January 4 - INDEPENDENT STATES: More U.S. Involvement Sought In Post-Soviet Affairs |
January 4 - Since the War Vote |
January 4 - Vote Against War Losing Its Punch |
January 4 - With Saddam Still in Power, Hill Ponders Next Step |
January 11 - Bush Emphasizes 'Progress' At End of Japanese Trip |
January 11 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Helms Sweeps Through Panel, Fires Nine GOP Staff Aides |
January 11 - JAPANESE TRADE TALKS: Automakers Praise 'First Step' But Lament Lack of Progress |
January 11 - TRADE TALKS: Outline of Mutual Agreement To End U.S. - Japan Discord |
January 18 - Backing Away From Confrontation |
January 18 - How U.S. Aid to Israel Has Grown After War of '73 and Peace of '79 |
January 18 - Lawmakers Seek Political Cover As Israel Aid Delay Runs Out |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- Annual Business Foreign Aid: An Uncertain Future |
January 18 - Question of Ability To Repay Loans Shadows Israel's Guarantee Request |
January 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Seeks $645 Million for Ex-Soviet States |
January 25 - SECTION NOTES: Leahy Urges Fast Action on Israel's Request |
February 8 - Baker Remains Tight-Lipped On Policy Toward Israel |
February 8 - Broadcasting Abroad |
February 8 - INTELLIGENCE: Chairmen Boren, McCurdy Urge Leaner, Revamped Operations |
February 8 - INVESTIGATIONS: House Sets Task Force To Probe Arms-for-Hostages Allegations |
February 8 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Would Give Reprieve To Haitian Boat People |
February 8 - The Push To Scrap an Arsenal |
February 15 - FOREIGN POLICY: Regional Flash Points Demand Attention of Lawmakers |
February 15 - MILITARY PERSONNEL: Bush's Europe Troop Plan Faces Some Paring, Lawmakers Say |
February 22 - Foreign Relations Moves Ahead On Question-Riddled START |
February 22 - INTELLIGENCE: Plans Aimed at More Efficiency May Cut Quality, Panel Told |
February 22 - Israel: Appropriators Toughen Stance On Loan Guarantee Request |
February 22 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Committee Votes To Suspend Repatriation of Haitians |
February 29 - CORRECTION: 1991 Senate Vote 151. |
February 29 - FOREIGN AID: Lawmakers Take Another Stab At Passing an Aid Measure |
February 29 - INTELLIGENCE: Gates Tells of Enduring Threats To U.S., World Security |
February 29 - INTELLIGENCE: Report Traces Byrd's Influence On CIA's Choice of His State |
February 29 - Leahy Hunts for Middle Ground On Israel Loan Guarantees |
February 29 - Senate Clears China MFN Bill; Bush Has Promised Veto |
February 29 - The Israel Options: Baker's Ultimatum |
March 7 - Bush's New U.N. Fund Request Hits Resistance on the Hill |
March 7 - INTELLIGENCE: Hearings Yield No Clear Path On the Road to Change |
March 7 - Loan Backing Still Up in Air |
March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Bush's Participation Sought At U.N. Conference |
March 7 - Veto Message on China MFN Status |
March 14 - FOREIGN AID: Senate Panel Sets Markup On Israel Guarantees |
March 14 - Panel OKs Draft Bills in Rare But Perhaps Futile Action |
March 14 - Pleas for Aid to Former Soviets Echo From Nixon to the Hill |
March 14 - TRADE: House OKs Override Of China MFN |
March 21 - FOREIGN AID: Bush, Lawmakers Shuffle Blame As Israel Loan Talks Crumble |
March 21 - Frayed Friendship |
March 21 - Hill Angry Again Over Iraq's Off-and-On Arms Compliance |
March 21 - Stopgap Spending Bill on Horizon |
March 21 - TRADE: Veto of China MFN Upheld by Senate |
March 28 - Congress' Clock Winds Down On Stopgap Funding |
March 28 - FOREIGN AID: Members Look to Bush To Lead On Aid to Ex-Soviet Republics |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Cheney Spurns Legislation To Revamp Intelligence |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Hamilton Cites Sales Of Arms to Mideast |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: McCurdy Urges CIA To Study More Options for a Move |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Members Seek To Toughen Sanctions on Cuba |
March 28 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Time Running Out On Foreign Aid |
April 4 - AGRICULTURE AID: Credits to Ex-Soviet Republics Near $5 Billion In Two Years |
April 4 - Bush's Plan |
April 4 - Bush's Plan To Help Ex-Soviets Gets Good Reception on Hill |
April 4 - Clinton Chides Bush |
April 4 - ECONOMIC AID: International Effort Is Shaped To Boost Russian Economy |
April 4 - FOREIGN AID: Stopgap Bill Becomes Law After Deadline Threat |
