January 4 - Foundering Bush Korea Policy Causes Erosion of Confidence |
January 4 - North Korea Nuclear Timeline |
January 4 - Shift in Senate Leadership Gives Africa-Aid Proponents New Reason for Optimism |
January 11 - Foreign Policy: More Programs, Less Aid |
January 11 - Negotiators, Hardliners Agree North Korea 'Talks' Not Enough |
January 18 - Eroding Support Leaves Bush In Foreign Policy Minefield |
January 18 - Senate Legislative Writer Drafts Retirement |
January 18 - White House Feelers to Iran Employ Lawmakers' Touch |
January 25 - Chairman Lugar Promises Protection For Namesake Arms Control Program |
January 25 - Lawmakers Scan Possibilities For Peaceful Nuclear Solution |
February 1 - Bush Proposal to Fight AIDS Assured of Quick Hill Action, Debate Over Funding Level |
February 1 - Criticism Getting Louder About Looming Attack on Iraq |
February 1 - Democrats Holding Administration To High Standard of Proof |
February 1 - New Caucus on Korea Aims to Ensure Congressional Voice on Long-Term Policy |
February 8 - Democrats Say Votes Against Iraq Resolution Led to More Engagement |
February 8 - Fiscal 2004 Budget: International Assistance |
February 8 - Fiscal 2004 Budget: State |
February 8 - Senate Democrats Press for Diplomatic High Ground on Iraq |
February 15 - 'Mobile Offshore Base' Proposal Has Slew of Powerful Opponents |
February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Commerce, Justice, State |
February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Foreign Operations |
February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Treasury, Postal Service |
February 15 - State Department Bill Eyed As Vehicle for Foreign Aid |
February 22 - Democrats' Anti-War Lawsuit Faces Daunting Legal Precedent |
February 22 - Making a Case Against War |
March 1 - Lawmakers Ponder Ways To Keep NATO Relevant |
March 1 - Second Thoughts on Iraq Resolution Not Enough to Prompt a Revote |
March 8 - Bright Hopes for AIDS Bill Dim in New Round of Debate |
March 8 - Bush Cites Uganda's Anti-AIDS Program as Template for Action |
March 8 - Democrats Reluctantly Join in Senate's Approval of Treaty on Nuclear Arms Reduction |
March 15 - Lugar Calls Course on Iraq a Threat To Worldwide Weapons Reduction |
March 15 - Lugar's Mission: Put North Korea at Top of Foreign Policy Agenda |
March 15 - The War Agenda: Congress Attends to Business, Waits for Word |
March 15 - The War Agenda: Foreign Relations |
March 22 - Congress Seeks to Find Its Voice as Iraq War Rages |
March 22 - Editor's Notebook: War Watch |
March 22 - Lawmakers Offer Perspective in the Final Hours Before War |
March 22 - War Voices: Daniel K. Inouye |
March 22 - War Voices: John J. Duncan Jr. |
March 22 - War Voices: John Shimkus |
March 22 - War Voices: Stephen F. Lynch |
March 22 - War Voices: Ted Stevens |
March 22 - War Voices: Tim Johnson |
March 29 - Bush Supplemental Hits Hill In a Fog of War Uncertainty |
March 29 - Hill Rumbles of Aid Reprisal Follow Turkey's 'No' to U.S. |
March 29 - Q & A With Paul Wolfowitz on Turkey Policy |
April 5 - Democrats Win First Round As International Relations Panel Makes Significant Changes to AIDS Bill |
April 5 - Editor's Notebook: War Powers |
April 5 - Israel Supporters Warn Bush Against Mideast Policy Shift |
April 5 - Lawmakers Get in a Few Digs At Non-Allies in Iraq War |
April 5 - White House-Hill Battle Hinges on Flexible Spending |
April 12 - Anxiety Over SARS Outbreak Has Lawmakers Ready to Spend |
April 12 - Bare State Department Bill Moves Easily Through Panel |
April 12 - Bill Targets 'Conflict' Diamonds |
April 12 - Iraq Rebuilding Costs Add Up |
April 12 - White House Wins Flexibility In Planning for Postwar Iraq |
April 19 - Lawmakers Not Eager to Revisit Iraq Supplemental Debate Soon |
April 26 - Editor's Notebook: The Ghost of 1992 |
April 26 - Lawmakers Blast Cuban Crackdown |
April 26 - Pipes' Nomination to Institute of Peace Board Turning Out to Be Anything but Peaceful |
May 3 - Editor's Notebook: In Search Of . . . |
May 3 - House Passes Bush Anti-AIDS Plan; Democrats Challenge GOP Changes |
May 3 - Iraq Victory Leaves Little Taste For More Pre-Emptive Wars |
May 3 - Middle East 'Road Map' May Have Wrinkles for GOP |
May 3 - Senate Poised for NATO Invitation To Seven Eastern European States |
May 3 - Senators Say Best Response to Castro Is Opening American Travel to Cuba |
May 3 - White House Doors Open for Lee Despite Often-Adversarial Stance |
May 10 - For U.S. and Oil Producers: A Lubricated Diplomacy |
May 10 - Panel Insists House Will Be Heard In Drawing Middle East 'Road Map' |
May 17 - Mutual Needs, Benefits Still Prevail In U.S.-Saudi Relationship |
May 17 - Political Expediency Takes Over As Senate Passes AIDS Relief Bill |
May 17 - Steady Squeeze on CIA May Open Sept. 11 Records |
May 24 - 'New' Aid Plan Looks Familiar |
May 24 - International AIDS Programs Authorized for $15 Billion As Lawmakers Search for Funding |
May 24 - Senate Panel Pares Back Goals, Sets Funding Priorities for 2004 |
May 31 - Waste in Nunn-Lugar Program Prompts Calls for Clampdown |
June 7 - Foreign Policy Credibility Gap Worries Many in Congress |
June 14 - A Win for Bush Foreign Aid Plan As House Panel OKs Creation Of Millennium Challenge Agency |
