January 8 - ENERGY: Nuclear Agency Plan Goes to Hill |
January 8 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Caution Is the Watchword on Hill As Putin Takes Charge in Russia |
January 8 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Congress Likely To Be Asked To Provide Billions in Aid If Mideast Talks Succeed |
January 8 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: GAO Cites FAA Security Breaches |
January 15 - : Revival Meetings Begin Anew for Test Ban Treaty |
January 15 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Clinton's Billion-Dollar Proposal For Colombian Anti-Drug Aid Is a Good Beginning, Hastert Says |
January 15 - TRADE: White House Vows Full Pressure For Upgraded China Trade Status, But Democratic Support Questioned |
January 22 - CIA: Now Hiring |
January 22 - DEFENSE: The Limits of Intervention |
January 22 - ELIAN'S ODYSSEY: GOP to Push Citizenship Bill In Behalf of Cuban Boy |
January 22 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Helms Gives Blunt Message To U.N. Security Council: Don't Tread on U.S. |
January 22 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Partners and Adversaries |
January 22 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Tenet Gives CIA Credibility on the Hill |
January 22 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Reconnaissance Network |
January 22 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Players Pull Defining Issues From a Tangle of Politics |
January 22 - TRADE: Will 'Isolationist' Tag Hurt? |
January 29 - Controversial Programs |
January 29 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Battle Lines Keep Shifting Over Foreign Military Training |
January 29 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Colombian President Pastrana Has No Trouble Selling Hill On Need for Anti-Drug Aid |
January 29 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Democrats Seek Early Vote On China Trade Relations; Lott Says Not Before Midsummer |
January 29 - LAW JUDICIARY: Citizenship Plan for Cuban Boy Meets Unexpected Resistance Among Republican Lawmakers |
January 29 - U.N. DUES REVISITED: Where Helms Goes, Will Japan Follow? |
February 5 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Administration Says House Vote To Shore Up Taiwan Relations Endangers U.S. China Strategy |
February 5 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Third World Debt Relief Plan Unveiled |
February 5 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Warner May Use Supplemental To Pressure European Nations To Fulfill Kosovo Aid Pledges |
February 5 - NOTEWORTHY: Deal Reached On Vieques |
February 5 - NOTEWORTHY: Peterson Warns Vietnam To Sign Trade Agreement Soon |
February 5 - NOTEWORTHY: Russian Nuclear Material Vulnerable to Theft, Study Says |
February 5 - NOTEWORTHY: Senate Moves to Revamp 'Dual-Use' Export Regulations |
February 5 - Tenet Beset Over Deutch Case |
February 5 - Vulnerable Embassies |
February 12 - BUDGET: Clinton Seeks Extra $4.4 Billion To Fight Drugs, Keep Peace |
February 12 - NOTEWORTHY: Outlook for East Timor Questioned |
February 12 - NOTEWORTHY: Panel Accuses Energy Department Of Trying to Run Nuclear Agency |
February 12 - NOTEWORTHY: Senators Decry Chechnya War, Ask Clinton to Pressure Kremlin |
February 12 - TRADE: Unrest Over Clinton's Policies, Possibly Adverse WTO Ruling Complicates China's Trade Status |
February 19 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Albright and Holbrooke Find Republicans a Tough Sell On U.N. Mission to Congo |
February 19 - TRADE: House Members Offer Proposals To Make Expanded Trade With China More Palatable |
February 26 - COMMERCE: Senate 'Dual-Use' Export Bill Hinges on Which Department Would Get Primary Authority |
February 26 - DEFENSE: Anti-Proliferation Forces See Broad Benefits From Bill Targeting Russia's Aid to Iran |
February 26 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Senate's Increasing Unease Over Kosovo, Colombia Policy Imperils Clinton's Supplemental |
February 26 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Debate Over Trade Status Newly Stoked by China's Tough Stance on Taiwan |
March 4 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Helms, Others Put Conditions On Debt Relief |
