January 20 - O'Neill Cautions Against Notion Of Tax Cut as Economic Cure-All |
January 20 - OMB Nominee Under Pressure To Make the Numbers Work |
January 27 - A Senate of Singular Personalities and Possibilities |
January 27 - Miller: Why So Surprised? |
January 27 - Writing Size of a Cut in the Budget Looms as Tax Turning Point |
February 10 - GOP, With Bush's Tacit Support, Puts Bankruptcy Bill on Fast Track, Hoping to Stave Off Amendments |
February 10 - The Republican Challenge: Roping the Fiscal Strays |
February 10 - This Week in Congress |
February 17 - Bush's Fiscal Policy Proposals Close In on GOP Budget Writers |
February 17 - House Passes Bill to Use Social Security, Medicare Surpluses for Debt Reduction |
February 17 - Proposals to Alter Bush's Tax Plan Multiply Despite White House Appeals for Unity |
February 24 - Bush's Trade Agenda Starts Out Between Big Steel and a Hard Place |
February 24 - Byrd Law Bogs Down |
March 3 - A Budget Glossary |
March 3 - Budget Schedule |
March 3 - Bush Says Budget Would Pay Down Debt While Aiding Schools, Retirees, Military |
March 3 - Bush's Sunny Budget Picture Leaves the Details Shaded |
March 3 - Debt Reduction: Not So Fast |
March 3 - Democratic Rebuttal to Bush's Speech Emphasizes Social Security, Medicare While Decrying Tax Cut Plan |
March 3 - Tax Fight Energizes Democrats |
March 3 - This Week in Congress |
March 10 - 'Blue Dog' Democrats Get Hackles Up At GOP and Business' Tax Bill Tactics |
March 10 - Byrd Seeks a Way to Stop Tax Bill From Passing by Simple Majority Vote |
March 10 - Democratic 'Ayes' |
March 10 - Fed Vice Chairman Ferguson Nominated for Full Board Term |
March 10 - Tax-Cut Bipartisanship Down to One Chamber |
March 10 - This Week in Congress |
March 10 - Victories and Consequences |
March 17 - House Panel's Budget Resolution Will Include Flexibility for Larger Tax Cut |
March 17 - Tax Cut's Viability Lies In Deep Dealmaking |
March 24 - Big Breaks for Married Couples Offered in Latest House Tax Bill |
March 24 - Deal on State Consultations Eases Path for Brownfields Bill |
March 24 - House Budget Resolution Provides Leeway; Senate Talks of Rebating Part of '01 Surplus |
March 24 - Nussle's Dueling Responsibilities |
March 31 - Bush's Budget Now Before the Senate, Where Moderates Wield the Critical Votes |
March 31 - Education Is Budget's Biggest Winner, But School Allies Still Aren't Happy |
March 31 - House Presses Bush's Tax Agenda While Senate Talks of Stimulus |
April 7 - Baker Makes Headway on Bill to Tighten Regulation of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac |
April 7 - GOP Pays Price for Collapse of Deal With Jeffords on Special Education Funds |
April 7 - It's the Day of the Centrist As Bush Tax Cut Takes a Hit |
April 7 - Law Designed for Curbing Deficits Becomes GOP Tool for Cutting Taxes |
April 14 - Bush's Frugal Bottom Line Ensures a Rough Conference |
May 5 - Budget Deal's Ungainly Pause Is Inches From the Finish Line |
May 12 - Budget Resolution Highlights |
May 12 - GOP Budget Resolution Squeaks By, But Implementation Will Be Tougher |
May 19 - Treasury: More for IRS, Enforcement |
May 26 - Commerce: Power-Sharing Leadership |
June 2 - A Top High-Tech Tax Wish |
June 2 - Tax Debate Assured a Long Life As Bush, GOP Press for New Cuts |
June 2 - Tax Package's Timetable |
June 9 - House Leaders Refuse to Take Up Senate-Passed Bankruptcy Bill |
June 23 - Bankruptcy Law Rewrite Remains at an Impasse Despite Senate Power Shift |
June 23 - Congress Chafes at States' Slow Progress In Streamlining Insurance Regulation |
June 23 - Leaders Vow Supplemental Bill Will Set Example of Restraint |
June 30 - Bill to Cut SEC Fees Is Stalled By New Concern About Cost |
June 30 - Durbin Lifts Hold on Nomination Of Graham to Regulatory Office |
June 30 - House Committee Adds Privacy Protections To Insurance Fraud Bill |
June 30 - House Panel's CJS Spending Bill Would Scale Back Bush's Cuts For SBA, Law Enforcement |
June 30 - Wellstone Vows to Resist Action on Bankruptcy Bill |
June 30 - Wielding the Waiver: PAYGO Rule, Budget Cap As Political Weapons |
July 14 - Defense Budget Boost 'in Play' |
July 14 - Shrinking Surplus Promotes Restraint As Supplemental Heads to Conference |
July 14 - Trust Funds Take Center Stage As Talk of 'Deficits' Is Revived |
July 21 - Bankruptcy Bill Calls for More Judges |
July 21 - Panel Backs Normal Trade With Vietnam |
July 21 - Senate Clears Way for Conference On Bankruptcy Overhaul Bill; Timetable Remains Uncertain |
August 4 - Railroad Bill Passes House, Budget Hurdle |
August 11 - 'Extenders' Could Be Up Next |
August 11 - Pressure Building for Congress To Tackle Tax Simplification |
August 11 - Rewriting Business Depreciation Rules: Economic Stimulus vs. Budgetary Cost |
