 January 3 - America's Citizen-Soldier Tradition |
| January 3 - Chart: 1997 Conservative Coalition Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: 1997 House Presidential Position Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: 1997 Senate Presidential Position Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Breakdown of Conservative Coalition Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Breakdown of Party Unity Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Breakdown of Presidential Support Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Clinton's Support and Opposition |
| January 3 - Clinton Finds Support on Hill Despite GOP's Vocal Attacks |
| January 3 - COVER STORY: Budget Crunch Has a Service At War With Itself |
| January 3 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Hill: Same Old Tale With Modern Twists |
| January 3 - ENVIRONMENT: New Mexico Waste Site Awaits EPA Decision |
| January 3 - From Classroom to Battlefield |
| January 3 - RECESS NOTES: Rehnquist Assails Congress For Judicial Vacancies |
| January 10 - At Diner, Too Much Government on Menu |
| January 10 - BANKING: Request for Billions for IMF Fund Highlights Debate Over Bailouts |
| January 10 - Clinton's Child Care Proposal Draws GOP Supporters and Critics |
| January 10 - COMMUNICATIONS: Judge's Decision Casts Doubt On Telecommunications Act |
| January 10 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Could Gingrich Top GOP's 2000 List? |
| January 10 - FOREIGN POLICY: Disagreement Among Friends Strains U.S.-Israeli Ties |
| January 10 - HEALTH: Can Promise To Keep Costs Low Give Clinton's Plans a Boost? |
| January 10 - Hill Feels the Big Clout Of Small Business |
| January 10 - HUMAN SERVICES: Restoring Federal Nutrition Aid Creates Food Fight |
| January 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Looking for Confirmation From His Peers |
| January 10 - OBITUARY: Celebrity Lawmaker Wore Renewed Fame Lightly |
| January 10 - PROVISIONS: Changes to FDA Rules, Procedures |
| January 10 - Purchasing Plan Finds Few Friends |
| January 10 - RECESS NOTES: Critics Question Senate Costs Of $190 Million for Probes |
| January 10 - RECESS NOTES: Smoother Nomination Bid Expected for Davidow |
| January 10 - REGULATION: Kyoto Agreement Complicates Electricity Deregulation |
| January 10 - REPUBLICAN PARTY: 'Big Tent' Advocates Look Likely To Defeat Abortion Measure |
| January 10 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Administration Admits Loss In Line-Item Veto Lawsuit |
| January 10 - Small Business: Other Voices |
| January 10 - Smoking Program Hits Bureaucratic Wall |
| January 10 - THE BUDGET: Galvanized by Rosy New Numbers, Both Sides Prepare To Skirmish |
| January 10 - The IMF in Brief |
| January 10 - TOBACCO: No Solution in Sight as Congress Prepares To Tackle Settlement |
| January 10 - TRANSPORTATION: Budget Surplus Whets Debate On More Highway Spending |
| January 17 - A Bundle From Virginia |
| January 17 - ABORTION: Roe v. Wade's Challenge at 25: Hang On to the Votes |
| January 17 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: House GOP Casts a Wide Net In Renewed Scandal Hunt |
| January 17 - CORRECTION |
| January 17 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Offstage, Dole Winks at Lobbying Law |
| January 17 - House Investigating Committees |
| January 17 - HUMAN SERVICES: Child Care Proposal Sparks Debate Over Working, At-Home Mothers |
| January 17 - Incremental Shifts in Immigration Law Value Job Skills Above Family Ties |
| January 17 - LABOR: Critics Say High-Tech Training Plan May Not Get the Job Done |
| January 17 - Personal Savings in the United States |
| January 17 - RECESS NOTES: Breaux, Thomas To Head Medicare Study |
| January 17 - RECESS NOTES: Education, Health Care Top Clinton's Proposal List |
| January 17 - RECESS NOTES: FCC Chairman Orders Inquiry Into Cable Industry |
| January 17 - RECESS NOTES: IRS Debate Escalates After Agency Admission |
| January 17 - RECESS NOTES: Seven Northeast Senators Blast Clinton's Amtrak Proposal |
| January 17 - REGULATION: RJR Papers Cast Further Doubt On Settlement Prospects |
| January 17 - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: NASA Again Finds Space For John Glenn |
| January 17 - SECTION NOTES: Virginia Legislature Revisiting House Dstrict Map |
| January 17 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Federal Judge To Rule Soon On Line-Item Veto Lawsuits |
| January 17 - THE CENSUS: Departure of Bureau's Director Deepens Census Controversy |
| January 24 - 'Till Death (or Taxes) Do Us Part' |
| January 24 - Bills Promote the 'Business' of Space |
| January 24 - Chambliss' 'IRS Horror Story' Show Yields Lots of Heat, Few Conclusions |
| January 24 - COMMERCE: Politically Charged Task Faces Gambling Panel |
| January 24 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Forget the Eloquence; How Does He Look? |
| January 24 - Editor's Note |
| January 24 - EDUCATION: Commission on College Costs Comes Back With a Warning |
| January 24 - Firebrand GOP Class of '94 Warms to Life on the Inside |
| January 24 - FOREIGN POLICY: Papal Visit Highlights Divisions Over Cuban Embargo |
| January 24 - HEALTH CARE: Private Contracting Puts Medicare Back Under the Microscope |
| January 24 - RECESS NOTES: Business Group's Ads Set Out To Quash Health Care Bills |
