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 16 - EPA ADMINISTRATOR: Browner Short on Specifics In Confirmation Hearing |
January 23 - INTERIOR DEPARTMENT: Babbitt Leans on His Actions On Way To Confirmation |
January 30 - ENERGY: Energy Taxes Offer Clinton A Choice of Enemies |
February 6 - PUBLIC WORKS: Lawmakers Scrambling for Input On Still-Sketchy Jobs Package |
February 13 - Biggest of the Big Tickets |
February 13 - ENVIRONMENT: White House Pushes Senate Bill Lifting EPA to Cabinet Level |
February 13 - From Conflict to Coexistence: New Politics of Environment |
February 13 - Ten Environmental Nettles That Await the 103rd Congress |
February 13 - The Battlegrounds |
February 20 - Special Report: Clinton's Program -- Environment/Interior |
February 27 - SECTION NOTES: EPA Must Enforce Cancer Law On Pesticides, Court Says |
March 6 - PUBLIC LANDS: Bumpers Sees a Treasure Chest |
March 6 - SECTION NOTES: Two Bills Seek Compromise Between Miners, Ranchers |
March 6 - Top 10 Park Concessioners (chart) |
March 13 - CLARIFICATION: Park concessioners. |
March 13 - ENVIRONMENT: President To Stage Timber Summit |
March 13 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Bill On Idaho Refuge |
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 20 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Bill Requiring Miners To Notify Ranchers of Digging |
March 27 - Bill Elevating EPA to Cabinet Worries Environmentalists |
March 27 - Pollution Clogs the Transfer Of Land to Civilian Uses |
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 - THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: Environment |
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 |
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 - Dole Delays Fight |
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 8 - SECTION NOTES: Indian Bills Advance To Full Committee |
May 15 - ENVIRONMENT: Alaska Fishing Bill Gets Quick OK |
May 15 - ENVIRONMENT: House Saves Cave, Not Montana Land |
May 15 - PUBLIC WORKS: Heftiest Fees Land On Heaviest Planes |
May 15 - RECONCILIATION: Bill Extending Fees On Ships Advances |
May 22 - AGRICULTURE: Pact Envisions New Mission For Rural Electric Agency |
May 22 - MERCHANT MARINE: House Panel Floats Maritime Plan |
May 22 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Acquisition of Montana Forestland |
May 29 - 'Recycling' Waste: The Debate |
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 - 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 12 - TRADE: Panel OKs Change In Timber Rules |
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 - INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS: Perennial Grazing Fee Fight Roughs Up Spending Bill |
June 19 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Ginsburg, Economy, Budget Encourage Upbeat Clinton |
June 19 - SECTION NOTES: Babbitt Testifies in Favor Of California Desert Bill |
June 19 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes Toto Revise Log-Export Ban |
June 19 - TRANSPORTATION: Goals of Mammoth Highway Bill Are Curbed by Underfunding |
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 - ENVIRONMENT: Two Senators Propose Rewrite Of Clean Water Law |
June 26 - House Votes Signal Big Trouble For Big-Ticket Projects |
June 26 - SECTION NOTES: Inouye Upbraids Indian Bureau Over Trust Fund Management |
July 3 - Absentees, Switchers Saved Freedom |
July 3 - AGRICULTURE: Calls for Pesticide Reform Linked to New Report |
July 3 - Clinton's Forest Compromise Is Assailed From All Sides |
July 3 - How They Voted (chart) |
July 3 - INTERIOR: Grazing Fees May Hop a Ride On New BLM Legislation |
July 3 - INTERIOR: Senate Confirms Frampton |
July 3 - PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Plan Aims To End Logjam Between Timber, Owl |
July 3 - PUBLIC LANDS: Panel Approves Wilderness Bill |
July 3 - SECTION NOTES: Authorization Approved For EPA R and D Office |
July 3 - SECTION NOTES: Committee Backs Funding Hike For Memorial in Guam |
July 3 - SECTION NOTES: Council Would Develop Strategy For Marketing 'Green' Exports |
July 3 - TRADE: Court Ruling Jeopardizes Approval of NAFTA |
July 10 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Mississippi Flood Relief, Spending Bills Await |
July 17 - Adhering to President's Agenda, House OKs Interior Spending |
July 17 - Congress Must Find Flood Aid Despite Tough Budget Times |
July 17 - ENVIRONMENT: Survey Would Inventory Every Plant, Animal |
July 17 - Insurance Finds Few Takers |
July 17 - Interior Spending (chart) |
July 17 - No Bill Yet for Forest Compromise |
