 January 11 - MADELEINE KORBEL ALBRIGHT |
| January 11 - NOMINATION |
| January 11 - SECTION NOTES |
| January 11 - SECTION NOTES |
| January 18 - TRADE |
| January 25 - DEFENSE |
| January 25 - Legislative Outlook |
| January 25 - STATE |
| February 1 - DEFENSE NOTES |
| February 1 - DEFENSE NOTES |
| February 1 - DEFENSE NOTES |
| February 1 - FOREIGN AID |
| February 1 - GOP Warns Richardson on U.N. Overhaul |
| February 1 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE |
| February 1 - Size of Debt Disputed |
| February 1 - Trade |
| February 1 - WHAT'S AHEAD: CLINTON OFFERS BUDGET STATE OF THE UNION |
| February 8 - 1997 Supplemental |
| February 8 - ARMS CONTROL |
| February 8 - Budget: International Affairs |
| February 8 - Directors of Central Intelligencev |
| February 8 - FOREIGN AID |
| February 8 - NOMINATION |
| February 8 - What's Ahead: Clinton, GOP To Meet On Balanced Budget |
| February 15 - House Vote on Family-Planning Aid Deals Abortion Foes Rare Defeat |
| February 15 - Medical Care for Gulf War Vets |
| February 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| February 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| February 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| February 15 - Substitute for Nuclear Tests Debated |
| February 15 - VETERANS AFFAIRS |
| February 15 - Will GOP Renew Missile Defense Drive? |
| February 22 - By CQ Staff |
| March 1 - Budget Amendment Tops Light Agenda |
| March 1 - Chances Improve for Revamp of Agencies |
| March 1 - FOREIGN AID |
| March 1 - TRADE |
| March 8 - CORRECTION |
| March 8 - Controversial Legacy |
| March 8 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 8 - FUNDS PROBE EXPECTED TO GET GO-AHEAD |
| March 8 - Lake's Delays |
| March 8 - NOMINATION |
| March 8 - Section Notes |
| March 8 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 8 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 8 - TRADE |
| March 15 - Arms Modernization, Redeployments Would Drive Costs of Expansion |
| March 15 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| March 15 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 15 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 15 - Hearing Excerpts |
| March 15 - House Pace To Quicken Before Spring Recess |
| March 15 - How Nations Are Judged |
| March 15 - NOMINATION |
| March 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 15 - What the Treaty Requires |
| March 15 - Would-Be Members and Their Prospects |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House International Relations |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House National Security |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Select Intelligence |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Veterans' Affairs |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Armed Services |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Foreign Relations |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Select Intelligence |
| March 22 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 22 - NOMINATION |
| March 22 - Politics Often Part of the Process |
| March 22 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 22 - Tenet Promises Objectivity |
| March 22 - TREATIES |
| March 22 - Washington, Congress Get Spring Break |
| March 29 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 29 - From ABM to NATO |
| March 29 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 29 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 5 - RECESS NOTES |
| April 12 - Acceleration Expected On Weapons Pact |
| April 12 - Biography: George J. Tenet |
| April 12 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| April 12 - Nomination |
| April 12 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 12 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 12 - What the Treaty's Critics Want |
| April 19 - Defining 'Dolphin-Safe' |
| April 19 - ENVIRONMENT |
| April 19 - Five Amendments To Dominate Debate |
| April 19 - SCIENCE |
| April 19 - Senate Passes Domestic Version of Ban |
| April 19 - STATE DEPARTMENT |
| April 19 - TREATIES |
| April 26 - APPROPRIATIONS |
| April 26 - Balanced-Budget Plan At Critical Stage |
| April 26 - COVER STORY |
| April 26 - Did China Try To Influence Elections? |
| April 26 - Disposal and Enforcement |
| April 26 - For Lott, a Chance To Rise Above the Fray |
| April 26 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 26 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 26 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 26 - Senate Vote Expected On Weapons Treaty |
| April 26 - TREATIES |
| April 26 - United States Takes Strong Interest In China's Bid To Join Trade Group |
| May 3 - FOREIGN AID: Markup for Programs Abroad Has Unusually Smooth Start |
| May 3 - FOREIGN POLICY: Gingrich Making Waves On Overseas Issues |
| May 3 - Leaders Seek Support For Budget Accord |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Backs Russia On Changes in Arms Treaty |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Cohen Promises More Money For New Weapons |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Debate on Chemical Arms Pact Is Not Over Yet |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: GOP Hints at Compromise On Fast-Track Authority |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Approves Dolphin-Safe Tuna Bill |
