Iraq a Threat To Worldwide Weapons Reduction |
| March 15 - Lugar's Mission: Put North Korea at Top of Foreign Policy Agenda |
| March 15 - The War Agenda: Congress Attends to Business, Waits for Word |
| March 15 - The War Agenda: Military Operations |
| March 15 - The War Agenda: Spending |
| March 15 - War Won't Unify Congress |
| March 22 - Congress Seeks to Find Its Voice as Iraq War Rages |
| March 22 - Democrats Divided Over Voicing Anti-War Sentiments |
| March 22 - Democrats Win One Battle On Anti-Missile Effectiveness |
| March 22 - Democrats' Blame Campaign Finds Few Sympathetic Ears |
| March 22 - Editor's Notebook: War Watch |
| March 22 - Lawmakers Offer Perspective in the Final Hours Before War |
| 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 29 - 'Shock and Awe' Optimism Yields to Slogging Reality |
| March 29 - Bush Supplemental Hits Hill In a Fog of War Uncertainty |
| March 29 - Editor's Notebook: Week to Week |
| March 29 - Hill Rumbles of Aid Reprisal Follow Turkey's 'No' to U.S. |
| March 29 - Q & A With Paul Wolfowitz on Turkey Policy |
| April 5 - Debate Over Military's Future Will Top Postwar Agenda |
| April 5 - Editor's Notebook: War Powers |
| April 5 - Lawmakers Get in a Few Digs At Non-Allies in Iraq War |
| April 5 - White House-Hill Battle Hinges on Flexible Spending |
| April 12 - A Familiar Budget Battle |
| April 12 - A Swelling Supplemental |
| April 12 - Has Congress Given Bush Too Free a Spending Hand? |
| April 12 - Iraq Rebuilding Costs Add Up |
| April 12 - Popular Tax Breaks for Military Remain Trapped in Argument Over Wealthy Expatriate Flight |
| April 12 - White House Wins Flexibility In Planning for Postwar Iraq |
| April 19 - Defense Request Seen as Avenue Into Endangered Species Rewrite |
| April 19 - Lawmakers Not Eager to Revisit Iraq Supplemental Debate Soon |
| April 19 - Pentagon Wants Congressional Blessing for Major Civilian Auxiliary Force |
| April 19 - Rumsfeld's 'New Military' Plan Seeks Unprecedented Flexibility |
| April 26 - Base Closures Could Top List of Defense Funding Clashes |
| April 26 - Pentagon Officials Hope to Expedite Lessons Learned in Iraq |
| May 3 - Iraq Victory Leaves Little Taste For More Pre-Emptive Wars |
| May 3 - Middle East 'Road Map' May Have Wrinkles for GOP |
| May 3 - Senate Poised for NATO Invitation To Seven Eastern European States |
| May 10 - Bush Fly-In Launches Democratic Charges of Political Opportunism |
| May 10 - Congress Lumbers Toward Developing an Agile Military |
| May 10 - Environmental Exemptions Prove to Be Tough Sell for Military |
| May 10 - For U.S. and Oil Producers: A Lubricated Diplomacy |
| May 10 - House Panel OKs Federal Personnel Bill |
| May 10 - House Updates Military Act's Compensations |
| May 10 - Rumsfeld's Personnel Plan Questioned |
| May 10 - Senate Backs NATO Expansion |
| May 10 - Young's Proposed Shift of Funds From Defense to Domestic Accounts Must Get Past Republican Hawks |
| May 17 - Mutual Needs, Benefits Still Prevail In U.S.-Saudi Relationship |
| May 17 - Rumsfeld Wins a Few in Overhaul Initiative, But Victory for Federal Programs Is Elusive |
| May 24 - Air Force 767 Lease Deal Has Backers, But Opponents Call It a Boeing Bailout |
| May 24 - Chambers Agree on Funding, Not on Pentagon Operations |
| May 24 - It's Memorial vs. Monk Seal In New Battle of Midway |
| May 24 - Pentagon Seeks More Waivers From Environmental Laws |
| May 31 - Controversial Cuts Pay For Defense Panels' Add-Ons |
| May 31 - Waste in Nunn-Lugar Program Prompts Calls for Clampdown |
| June 7 - Absence of Weapons in Iraq Pulls Democrats Together |
