January 2 - 103rd CONGRESS: Committee Rosters Energy and Commerce - 27:17 |
January 2 - 103rd CONGRESS: Committee Rosters Natural Resources - 26:17 |
January 2 - 103rd CONGRESS: Committee Rosters Science, Space and Technology - 33:22 |
January 9 - ENERGY: Deficit, Environmental Worries Push Fuel Taxes to Forefront |
January 23 - After Friction-Free Hearing, O'Leary Is Waved Through |
January 30 - ENERGY: Energy Taxes Offer Clinton A Choice of Enemies |
February 13 - Biggest of the Big Tickets |
February 13 - ENVIRONMENT: White House Pushes Senate Bill Lifting EPA to Cabinet Level |
February 13 - SCIENCE: Space Station, Super Collider In Perilous Waters Again |
February 13 - Ten Environmental Nettles That Await the 103rd Congress |
February 13 - The Battlegrounds |
February 20 - Special Report: Clinton's Program -- Energy |
February 20 - Special Report: Clinton's Program -- Environment/Interior |
February 27 - SECTION NOTES: EPA Must Enforce Cancer Law On Pesticides, Court Says |
March 6 - SECTION NOTES: Two Bills Seek Compromise Between Miners, Ranchers |
March 20 - Bumpers Goes After 'Giveaways' |
March 20 - ENVIRONMENT: Economic, Ecological Climate Favors Mining Law Overhaul |
March 20 - SECTION NOTES: Natural Resources Approves Bird Refuge in Idaho |
March 27 - Bill Elevating EPA to Cabinet Worries Environmentalists |
April 3 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Senate Panel Votes To End Environment Council |
April 3 - LAND-USE LAW: Bill Forges Pact For Land Users |
April 3 - President Will Not Use Budget To Rewrite Land-Use Laws |
April 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Subcommittee OKs Bill On Coast Guard Safety Law |
April 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Witt As Director of FEMA |
April 3 - Western Wrangles |
April 10 - TAXES: Clinton Revises Energy Tax |
April 10 - THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: Energy |
April 24 - ENVIRONMENT: First Debate Volleys Fly On Elevating the EPA |
April 24 - ENVIRONMENT: Panel OKs Measure On Water Quality |
April 24 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Limit Mining On Public Lands |
April 24 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Recreation Area In New Mexico |
April 24 - SECTION NOTES: U.S. To Sign Treaty On Biodiversity |
April 24 - TAXES: Concessions on Energy Levy Stir Call for More Breaks |
May 1 - ENVIRONMENT: Bill on Drinking Water Caught Between Two Committees |
May 1 - ENVIRONMENT: Mitchell's Pact Assures Vote On Cabinet Status for EPA |
May 8 - ENVIRONMENT: Panel OKs Imposing Royalty On Hard-Rock Minerals |
May 8 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate OKs Elevation of EPA; Hurdles Await in the House |
May 15 - ENVIRONMENT: House Saves Cave, Not Montana Land |
May 15 - From Rookie to Insider |
May 15 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Energy and Commerce OKs Bill To Sell Radio Frequencies |
May 22 - AGRICULTURE: Pact Envisions New Mission For Rural Electric Agency |
May 22 - COMMERCE: Service Station Bill Advances |
May 22 - SECTION NOTES: Energy Bill Would Require Plan for Magnetic Fusion Research |
May 22 - The Texans' Troubled Trophies |
May 29 - 'Recycling' Waste: The Debate |
May 29 - Budget-Cutting Blaze Could End |
May 29 - Building a Better Reactor |
May 29 - ENERGY: House Panel Weighs Gas Station Bill |
May 29 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate OKs Mining Law Rewrite; Bill Is Backed by Industry |
June 12 - As Budget Pressures Boil Over, |
June 12 - CORRECTION: Advanced Nuclear Reactor Programs. |
June 12 - Energy Tax, Medicare Cuts Focus of Senate Battle |
June 12 - ENERGY/COMMERCE: Dispute Threatens Compromise On Gas Station Bill |