July 17 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill Would Reauthorize Canal Commission for a Year |
July 17 - SECTION NOTES: Numerous Panels Want a Crack At Traficant's Smoking Bill |
July 17 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Deer for BIA |
July 17 - TRANSPORTATION: States Actively Seek a Share Of 'Demonstration' Projects |
July 24 - After the Flood |
July 24 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
July 24 - Members Seeking Budget Cuts Bottle Up Flood Relief |
July 24 - PUBLIC LANDS: Wilderness Bill Passes House |
July 24 - SECTION NOTES: House Subcommittee Backs Survey of Plants, Animals |
July 24 - Senate Agriculture Funding Moves Quickly to Floor |
July 24 - Study of Abandoned Mines Stirs An Already 'Spirited Debate' |
July 24 - Twists and Turns for Fuels Tax |
July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate Move on Flood Aid As Costs Continue To Rise |
July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: Restoring Many House Excisions, Senate Panel OKs Interior Bill |
July 31 - INDIANS: Senate OKs Upgrade Of Tribal Courts |
July 31 - Largest Superconductor Subcontractors (chart) |
July 31 - Oversight Questions Nag Effort To Save Super Collider Again |
July 31 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Ease Impact Of Freedom Layoffs |
July 31 - SECTION NOTES: Bills Boost 'Green' Technology, Cleaner Indoor Environment |
July 31 - The Secretary's About-Face |
July 31 - Which Agencies Get What (chart) |
August 7 - AGRICULTURE: Panel Approves Consolidation |
August 7 - OTHER PROGRAM CHANGES: Natural Resources |
August 7 - PUBLIC LANDS: Wilderness Bill Moves Forward |
August 7 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Ease Lending In Flood Areas |
August 7 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Let Satellite Carriers Continue Beaming Networks |
August 7 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes To Force Fishing Limits |
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 - ENVIRONMENT: Groups Testing the Waters To Free Captive Whales |
August 14 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Senate Passes Bills On Old Disputes |
August 14 - PUBLIC LANDS: Administration Aims to Increase Grazing Fees, Tighten Rules |
August 14 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Appropriations For Fiscal 1993, 1994 |
August 21 - Controversy and Neglect Bog Down Bill That Had a Quick Start |
August 21 - Poor, Minorities Want Voice In Environmental Choices |
September 4 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: GOVERNMENT and COMMERCE |
September 4 - TRADE: Clinton Team On Attack For NAFTA Support |
September 11 - ENVIRONMENT: Westerners Fight Grazing Fee Hike |
September 18 - Clinton Enlists Big Guns In Push for NAFTA |
September 18 - GOP Wants To See Democrats' Hand Before Getting Into the Game |
September 18 - Interior Spending (chart) |
September 18 - SECTION NOTES: Committee Approves Extension Of Marine Mammal Exemption |
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 - APPROPRIATIONS: Cloud Over Space Station Lifts; Selective Service Also Saved |
September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Grazing-Fee Fight May Delay Interior Spending Bill |
September 25 - Approriations: Super Collider Cruises Past Senate Appropriators |
September 25 - LABOR: Money Woes Likely To Delay Black Lung Benefits Bill |
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: Federal Share Increased For Flood Repairs |
September 25 - SECTION NOTES: Measure To Extend Authority On Grain Fee Approved |
September 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Extends Exemption From Marine Mammal Ban |
September 25 - Subsidies for Seafaring Assistance |
October 2 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
October 2 - Energy-Water Development Spending (chart) |
October 2 - PUBLIC LANDS: Bill To Protect California Desert Narrowly Clears One Hurdle |
October 2 - PUBLIC LANDS: House Rejects Ban On Grazing Fees |
October 2 - PUBLIC LANDS: Prospects Are Poor for Enacting Mining Fees This Year |
October 2 - SECTION NOTES: Grain Fees Renewal Stalls Over Water Use Dispute |
October 2 - SECTION NOTES: Radon Disclosure Legislation Advances in House |
October 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Babbit and Western Democrats Reach Pact on Grazing Fees |
October 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Building Bill Approved |
October 9 - Biological Survey Bill Halted After Heated House Debate |
October 9 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would More Strictly Enforce Federal Flood Insurance Rules |