| June 7 - Foreign Policy Credibility Gap Worries Many in Congress |
| June 7 - House Squares Off With Rumsfeld Over Change in 'Buy America' Policy |
| June 7 - White House Carries the Day on Base Closure Issue |
| June 14 - Closed Markup For Homeland Security Panel |
| June 14 - Defense: 'Fast' Bill Could Stall on Two Programs |
| June 14 - Military Bill's Budget Is Tight In House Panel |
| June 14 - Military Construction: Little Disagreement Expected on Spending Priorities |
| June 14 - Peace Initiatives' Progress |
| June 14 - Pentagon Tiptoes Into Its Role Of Defending From Within |
| June 14 - Warner Again Pitches Plan For NATO Mideast Buffer |
| June 21 - Defense Panel Struggles With Shortfall in Funding For Overseas Campaigns |
| June 21 - House Military Construction Bill Runs Into Tight Spending Caps, Emerges 'Woefully Underfunded' |
| June 21 - Rumsfeld Faults Civil Service Rules For Problems in Defense Hiring |
| June 21 - Tough Conference Looms For Defense Authorization |
| June 28 - A Political Timetable Awaits the Incomplete War in Iraq |
| June 28 - Banking on a Supplemental |
| June 28 - Bob Stump, Best Known for Veterans Support, Mild Manner, Dies at 76 |
| June 28 - Iraq War Creates New Challenges Abroad |
| June 28 - Lawmakers Make Do With Diminished Defense Package |
| June 28 - Military Construction Bills Synch Up |
| June 28 - On Iraq, Bush Has a Full Reservoir of Trust |
| June 28 - Will Iraq War Matter in '04? |
| July 5 - Levin Starts His Own Iraq Inquiry |
| July 12 - Conference Set On Military Construction |
| July 12 - Hobson's Homework Pays Off In Energy and Water Measure, Drawing Bipartisan Praise |
| July 12 - Lawmakers Brace for Long, Expensive Haul in Iraq |
| July 12 - With Overseas Operations in Mind, Chambers Accelerate Defense Bill |
| July 19 - Highlights of FY 2004 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill |
| July 19 - Hill Demands More Answers On Iraq -- Not a Fall Guy |
| July 19 - Nuclear Research Funding at Center Of Energy and Water Bills Dispute |
| July 19 - Senate Defense Spending Bill Survives Democrat Skirmishes |
| July 26 - White House Intelligence Gaps Targeted by New 9/11 Commission |
| August 2 - Hill Clamors for Report's Full Release, Repairs to Declassifying Process |
| August 2 - McCain's Nose Out of Joint Over Boeing Tanker Deal |
| August 2 - Thomas Cool to Cold War As Park Service Concern |
| August 2 - Two Years Later, Lawmakers Still Adjusting to Role of Consoler |
| August 2 - Undermanned and Overdeployed? Congress Debates Expanded Army |
| August 30 - Democrats See Seizable Ground in Taking Up Soldiers' Cause |
| August 30 - Fall Agenda: Defense Authorization |
| August 30 - Military Absentee Ballots An Issue in California Recall |
| August 30 - Plans for Military Personnel, Their Families |
| September 6 - Air Tanker Deal Turns Spotlight On Murky Procurement Process |
| September 6 - GOP Starting to Waver On Support for Iraq |
| September 6 - Latest Iraq Supplement Soars to New Heights |
| September 13 - Bush's Iraq Spending Request Puts Focus on Budget Priorities |
| September 13 - Efforts to Stabilize Foreign Nations Brought U.S. Kudos, Resentment |
| September 13 - From 'Cradle of Civilization' to Dictatorship |
| September 13 - Funding for Afghan Campaign, Reconstruction Called Too Thin To Block Resurgence of Taliban |
| September 13 - Iraq Funding Will Come Slower Next Time Around |
| September 13 - Postwar Iraq: A Hard Path to Stability |
| September 13 - Senate Democrats Promise To Fight Nuclear Weapons Plan |
| September 13 - The Reservists Dilemma |