| January 24 - RECESS NOTES: Clinton's Plan To Bail Out Asia Faces Unreceptive Congress |
| January 24 - RECESS NOTES: McCain Plans To Offer Changes In Telecommunications Law |
| January 24 - Rostenkowsi: In His Own Words |
| January 24 - SCIENCE: Groups Fear Cloning Legislation Could Ban Significant Research |
| January 24 - SECTION NOTES: Unknown Soldier From Vietnam May Be Missouri Pilot |
| January 24 - SPACE: Pressure on NASA Intensifies As Space Station Struggles |
| January 24 - TAXATION: Ready Opposition to Tax Overhaul Means No Chance for Quick Fix |
| January 24 - THE PRESIDENCY: Clinton's Latest, Worst Troubles Put His Whole Agenda on Hold |
| January 24 - TRANSPORTATION: Many Legislators Are Placing Hope In New Amtrak Board, President |
| January 24 - Winners, Losers and Big Problems With Either Tax Overhaul Plan |
| January 31 - Both Parties Focus on Speech Not Scandal, to Chagrin of Some |
| January 31 - CORRECTION |
| January 31 - COVER STORY: Clinton Succeeds in Slowing Scandal's Momentum |
| January 31 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: If the Furor Subsides, Will There Be a Case? |
| January 31 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: IMF Contribution Finds Enemies Across the Political Spectrum |
| January 31 - Executives Vow To Cooperate |
| January 31 - FOREIGN POLICY: Cleland Warns Against Repeating Tonkin Gulf Mistake |
| January 31 - History of Contested Contributions |
| January 31 - Impeachment: How It Would Work |
| January 31 - Kasich's Quandary |
| January 31 - Key Clinton Proposals |
| January 31 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Clinton Stresses Accomplishments, Calls State of the Union 'Strong' |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Unveiled on States' Systems of Child Support Enforcement |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: FCC Will Draft Rules to Require Free Airtime for Candidates |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: House Education Panel Bars National Tests |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: Lott Seeks To Broker Deal To Break Utility Standoff |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Three For Judgeships |
| January 31 - TECHNOLOGY: Congress Finds No Easy Answers To Internet Controversies |
| January 31 - THE BUDGET: Clinton Budget Reaffirms Stand Against Broad GOP Tax Cuts |
| January 31 - THE PRESIDENCY: Starr's Inquiry Prompts Questions On Independent Counsel Law |
| January 31 - VETERANS: House Bill Would Prohibit Arlington Burial Waivers |
| February 7 - A Budget Glossary |
| February 7 - A Range of Reactions |
| February 7 - Abundant Foes Say 'No Chance' To Clinton's Chosen Tax Breaks |
| February 7 - Administration's Rosy Scenario Has Few Doubters These Days |
| February 7 - Aspiring NATO Newcomers Face Long Road to Integration |
| February 7 - AVIATION: Partisan Rancor Flares in Debate To Rename National Airport |
| February 7 - CALIFORNIA: Rep. Harman To Enter Governor's Race |
| February 7 - Chart: Administration Economic Assumptions |
| February 7 - Chart: Budget Authority, Outlays by Agency |
| February 7 - Chart: Fiscal 1999 Budget by Function |
| February 7 - Clinton's Fancy Budget Work Upstages Skeptical GOP |
| February 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Opinion Polls' Lag Time May Benefit Clinton |
| February 7 - EDUCATION: Student Loan Program May Break the Bank |
| February 7 - ENVIRONMENT: Clinton's Global Warming Plan Meets Wall of Opposition |
| February 7 - FOREIGN POLICY: 'Big Stick' Approach to Iraq Masks Uncertainty on Hill |
| February 7 - FOREIGN POLICY: Clinton Moves To Permit Sales Of Nuclear Products to China |
| February 7 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Senators Work To Gain Support For Rule-Making Overhaul |
| February 7 - HOUSING: Disaster Insurance Measure May Not Weather Debate |
| February 7 - How Each Agency and Department Would Fare Under Clinton Budget |
| February 7 - IMF Request Hits Snag |
| February 7 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Senate Nears Climactic Vote On Line-Item Vetoes |
| February 7 - REGULATION: White House Says Immunity For Tobacco Is an Option |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: Daschle 'Confident' of Satcher Confirmation in Senate |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: House Bans Development Of National Testing |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Blocks Cloning Debate In Name of Medical Research |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: Workplace Safety Bill Advances Despite Democrats' Objections |
| February 7 - TECHNOLOGY: Clinton Establishes Council To Fix 'Year 2000' Glitch |
| February 14 - Big GOP Governors Class of '94 Riding High |
| February 14 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Probe Reports Decry Abuses, But Overhaul Still Unlikely |
| February 14 - COMMERCE: Tobacco Industry Pushing Hard For Liability Protection |
| February 14 - Concerned Businesses |
| February 14 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Oversight at Its Best Was Off Center Stage |
| February 14 - Early Task for '98 Candidates Is To Find New Political Footing |
| February 14 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Battle Over IMF Funding Looms As Business Steps Up Pressure |
| February 14 - Education Moves to Head of Class As Crime, Unemployment Recede |
