January 2 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Impeachment's Long Shadow |
January 2 - IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: Chief Justice May Be Just Another 'Juror' |
January 2 - SOCIAL SECURITY: A Rare Opportunity Ahead |
January 9 - A Determined Prosecution |
January 9 - After Historic Swearing-In, Duty Trumps the Party Line |
January 9 - Chart: 1998 House Presidential Position Votes |
January 9 - Chart: 1998 Senate Presidential Position Votes |
January 9 - Chart: Leading Scorers: Presidential Support |
January 9 - Chart: Presidential Support Background |
January 9 - Clinton's Biggest Prize Was a Frustrated GOP |
January 9 - Clinton's String of Modest Proposals Softens Focus on Impeachment Trial |
January 9 - First Impeachment Offers Insight On Framers' Intentions |
January 9 - impeachment 'Science': How the Senate Prepared To Replace Richard Nixon |
January 9 - Senate Strives for Dignity |
January 9 - The Articles of Impeachment |
January 9 - The Ultimate Sanction? |
January 9 - What's Ahead |
January 9 - With Great Difficulty, Senate Devises A Blueprint for Proceedings |
January 16 - CENSUS, ROUND 2: Clinton-Hastert Face-off |
January 16 - Correction: First Impeachment |
January 16 - Debate To Decide Clinton's Fate Still Likely To Be Held in Secret |
January 16 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Another State of the Union Message: Government Not Distracted by Impeachment |
January 16 - Looking Ahead |
January 16 - Party Lines Threaten To Prevail Over Pride, Friendship in Senate |
January 16 - Senate Confronts Two Constituencies: History -- and the Voters in 2000 |
January 16 - The 13 House Republicans Making The Case Against Clinton |
January 16 - The Paper Trail, Jan. 11 - 15, 1999 |
January 16 - Trial Takes On a Hybrid Character When Politicians Are Jurors |
January 16 - What's Ahead |
January 23 - A Loquacious Retired Senator And Blue-Chip Lawyers Defend Clinton |
January 23 - Clinton's Initiatives |
January 23 - Defense Focuses on Facts |
January 23 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: A Manifesto for 2000 |
January 23 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Clinton and His Troubles: Equals in Staying Power |
January 23 - From the Editor |
January 23 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: As Events Buoy Clinton, Senators Seek a Graceful Exit |
January 23 - IMPEACHMENT: Bumpers' Conclusion: The People 'Are Calling on You To Rise Above Politics . . . Above Partisanship' |
January 23 - IMPEACHMENT: Hyde's Summation: 'We Must Never Tolerate One Law for the Ruler And Another for the Ruled' |
January 23 - PAST AS PROLOGUE: Byrd Sent an Early Signal That Even He Watched the Polls |
January 23 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Urging Nation To 'Aim Higher,' Clinton Offers Proposals on Education, Retirement Security, Health Care |
January 23 - REPUBLICAN RESPONSE: GOP Says Tax Relief, Social Security Overhaul Are 'Practical' Priorities |
January 30 - A Will of Their Own |
January 30 - Activist President Presses On in Hope Of Tempering History's Judgment |
January 30 - As the Economy Goes, So Goes The Presidency -- or Vice Versa? |
January 30 - Challenge for the GOP: Conserve Ideals Without Losing Majority |
January 30 - Clinton's Woes May Turn 'Character' Into a Hot Campaign Issue |
January 30 - Democrats Say Foreign Policy Suffers, But GOP Says 'Life Goes On' |
January 30 - Exit Strategies Divide Senate |
January 30 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Supreme Court Ruling Offers Little Hope For Ending Census Sampling Debate |
January 30 - IMPEACHMENT: House's Rationale for Witnesses: Testimony 'Will Lend Greater Coherence and Understanding' |
January 30 - Law That Empowers Starr Is Also on Trial This Year |
January 30 - Looking Beyond the Trial |
January 30 - Partisan Tensions, Already High, Are Unlikely To End When Trial Does |
January 30 - Senate Limits Witnesses, Begins Push Toward Finishing Trial |
January 30 - What's Ahead |
February 6 - BUDGET: A Closer Look at the Budget |
February 6 - BUDGET: Clinton's Strength Portends A Tough Season for GOP |
February 6 - Chart: Budget Authority, Outlays by Agency |
February 6 - Chart: Fiscal 2000 Budget by Function |
February 6 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: Senate Gropes for Another Way To Record Disapproval of Clinton |
February 13 - Chart: How Senators Voted |
February 13 - Clinton's Popularity Up Despite His Plight |
February 13 - Clinton's Public Reaction: Humility, Regret |
February 13 - Democrats Vow To Turn Up the Heat In House Managers' Districts |
February 13 - From the Editor |
February 13 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: GOP's Case for Rule of Law Came to a Political End |
February 13 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: GOP's Recovery Strategy: Get Back to Legislating |
February 13 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: Impeachment's Future: Just Another Political Weapon? |
February 13 - IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT: Senate Acquits Clinton |
February 13 - Investigating the Investigator |
February 13 - REGULATION: Clinton Team Has Varied Strategy For Attacking Big Tobacco |
February 13 - Senate Blocks Censure, Ending Trial Without a 'Unifying Statement' |
February 13 - Senators Explain Their Votes |
February 13 - SIDELINE ON IMPEACHMENT: Today's Scandal, Tomorrow's Nostalgia |