June 12 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Panel Uses Park, Mining Fees To Meet Deficit-Cutting Goal |
June 12 - ENVIRONMENT: Interior Nominee's Vote Stalled |
June 12 - ENVIRONMENT: Many Find Babbitt Too Valuable To Move From Cabinet to Court |
June 12 - ENVIRONMENT: Yellowstone Park Bill Advances |
June 12 - Measuring the Btu Tax |
June 12 - No Guts, All Glory - So Far |
June 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Forces Poised for Clash Over Costly Super Collider |
June 19 - Clean Air vs. New Roads |
June 19 - Energy-Water Development Spending (chart) |
June 19 - ENERGY: Panel Shifts Course On Nuclear Fund |
June 19 - ENVIRONMENT: Colorado Wilderness Bill Moves, Minus Federal Water Right |
June 19 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Panel OKs Interior Nominee |
June 19 - SECTION NOTES: Babbitt Testifies in Favor Of California Desert Bill |
June 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel OKs Interior Bill Addressing Clinton's Agenda |
June 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Takes Sharp Knife To Energy, Water Bill |
June 26 - Big Science Votes |
June 26 - ENVIRONMENT: Two Senators Propose Rewrite Of Clean Water Law |
July 3 - 'Dear Friends' Push and Shove, Delaying Transportation Bill |
July 3 - Absentees, Switchers Saved Freedom |
July 3 - ARMS CONTROL: Administration Expected To Continue Moratorium |
July 3 - Clinton's Forest Compromise Is Assailed From All Sides |
July 3 - INTERIOR: Senate Confirms Frampton |
July 3 - PUBLIC LANDS: Panel Approves Wilderness Bill |
July 10 - RECONCILIATION: Annexation Provision Is Hurdle Between Two REA Proposals |
July 17 - Interior Spending (chart) |
July 24 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
July 24 - Negotiators Begin To Shape Deficit-Reduction Deal |
July 24 - Study of Abandoned Mines Stirs An Already 'Spirited Debate' |
July 24 - Twists and Turns for Fuels Tax |
July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: Restoring Many House Excisions, Senate Panel OKs Interior Bill |
July 31 - INTERIOR: Opponents Fear Ramifications Of Plant and Animal Survey |
July 31 - Largest Superconductor Subcontractors (chart) |
July 31 - Oversight Questions Nag Effort To Save Super Collider Again |
July 31 - Panel Follows Path of Caution In Sending Bill to House |
July 31 - SECTION NOTES: Bills Boost 'Green' Technology, Cleaner Indoor Environment |
July 31 - The Secretary's About-Face |
August 7 - BLM Bill Pulled in House |
August 7 - OTHER PROGRAM CHANGES: Natural Resources |
August 7 - PUBLIC LANDS: Wilderness Bill Moves Forward |
August 7 - SCIENCE: Collider 'Problems' Lead O'Leary To Replace Its Main Contractor |
August 7 - TAXES: New Levies on Gas and the Rich Would Yield $240 Billion |
August 7 - With Grazing Fee Hike Certain, Question Becomes How Much |
August 14 - PUBLIC LANDS: Administration Aims to Increase Grazing Fees, Tighten Rules |
August 14 - SECTION NOTES: O'Leary Defends Estimate Of Collider Costs |
September 4 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: GOVERNMENT and COMMERCE |
September 18 - Interior Spending (chart) |
September 18 - Senate Votes To Block Increase In Grazing Fees Next Year |
September 25 - AGRICULTURE: Clinton Offers Pesticide Policy In Bid To Break Deadlock |
September 25 - Approriations: Super Collider Cruises Past Senate Appropriators |
September 25 - PUBLIC LANDS: California Desert Bill Stalls In Senate Energy Panel |
September 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill on REA Changes Wins Panel's OK |
September 25 - SECTION NOTES: Measure To Extend Authority On Grain Fee Approved |
September 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Extends Exemption From Marine Mammal Ban |