| February 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Doubts About Clinton's Strategy Stall Iraq Resolution |
| February 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Key Measures Still Hostage To Abortion Dispute |
| February 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Three Nations' Top Diplomats Lobby for NATO Membership |
| February 14 - From Arm's Length to Joined Hands |
| February 14 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Hill Weighs Federal Yard Sale To Pay Down National Debt |
| February 14 - HEALTH: Satcher Confirmed For Top Health Job |
| February 14 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Bill Supports At-Home Parents |
| February 14 - IMMIGRATION: Backlog, Management Woes Fuel GOP Drive To Dismantle Agency |
| February 14 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Panel Votes To Protect Spy Agency Whistleblowers |
| February 14 - Key Points of Hogan's Ruling |
| February 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Late Objections Stall Nominee; Confirmations Could Slow Again |
| February 14 - Retirements Hobble Democratic Comeback |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: Federal Judge Stays Decision On Long-Distance Markets |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: Group Files Suit To Challenge Use of Sampling in Census |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: Reno Seeks Special Counsel To Investigate Babbitt |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Oppose FCC Proposal For Free Air Time to Candidates |
| February 14 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Line-Item Veto Struck Down Again; Appeal to High Court Imminent |
| February 14 - STOCK MARKET: Stock Exchange Modifies Circuit-Breaker Change |
| February 14 - TECHNOLOGY: Panel Again Looks To Limit Internet Porn to Children |
| February 14 - THE BUDGET: GOP May Scale Back Tax Cuts, Adhere to Spending Caps |
| February 14 - Untapped Sources of Wealth? |
| February 14 - Where Tobacco's Money Goes |
| February 21 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: McCain-Feingold Again Hobbled By Little Impetus for Change |
| February 21 - COVER STORY: Housing Overhaul Still Looking For a Home in GOP Congress |
| February 21 - Editor's Note |
| February 21 - ENERGY: A Resurgence of Controversy Over Electricity Issue |
| February 21 - ENVIRONMENT: In Senate, Hope Springs Again For Endangered Species Law |
| February 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: Public's Worries About Iraq Policy Echo Concerns in Congress |
| February 21 - From Overhaul to Tax Credits |
| February 21 - Richmond Already Making Changes |
| February 21 - The Rocky Relationship of Housing and Welfare |
| February 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: $287 Million in Projects Restored to 1998 Bill |
| February 28 - BANKING: High Court Says Credit Unions Overstepped Their Authority |
| February 28 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Money Woes Leave FEC Watchdog With More Bark Than Bite |
| February 28 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Overhaul Gridlock on the Hill Contrasts With Action in States |
| February 28 - COMMERCE: Governors Offer Alternative To Hill's Internet Tax Bills |
| February 28 - Congress Courts Corporate Leaders To Support Education Proposals |
| February 28 - COVER STORY: Congress Looks to Kentucky For Lessons on Education |
| February 28 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Paying Full Attention To the Presidency |
| February 28 - DEFENSE: Congress Might Not Seek Cuts To Offset Bosnia, Gulf Costs |
| February 28 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Overhaul of Bankruptcy Law Has Real Chance This Year |
| February 28 - Editor's Note |
| February 28 - EDUCATION: White House Banking on Latest Student Loan Formula |
| February 28 - ENVIRONMENT: House-Senate Dispute Holds Up Nevada Nuclear Waste Site |
| February 28 - ENVIRONMENT: Politics Poisons the Debate Over Superfund Rewrite |
| February 28 - Federal Prodding |
| February 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: GOP Finds Little To Applaud In U.N. Deal With Iraq |
| February 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: Members Assail Clinton's Waiver Of Drug Sanctions for Mexico |
| February 28 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Agreement Elusive on Bills To Revamp Rule-Making |
| February 28 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Panel Moves Copyright Bills As Debate Escalates |
| February 28 - MILITARY: Burial Restrictions Win Support |
| February 28 - Outlook: The Digital Marketplace |
| February 28 - PROPERTY RIGHTS: Stiff Opposition Greets Bill On Local Zoning Cases |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: Contentious Hearings Dim Hope For Private Contracting Bill |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill Expands Watch Over 'Year 2000' Glitch |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill Clarifying Gun-Crimes Law |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: Liggett Talks May Interfere With Tobacco Legislation |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: Lights, Camera, Fees For Movie Studios? |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Child Support Enforcement Measure |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: Togo West VA Confirmation Expected in Next Month |