March 4 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: House Clears Sanctions on Iran Arms Aid |
March 4 - Undersecretary, Oversight Panel Envisaged to Counter Terrorists |
March 11 - TRADE: A Trade Bill in China's Wake |
March 11 - TRADE: Urgent Push for China Trade Bill Now Likely to Start in Senate |
March 18 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Congress Embraces India As Pakistan's Influence Fades |
March 18 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Indian-Americans' Numbers, Affluence Are Translating Into Political Power |
March 25 - Anti-Missile Delay Prompts Review |
March 25 - Foreign Affairs Helms to Show Ambassadors a Good Time |
March 25 - Foreign Aid Authorization Bill Returns Reins to Senate Panel |
March 25 - India-Pakistan Arms Buildup Concerns Panel |
April 1 - Payments to the U.N. |
April 1 - U.N. Security Council Cool To Debt Payment Proposal Despite Wooing by Helms |
April 8 - Before the House Votes |
April 8 - Bipartisan Group of Legislators Urges Election Date in Haiti |
April 8 - Committee OKs Visa-Free Travel Measure |
April 8 - Elian Case Forces a Fresh Look At Cuban-American Influence |
April 8 - Foreign Operations |
April 8 - No Deal on African, Caribbean Trade |
April 8 - Rep. Callahan Tries to Block Israeli Radar Sale to China |
April 8 - Senators Want Tougher Stand Against War in Chechnya |
April 8 - With Date Set for China Trade Vote, Battle for Public Opinion Heats Up |
April 15 - Adoption Treaty Approved by Senate Panel |
April 15 - Bill Would Tie Russia's Debt To Missile Sale |
April 15 - Buttonholing the Undeclared: China NTR Foes Hit the Hill |
April 15 - GOP Criticizes U.S. Policy On Aid to North Korea, Demands More Oversight |
April 15 - Multi-Front NTR Lobbying Effort Seeks to Boost Public Support |
April 22 - Clinton Rejects Taiwan Request For Four Aegis Destroyers |
April 29 - Clinton Boxed In by GOP, Russia As He Pursues Anti-Missile Deal |
April 29 - Why DeLay Hates Castro |
May 6 - Bill Targets Russia's Cuban Listening Post |
May 13 - African-Caribbean Trade Bill Heads for Clinton's Signature, Capping Years of Policy Debate |
May 13 - Panel Approves Budget Increase For Spy Agency |
May 13 - Piggyback Supplemental Aid May Get a Rough Ride |
May 13 - Statesmen and Celebrities Deploy To Woo the Undecided on China |
May 13 - U.N. Debacle in Sierra Leone Reduces Clinton's Leverage For More Peacekeeping Funds |
May 20 - Bush Deflates GOP Senators' Plan To Confront Clinton Over Kosovo |
May 20 - Bush Walks in President's Shoes |
May 20 - House Takes Up Intelligence Bill That Would Provide NSA With Means to Modernize |
May 20 - North Korea Oversight Bill Wins Passage |
May 27 - House Passes Intelligence Authorization |
May 27 - House Reluctant to Expedite Foreign Operations Bill |
May 27 - IMF Dispute Holds Up Foreign Aid Bill |
May 27 - Secret Service's Authority May Be Broadened |
May 27 - Sen. Gregg, White House Clash Over Sierra Leone Policy |
May 27 - Senate Passes Bill to Revise Border Control |
June 10 - Aid Bill Impasse Agitates Helms |
June 10 - Pledge Wins Gregg's Release Of Funds for Sierra Leone |
June 24 - Debt Relief Loses Momentum |
June 24 - Easing Up on 'Rogue' Cuba: New Label, New Policy |
June 24 - House Rejects Withdrawal From WTO |
June 24 - Laws on Foreign Sanctions |
June 24 - Leaders Settle on $1.3 Billion For Colombia's War on Drugs |
June 24 - Supreme Court Strikes Down Sanctions at State Level |
July 1 - Attempting to Sidestep Gramm, Helms Splits Foreign Aid Authorization Bill Into Four |
July 1 - Foreign Aid and U.S. Schools |
July 1 - House Foreign Aid Spending Bill Retains Provisions Opposed by Clinton |
July 1 - House-Passed CJS Spending Bill Allows Enforcement of Gun Deal, Retains Cuts in U.N. Peacekeeping |
July 1 - National Security May Make Senate China Road Tricky; Ways and Means Backs Vietnam Trade Incentives |
July 1 - Urgency, Secrecy Carry the Day As Congress Clears Supplemental |
July 8 - Chilly Mood on Hill Toward Israel Could Damage Peace Plan Aid Package |
July 8 - With AIDS a Pandemic in Africa, Congress Weighs Money Demands |
July 22 - Foreign Affairs Conferees Named |
July 22 - Los Alamos Classified Data Case Prompts Senate Bill on Spying |