April 4 - Foreign Operations Appropriations (chart) |
April 4 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Bush Asks Nation's Support For Aid To Former Soviets |
April 4 - Proposed Aid to Russia (chart) |
April 11 - FOREIGN AID: Baker Lobbies for Quick Action On Assistance for Ex-Soviets |
April 11 - FOREIGN AID: Lawmakers Support Decision To Halt Funding for Peru |
April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Aid Issue Reverberates At Pro-Israel Meeting |
April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Supports Food For Horn of Africa |
April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Members Support Recognition Of Yugoslavia's Republics |
April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Measure To Curb Nuclear Arms |
April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Report Rebuff Over Travel to China |
April 25 - Nuclear Weapons Complex Braces For Overhaul |
May 2 - Comparing Countries' Debts (chart) |
May 2 - FOREIGN AID: Panels Moving To Help Ex-Soviets, But Domestic Concerns Linger |
May 2 - POWS: Open Doors but Little Evidence Greet Senators in Vietnam |
May 9 - FOREIGN AID: Congress Demands Details On Ex-Soviet Assistance |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Approves Changes In Food-Aid Regulations |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeks Guidelines For Hong Kong Policy |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Safeguard Chinese Students Clears Panel |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Boren Urges Probe Of Jonas Savimbi |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Switches Position On Anti-Castro Bill |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel To Draft Intelligence Bill |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: October Surprise Panel Borrows FBI Agents |
May 9 - THE BUDGET: Defense-Foreign Aid Tradeoff Key to Conferees' Dealings |
May 9 - TRADE: Agreement Made With Ukraine |
May 9 - TRADE: Japan, Bush are Targets Of Democratic Bill |
May 16 - African Nations Lose Their Appeal For U.S. Aid as Cold War Thaws |
May 16 - Foreign Aid's Maze |
May 16 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Senate Panel, With Baker's Help, Approves Aid to Former Soviets |
May 16 - INTELLIGENCE: Bill To Cut Spending Gets OK; Agency Reshuffle Left Out |
May 16 - Lugar's Low-Keyed Persistence |
May 16 - Ranking Largess (chart) |
May 16 - Support for Foreign Aid Wilting Under Glare of Domestic Woes |
May 16 - TRADE: White House Pushes Trade Pact, Blasts Democrats' Bill |
May 16 - TRANSPORTATION: House Backs Effort To Sink Foreign Ship Subsidies |
May 16 - Where U.S. Aid Has Gone |
May 23 - CUBA: Humanitarian Aid Questions Delay Sanctions Bill |
May 23 - Democrats Aim To Reignite Iraqi Aid Controversy |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Hong Kong Bill Passes Senate |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Science Subcommittee OKs U.S.-Latin Bill |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Measure Would Ease Chinese Residency Rules |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes Sanctions Against Serbs |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Back Weinberger In Iran-Contra Probe |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Torture Accounts of Kurds Coming to the U.S. |
May 23 - Tilting Toward Iraq |
May 30 - Aspin Wants $274 Billion, $3 Billion Below Cap |
May 30 - CORRECTION: Iraqi Files |
May 30 - FOREIGN POLICY: Members Decry Haiti Policy, Vow To Seek Changes |
May 30 - Lessons Learned |
May 30 - POSTWAR IRAQ: Feuding Escalated By Documents |
May 30 - RETIREMENT: Fascell Announces Retirement; Hamilton Likely To Ascend |
June 6 - 12 Probes, Few Convicted |
June 6 - A History of MFN Votes |
June 6 - A Long and Winding Probe |
June 6 - Bipartisan Alliance Leaves Mark On Pentagon Spending Bill |
June 6 - Burden-Sharing Wins Support |
June 6 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: House Panel Moves To Tighten Economic Sanctions on Cuba |
June 6 - FOREIGN AID: Senate May Not Act on Funds Before Yeltsin Pays a Visit |
June 6 - Of Documents and Doctoring |
June 6 - POSTWAR IRAQ: Panel Democrats Poised To Ask For Probe of Help to Saddam |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: House Reaffirms Support For Kurds in Iraq |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Pell Urges Action In Yugoslavia |
June 6 - TRADE: Bush, Democrats Renew Battle Over MFN Status for China |
June 13 - Defending Serbia |