| February 28 - SECURITIES: Bills Seek To Close Loophole In 1995 Lawsuits Law |
| February 28 - States Pick Up Where Congress Left Off |
| February 28 - TRADE: Sub-Saharan Development Bill Moves Quickly to House Floor |
| February 28 - TRANSPORTATION: Governors' Pleas Nudge Senate Into Action on Highway Bill |
| March 7 - 1998 ELECTIONS: For House Members, Higher Office Seems Less of a Lure or a Lock |
| March 7 - An Alternative to Impeachment |
| March 7 - Automakers Get Mixed Results on Hill |
| March 7 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Panel Releases 'Dueling' Reports, Remaining Partisan to the End |
| March 7 - Chart: Senate Transportation Spending Plans |
| March 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Somewhere on the Hill, Real News Is Happening |
| March 7 - Demand for Bigger, Thirstier Cars Puts Consumers in Driver's Seat |
| March 7 - Drunken-Driving Plan Stirs Controversy |
| March 7 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Leach's Even Hand at the Helm Wins IMF Funding a Big Boost |
| March 7 - EDUCATION: Student Loans, Other Hot Issues Deferred Until Full Committee |
| March 7 - ENVIRONMENT: Democratic Objections Slow Superfund Bill |
| March 7 - FOREIGN POLICY: Congress Finds Its Resolve As Iraq Crisis Cools Off |
| March 7 - FOREIGN POLICY: Senate Poised To Approve NATO Expansion |
| March 7 - HOUSING: Block Grants Bill Passes House |
| March 7 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Bill Reduces Penalties For Child Support Systems |
| March 7 - ILLINOIS: GOP Has Heated Fight To Pick Challenger for Moseley-Braun |
| March 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hyde Staying Above Clinton Fray But Tries To Raise Panel Profile |
| March 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: When Congress Decides a President's 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' |
| March 7 - Partnership Seeking a Fuel-Efficient Car |
| March 7 - Puerto Rico: Bill on Island's Political Status Skirts Trouble in House |
| March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Arlington Burial Rules Approved By House Committee |
| March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Coalition Wants To Liberalize Laws on Encryption Exports |
| March 7 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Stricter Penalties For Cell Phone Eavesdropping |
| March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Legislation on Year 2000 Glitch Cleared by Senate |
| March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Extension Of Copyright Protections |
| March 7 - TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Hearing Explores Whether Antitrust Laws Need Upgrade |
| March 7 - THE BUDGET: Differences May Prompt GOP To Leave the Surplus Alone |
| March 7 - TRANSPORTATION: Senate's Solution to Road Wars: Deliver More Money |
| March 14 - BANKING: House Deal Offers Bit of Hope For Glass-Steagall Overhaul |
| March 14 - Changes Planned for Subsidy Program |
| March 14 - Cyberspace Invaders |
| March 14 - DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Military's 'Can-Do' Budget Stance Heightens Hawks' Frustrations |
| March 14 - DEFENSE: Computer-Reliant U.S. Society Faces Growing Risk of 'Information War' |
| March 14 - ENVIRONMENT: House Passes Bill To Ease Property 'Takings' Claims |
| March 14 - First Tobacco Bill Gets Praise |
| March 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Seeking Showdown With Clinton, Gingrich Gets One With GOP |
| March 14 - From the Family Tobacco Fields, They Eye the Hill With Unease |
| March 14 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Rival Bills Cloud the Scene For Regulatory Overhaul |
| March 14 - Growth States Stake Their Claims |
| March 14 - HEALTH: Clinton Pressures Lawmakers To Cure Managed Care |
| March 14 - Highlights of House Banking Bill |
| March 14 - INTELLIGENCE: Whistleblower Protection Bill Gets Strong Push From Senate |
| March 14 - INVESTIGATIONS: GOP Struggles To Find Strategy To Deal With Starr Fallout |
| March 14 - LABOR: House Bill Targets 'Salting' by Unions |
| March 14 - MEDICARE: Failure is Not an Option For This Commission |
| March 14 - NOMINATION: Conservatives, White House Step Up Fight Over Hormel |
| March 14 - REGULATION: Ball Is Rolling as Leaders Consider Prospects for Tobacco Legislation |
| March 14 - Regulatory Overhaul Provisions |
| March 14 - ROUNDTABLE: Case for Free Airtime Gets Easier To Make |
| March 14 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves McGovern For U.N. Agriculture Post |
| March 14 - SPACE: Panel Clamps Price Cap On Space Station |
| March 14 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: V-Chip, TV Ratings Approved by FCC |
| March 14 - THE BUDGET: GOP Splits Supplemental Request, Stalling Funds for U.N. and IMF |
| March 14 - Tobacco and Its Impact |
| March 14 - TRADE: House Passes Bill To Promote Sub-Saharan Africa Trade |
| March 14 - TRANSPORTATION: In Race To Meet April Deadline, Senate Passes Highway Bill |
| March 14 - VETERANS: Panel Approves Bill To Tighten Rules for Arlington Burials |
| March 21 - Bumpy Road for 'NAFTA Highways' |
| March 21 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Burton's Request for Funds Stalls As Investigations Fatigue Hits GOP |
| March 21 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Having Something for Everyone Spells Trouble for Overhaul Bill |