July 22 - Senate Ready To Take Up Adoption Treaty |
July 29 - Clintons, Pro-Israel Groups Blame Arafat For Failed Summit |
July 29 - Hill Republicans Target Gore In Attacks on Russia Policy |
July 29 - Senate Passes Adoption Treaty Bill |
July 29 - Senate Passes Increase in AIDS Funds |
July 29 - Veterans' Benefits Bills Advance In Both Chambers |
August 12 - The International Fallout Of an Anti-Missile System |
September 2 - Clinton Signs Bill for AIDS Trust Fund |
September 2 - Leaders Push Trade Aid For Colombia |
September 2 - U.N. Peacekeeping in Trouble As Cost and Controversy Grow |
September 2 - U.S. Lawmakers Prod U.N. Leaders To Meet Cost-Cutting Goals |
September 9 - Bill Would Expedite Process For Recognizing Tribes |
September 9 - Senate Passes Military Aid Measure |
September 23 - Foreign Affairs Committees' Military Aid Authorization Wrests Back a Bit of Power |
September 23 - Hill Rally Asks Debt Relief for Poor Nations |
September 23 - House Moves to Relax Immigration Rules |
September 23 - Senate Ratifies International Adoption Pact |
September 30 - 7 Ambassadorial Nominees Approved |
September 30 - Bill Would Raise Standard On Deportation Evidence |
September 30 - House Passes Stiffer Penalties For Dual-Use Export Violations |
September 30 - House Pressures Palestinians To Continue Peace Negotiations |
October 7 - Hill Reauthorizes Program Of Visa Waivers for Traveling Between U.S., 29 Nations |
October 7 - House Ties Debt Relief for Russia To Cessation of Missile Sales |
October 7 - Milosevic's Ouster Likely to Spur End of Sanctions on Yugoslavia, But Lawmakers Split on Economic Aid |
October 14 - Conferees Agree on Increase In Foreign Aid, Still Grapple With Abortion-Related Restrictions |
October 14 - Defining, Asserting the National Interest |
October 14 - GOP Cautious on North Korean Thaw |
October 14 - House Clears Bill To Extend Visa Waiver Program |
October 14 - Intelligence Bill Clears Despite Concerns About Classified Leaks Penalties |
October 14 - Move to Raise H-1B Visa Fees Heading to President |
October 14 - Senate Clears Bill Allowing Syrian Jews Residency in U.S. |
October 14 - Senate Clears Crime Bill Reauthorizing Violence Against Women Act and Criminalizing Trafficking in Persons |
October 14 - Senate Votes to Revive Expired High-Tech Export Law for a Year |
October 14 - The Many Shades of Trade Policy |
October 21 - Armenian Resolution Vote Canceled at Clinton's Request |
October 21 - Foreign Aid Conferees at Impasse |
October 21 - Panel Plans Hearing on Gore's 1995 Arms Deal With Russia |
October 21 - Three Bills Cleared to Clinton Would Benefit Veterans |
October 28 - Aid for Russia |
October 28 - Dissension in Senate Stalls Anti-Terrorism Bill |
October 28 - Export Control Bill Is Up in the Air |
October 28 - Foreign Aid Bill Gives Clinton Requested Debt Relief Funding |
October 28 - Tougher Sanctions on Sudan Are Unlikely to Get Past Senate |
November 4 - Central American Immigration Remains Central Sticking Point In Negotiations on C-J-S Bill |
November 4 - House Clears Extension Of Law to Regulate 'Dual Use' Exports |
November 4 - Veto Urged for New Penalties For Leaking Classified Data |
November 18 - Change in Taxation for Exporters Gives Broad Exemptions to Businesses |
November 18 - Congress Casts Hopeful Eye On Mexico's Transition |
November 18 - Political Turmoil May Up Odds For Missile Defense Accord |
November 18 - Secrecy Bill Debate Possible Next Year |
November 18 - Senate Passes Anti-Terrorism Measure |
November 18 - While Wrapup Tax Bill Falters, Medicare Boost Likely to Survive |
December 9 - Hill Puts New Aid to Israel on Hold |
December 9 - U.N. Stalls on Endorsing U.S. Payment Plan |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Colombian Aid |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Foreign Adoptions |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Foreign Aid Authorization |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Intelligence Authorization |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Russian Aid |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Sub-Saharan/Caribbean Trade |
December 16 - Biden Weighs Renegotiating U.N. Debt Plan |