| September 13 - Under Fire From Angry Vets, Divided GOP Yields Ground |
| September 20 - Closer Scrutiny Expected On Latest Supplemental |
| September 20 - Conferees Send 'Very Strong Signal' In Rushing Through Defense Bill |
| September 20 - Details of New Spending Request Arrive |
| September 20 - Energy and Water Spending Bill Leaks Animosity as It Heads to Conference |
| September 27 - Congress Clears Bare-Bones Defense Appropriations Bill |
| September 27 - Defense Authorizers Losing Authority |
| September 27 - Defense: Big Tickets and the Small Print |
| September 27 - Iraq Supplemental Will Pass, But Many Say Well Is Going Dry |
| October 4 - Accord on 'Concurrent Receipt' A Long-Awaited Win for Vets |
| October 4 - Defense Authorization Bill Hits Impasse in Conference Over Buy America Provisions |
| October 4 - Defense Authorization: The Veto Threat |
| October 4 - Disturbing Prospect of 'Hollow Force' Has Lawmakers, Pentagon Scrambling |
| October 4 - How Guard, Reserves Fit In |
| October 4 - Lawmakers at Loose Ends Over Form of Supplemental |
| October 4 - Popular Tax Cut for Military Shackled By Conference Standoff Over Offset |
| October 11 - Bush Plays Lobbyist in Chief To Keep Iraq Funds as Grants |
| October 18 - Democrats Struggle for Consensus In Opposition to GOP's Iraq Plans |
| October 18 - Senate Rejects White House Plea, Adopts Iraqi Loan Amendment |
| October 18 - Veterans Call 'Concurrent Receipt' Deal A Good First Step, Vow Further Action |
| October 25 - Defense Budget Needs Boost To Cover Personnel, Weapons |
| October 25 - GOP Rebellion on Nature of Iraq Funds Augurs Further Grief for White House |
| October 25 - Painful Task of Cutting Funds Holds Military Construction Bill From Accustomed Cakewalk |
| October 25 - Warner Plan Could Resolve Tanker Dispute |
| November 1 - Bush Wins Supplemental Battle, May Face Loss in War on Terror |
| November 1 - Military Tax Breaks Reweighed After Unanimous House Vote To Double Death Gratuity |
| November 8 - Defense Authorization Bill's Highlights |
| November 8 - GOP Leader Uses Holiday Deadline As Spur on Defense Authorization |
| November 8 - Intelligence Panel's Amity Endangered |
| November 8 - Military Tax Breaks Measure Emerges Victorious After Nine-Set House-Senate Volley |
| November 8 - Negotiators Grind Out Agreement on Military Construction Bill |
| November 8 - Supplemental Sans Roll Call Provides Cover All Around |
| November 15 - Fights Over Policy, Not Hardware Shape Defense Bill's Passage |
| November 15 - Growing Chorus Tells Bush To Get Out of Iraq Sooner |
| November 15 - Senate Clears Military Construction |
| November 22 - Alternate Proposals to Mideast Peace Could Detract from Bush's 'Road Map' |
| November 22 - Titanium Suppliers Stand Tough On Defense Bill Trade Provisions |
| November 29 - Nuclear Bomb Sites Could Get Special Park Designation |
| December 6 - Scandal Puts Boeing Tanker Deal on Hold As Pentagon, Hill Investigate Impropriety |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Defense Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Defense Authorization |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2003 Defense Supplemental Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2004 War Supplemental Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Intelligence Authorization |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Military Construction Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Military Tax Cuts |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Reviews of Prewar Iraq Intelligence |