| March 21 - COVER STORY: Surface Racial Harmony on Hill Hides Simmering Tensions |
| March 21 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Where Does the Public Draw the Line? |
| March 21 - DEFENSE: Hill Critics of Mixed-Sex Training Find Ammunition in Report |
| March 21 - DEFENSE: House Bill Would Expedite Anti-Missile Defenses |
| March 21 - Editor's Note |
| March 21 - EDUCATION: Higher Education Act Reauthorized In Compromise Bill |
| March 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: GOP Plan To Challenge Clinton On Abortion Still Lacks Votes |
| March 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Presses Administration To Keep Up Heat on China |
| March 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Shies Away From Conflict With Clinton Over War Powers |
| March 21 - FOREIGN POLICY: Senate Suddenly Defers Action On NATO Expansion |
| March 21 - GOP Initiatives Hamper Efforts To Reach Out To Minority Groups |
| March 21 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Congress Tackling Problems With Government Printing |
| March 21 - HEALTH: Lawmakers Begin Looking for Cure For Insurance Portability Law |
| March 21 - Juvenile and Adult Arrest Rates |
| March 21 - LABOR: Democrats Seek GOP Support For Minimum Wage Boost |
| March 21 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Massiah-Jackson's Journey Ends in Withdrawal |
| March 21 - LEADERSHIP: Offsets Spat Marks Latest Chapter In House GOP's Struggle To Govern |
| March 21 - REGULATION: Less-Than-Sweeping OSHA Bills Pass Muster in the House |
| March 21 - REGULATION: Small-Business Bill Waives Some Fines |
| March 21 - SECTION NOTES: McCain Bill Would Jump-Start Local Telephone Competition |
| March 21 - SECTION NOTES: Stalled Nominees Cause Durbin To Block Nuclear Waste Bill |
| March 21 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Moratorium on Internet Taxes Wins Local Groups' Approval |
| March 21 - THE BUDGET: Tobacco Revenue Drives Debate As GOP Champions Medicare |
| March 21 - TRANSPORTATION: Shuster Prepares for Onslaught Against Members' Projects |
| March 28 - A Look at the National Labor Relations Board |
| March 28 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Despite Leadership Opposition, Overhaul Issue Remains Potent |
| March 28 - Conference Report Highlights |
| March 28 - COVER STORY: Labor Wants Out of the Limelight After Glare of Probes, Backlash |
| March 28 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Tobacco Deal Is Simply Too Juicy To Resolve |
| March 28 - EDUCATION: Senate Agrees on Debate Terms For Savings Accounts Bill |
| March 28 - ELECTION '98: Clinton Scandal, Starr Probe Trickle Down Into Elections |
| March 28 - ELECTRICITY: White House Deregulation Plan Generates Scant Interest |
| March 28 - ENVIRONMENT: Superfund Rewrite Advances, But Accord Remains Unlikely |
| March 28 - Finding the Funds |
| March 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: Clinton's Move To Aid Cubans Upsets Lawmakers' Plans |
| March 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: GOP's Abortion Curb Advances As House Democrats Fall Back |
| March 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: Senate Rejects Effort To Impose Drug Sanctions on Mexico |
| March 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: Wolf's Faith in Religious-Freedom Bill Is Rewarded With Panel's Approval |
| March 28 - HEALTH: For Some Hard-To-Pass Bills, Smaller Can Be Better |
| March 28 - HUMAN SERVICES: Congress To Debate Restoring Food Stamps to Immigrants |
| March 28 - INVESTIGATIONS: Starr Report May Create Legal, Political Minefield in House |
| March 28 - Labor Picking Its Big Fights for '98 |
| March 28 - LABOR: House Narrowly Votes To Ban Union Practice of 'Salting' |
| March 28 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Seeking Some Control Over Federal Judges |
| March 28 - MILITARY: Burial Restrictions Pass House |
| March 28 - SECTION NOTES: FCC Chairman Backs Off Free Air Time Proposal |
| March 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Paperwork Bill As Clinton Threatens Veto |
| March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Science Subcommittee OKs Invention Licensing Bill |
| March 28 - SECTION NOTES: U.S. Copyrights Extended For Another 20 Years |
| March 28 - SPACE: New Price Tag, Russian Shake-Up Cloud Space Station's Future |
| March 28 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Satellite Service Privatization Gets House Panel's Approval |
| March 28 - THE BUDGET: Split Supplemental Divides GOP As Chambers Go Separate Ways |
| March 28 - TOBACCO: McCain Optimistic Measure Will Get Panel Approval |
| March 28 - TRANSPORTATION: Road Wars and Special Projects Ensure House Bill's Rough Ride |
| April 4 - An Eight-Acre Battle |
| April 4 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: All-But-Doomed Overhaul Bill Meets Its Expected End |
| April 4 - Chart: Tobacco Payments |
| April 4 - Correction: Religious Persecution |
| April 4 - COURT RULING: Excerpts From Judge's Opinion Dismissing Paula Jones Case |
| April 4 - COVER STORY: Environmental Bills Hitch a Ride Through the Legislative Gantlet |
| April 4 - DEFENSE: Pentagon Enlists New Statistics In Push To Close More Bases |
| April 4 - EDUCATION: Senate Panel Follows House On Higher Education Act |
| April 4 - FOREIGN POLICY: Clinton's Promises to Africa May Not Be Easy To Keep |
