 January 9 - 'Non-disclosure' Agreements Suspended: Treasury-Postal Funding Adds New Staff for Customs Service |
| January 9 - Budget Submission Delayed Until February |
| January 9 - Fiscal 1988 Treasury, Postal Funding (chart) |
| January 9 - Major Provisions of the Fiscal 1988 Reconciliation Bill |
| January 9 - Nursing Homes, Vaccine Injuries, Rural Health: Reconciliation Bill Includes Several Key Health Changes |
| January 16 - Iacocca, Rohatyn Named to Commission on Deficit |
| January 30 - Democrats Lining Up Behind 'Family' Banner |
| January 30 - Organized Labor a Major Lobby Force Behind Many So-Called 'Family' Issues |
| January 30 - Reagan Puts Capital Gains Tax Back on Table |
| February 6 - Budget Committee Leaders Battle Over Top CBO Post |
| February 6 - CBO Gives Gloomy Deficit Forecast |
| February 6 - Leave-Transfer Bill Also OK'd: Second House Panel Approves Parental-Leave Legislation |
| February 6 - Market Crash Studies: Key Recommendations |
| February 6 - Most Urge New Market Regulations: Hill Gets Conflicting Advice On Averting Another Crash |
| February 6 - Senate Labor Votes Ban on Polygraph Use |
| February 6 - Senate OKs Two International Labor Pacts |
| February 20 - Baseline Budget Projections (chart) |
| February 20 - Budget and Deficit Targets (chart) |
| February 20 - Budget Authority and Outlays by Agency (chart) |
| February 20 - Conflicting Deficit Estimates: Economic Forecasts: Why the Numbers Matter |
| February 20 - Conservatives See Stalking Horse for Tax Hike: Critics Take Aim at New Deficit Commission |
| February 20 - Deficit Limits Reagan's Options in 1989 Budget |
| February 20 - Effect of Economic Assumptions on Deficit Projections (chart) |
| February 20 - Elections, Summit Deal Suppress Strife: Congress Will Evade the Usual Budget Battles |
| February 20 - Fiscal 1989 Budget by Function: $1.1 Trillion in |
| February 20 - Lame Ducks Circling Over Budget Scene |
| February 20 - Major Proposals in Reagan's Fiscal 1989 Budget |
| February 20 - Medicaid: A Safety Net Riddled With Holes |
| February 20 - Reagan Administration Economic Assumptions (chart) |
| February 20 - Reagan's Annual Budget Message: Fiscal 1989 Budget Highlights Past Success, Future Reforms |
| February 20 - The Fiscal 1989 Budget: Terms and Process |
| February 20 - White House Expects a Calm Budget Year |
| February 27 - Congress Set to Consider New Banking Powers |
| February 27 - House Panel Seeks Bipartisan Budget |
| February 27 - Indexing Provision a Focus of Concern: Bill to Boost Minimum Wage Encounters Resistance, Delays |
| February 27 - Promises Vigilance on Inflation: Greenspan Vows Independence, Avoids Detailed Commitments |
| February 27 - Reagan to Submit Supplemental 1988 Request |
| February 27 - The Banking System: Multiple Regulators |
| March 5 - CBO Pegs Deficit at $165 Billion |
| March 5 - Indexing Plan Dropped: House Panel Agrees to Minimum-Wage Hike |
| March 5 - Major Provisions of Polygraph Protection Act |
| March 5 - Senate Panel Approves Bank Deregulation Bill |
| March 5 - Senate Passes Bill Limiting Lie Detector Tests |
| March 12 - A Bargaining Chip for Future? House Labor Adds 4th Year To Minimum-Wage Increase |
| March 12 - Budget Panel Finds Little Room for Maneuver |
| March 12 - Community Health: A Case Study |
| March 12 - ECONOMICS NOTES: Baker Promises No 'Fed-Bashing,' If... |