| May 10 - FOREIGN AID: Clinton Wins First Round in House On Money for Programs Abroad |
| May 10 - NOMINATION: Tenet Given Warm Reception By Intelligence Panel |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Let Hong Kong Keep Its U.S. Offices |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Eizenstat, Pickering Approved By Foreign Relations Panel |
| May 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Emergency Spending, But 'Automatic CR' Invites Veto |
| May 17 - FOREIGN POLICY: Pact With Russia Eases Way For NATO Expansion |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Works on Implementation Of Chemical Weapons Ban |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Vote on CIA Nominee Delayed Pending Financial Inquiry |
| May 17 - TREATY: Russia Wins Shift In Arms Limits |
| May 24 - FOREIGN POLICY: Foes of China's Trade Privileges Fight To Void Clinton Decision |
| May 24 - Intelligence: Senators Probe U.S. Assistance To Suspect in Marine Slayings |
| May 24 - INTELLIGENCE: Suit Seeks To Force Budget Disclosure |
| May 31 - Fiscal Matters Top List Upon Return To Work |
| May 31 - FOREIGN POLICY: Armenia's Special Relationship With U.S. Is Showing Strain |
| May 31 - Old Issues May Get a New Touch |
| May 31 - U.N., Crime-Fighting Will Tighten Budget |
| June 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Ballot Quakes Abroad Felt by Parties Here |
| June 7 - FOREIGN POLICY: GOP Leaders Scuttle Bipartisan Bill In Nod to House Conservatives |
| June 7 - How the Bill Evolved |
| June 7 - INTELLIGENCE: Spy Agency Authorization Bills Advance in House, Senate |
| June 7 - NOMINATION: Helms Calls Weld Unacceptable As Ambassador to Mexico |
| June 7 - Panels Push To Finish Budget-Deal Bills |
| June 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Debate on China's Trade Status Follows Familiar Script |
| June 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel's Plan for Paying U.N. Debt May Signal Breakthrough |
| June 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Votes To Drop Aid Earmark for Egypt |
| June 21 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: House Prepares for Close Fights Over B-2, Maintenance Depots |
| June 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: China's Favored Trade Status One Step Closer to Renewal |
| June 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: U.N. Debt Payment Plan Advances, But Several Hurdles Remain |
| June 21 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Passes Spy Agency Bill With Little Dissent |
| June 21 - Members Aim To Finish Balanced-Budget Bills |
| June 21 - SECTION NOTES: Leach, Torres Seek To Allow Some Exports to Cuba |
| June 21 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Preserving Privileges For Hong Kong Is Cleared |
| June 21 - TECHNOLOGY: Encryption Bill Is Approved, But Critics Abound |
| June 28 - After Break for Fourth, More Fireworks |
| June 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Albright's Push for Foreign Aid Gets Mixed Receptions |
| June 28 - COMMERCE: Bill on Encryption Exports Gets Panel Approval |
| June 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: Critics of China Lose Trade Vote, But Other Bills Wait in Wings |
| June 28 - PUBLIC LANDS: Panel OKs Curbs In U.N. Program |
| June 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel OKs Legislation To Aid Sub-Saharan Africa |
| July 5 - For Staff Members, Tensions Run High |
| July 12 - DEFENSE: Clinton Gets Foreign Policy Win As NATO Agrees to Expansion |
| July 12 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Confirms Tenet As Intelligence Chief |
| July 12 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes New Trade Limits Targeting Terrorist Supporters |
| July 12 - VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| July 19 - Aid to Palestinians May Lapse |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: 9th Circuit Part of Debate On Commerce Spending |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Boosts Some Arms Programs, Sticks to Clinton's Basic Policies |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Bill To Reverse Long Decline in Foreign Aid |
| July 19 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| July 19 - NOMINATION: Weld Fires a Broadside At Immovable Helms |
| July 19 - SECTION NOTES: Clinton Delays Lawsuits Over Confiscated Cuban Property |
| July 19 - SECTION NOTES: MFN for Laos, Mongolia Urged in House Bill |
| July 19 - SECTION NOTES: U.N. Chief Announces Reforms But Helms Is Not Impressed |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Controversy Stymies Two Foreign Policy Bills |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Backs Reimbursement Of Lawmakers' Legal Fees |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Veterans, Housing Measure Gets Strong Senate Vote |
| July 26 - CORRECTION |
| July 26 - NOMINATIONS: Pentagon's Hamre Confirmed; Clinton Stands By Weld |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Fails To Complete Action On Foreign Operations Bill |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: In Senate Commerce-Justice Bill, Crime Fighting Gets Spotlight |
| August 2 - NOMINATION: Weld, Crusading for Confirmation, May Have Eyes on Another Prize |
| August 2 - STATE DEPARTMENT: Bill To Pay Off U.N. Debt, Revamp Agencies Stalls |