| April 4 - HEALTH: Democrats' Health Care Bill Stakes a Claim on the Hill |
| April 4 - HUMAN SERVICES: Senate Shifts Food Stamp Aid To Increase Road Spending |
| April 4 - INVESTIGATIONS: Decision in Paula Jones Case Leaves Starr Determined, Congress Uneasy |
| April 4 - REGULATION: GOP Likely To Sidestep Overhaul, Fearing Environmental Showdown |
| April 4 - REGULATION: Heat Intensifies as McCain's Panel Raises the Stakes for Tobacco |
| April 4 - Restructuring the INS |
| April 4 - SECTION NOTES: Peace May Be Worth Keeping In Caucasus, McConnell Says |
| April 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Declines To Take Up Bill On Puerto Rico's Status |
| April 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Leaders Plan Action On State Department Bill |
| April 4 - TAXATION: Senate IRS Overhaul Advances Despite Strong Cost Concerns |
| April 4 - THE BUDGET: Senate Skirmishes Don't Deter Domenici's Budget Resolution |
| April 4 - The Money, State by State |
| April 4 - The Settlement, McCain Bill Compared |
| April 4 - TRANSPORTATION: House Sets Up Battle With Senate In Passing $219 Billion Roads Bill |
| April 4 - Transportation: Special Projects |
| April 11 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: From the '89 Pay Flap To 'Primary Colors' |
| April 11 - DEFENSE: Nunn Forum Issues a Call to Arms On Computer Security |
| April 11 - Nunn's Triad of Interests |
| April 11 - RECESS NOTES: Moler Is Leading Candidate To Replace Energy Chief |
| April 11 - REDISTRICTING: Federal Panel Throws a Curve To North Carolina With Remap |
| April 11 - REGULATION: Industry Exit From Tobacco Talks May Incur Further Hostility |
| April 11 - REGULATION: Move To Halt Rise in Cable Rates May Be Running Out of Time |
| April 18 - A Public Health Pioneer |
| April 18 - DEFENSE: Picking the Best Missile Defense: Cold War Treaty or New Weapons |
| April 18 - ENVIRONMENT: Members Go Out on a Limb Over National Forests |
| April 18 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Democrats on the Hill Appear Underwhelmed by Probe, Await Starr Report to House |
| April 18 - FDA Power Could Be a Puff |
| April 18 - FOREIGN POLICY: Agencies Targeted for Consolidation Stew on Congress' Back Burner |
| April 18 - IMF Official Prepares To Defend Against Policy Attacks |
| April 18 - Industries Get a Boost From Their Overseers |
| April 18 - Lew Clinton's Choice To Replace Raines at OMB |
| April 18 - Missile Defense Systems |
| April 18 - The Art of Business Lobbying Finding Profit in Regulation |
| April 18 - When Business Tells Washington: 'A Little More Regulation, Please' |
| April 25 - Administration Backs Off Plan For Needle Exchanges |
| April 25 - Both Parties Court the Public As Rift Widens Over Tobacco Legislation |
| April 25 - Chart: How States Would Fare |
| April 25 - Disability Payments |
| April 25 - Editor Note |
| April 25 - Lack of Pension Benefits Adds Urgency To Finding a Fix |
| April 25 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Striking Controversial Provisions, House Waters Down Bill Limiting Federal Judges' Powers |
| April 25 - SOCIAL POLICY: Proposed Fixes Could Widen Social Security Gender Gap |
| April 25 - Social Security: A Range of Proposals |
| April 25 - TRANSPORTATION: Conference Gets To Work Deciding Where To Spend Money, Where To Find It |
| May 2 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Gingrich, Leading Attack on Clinton, Takes off Gloves, Goes out on Limb |
| May 2 - ENVIRONMENT: Law Sparks Another Round In Pesticides Battle |
| May 2 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Court Appears Ready To Send Line-Item Veto Power To the Chopping Block |
| May 2 - FINANCE: Credit Union Bill Survives Scuffles In Senate Banking |
| May 2 - Friends and Foes of Starr Probe Grow More at Ease With P-Word |
| May 2 - House Panel Votes To Subpoena Former Gore Aide |
| May 2 - Pentagon May Try to Identify Vet Buried in Tomb of Unknowns |
| May 2 - REGULATION: Critics Warn of Black Market Despite Efforts To Include Safeguards in Tobacco Bill |
| May 2 - Sen. Bennett To Lead Panel on 'Year 2000' Glitch |
| May 2 - TAXES: Latest IRS Hearings Prompt Calls For Less Bashing, More Action |
| May 2 - Thrust and Parry: Gingrich vs. Clinton |
| May 2 - Town Struck Twice By Veto Pen Gets Money |
| May 9 - DEFENSE: Basic Training, Base Closings May Dominate Defense Debate |
| May 16 - A 'War Widow' Who Never Wed Gave Birth to the Marriage Penalty |
| May 16 - From The Editor |
| May 16 - Mass Transit in Growth Mode |
| May 16 - TRANSPORTATION: America Hits the Highways, And Congress Must Navigate |
| May 23 - ABORTION: Testimony by Parents Gives an Emotional Edge to Hearings on Abortion Bills |
| May 23 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Changing Demographics Keep Orange County in Play |
| May 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Legislative Gridlock Taking Its Toll On Strategic Planning for Federal Programs |
| June 6 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Clinton Again Pushes Method For Census |
| June 6 - Kudos and Some Criticism for Goldin |
| June 6 - POLITICS: GOP Tiptoes Around Contradictions In Blasting Clinton's Actions on China |
| June 6 - Report Gives Failing Grades On Federal Year 2000 Fix |
| June 6 - SCIENCE: Lost in Space: NASA's Quest For a New Direction |
| June 13 - Adventures in Privatization |