| March 12 - ECONOMICS NOTES: Reagan Suggests $1.5 Billion in 1988 Cuts |
| March 12 - Fiscal 1989 Domestic Discretionary Programs (chart) |
| March 12 - House Clears U.S. Mint Authorization |
| March 12 - Not Enough to Keep Up Current Services: Summit Accord Squeezes Funding for the Poor |
| March 19 - Complying With the Budget Summit: House Panel Turns Creative To Craft Fiscal 1989 Measure |
| March 19 - Congress Still Seeking Stock Market Reforms |
| March 19 - House Panel Caucuses on Bank-Deregulation Bill |
| March 19 - Members Focus On Single-Premium Plans: Use of Life Insurance as Tax Shelter Draws Fire |
| March 19 - Minimum-Wage Boost Ready for House Vote |
| March 19 - Reagan Seeks Supplemental Spending |
| March 19 - Senate Fight Looms on Risk-Notification Bill |
| March 19 - Senate Finance Approves Plan to Protect Taxpayers |
| March 26 - Banks Upset by Price Tag on Deregulation Bill |
| March 26 - FY '89 Budget Resolution by Function (chart) |
| March 26 - House Adopts Bipartisan Fiscal 1989 Budget |
| March 26 - House Budget Resolution: Major Assumptions |
| March 26 - Losses Matched With Revenue-Gainers: Senate Panel OKs Curbs on IRS, Tax Relief on Fuel for Farmers |
| March 26 - OSHA: The Agency Nobody Loves: Old Business Nemesis Now Draws Labor's Fire |
| March 26 - Senate Battling Over Risk-Notification Bill |
| April 2 - Bank Failures, Scandals Spurred Passage... ...Of the Depression-Era Glass-Steagall Act |
| April 2 - Business Lobbyists Prevail Over Labor: Risk-Notification Measure Derailed by GOP Filibuster |
| April 2 - FY '89 Domestic Discretionary Budget* (chart) |
| April 2 - Key Provisions of the Senate Bank-Deregulation Bill |
| April 2 - Regulators Resist Early Action: Proxmire Offers Plan to Coordinate Markets |
| April 2 - Senate Easily Approves Bank-Deregulation Bill |
| April 2 - Senate Panel OKs Fiscal 1989 Budget Measure |
| April 2 - Unemployment Drops to Lowest Level Since 1979 |
| April 9 - House Banking-Deregulation Bill Under Scrutiny |
| April 9 - Lawmakers Resist Costly 'Correction': 'Notch Baby' Dilemma a Legacy Of Quirk in Social Security Law |
| April 9 - Uphill Battle Seen for New World Bank Funding |
| April 16 - Bank Deregulation: A Debate Over 'Fire Walls' |
| April 16 - CBO's Unwelcome Cost Estimate Vanishes |
| April 16 - Conservative Coalition Forming: Bill to Boost Minimum Wage Faces Rough Sailing in House |
| April 16 - FY '89 Budget Resolution by Function (chart) |
| April 16 - House, Senate Budget Assumptions Compared (chart) |
| April 16 - More Funds for Space, Anti-Drug War: Senate Adopts 1989 Budget, Skirts Summit Funding Limits |
| April 23 - Appropriators Could Take the Lead: Budget Conferees in Dispute Over Priorities, 'Scorekeeping' |
| April 23 - House Panel OKs Wider OPIC Role |
| April 23 - House Set to Act on 1988 Supplemental |
| April 23 - OSHA: This Time, It Draws Fire From the Ranks |
| April 23 - Specific Prescriptions Avoided: Panel in Discord Over State of the Economy |
| April 30 - Budget Conference Breaks Up in Acrimony |
| April 30 - CBO Draws More Fire on Minimum-Wage Report |
| April 30 - Chief Differences on Fiscal 1989 Budget (chart) |
| April 30 - House Committee OKs 'Portable Pensions' |
| April 30 - Rep. Obey Skeptical on World Bank Funds |
| May 7 - Expanded Powers: The View From Three Banks |
| May 7 - House Appropriations Panels Start 'FY 89 Markup |
| May 7 - Labor's Allies Prevail in House Face-Off Over Changing Davis-Bacon Wage Law |