February 13 - Three Besieged 'Minority Presidents' |
February 20 - Judge in Jones Suit May Hold President in Contempt |
February 20 - STATES VS. CONGRESS: Governors: Leave It to Us |
February 27 - Census Controversy Continues With Plan for Dual Count |
February 27 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Senators Say Independent Counsel Law Should Lapse if Not Radically Changed |
March 6 - Bill Would Let Census Takers Retain Federal Benefits |
March 6 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Administration Opposes Renewal Of Independent Counsel Act, Citing Diminished Public Trust |
March 13 - ENVIRONMENT: Suburban Sprawl And Government Turf |
March 13 - From the Editor |
March 13 - House Panel Moves Census Bills Despite Democratic Opposition |
March 13 - In Land Development Decisions, States Say Quality Counts |
March 20 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Bitter Census Debate Continues As GOP Pushes Legislation To Circumvent 'Sampling' Technique |
March 20 - REGULATION: As States Deregulate Electricity, Former Energy Officials Urge Hill To Set Nationwide Standards |
March 20 - REGULATION: Senate Rejects Federal Claim To Tobacco Settlement Money, Undeterred by Veto Threat |
March 20 - Reno Latest Witness To Oppose Independent Counsel Law |
March 27 - House GOP Pulls Census Bill, Promises a Return After Recess |
April 3 - Chart: A Range of Undercounts |
April 3 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Mayors Aren't Sitting Down For the Count |
April 17 - Olympics To Get $171 Million |
April 17 - Partisanship Continues Over Census |
April 17 - TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATIONS: Digital Haves and Have-Nots |
April 24 - COUNTING THE DAYS: GOP's Census Offer Greeted Coldly As Deadline for a Deal Nears |
April 24 - From the Editor |
April 24 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: U.S. Businesses Help Pay for NATO Fete |
April 24 - House Bill Would Direct OMB To Assess Impact of Regulations |
May 1 - REGULATION: Clinton, Tobacco Foes Cheer Court's Decision To Hear Case on FDA's Authority |
May 8 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Congress Still Skeptical Of 'Kinder, Gentler' IRS |
May 8 - Sequel With a High-Tech Twist: Customs Service Hearings Ahead |
May 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Treasury-Postal Bill Advances, But Members Say It Shortchanges Courthouse Construction |
May 15 - CENSUS 2000: Down for the Count |
May 15 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Chinese Businessman's Testimony Breathes Some Life Into House Probe Of Democrats' Fundraising Practices |
May 15 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Lawmakers Say Budget Shortfalls And Hoary Computer System Hobble U.S. Customs Service |
May 15 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Panel Stints On Legislative Branch Bill |
May 22 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Labor Issues Resurface in Customs Bill |
May 29 - Customs Bill Passes After Pay Debate |
May 29 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Prospective Presidential Pay Raise, First in 30 Years, Would Also Ease Other Officials' Salary 'Compression' |
May 29 - REGULATION: Truck Safety Movement Shifts Into Overdrive |
June 5 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Census Bureau Seeks Another $1.7 Billion |
June 12 - ADVISE AND RESENT: No-Holds-Barred Fight Over Nominations Less Apocalyptic Than It Seems |
June 12 - BANKING: Republicans Fault Clinton For Long-Running Vacancy On Federal Reserve Board |
June 12 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Archer Mounts Last-Ditch Effort To Overcome Political Inertia On Social Security Overhaul |
June 19 - ENVIRONMENT: Bills To Conserve Open Land Take Tentative Root on Hill |
June 19 - FINANCE: Summers Faces Tough Questions On Taxes and Monetary Policy, But Confirmation Appears Secure |
June 19 - Hatch's Impasse With Clinton On Nominations Seems Over |
June 19 - NOMINATION: Holbrooke Runs Helms' Gantlet In Hearing on U.N. Nomination, Leaving Mixed Impressions |
June 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Treasury-Postal Bill Defends Intellectual Property, Lets Hill Pay Raise Stand |
June 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tax Issue, Social Policy Riders May Ensnarl D.C. Spending Bill Despite Panel's Quick Approval |
June 26 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Latest Supreme Court Rulings Reinforce the Federalist Trend |
June 26 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Who Polices Politicians After Counsel Law Expires? |
July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Backs Tax Cut In D.C. Bill |
July 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury And Agencies Bill Passes |
July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Spending Bill Faces Relatively Smooth Conference Despite Policy Struggles in House |
July 17 - Clinton Request for More Funds Rekindles Census Fight |
July 24 - D.C. Bill Amended To Allow Medical Marijuana Vote Tally, Needle Exchange Program |
July 31 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: House Passes Bill for Study Of Rules' Costs |
August 7 - APPROPRIATIONS: D.C. Spending Bill Conferees Retain Social Policy Riders That Prompted Veto Threats |
September 4 - THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Assessing the Spectrum of Veto Threats |