| June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Treasury-Postal Bill Would Defer Hill Pay Raise, Limit FEC Officials' Terms |
| June 13 - COMMERCE: Private Enterprise With Official Advantages |
| June 13 - How Fannie Mae Wins Friends And Protects Its Business |
| June 13 - LETTER OF THE LAW: Supporters Fear Statute Actually May Be Enforced |
| June 13 - Mandates and Money |
| June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Zips Through Interior Bill, Leaving Tough Questions Such as NEA for Full House |
| June 20 - NOMINATIONS: Clinton Shifts Richardson, Holbrooke |
| June 20 - Speaking of Tobacco |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Throws Down Gauntlet, Rejecting Clinton's Agenda In House Labor-HHS Bill |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Bill Includes Funding For Arts, Despite GOP Efforts To Avoid Controversial Issue |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Management of Recreation Area At Center of Larger Struggle Over Funding for TVA |
| June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Parties Join To Oppose Treasury Bill |
| July 4 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| July 4 - REGULATION: When Congress Hedges, How Far Can an Agency Go? |
| July 11 - From the Editor |
| July 11 - IRS Overhaul On Its Way To President |
| July 18 - House Clears Bill To Ease Federal Licensing Extensions |
| July 18 - TECHNOLOGY: Clinton's Year 2000 Speech Heartens GOP |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Little Compromise Goes a Long Way In Interior Spending Debate |
| July 25 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Service Spending |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Action on Treasury-Postal Bill Is Suddenly Halted After Dispute Over Term Limits at FEC |
| August 1 - Richardson Confirmed for Energy Post, Lew for Budget Director |
| August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: School Vouchers, Other Issues Push Parties Into Confrontation Over District of Columbia Bill |
| August 15 - From the Editor |
| August 15 - LAW: Clinton's Legal Setbacks Tip Balance of Power To Congress -- Starr Power: What the Probe Means for the Presidency |
| August 22 - Opportunities Abound for Congress To Fund Local Needs in VA-HUD |
| August 22 - REGULATION: FDA Jurisdiction Over Tobacco Thrown Into Doubt by Ruling |
| September 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Treasury-Postal Bill After GOP Postpones Debate On Term Limits for FEC Staff |
| September 5 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Skittish Congress Returns to Agenda Overshadowed by Scandal |
| September 5 - GOP Questions, Spending Bills May Cut Off FDA Nomination |
| September 5 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Battle Over Census 'Sampling' Rages, With Compromise the First Casualty |
| September 5 - Lieberman's Speech, Response |
| September 5 - Sen. Lieberman's Castigation of Clinton Could Be a Turning Point |
| September 5 - Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: A Partial 'Contract' Success |
| September 12 - 'Reaping the Whirlwind' |
| September 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Spending Measure Inches Its Way Through Senate |
| September 12 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Promises of Bipartisanship Will Be Put to an Early Test |
| September 12 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Will Congress' Hand Be Stayed By Fear of 'Glass Houses'? |
| September 12 - EXCERPTS: Independent Counsel's Report: 'The President Lied Under Oath And Obstructed Justice' |
| September 12 - EXCERPTS: The White House Response: 'This Private Mistake Does Not Amount to an Impeachable Action' |
| September 12 - From the Editor |
| September 12 - Gingrich Calls for Decorum |
| September 12 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Starr Report Hits Capitol Hill, Drawing Outrage and Trepidation |
| September 12 - LAW & JUDICIARY: The Weighty Why and How Of Punishing a President |
| September 12 - Scandal Chronology |
| September 19 - EXCERPTS: Clinton's Rebuttal to Starr Report: 'Its Principal Purpose Is To Damage the President' |
| September 19 - From the Editor |
| September 19 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Panel Votes to Release Clinton Video After 'Vigorously Partisan' Debate |
| September 19 - Legal Experts Say Perjury Charge Poses Greatest Peril to Clinton |
| September 19 - Points of Contention |
| September 19 - Scandal Chronology |
| September 19 - Schools of Thought |
| September 19 - Ten Worth Watching on the Judiciary Committee |
| September 26 - EXCERPTS: Clinton's Testimony About His Relationship With White House Intern |
| September 26 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Braced for Impeachment Inquiry, Democrats Still Lobby for a Deal |
| September 26 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Witness List Could Be a Minefield If Impeachment Hearings Begin |
| September 26 - LEADERSHIP: Gingrich's Role Is Scrutinized In Impeachment Drama |
| September 26 - PAST AS PROLOGUE: Can Turnabout Be Fair Play For Democrats? |
| September 26 - Public Opinion Is Steering Congress In No Clear Direction |
| September 26 - Scandal Chronology |
| October 3 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Clinton Case Overshadows 105th's Legislative Legacy |
| October 3 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Senate Panel Approves Bill To Overhaul GPO, But the Ink Isn't Dry Yet |