| May 7 - What Glass-Steagall Does |
| May 14 - Banking, Product-Liability Lobbying Increase |
| May 14 - Divisions Hinted in First Session: Deficit Commission Gets Lesson on the Budget |
| May 14 - Does Reagan Already Have a Line-Item Veto? |
| May 14 - House, Senate Budget Panels Agree to Disagree |
| May 21 - 'Quick Fix' Seen as Unlikely: Senate Panel Gets Bad News On S and L Insurance Fund |
| May 21 - Alternative Sought to Walker Drug Measure |
| May 21 - First (and Only) Labor Bill to Prevail: Conferees Vote Polygraph Ban For Private-Sector Employers |
| May 21 - Hill Reluctant to Take Lead on Market Regulation |
| May 21 - Minimum-Wage Measure in Trouble in House |
| May 21 - Must Fully Disclose Terms: House Banking Panel Approves Limits on Home-Equity Lenders |
| May 21 - Senate Allocations: Budget Vs. Appropriations (chart) |
| May 21 - Spending Bills Advance Without a Blueprint: Budget Conferees Again Fail to Reach Accord |
| May 21 - The Securities Markets: Terms and Definitions |
| May 21 - The White House Group's Recommendations |
| May 28 - Bill to Protect Retirees' Benefits Sent to Reagan |
| May 28 - ECONOMIC NOTES: Balanced Budget Amendment |
| May 28 - ECONOMIC NOTES: Fed, SEC Appointments |
| May 28 - ECONOMIC NOTES: FSLIC: More Troubles |
| May 28 - ECONOMIC NOTES: Market Bill Promised |
| May 28 - ECONOMIC NOTES: Panel Approves Coin Redesign |
| May 28 - FY '89 Budget Resolution by Function (chart) |
| May 28 - Real Spending Battles Are to Come: Conferees Agree on Budget, House Gives Its Approval |
| June 4 - 'Dear Colleague,' Please Stop Writing |
| June 4 - Anti-Takeover Bill Heads for Floor: Senate Showdown Expected Over Shareholder Rights |
| June 4 - For Lobbyists, Wage Fight Is 'a Holy War' |
| June 4 - House OKs Conference Report on Polygraph Ban |
| June 4 - Major Assumptions of FY 1989 Budget Agreement |
| June 4 - Panel OKs Defense, Treasury Spending Bills |
| June 4 - The Idiom of Corporate Takeovers |
| June 11 - Appropriators Inherit Disputes: Senate Approves Fiscal 1989 Budget Resolution |
| June 11 - Congress Clears Lie-Detector Ban |
| June 11 - Markup Set on 'Technical Corrections': Costly Add-Ons Complicate Prospects for a 1988 Tax Bill |
| June 11 - Objections Raised to Abortion Language: House Committee Approves Labor-HHS Spending Measure |
| June 11 - Sen. Dodd Scales Back Parental-Leave Bill |
| June 18 - ECONOMC NOTES: Banking Deregulation |
| June 18 - ECONOMIC NOTES: Corporate Takeovers |
| June 18 - Economic Notes: Senate Backs S and L Moratorium; Progress Seen on 1988 Tax Bill |
| June 18 - ECONOMIC NOTES: Technical Corrections |
| June 18 - Includes $1.2 Billion to Combat AIDS: House Passes $135.8 Billion Labor-HHS Bill |
| June 18 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| June 18 - Members Exclude Themselves From Pay Raise: House, Senate Committee OK Treasury-Postal Service Funds |
| June 18 - Senate Labor to Mark Up Minimum-Wage Bill |
| June 18 - Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations (chart) |
| June 25 - Abortion Language Brings Veto Threat: Senate Committee Approves Labor-HHS Funding Measure |
| June 25 - Anti-Takeover Bill Pulled From Senate Floor |
| June 25 - Fines to Aid L'Ambiance Plaza Victims |
| June 25 - Forecast Improves for 1988, but Not 1989 |
| June 25 - House OKs S and L Moratorium |
| June 25 - Is What's Good for Raiders Good for Country? |