September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Narrowly Adopts D.C. Spending Legislation Democrats Call 'Tyrannical' |
September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Conferees Add Presidential Pay Raise, Restore Funding for IRS |
September 11 - House Opposes Clemency For Puerto Rican Nationalists |
September 11 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Political Ground May Be Shifting Under Mine Operators |
September 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury Bill Includes Pay Raises for All |
September 18 - Chart: Treasury-Postal Spending Highlights |
September 18 - House Passes R and D Authorization For Department of Energy |
September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Parties Tailor Hill Agendas To Win Seniors' Loyalty |
September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Rewrite of Older Americans Act Sets Stage for Floor Fight Over Control of Jobs Programs |
September 25 - DEFENSE: Flap Over New Nuclear Agency Fails To Derail Defense Bill |
September 25 - Senate Panel Approves Weaver For Export-Import Bank Board |
October 2 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Rejects D.C. Spending Bill's 'Unwarranted Intrusions' in Local Decisions |
October 9 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Drops Reauthorization Of Older Americans Act After Jobs Program Outcry |
October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate Pass Revised D.C. Measure |
October 16 - Business and Society Notes |
October 16 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Independent Counsel Closes Babbitt Inquiry |
October 16 - TRANSPORTATION: House Passes Bill To Create Separate Agency for Oversight Of Truck and Bus Safety |
October 23 - DEFENSE: GOP, Richardson Eyeball to Eyeball Over Nuclear Security Again, With Little Time Left for a Blink |
October 23 - House Bill Would Give Agencies More Computer Security Options |
October 23 - Justice Department Bent Rules On FALN Clemency, Hatch Says |
October 23 - Panel Votes To Curb President's Ability To Designate Monuments |
October 23 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Says Foreign Operations Bill Endangers National Security By Shortchanging Diplomacy |
October 30 - '.US' VS. THEM: House Seeks To Shield Voters From Porn |
October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Ease Policy Riders In D.C. Bill |
October 30 - Standoff on Nominations Intensifies |
October 30 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Objects to Provisions On U.N., Community Policing In Commerce, Justice, State Bill |
November 6 - Confirmation Freeze Yields Talk of Recess Appointments |
November 6 - Three-Year NASA Authorization Wins Senate Passage |
November 6 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Condemns Labor-HHS Bill For Cutting Education Money, Delaying Medical Research |
November 13 - Bill on Federal Advisers' Ethics Passes |
November 13 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Dozens of Clinton Nominees Win Confirmation After Lott Strikes Deal With Democrats |
November 13 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: GOP Concludes Politics Affected Clemency Offer |
November 13 - House Approves Assistance For Low-Income Fathers |
November 13 - POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE: Terre Haute Post Office Gains Control |
November 13 - SPECIAL REPORT: Spending Bills To Piggyback on D.C. Measure |
November 20 - A Mixed Fate for King Bills |
November 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Adopts D.C. Spending Compromise |
November 20 - Senate's Ethics Office Bill Sets Up Conflict With House |
November 27 - IN CLINTON'S COURT: Recess Appointments: a Risky Game |
November 27 - LABOR: Proposed Ergonomics Rules Rub GOP the Wrong Way |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Appropriations - District of Columbia |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Appropriations - Treasury-Postal Service |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Executive Branch - Impeachment |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Government Operations - 2000 Census |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Government Operations - Cost of Federal Regulations |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health - Organ Transplants |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Law and Judiciary - Independent Counsel |
November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Social Policy - Older Americans Act |
December 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Signs Omnibus Bill, Saying It Funds Crucial Programs While Upholding Fiscal Discipline |
December 4 - GOP Attacks Clinton's Plan To Tap Unemployment Funds |
December 4 - More Nuclear Security Money Sought |
December 11 - Chart: 1999 House Presidential Position Votes |
December 11 - Chart: 1999 Senate Presidential Position Votes |
December 11 - Chart: Leading Scorers: Presidential Support |
December 11 - Chart: Presidential Support and Opposition: House |
December 11 - Chart: Presidential Support and Opposition: Senate |
December 11 - Chart: Presidential Support Background |
December 11 - GOVERNMENT AT WORK: Where There's a Bill, There's a Way: Legislation Is Loaded With Studies |
December 11 - VOTE STUDIES: Clinton Comes Up Short in a Year Of Politics Over Substance |