June 13 - FOREIGN AID: Ex-Soviet Aid Takes Back Seat To Domestic Policy Debate |
June 13 - Paying Peacekeepers |
June 13 - SECTION NOTES: Members Offer Legislation To Reverse Haiti Policy |
June 13 - Senators Broach Using Military To Quiet Bosnia-Herzegovina |
June 13 - U.S. Security Aid (chart) |
June 13 - Waning Support for Foreign Aid Marked by Cut in Request |
June 20 - 'There Will Be No More Lies,' Yeltsin Vows to the Nation |
June 20 - Bush, Yeltsin Emerge From Cold War With a Smile and An Arms Agreement |
June 20 - DEVELOPMENT BANKS: $12 Billion IMF Increase Wins House Banking Approval |
June 20 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
June 20 - JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Yeltsin Announce Accord On Speeding Arms Reductions |
June 20 - Panel Mows Into Foreign Aid; Longtime Allies Lose Out |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Ex-Im Reauthorization Preserves Tied Aid |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Sanctions on Against Haiti Get Panel Approval |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Endorse Ban On Nuclear Testing |
June 20 - TRADE: House Gets Started On OPIC Bill |
June 20 - Trading Up |
June 20 - Weinberger Faces Five Counts In Long-Running Probe |
June 20 - Yeltsin Charges onto Capitol Hill, Charms the Life Out of Cold War |
June 20 - Yeltsin Drops a Bombshell |
June 27 - Administration Pushing Senate For Quick Action on START |
June 27 - CORRECTION: Ex-Soviet aid. |
June 27 - FOREIGN AID: House Approves Spending Bill That Slashes Bush Request |
June 27 - INTELLIGENCE: Leaner Authorization Measure Emerges From the House |
June 27 - IRAN-CONTRA: More Indictments Are Possible |
June 27 - New Life for Loan Guarantees? |
June 27 - POWS: Pentagon Knew Soldiers Held After War, Panel Leaders Say |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Panel Approves Ex-Soviet Aid Bill |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Ending MFN for China Sent to House Floor |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Expands Sanctions Against Serbians |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Nunn Urges Military To Help at Home |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Refugee Aid, 'Torture' Lawsuit Cases |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill On U.N. Forces |
June 27 - State Department Official Tells Of Warning About Saddam |
July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Big-Ticket Projects Remain Intact As House Passes Spending Bill |
July 4 - Blocking LTV Sale |
July 4 - DEBT RELIEF: Agriculture Panel Approves Swap |
July 4 - Domestic, Election-Year Worries Fail To Derail Help for Russia |
July 4 - House Committee Tries Anew To Press China for Reforms |
July 4 - On the Defense Front |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: $23 Billion Draft Bill OK'd For Commerce, Justice, State |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: October Surprise Panel Vouches for Bush |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Sarajevo Airlift Inaugurated; Members' Views Divided |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Intelligence Bill |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Seeks Disclosure Of POW/MIA Files |
July 4 - Standing Behind START |
July 4 - What They Are Saying |
July 11 - FOREIGN POLICY: Bill Would Bolster Boycott Law |
July 11 - House Judiciary Democrats Seek Prewar Policy Probe |
July 11 - House Raids Foreign Aid To Fund Roads, Transit |
July 11 - Israel Dilemma |
July 11 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Sees Trade Agreement, Economic Growth Abroad |
July 11 - TRADE: Japan Would Be Chief Target Of House-Passed Bill |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Leftover Funding From War Sought for Other Projects |
July 25 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
July 25 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Senate Panel OKs Bill, But B-2, SDI May Inspire Floor Fights |
July 25 - Democrats Laud Baker's Talents - And Want Him To Stay Put |
July 25 - FOREIGN AID: Strauss Urges House To OK Bill To Help Ex-Soviet Nations |
July 25 - INTERNATIONAL AID: U.N. Forces Urged For Somalia |
July 25 - REFUGEES: Quicker Processing At Airports Urged |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Affirms Ties To Hong Kong |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Chinese, but Not Haitians, Included in Refugee Bill |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Seeks Solutions To Sex Bias in Military |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Pentagon Opens Files On POWs and MIAs |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Sales to Iran, Syria Documented In Records Released by Panel |