| June 25 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| June 25 - Lenders Must Reveal Terms: Limits for Home-Equity Loans OK'd by House |
| June 25 - Pay Raise Included for Federal Workers: Senate Weighs Treasury-Postal Funding Bill |
| June 25 - Senate Labor Begins Minimum-Wage Markup |
| June 25 - Several Breaks Extended Through 1990: Tax Panel Tries to Keep Corrections Bill Trim |
| June 25 - Trade Bill Hangs in Balance: Senate Debates Plant-Closing Bill As Republicans Try to Amend It |
| July 2 - $6 Billion in Revenue-Raisers Added: Tax Panel Nears Completion Of 'Technical Corrections' Bill |
| July 2 - Difficult Road Ahead: House Banking Panel OKs World Bank Funds |
| July 2 - Moratorium Sought on Cashouts: Pension Surpluses: A Corporate Piggy Bank? |
| July 2 - Pension Plan Terminations, 1980-87 (chart) |
| July 2 - President Signs Polygraph-Limit Bill |
| July 2 - Senate Committee OKs Minimum-Wage Boost |
| July 2 - Senate OKs Treasury-Postal Funding |
| July 2 - Senate Stalled on Plant-Closing Notification |
| July 2 - Suit Filed Against Teamsters Union |
| July 9 - Davis-Bacon Revision Pulled From Defense Bill |
| July 9 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS NOTES: Markey Presses Market Bill, SEC Backs One Vote Per Share |
| July 9 - House Panel Nears Action on Bank Regulation Bill |
| July 9 - Life Insurance Industry 'On Notice' |
| July 9 - Minimum Wage: Too Hot to Handle? |
| July 9 - Senate OKs Advance Notice of Plant Closings |
| July 9 - Who Switched Votes in the Senate? |
| July 16 - Both Votes Seen as Veto-Proof: Trade, Plant-Closing Bills Win Strong House Backing |
| July 16 - Congress Clears S and L Moratorium Extension |
| July 16 - Economic Affairs Notes: Ruling Yields Windfall to S and Ls, Panels Back Canada Trade Bill |
| July 16 - House Panel OKs Tax Bill; Senate Outlook Dim |
| July 16 - Outlook Improved for House Bill: Senate Committee Approves Parental-Leave Legislation |
| July 23 - 1988 Technical-Corrections Bill: Major Provisions |
| July 23 - Congress Stalled on Market-Regulation Bills |
| July 23 - Securities Issues Confronting Congress |
| July 30 - $5.9 Billion Left for All New Programs: OMB Fiscal '89 Budget Report Puts Hill Democrats in a Bind |
| July 30 - Bentsen Gets Panel Support for Narrow Tax Bill |
| July 30 - Highlights of the House Bank-Deregulation Bill |
| July 30 - House GOP Adopts Old Democratic Plan: Tax Credit Pushed as Alternative to Wage Hike |
| July 30 - Penalty Urged on Pension Cash-outs |
| July 30 - Senate Banking OKs Two S and L Bills |
| July 30 - Senate Panel OKs International SEC Action |
| July 30 - Some Consider Vote Fruitless: Judiciary Members Reluctant To Deal With Insurance Issue |
| July 30 - Weary House Panel OKs Bank-Deregulation Bill |
| August 6 - Continuity With Baker Era Expected: Nicholas Brady Named to Top Treasury Post |
| August 6 - Economic Affairs Notes: Canada Trade Bill Moves Ahead, Panel Backs Insider-Trading Bill |
| August 6 - House Passes 'Technical-Corrections' Tax Bill |
| August 6 - House Seeks to Boost LIHEAP Funding |
| August 6 - Reagan Bows to Politics on Plant-Closing Bill |
| August 6 - Text of Reagan's Statement: Plant-Closing Bill Enacted Without President's Signature |
| August 6 - Treasury-Postal Conference Stalls |
| August 13 - Accord Reached on Treasury-Postal Funding: Conferees OK Pay Raise, but Not for Congress |