| August 2 - White House Shares Blame for Logjam |
| August 9 - ENVIRONMENT: Tuna-Labeling Provision Opens a Can of Worms |
| August 9 - Fiscal 1998 Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| August 9 - NOMINATIONS: Lugar May Step Up To Bat for Weld |
| August 9 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Reviews Accomplishments, Details Next Round of Goals |
| August 9 - Spending, Trade Issues Fill the Hopper |
| August 16 - TRADE: White House Cranks Up Push For Renewal of Fast Track |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Defense and Foreign Policy |
| September 6 - A Few Bad Apples? |
| September 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Issue Again Promises To Ensnarl Foreign Aid Bill |
| September 6 - DEFENSE: Hope Seen for Compromise On B-2, Bosnia Disputes |
| September 6 - FOREIGN POLICY: Backers of Tough Stand in Bosnia Urge Clinton To Rally Public |
| September 6 - Nomination: Three Senators Side With Lugar, Demand Meeting on Weld |
| September 6 - Tensions Rise in Bosnia |
| September 13 - 'Free Burma' Drive Successfully Blends '60s Activism and '90s Technology |
| September 13 - A Sample of Sanctions, From Travel to Tuna |
| September 13 - Congress Enters Uncharted Territory With Bill on Religious Persecution |
| September 13 - DEFENSE: Backers of Global Land Mine Ban Gain Ground in Oslo, Congress |
| September 13 - From Ancient Greece to South Africa Sanctions Have a Spotty Record |
| September 13 - NOMINATION: Joint Chiefs Nominee on Track For Confirmation |
| September 13 - NOMINATIONS: Helms Lashes Back at Critics, Holds Firm on Blocking Weld |
| September 13 - Proliferation of Sanctions Creates A Tangle of Good Intentions |
| September 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves MFN For Mongolia and Laos |
| September 13 - Thinking Globally, Acting Locally |
| September 13 - TRADE: Clinton's Push for Fast Track Risks Deeper Rift in Party |
| September 13 - Weld's Quest |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Conferees Shake Hands |
| September 20 - DEFENSE: Supporters of a Bigger B-2 Fleet Nearing End of the Runway |
| September 20 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel Backs Controversial Bill To Fight Religious Persecution |
| September 20 - Highlights of Clinton's Proposal |
| September 20 - INTELLIGENCE: Whistleblower Provision Out As Conferees OK Funding |
| September 20 - NOMINATION: Weld Blows Bitter Kisses As Curtain Comes Down |
| September 20 - SECTION NOTES: Clinton Says U.S. Won't Sign Land Mine Treaty |
| September 20 - SECTION NOTES: Helms Schedules Hearings On NATO Expansion |
| September 20 - SECTION NOTES: Shelton Confirmed as Chairman Of Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| September 20 - TRADE: White House's Fast-Track Bid Takes Hits From Both Sides |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Gives Clinton Leeway To Extend Bosnia Mission |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Members Press Side Issues, Cushioned by Stopgap CR |
| September 27 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Clinton Calls for 'New Era' of Peace And Economic Opportunity |
| September 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Pay Off U.N. Dues Stalls in Conference |
| September 27 - SECTION NOTES: GOP Calls for Clinton Push On Fast-Track Legislation |
| September 27 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Takes Up China Sanctions |
| September 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Nominations Of Foglietta, Boggs |
| September 27 - TREATY: President Submits Nuclear Test Ban, Seeks Critical Mass of Senate Votes |
| October 4 - Campaign Finance To Dominate |
| October 4 - Defense Spending |
| October 4 - FOREIGN POLICY: NATO Expansion Debate Put on Fast Track |
| October 4 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel Gingerly Approves Bills Chiding China |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: Albright Urged To Push Israel For Suspect's Extradition |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill Would Crack Down On Products of Forced Labor |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Rejects Senate Provision On Frozen Iraqi Assets |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Works on Reauthorizing Export-Import Bank |
| October 4 - The Price of Admission |
| October 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Shelby Looks Out for Alabama, But Not Everyone Is Cheering |
| October 11 - ENVIRONMENT: House Passes Curb on Influence Of U.N. Land Program |
| October 11 - FOREIGN POLICY: Albright Argues NATO Expansion Would Buttress Democracy |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: Committee Backs Gordon For Intelligence Post |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: Helms Demands Documents On Cuba Sanctions |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: House Measure Would Expand Duty-Free Access to U.S. |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Reauthorization Of Export-Import Bank |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Nominations Of Foley, Fowler, Two Others |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: Religious Persecution Bill Delayed Again in House |
| October 11 - STATE DEPARTMENT: Bill Blessed by Helms Falls Prey To Naysayers in the House |