July 25 - TRADE: House Tries Again To Restrict MFN Status for China |
July 25 - TRADE: Romania, Albania Get Nod on MFN |
August 1 - Agriculture Spending (chart) |
August 1 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
August 1 - Democrats Stand Behind Bush But Call Him Soft on Saddam |
August 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Israelis To Visit U.S. To Discuss GE Money-Diversion Case |
August 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Senators Assail Decision To Sell Military Parts to Pakistan |
August 1 - NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Congress Edges Closer to Ban On Underground Testing |
August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Citizenship, Residency Issues Addressed by Judiciary Panel |
August 1 - TRADE: Albania, Romania Nearer MFN |
August 8 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Democrats, Republicans Dig In, Trade Shots Over Iraq Policy |
August 8 - Reports of Serbian Atrocities Intensify Calls for Force |
August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Seeks To Clarify U.S.-Hong Kong Ties |
August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Urges U.N. Force Be Deployed in Somalia |
August 8 - To Soften Hardship |
August 8 - With Push From Leadership, House OKs Ex-Soviet Bill |
August 15 - Bush Says Free-Trade Pact Promises Growth, Jobs |
August 15 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Spending Measure Left Hanging; Nunn Vows To Resume Efforts |
August 15 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Democrats' Request for Probe Of Iraq Policy Is Rejected |
August 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Chinese Residency Bill Clears; Other Rule Changes Advance |
August 15 - MIDDLE EAST: $10 Billion Package for Israel Wins Praise on the Hill |
August 15 - POWs/MIAs: Perot Brings Gruff Style to Hill, Confronts Some Criticism |
August 15 - THE BALKANS: House, Senate Join Call for Force, Hope To Send Message to Serbs |
August 15 - Wallop's Mission |
September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: DEFENSE AND FOREIGN POLICY |
September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: ECONOMICS AND FINANCE |
September 12 - CORRECTION: Presidential position on SDI vote. |
September 12 - MIDDLE EAST: Bush Acts on Loan Guarantees, Fighter Plane Sales to Saudis |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Spending Measure Offers SDI $3.8 Billion |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Israel Loan Guarantees Get Subcommittee OK |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: 2,100 Marines Dispatched To Waters off Somalia |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Byrd Insists on a Change In Ex-Soviet Aid Bill |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: House Rejects Probe Of Gonzalez Leaks |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Urges Broadcasts Aimed at China |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill On Hong Kong |
September 19 - Senate Bill Avoids Showdown With $3.8 Billion for SDI |
September 19 - TRADE: Bill Suspends MFN For Yugoslavia |
September 19 - TRADE: Dole May Oppose China MFN If Wheat Sales Suffer |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: IMF, Israel Are Winners in Aid Bill As Action Shifts to Senate Floor |
September 26 - CUBA SANCTIONS: House Joins Senate in Backing Bills To Tighten Embargo |
September 26 - FOREIGN AID: Aid for Former Soviet Republics Nears Likely Approval |
September 26 - INVESTIGATIONS: 'October Surprise' Funds Approved |
September 26 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Chinese Nationals Could Stay in U.S. |
September 26 - MIDDLE EAST: Opponents Attack Sale to Saudis |
September 26 - POWS/MIAS: Witnesses Open Old Wounds; Tempers Flare in Hearing |
September 26 - SECTION NOTES: 750 Ex-Soviet Scientists Would Be Welcome |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT -- Beyond the Campaign COMPETITIVENESS: Strong on Research, Soft on Development |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign EUROPE -- Cold War's Allies May Turn Rivals |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign Further Reading |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign MIDDLE EAST --Whispers of Peace In a Volatile Region |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign TRADE -- Will NAFTA Prove A Policy Prophecy? |