| August 13 - Agreement Reached on All Other Points: Labor-HHS Conference Ends; Abortion Issue Still Unsettled |
| August 13 - Dukakis' Endorsement of Space Station Sought |
| August 13 - House Committee OKs Portable-Pension Plan |
| August 13 - House Panel Approves Insider-Trading Bill |
| August 13 - OK'd by Committees in Both Chambers: ABC Child-Care Legislation Now Ready for Floor Action |
| August 27 - OMB Issues Warning for Fiscal '89: |
| August 27 - Sen. Melcher to Seek Revised Price Index: Study Spurs New Look at COLAs for Elderly |
| August 27 - Social Security: Alternative COLAs (chart) |
| September 3 - 100th Congress Will Finish on a Partisan Note |
| September 3 - Early Debate on the Aim of Deposit Insurance |
| September 3 - Family Income Up; Poverty Rate Unchanged |
| September 3 - FDIC and FSLIC: How the Funds Deal |
| September 3 - Options Range From Studies to Total Overhaul: S and L Crisis Forcing New Look at Deposit Insurance |
| September 10 - First Time Since 1980: Congress Clears Treasury-Postal Funding Bill |
| September 10 - FSLIC Bailout Looms; Dollar, Debt Stir Fears |
| September 10 - House Panel Scores Bank Board on Thrift Crisis |
| September 10 - Labor Plan Imperils Transportation Bill |
| September 10 - Next Move Is Up to Senate: Abortion Fights Stall Action on Labor-HHS Bill |
| September 10 - Options Considered to Speed Glass-Steagall Bill |
| September 10 - Senate Panel Outlines Plan for Modest Tax Breaks |
| September 10 - Thoughts Turning to Year-End 'CR' |
| September 17 - Brady Confirmed by Lopsided Senate Vote |
| September 17 - Consumer Aid, 'Firewalls' Among Key Issues: Protagonists Take Up Positions For Battle Over Bank Powers |
| September 17 - Drexel Case Seen Spurring Support: House Votes 410-0 to Stiffen Penalties for Insider Trading |
| September 17 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS NOTES: Senate Passes Coin Redesign |
| September 17 - Final Fiscal 1989 Labor-HHS Appropriations (chart) |
| September 17 - Senate Caves on Abortion Funding: Congress Clears Labor-HHS Spending Bill |
| September 17 - Senate Completes Work: Democrats Will Skip Conference To Speed Action on Textile Bill |
| September 17 - Senate Opens Debate on Minimum-Wage Hike |
| September 17 - Thirteen Spending Bills: Halfway There |
| September 24 - Bill Makes Compromise More Difficult: Energy/Commerce Panel Seeks Tight Reins on New Bank Powers |
| September 24 - But Backers Remain Hopeful: Time, Election-Year Caution May Hinder Senate Tax Bill |
| September 24 - Conferees Reach Agreement: Funding OK'd For Commerce, Justice, State |
| September 24 - FSLIC Bailout Talk Escalates |
| September 24 - GOP Seeks Action on Judgeships: Minimum-Wage Bill Snared In Partisan Power Struggle |
| September 24 - Hill Moves Forward on World Bank Funding |
| September 24 - Reagan Vows Not to Sign 'CR': Wright, Byrd Pushing to Finish All 13 Spending Bills by Oct. 1 |
| October 1 - Congress Races to Complete Spending Bills |
| October 1 - Consumer Issues, Turf Battles Stall Action: Prospects for New Bank Powers Fade in Congress' Final Days |
| October 1 - Economic Affairs Notes: Reagan Vetoes Textile Quotas, Signs Canada Free-Trade Bill |
| October 1 - Election-Year Politicking: Senate Fills Its Spare Time Feuding Over 'Family Issues' |
| October 1 - House Banking Votes to Set Up FSLIC Panel |
| October 1 - Reagan Shares Thoughts on Budget |
| October 1 - Regular Appropriation Bills Cleared by Start of Fiscal Year |