June 14 - Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary: Contentious Topics Have Gone Away |
June 14 - DeLay Campaigns for Closer Taiwan Ties Even as White House Woos China's Hu |
June 14 - Foreign Assistance Act Revised To Include Land Mine Victims |
June 14 - Foreign Operations: Overseas Aid for '04: Back to Status Quo |
June 14 - House Debates Trade Sanctions For Myanmar |
June 14 - Peace Initiatives' Progress |
June 14 - Warner Again Pitches Plan For NATO Mideast Buffer |
June 28 - A Political Timetable Awaits the Incomplete War in Iraq |
June 28 - Iraq War Creates New Challenges Abroad |
June 28 - On Iraq, Bush Has a Full Reservoir of Trust |
June 28 - Will Iraq War Matter in '04? |
July 12 - Foreign Relations Bill Hits a Snag |
July 12 - House C-J-S Bill Glides Through Appropriations Subcommittee, But Tougher Decisions to Come |
July 12 - House Panel Expresses Regret Over Lack of Funding for Plan To Fight HIV/AIDS Overseas |
July 12 - Lawmakers Brace for Long, Expensive Haul in Iraq |
July 19 - Chairman Roberts Trades Pugnacity For Pragmatism in Intelligence Probe |
July 19 - Hill Demands More Answers On Iraq -- Not a Fall Guy |
July 19 - House Pulls Abortion Language To Pass Foreign Relations Bill; No Accord on Senate Version |
July 19 - Many Express Disappointment With Foreign Aid Measures As Panels Cut AIDS Funding |
July 19 - Opposition to FCC Media Ruling Thwarts C-J-S Bill's Easy Passage Through Spending Panels |
July 19 - Panels OK Free-Trade Agreements |
July 19 - Senate Clears Hold on Trade With Myanmar |
July 26 - AIDS Program Supporters Hope Senate Will Come Through With Full Funding for Program |
July 26 - C-J-S Spending Bill Becomes Venue For Wide Range of Policy Disputes |
July 26 - DeLay Uses Recess for Middle East Visit |
July 26 - Millennium Program Buoys Women's Rights Worldwide |
July 26 - White House Intelligence Gaps Targeted by New 9/11 Commission |
August 2 - Two Years Later, Lawmakers Still Adjusting to Role of Consoler |
August 9 - Cities Rely on Congress to Bill Nations For Millions in Unpaid Parking Tickets |
August 9 - Congress Determined to Examine Saudi Arabia's Ties to al Qaeda |
August 30 - Fall Agenda: Foreign Relations Authorization Act |
September 6 - Bush Threat to Veto Reversal Of New Media Ownership Rules Has Few Lawmakers Quaking |
September 6 - GOP Starting to Waver On Support for Iraq |
September 13 - Bush's Iraq Spending Request Puts Focus on Budget Priorities |
September 13 - Efforts to Stabilize Foreign Nations Brought U.S. Kudos, Resentment |
September 13 - From 'Cradle of Civilization' to Dictatorship |
September 13 - Iraq Funding Will Come Slower Next Time Around |
September 20 - Closer Scrutiny Expected On Latest Supplemental |
September 20 - Details of New Spending Request Arrive |
September 27 - Iraq Supplemental Will Pass, But Many Say Well Is Going Dry |
September 27 - Lawmakers Tone Down Anti-U.N. Rhetoric |
October 4 - Defense Authorization Bill Hits Impasse in Conference Over Buy America Provisions |
October 4 - Lawmakers at Loose Ends Over Form of Supplemental |
October 11 - Bush Plays Lobbyist in Chief To Keep Iraq Funds as Grants |
October 11 - Turning Down the Volume On 'Mexico City' Abortion Language |
October 11 - White House and Congress Join in Show of Force On Syria Sanctions Measure |
October 18 - Lawmakers Say Diplomatic Appointment Weakens Congressional Attempt To Impose Sanctions on Syria |
October 25 - Bush Issues Veto Threat For Aid Bill |
October 25 - Cuba Travel, Employee Privatization Pose Veto Threat for Transportation Bill |
November 1 - Bush Wins Supplemental Battle, May Face Loss in War on Terror |
November 1 - Despite Republican Infighting, Senate Passes AIDS Relief Bill With Increase in Program Funding |
November 8 - Coast Guard's Duties Expanded In House-Passed Legislation |
November 8 - Enzi Seeks Open Travel Down Havana Way |
November 8 - GOP Leader Uses Holiday Deadline As Spur on Defense Authorization |
November 8 - Supplemental Sans Roll Call Provides Cover All Around |
November 15 - Mindful of Florida's Clout, Conferees Drop Cuba Travel From Transportation Bill |
November 15 - Syria Sanctions Well on Way To President |
November 22 - Alternate Proposals to Mideast Peace Could Detract from Bush's 'Road Map' |
November 22 - Bush Given Sanction Power Against Syria |
November 22 - Conferees Agree on AIDS Funds, Move Closer to Final Deal On Foreign Aid Spending Bill |
December 6 - Foreign Operations: Hill Firm on More AIDS Money |
December 6 - Policy Riders Slow C-J-S Bill |
December 6 - Relations With Russia: Punishment or Perestroika? |
December 6 - Transportation-Treasury: New Spending Formula Fizzles |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2004 War Supplemental Appropriations |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations Appropriations |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Foreign Relations Authorization |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Global HIV/AIDS Programs |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Intelligence Authorization |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Reviews of Prewar Iraq Intelligence |
December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Syria Sanctions |