September 1 - Armed Services Panels Go Out on Limb In Trying to Enact Bush's Full Request |
September 1 - Blame Laid, Promises Revisited As Surplus Estimates Shrink |
September 1 - Fresh From a Set of Hill Victories, Can Labor Keep the Momentum? |
September 1 - Hoffa Seeks End to Oversight |
September 1 - Immigration Debate Gains Intensity As Hill Awaits Details From Bush |
September 1 - Trade and Consequences: Taking 'Fast Track' Debate on the Road |
September 8 - Between the Lockbox And a Hard Place |
September 8 - Bush Calls Issue 'Incredibly Complex' After Mexico's Fox Urges Haste On Revised U.S. Immigration Policy |
September 8 - Wariness of Farm Bill's Long-Term Cost Could Set Tone for Budget Debates |
September 15 - Cautious on the Economy |
September 15 - Emergency Funds to Be Divided Between Recovery and Retaliation |
September 15 - Obey Sounds a Solitary Warning Against Carte Blanche |
September 15 - Quiet Tension Over Spending |
September 15 - Tax Relief for Victims' Families |
September 22 - A Cautious Start for Stimulus |
September 22 - Insurers Seek Protection |
September 22 - Markets Survive Shocks |
September 29 - Hill Deciding Stimulus Is Needed, Even if a Deficit Is the Result |
September 29 - Infrastructure: On the Drawing Board |
September 29 - Tentative Spending Deal Reached As Politics of the Surplus Recede |
September 29 - War Bonds to the Rescue? |
October 13 - Appropriators Make Two Solid Strides Toward Finishing Spending Bills |
October 13 - Hill Looks for Fed's Blessing In Forging Stimulus Package |
October 20 - Looming Policy Expirations May Help Bush's Terrorism Insurance Plan Overcome Cool Response in Congress |
October 20 - Sharply Divergent Stimulus Proposals Taking Shape in House and Senate |
October 20 - Tax Break for Multinationals Decried, But Probably Destined to Pass |
October 20 - The Bush Insurance Proposal |
October 27 - Bush Plan to Bolster Insurance Industry Likely to Be Curbed by Congress |
October 27 - Byrd's Plan for Stimulating Economy: $20 Billion in Public Works Spending |
October 27 - Polarizing Social Issues Resurface In Debate Over Jobless Benefits |
October 27 - Rising Unemployment Claims Drive Policy Debate |
October 27 - War Bonds Bill Passes House; Senate Unsure |
November 3 - Economists Differ on Whether Stimulus Matters Much to Markets or Economy |
November 3 - Online Gambling Curb Approved |
November 3 - Senate at Impasse on Stimulus Bill As Pressure for Action Grows |
November 3 - Terrorism Insurance Bill's Prospects For Passage This Year Are in Doubt As Committees Take Differing Approaches |
November 10 - As Terrorism Insurance Bills Advance, Much Compromising Remains to Be Done |
November 10 - ECONOMICS & FINANCE: Swing Democrats Exact a Price For Supporting Stimulus Bill |
November 10 - ECONOMICS & FINANCE: Thinly Backed Stimulus Bill Moves to Hostile Senate Floor |
November 17 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Stimulus Deal May Materialize Amid Smoke of Partisan Warfare |
November 17 - LAW & JUDICIARY: As Economy Sags, So Do Prospects For Bankruptcy Bills Prompt Enactment |
November 24 - Bush-Daschle Summit May Be Only Hope for Stimulus Bill |
November 24 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Stimulus Deadlock: Will Bush Intervene? |
November 24 - Editor's Notebook: Measures of Confidence |
November 24 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Terrorism Insurance Safety Net Bill Set for Floor Action in House; Senate Measure Still on Drawing Board |
December 1 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Added Pressure Has Little Effect On Stimulus Bills Glacial Pace |
December 1 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: House Passes Insurance Bailout, But Curbs on Right to Sue Cloud Bills Prospects in Senate |
December 1 - Tax Holiday: A Welcome Icebreaker |
December 8 - GOP Offer of Concessions in Stimulus Bill Fails to Avert Another Breakdown of Talks |
December 8 - Health Care, Other Domestic Issues Expected Back for Second Session |
December 8 - IRS, Businesses Warn of Difficulties With Plans for Tax 'Holiday' and Rebates |
December 8 - Reappearance of Red Ink Foreshadows Fiercely Partisan Exercise Of Raising the National Debt Limit |
December 8 - Students Set Out to Form a Perfect Union: The Constitution and the Dollar Bill |
December 15 - Business Hopes for a Boost |
December 15 - In Stimulus Bill Negotiations, It's Time to Deal or Die |
December 15 - No Urgency on Debt Ceiling |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Economic Stimulus |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Tax Cuts (Vote 45) |
December 22 - Stimulus Bill Succumbs, Taking Tax Issues With It |