| October 1 - Senate Approves Anti-Pornography Language |
| October 8 - Adjournment Delay Keeps Work Going: A Flicker of Life Remains In Drive for New Bank Powers |
| October 8 - Congress Clears Spending Bills at Last Minute |
| October 8 - Deficit Score Card: Fiscal 1989 (chart) |
| October 8 - Economic Affairs: House Backs Foreign Disclosure; Textile-Quota Veto Sustained |
| October 8 - Education Tax Break Adopted: Senate Works to Complete Technical Tax Bill |
| October 8 - No Cap on Interest Rates: Conferees Approve Credit-Card Disclosure Bill |
| October 8 - Parental-Leave, Child-Care Measure: Senate Democrats Are Stymied On So-Called 'Family Issues' |
| October 8 - S and L Crisis Gets Last-Minute Attention: House Advances Thrift Bills; Wall Raises Bailout Estimate |
| October 15 - Any Added Spending Doesn't Count: Gramm-Rudman Deficit Curbs Are Now Moot for Fiscal 1989 |
| October 15 - Negotiators Find Tax-Bill Compromise Elusive |
| October 15 - Other Measures Linger: Hopes for Thrift-Bailout Bill Dashed for Year |
| October 15 - Some Pieces May Move Separately: Caught in House Turf Battle, Banking Deregulation Bill Dies |
| October 22 - Bicentennial Coin Bill Cleared |
| October 22 - Congress Struggles Over Tax Bill in Final Hours |
| October 22 - Economic Affairs Notes: Bill on New Banking Powers Dies, Taking Thrift Commission With It |
| October 29 - Excise Tax on Pension 'Reversions' Is Boosted |
| October 29 - Final Provisions of the 1988 Tax Bill |
| October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Banking |
| October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Economic Affairs |
| October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Labor |
| October 29 - Senate Clears Insider-Trading Bill in Last Hours |
| November 5 - Higher Benefits, More Uniform Taxes: Railroad Unemployment Fund Overhauled by New Tax Bill |
| November 12 - Deadlock Blocks Early Recommendations: Deficit Panel Delays Report, Seeks to Heal Image With Bush |
| November 26 - Administration Issues Sunny Economic Forecast (Chart) |
| November 26 - August Registrations Show Industry Splits: Banks Follow Glass-Steagall, Thrifts Watch FSLIC Rescue |
| November 26 - Cutting the Deficit: Tougher Than It Looks |
| November 26 - Is Anyone Really Trying to Balance the Budget? (Chart) |
| November 26 - The Social Security Surplus: A Snare Or an Incentive for Deficit Reduction |
| December 3 - Riegle to Head Senate Banking Committee |
| December 3 - Seidman Would Revise Deposit Insurance: Debate on Thrift Industry Crisis Shifts to Search for Solutions |
| December 10 - Bush's Social Policy: Big Ideas, Little Money |
| December 10 - Tax Options for 1989: Revising Capital Gains Rates |
| December 17 - Budget Timetable for Fiscal 1990 (chart) |
| December 17 - GAO Says FSLIC Needs $85 Billion Bailout |
| December 17 - New Budget Chairmen: Ready for the Spotlight |
| December 17 - Sunshine Too Bright for Deficit Commission? |
| December 24 - Bush Appoints Two to Deficit Commission |
| December 24 - Legislative Outlook: Economic Affairs |
| December 24 - Legislative Outlook: Labor |
| December 24 - Savings and Loan-Sponsored PACs Rank Near Top of Financial-Industry Givers |
| December 24 - Thrift Industry to Congress: Don't Send Us the Bill |
| December 31 - Another Benefit Under Siege |
| December 31 - Employee Benefits Rules: Unexpected Costs |