September 26 - TRADE: China MFN Bill Sent to Bush |
September 26 - Two Major Obstacles Dissolve As Time for Talk Winds Down |
October 3 - ARMS REDUCTION: With Cold War's Urgency Faded, The Senate Ratifies START |
October 3 - EXPORT-IMPORT BANK: Staff Fine-Tunes Reauthorization |
October 3 - INTELLIGENCE: Measure Sets 6 Percent Cut In Administration Request |
October 3 - MEMORANDUMS OF DISAPPROVAL: As End of Congress Nears, Bush Turns Often to Veto |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Foreign Relations Backs China Radio Service |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Continuing 'October Surprise' Probe |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Refugee Protections |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Visa Exemption Bill Approved in House |
October 3 - Senate Passes Foreign Aid Bill Backing U.S. Arms for Bosnia |
October 3 - SOVIET AID: Freedom Support Act Gets Final Senate Approval |
October 3 - TRADE: Senate Rejects MFN Override |
October 3 - Turning the Goals of One Presidency |
October 10 - $1.51 Billion Conversion |
October 10 - Bush Signs Defense Measure With SDI Cut, Cancer Funds |
October 10 - Cold War's Demise Shapes $26.3 Billion Spending Bill |
October 10 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending (chart) |
October 10 - Defense Authorization (chart) |
October 10 - EX-SOVIET AID: Attack Surfaces Over Sub Sale, But House Clears Aid Bill |
October 10 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
October 10 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Clears Authorization Bill But Doesn't Push Secrecy Issue |
October 10 - International Flight |
October 10 - Provisions of Ex-Soviet Aid Bill |
October 10 - Retreating Rights Backers Vow Early Return in Next Session |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Ex-Im Bank Reauthorized For Five More Years |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Last-Minute Push On Trade Bills |
October 10 - Spending Bill Trims Some Now, Sets Bigger Cuts in Motion |
October 10 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Debt-for-Nature Swap Gets OK |
October 10 - TRADE: Clinton Endorses NAFTA, Outlines Reservations |
October 10 - TRADE: Hill Clears OPIC Reauthorization |
October 10 - Unsinkable Science |
October 17 - Defense Appropriations (chart) |
October 17 - EXPORT CONTROLS: Three Republicans Halt Export Bill |
October 17 - IRAQ: Boren Leads Renewed Request For Iraq-BNL Investigation |
October 17 - POWs/MIAs: Images in Laos Rice Paddy Divide Senate Panel |
October 17 - Silence and the CIA |
November 14 - IRAN-CONTRA: Panel Democrats, Republicans Seek Independent Counsels |
November 14 - POWS/MIAS: Senate Panel Races Deadline As Nation Honors Veterans |
November 21 - INVESTIGATIONS: Democrats Question Passport Probe |
November 28 - POWS/MIAS: Kerry Urges Reward for Vietnam; Republicans Say It's Premature |
November 28 - SECTION NOTES: 'October Surprise' Probe Finds No Proof of Plot |
November 28 - SECTION NOTES: Nunn, Lugar Warn Against Lull In Help for Ex-Soviet States |
November 28 - SECTION NOTES: U.N. Assembly Opposes Sanctions on Cuba |
November 28 - Warning Bells on NAFTA Sound for Clinton |
December 5 - 'America Will Answer the Call' On Somalia, Bush Says |
December 5 - Foreign Language |
December 5 - Foreign Policy Rules Riddled With Presidential Loopholes |
December 5 - Helms' Hold Over Aid |
December 5 - Hill Backs Sending Troops |
December 5 - INVESTIGATIONS: Senate Wraps Up POW Probe But Big Question Remains |
December 5 - RECESS NOTES: Bush To Sign NAFTA Before Departing |
December 5 - Suffering Spurs Unprecedented Step As U.N. Approves Deployment |
December 5 - UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Council Resolves To Ensure 'Secure Environment' in Somalia |
December 12 - Barr Nixes Independent Counsel, Cites 'No Reasonable Grounds' |
December 12 - RECESS NOTES: Barr Rejects Call for a Counsel To Probe a Counsel |
December 12 - RECESS NOTES: Ex-CIA Official Convicted In Iran-Contra Case |
December 12 - SOMALIA: Operation Puts Sealift Fleet In Glare of Global Stage |
December 19 - KEY HOUSE VOTES: 14. Ex-Soviet Aid |
December 19 - KEY HOUSE VOTES: 15. Foreign Aid |
December 19 - KEY SENATE VOTES: 13. Foreign Aid |
December 19 - KEY SENATE VOTES: 6. Ex-Soviet Aid |
December 19 - SOMALIA: The Question at the Hearing: 'How Do We Get Out?' |