October 9 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Bill To Help Areas Hurt by Timber Limits |
October 9 - SECTION NOTES: Merchant Marine Subcommittee OKs Bill for Climate Research |
October 9 - SECTION NOTES: S1126 Would Protect Marine Populations |
October 9 - SECTION NOTES: White House, Environmentalists Agree on Timber Harvesting |
October 9 - Senate Energy Panel Approves California Desert Bill |
October 9 - The Grazing Fee Plan |
October 9 - The Power of a Protector |
October 9 - To Hunt or Not To Hunt |
October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Westerners Promise Filibuster To Kill Grazing Fee Increase |
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 16 - Sound and Fury Over NAFTA Overshadows the Debate |
October 23 - A $100 Million Burial |
October 23 - AGRICULTURE: Cuts in Subsidy Programs Rattle Farm Coalition |
October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Grazing Fee Filibuster Continues, Bottling Up Interior Spending |
October 23 - Bill To Ease HUD Disposals Gets Panel's Go-Ahead |
October 23 - Energy-Water Development |
October 23 - ENVIRONMENT: Clinton Offers Plan On Global Warming |
October 23 - House: Yes to Selective Service, But No to Rocket Motor |
October 23 - Interior Spending (chart) |
October 23 - SECTION NOTES: Clinton Signs $10.1 Billion Military Construction Bill |
October 23 - Super Collider Backers Cave After Pivotal House Vote |
October 23 - TRADE: Clinton Turns Up Volume On NAFTA Sales Pitch |
October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: As Interior Filibuster Continues, Risks for Westerners Grow |
October 30 - Energy-Water Development Spending (chart) |
October 30 - ENVIRONMENT: House Subcommittee Approves Slightly Weakened Mining Bill |
October 30 - ENVIRONMENT: Houses Passes Bill Mandating National Biological Survey |
October 30 - Interior Bill Highlights |
October 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill Focusing On Indoor Air Pollution |
October 30 - Senate Clears Energy Spending, Says Last Rites for Collider |
November 6 - Bill Elevating EPA to Cabinet Finally Heads for the Floor |
November 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Bill Revamping Mining Law Goes to House Floor |
November 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Fish Conservation Bill Passes House |
November 6 - HOUSING: Flood Insurance Fund Bill Targets High-Risk Areas |
November 6 - SECTION NOTES: Conservation Foundation Extended Five Years |
November 6 - SECTION NOTES: Hazardous- Materials Law Put on Hold |
November 6 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Relocation Aid For Flood Victims |
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: Grain Inspection Bill Sent to Clinton |
November 13 - SECTION NOTES: Marine Mammal Act Clears Committee |
November 13 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes to Protect Yellowstone Geysers |
November 13 - SECTION NOTES: Quake Preparedness Bill Advances |
November 13 - TRANSPORTATION: Hazardous Materials Bill Gets Passengers |
November 13 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Crime, NAFTA Highlight Rush to Adjournment |
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: Bill Protecting Old Faithful Gains House Approval |
November 20 - SECTION NOTES: House Agriculture Committee OKs Marketing Programs |
November 27 - COMMERCE: Senate Approves Treaty Changes |
November 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Bill Elevating EPA to Cabinet Is Left for Next Year |
November 27 - SESSION WRAP-UP NOTES: Endangered Fountain Darter Finds Help in the House |
November 27 - SESSION WRAP-UP NOTES: House Bill Would Promote Salmon Population |
November 27 - SESSION WRAP-UP NOTES: Improved Water Flow Is Goal Of Everglades Bill |
November 27 - SESSION WRAP-UP NOTES: President Gets Bill To Protect Nation's Deepest Cave |
November 27 - TRADE: Routine Approval in Senate Wraps Up NAFTA Fight |
November 27 - TRANSPORTATION: Hazardous Goods Act Reapproved |
December 4 - A Boon for Baltimore |
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 CHANGING HARVEST -- 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 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES Military Construction -- Fiscal Year 1994 |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES Parkland Special Projects -- Fiscal Year 1994 |
December 11 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES WESTERN ISSUES REIGN -- Fiscal Year 1994 |
December 18 - KEY HOUSE VOTE 14: Mining Royalties |
December 18 - KEY HOUSE VOTE 9: Endangered Species/Property Rights |
December 18 - SPECIAL REPORT: 1993 BUDGET-RECONCILIATION SUMMARY |