| October 11 - TRADE: Fast-Track Bill Gets Little Support From Ways and Means Democrats |
| October 18 - Crunch Time for Fast Track |
| October 18 - No Easy Storage Solution |
| October 18 - TRADE: District Cares Keep Rep. Bentsen Firmly Undecided on Fast Track |
| October 25 - Chinese President Jiang's U. S. Itinerary |
| October 25 - FOREIGN POLICY: Administration Plays Down Cost Of NATO Expansion |
| October 25 - FOREIGN POLICY: Chinese Leader's Summit Visit Puts Congress at Crossroads |
| October 25 - FORIEGN AID: Obey Blocks $75 Million In Funds for Israel |
| October 25 - FORIEGN POLICY: Panel Approves Iran Sanctions |
| October 25 - SECTION NOTES: Sub-Saharan Development Bill Gets Ways and Means Nod |
| October 25 - Writing a 'Practical' Religious Freedom Bill |
| November 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Compromise Eludes Foreign Aid Conferees |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Breakfast With Jiang Changes No Minds |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel Gauges Russian Response To NATO Expansion |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Parties Find Common Ground In Iran Sanctions Bills |
| November 1 - IMMIGRATION: Visa Program Gets Boost |
| November 1 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Deal Smooths Path for Senate Exit; House Still Caught in Gridlock |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: Gen. Gordon Confirmed For Intelligence Post |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Foley, Fowler As Ambassadors |
| November 1 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: House Panel Calls for Action On Gulf War Health Care |
| November 1 - With Just a Week Left, Many Bills Remain |
| November 8 - ADJOURNMENT: Storm Over Fast Track Means A Slow Track to Finish |
| November 8 - China Bills |
| November 8 - Congress Into Overtime As Target Date Passes |
| November 8 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Bill Clears Despite Threat Of Veto Over Depots |
| November 8 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Poised To Pass Sanctions Against Those Who Aid Iran |
| November 8 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Vents Anger at China In Largely Symbolic Bills |
| November 8 - INTELLIGENCE: Bill To Fund Spy Agencies Wins Final Passage |
| November 8 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Clinton Urges House Members To Follow Senate's Lead |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Group of Democrats Criticizes Clinton Plan To Aid Indonesia |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms 23 As Ambassadors |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce-Justice Funding Goes Down to the Wire |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Relents on Abortion Curb But Blocks IMF, U.N. Money |
| November 15 - Editor's Note |
| November 15 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Passes Iran Sanctions, But Bill Stalls in Senate |
| November 15 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Says He Is Still Confident Of Fast Track's Ultimate Passage |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeks Reports on Diplomats Accused of Crimes |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Hill Clears Reauthorization Of Export-Import Bank |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Calls for Strike at Iraq As Last Resort on Inspections |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Final China Bill, Radio Free Asia Funding |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Resolution Raps Russia For Religious Discrimination |
| November 22 - Fiscal 1998 Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| November 22 - LEADERSHIP: Gingrich, Aides Rediscover Unity, But Coup Attempt Still Echoes |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Intelligence Authorization Gets Clinton Signature |
| November 29 - ENVIRONMENT: 'Greenhouse' Issue Heats Up As Kyoto Talks Approach |
| November 29 - Options, Legislative and Presidential |
| November 29 - Who's Going |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, 1st Session: Defense and Foreign Policy |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Appropriations |
| December 6 - CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL: Corporations Pick Up the Tab For Globe-Hopping Members |
| December 6 - First Session Highlights |
| December 6 - Foreign Aid Spending |
| December 6 - Rep. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J. |
| December 6 - Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. |
| December 6 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| December 13 - A Tug of War Over Dues, Principles |
| December 13 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Saving the Earth, Losing Peoria |
| December 13 - ENVIRONMENT: Forecast Is Dim in the Senate For Global Warming Treaty |
| December 13 - Highlights: United Nations Superpowers |
| December 13 - Parties Look for Edge on Issues That Will Resonate in 1998 |
| December 13 - RECESS NOTES: Daschle Proposes Changes In Nuclear Readiness |
| December 20 - FOREIGN POLICY: Hill Unlikely To Block Extension Of Bosnia Deployment |
| December 20 - Key Senate and House Votes |
| December 20 - Middle-of-the-Road Path Proves Much Smoother for GOP |
| December 20 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Focuses on Preparing For Next Century |