October 2 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Super Collider, Advanced Reactor Withstand Assaults in Senate |
October 2 - COMMUNICATIONS: REA Restructuring Passes House |
October 2 - Energy-Water Development Spending (chart) |
October 2 - PUBLIC LANDS: Bill To Protect California Desert Narrowly Clears One Hurdle |
October 2 - PUBLIC LANDS: Prospects Are Poor for Enacting Mining Fees This Year |
October 2 - SECTION NOTES: Radon Disclosure Legislation Advances in House |
October 9 - Biological Survey Bill Halted After Heated House Debate |
October 9 - SECTION NOTES: Merchant Marine Subcommittee OKs Bill for Climate Research |
October 9 - SECTION NOTES: S1126 Would Protect Marine Populations |
October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Negotiators Preserve Collider, Setting Up House Showdown |
October 16 - Power of Tradition |
October 16 - SECTION NOTES: Action Breaks Logjam Over Wool Subsidies |
October 16 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Aims To Improve Drinking Water |
October 16 - SECTION NOTES: Fate of Rocket Motor Project To Be Put to House Vote |
October 23 - $11 Billion Science Project Collides With House Freshmen's Fiscal Reality |
October 23 - AGRICULTURE: Cuts in Subsidy Programs Rattle Farm Coalition |
October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense, D.C., Interior Bills Force Second Stopgap CR |
October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Grazing Fee Filibuster Continues, Bottling Up Interior Spending |
October 23 - Energy-Water Development |
October 23 - ENVIRONMENT: Clinton Offers Plan On Global Warming |
October 23 - How the Freshmen Voted |
October 23 - Interior Spending (chart) |
October 23 - Picking Procedural Locks |
October 23 - SECTION NOTES: Merchant Marine Committee Finishes Its NOAA Work |
October 23 - Super Collider Backers Cave After Pivotal House Vote |
October 30 - Energy-Water Development Spending (chart) |
October 30 - ENVIRONMENT: Houses Passes Bill Mandating National Biological Survey |
October 30 - INSURANCE: Energy Panel Gains Advantage In 'Redlining' Turf War |
October 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill Focusing On Indoor Air Pollution |
October 30 - Senate Clears Energy Spending, Says Last Rites for Collider |
November 13 - A Chronology |
November 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: The Filibuster Ends; Bill Clears; Babbitt Can Still Raise Fees |
November 13 - SECTION NOTES: Congress Clears EPA Grants For Indian Reservations |
November 13 - SECTION NOTES: Marine Mammal Act Clears Committee |
November 13 - SECTION NOTES: Quake Preparedness Bill Advances |
November 13 - TRANSPORTATION: Hazardous Materials Bill Gets Passengers |
November 20 - DISASTER RELIEF: More Flood Aid Approved |
November 20 - ENVIRONMENT: House Easily Passes Overhaul Of 1872 Mining Law |
November 20 - ENVIRONMENT: Rules Panel Leaves Both Parties Upset With EPA Cabinet Bill |
November 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Bill Permitting DOE To Use Minority-Owned Banks |
November 27 - SESSION WRAP-UP NOTES: Senate Clears Bill Modifying Energy Assistance Payments |
December 11 - 1993 SUMMARY OF MAJOR LEGISLATION: GOVERNMENT and COMMERCE |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES CAUGHT IN A CROSSFIRE -- Fiscal Year 1994 |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES Energy and Water Development -- Fiscal Year 1994 |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES Fewer 'Earmarks,' Lighter Bill -- Fiscal Year 1994 |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES Interior -- Fiscal Year 1994 |
December 18 - SPECIAL REPORT: 1993 BUDGET-RECONCILIATION SUMMARY |