| October 3 - Independent Counsel Law Then and Now: Enough Irony for Both Parties |
| October 3 - POLITICS: On the Stump in Beverly Hills: Gore as Campaigner-in-Chief |
| October 3 - Scandal Chronology |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Bill Stalls Even After Second Conference Yanks Disputed Provisions |
| October 10 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Partisan Year Concludes With Impeachment 'Excursion' -- GOP's Next Task: Managing The Impeachment Juggernaut |
| October 10 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Politically Charged Vote Sets Tone For Impeachment Inquiry |
| October 10 - EXCERPTS: Considering Impeachment: 'Do We Have a Duty To Look Further or To Look Away?' |
| October 10 - EXCERPTS: GOP Cites 15 Possible Felonies By Clinton; Democrats Say Case Is 'Overstated' and 'Strained' |
| October 10 - House Report on Campaign Finances Is Inconclusive About Clinton's Role |
| October 10 - Scandal Chronology |
| October 10 - Senators View Proceedings With Cautious Anticipation |
| October 10 - The 15 Charges |
| October 10 - The House Resolution |
| October 17 - EXCERPTS: Clinton Says Budget Reflects Wise Choices In 'This Moment of Prosperity' |
| October 17 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Assailed Development Agency Retains Enough Hill Support To Win a Five-Year Reprieve |
| October 17 - Scandal Chronology |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Mixed Bag of Amendments Gives District of Columbia 'Lemons With the Sweets' |
| October 24 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Lawyers Spar Over Rules for Clinton Probe |
| October 24 - Last-Minute Approvals Omit Some Clinton Nominations |
| October 24 - Scandal Chronology |
| October 31 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Parties Resume Positioning for Clinton Probe |
| October 31 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: National Parks, Private Funds: Trouble in Paradise? |
| October 31 - Scandal Chronology |
| November 14 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: GOP Looks for Impeachment Course By the Light of a Single Starr |
| November 14 - Heading Into Impeachment Hearings, Parties Rely on Contrasting Counsels |
| November 14 - Legislative Summary: Governmental Regulations |
| November 14 - Legislative Summary: Washington Focus |
| November 14 - Scandal Chronology |
| November 14 - Specter's Alternative |
| November 21 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: 105th's Final Vote May Be Against Impeachment |
| November 21 - Impeachment Hearing Excerpts: Hyde Launches 'Search for Truth'; Conyers Denounces 'Obsession' |
| November 21 - Members Focus Less on Clinton's Guilt Than on the Appropriate Punishment |
| November 21 - Scandal Chronology |
| November 28 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: GOP Pushes Toward a Vote On Articles of Impeachment |
| November 28 - Five Agencies Lag in Fixing Year 2000 Bug |
| November 28 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: High Court Gets the Final Shot In Battle Over Census Sampling |
| December 5 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Hyde Leads Impeachment Drive In Growing Isolation |
| December 5 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Leaders Provide Little Guidance On Next Phase of Impeachment |
| December 5 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Supreme Court Questions Its Role In Debate Over Census Sampling |
| December 5 - Radical Republicans, Then and Now |
| December 5 - Search for an Alternative Punishment Continues Behind the Scenes |
| December 12 - 'William Jefferson Clinton . . . Warrants Impeachment and Trial' |
| December 12 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: An Aggressive Defense |
| December 12 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: House Opens Historic Drama Of Morality, Law and Politics |
| December 12 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Judiciary's 'Fateful Leap' |
| December 12 - Democrats Offer Censure Resolution |
| December 12 - Floor Procedures |
| December 19 - Bonfire of Conflicting Moralities Engulfs the Capitol |
| December 19 - CHIEF EXECUTIVE: Impeachment Day: Tiring, Unpredictable |
| December 19 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: 'William Jefferson Clinton . . . Is Impeached for High Crimes And Misdemeanors' |
| December 19 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Democrats Rally to Clinton's Side; President Vows To Stay in Office 'Until the Last Hour of the Last Day' |
| December 19 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Principle of Equal Justice Under Law 'Lies at the Heart of This Matter,' Judiciary Panel Report Says |
| December 19 - From the Editor |
| December 19 - House Accuses Clinton Of Perjury, Obstruction |
| December 19 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: A Conservative Juggernaut |
| December 19 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: Senate's Uncertain Course |
| December 19 - Senate Rules for Impeachment Trials Are Alternately Precise and Vague |
| December 19 - The Articles of Impeachment Considered by the House |
| December 19 - The Politics of Prosperity |
| December 19 - The Presidency in the Balance |
| December 19 - Would the Case Against Clinton Hold Up in Court? |
