January 19 - Health Care: Coverage, Costs Raise Concerns |
February 2 - Veterans: Members Support Gulf Troops With Assistance Measures |
February 16 - Congress Feels the Pressure Of Health-Care Squeeze |
February 16 - Governors Ask Congress for Relief From Burdensome Medicaid Mandates |
February 16 - How Bad Is It? |
February 16 - Mitchell: New Priority |
February 16 - Rx for Care: Competing Plans |
February 23 - Bush Medicare Premium Plan Is Greeted Warily on Hill |
March 2 - How Block Grants Fares 1987-1991 (chart) |
March 9 - DRUGS: Judiciary Panel Backs Martinez |
March 9 - VETERANS: Vietnam Benefits Bill Cleared |
March 9 - War-Related Supplementals Win Approval From House |
March 16 - NIH Nominee Averts Battle Over Fetal Research Ban |
March 16 - SECTION NOTES: Disability Prevention Gets Senate Panel OK |
March 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Healy For NIH Directorship |
March 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Martinez As New Drug Czar |
April 6 - A Quiet Changing of the Guard |
April 6 - Gearing Up for Another Round |
April 6 - HEALTH: Family Planning Is Catalyst To a Simmering Feud |
April 6 - War on Drugs Is a Standoff In the Partisan Trenches |
April 20 - Ackerman Makes His Move |
April 20 - Federal Health Insurance Revision Shows Promising Signs of Life |
April 20 - HEALTH: Experts Offer No Answers To Health-Care Dilemma |
April 20 - Percent Change in Federal Health Premium (chart) |
April 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Low-Lead Bill |
April 20 - VETERANS: Special Pay Rate Bill Passed by Senate |
April 27 - Democrats Offer Major Plan On Childhood Hunger |
April 27 - Growth of the Food Stamp Program (chart) |
April 27 - VETERANS: Special Pay Rate Legislation Is Cleared for President |
May 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Look at Each Spending Bill -- Labor-HHS- Education |
May 11 - House Panel Renews Challenge To Bush on Fetal Research |
May 18 - Bit by Bit, Congress Opened Door for Medicaid |
May 18 - Cost of Medicaid Puts States In Tightening Budget Vise (charts) |
May 18 - HEALTH: White House, on Defensive Highlights Its Agenda |
May 18 - Oregon Plan Sparks Emotional Debate Over Rationing Health Care |
May 18 - SECTION NOTES: Drug-Testing Amendment Voted Down in House |
May 18 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans Panels Endorse Health, Education Bills |
May 25 - SECTION NOTES: Rockefeller, Waxman Sponsor Health-Care Bill |
June 1 - HEALTH: Complex Issues, Turf Battles Delay Democratic Overhaul |
June 1 - VETERANS: Panel Backs Health Measure, Boosts Treatment for Stress |
June 8 - HEALTH: Democrats Taking a Gamble On Health-Care Overhaul |
June 8 - The Fetal-Tissue Controversy |
June 8 - VETERANS: Panel OKs Health, Education Bills |
June 8 - Waiting in the Wings |
June 15 - Urban-Rural Debate Expected Over Mental Health, Drugs |
June 22 - HEALTH: Senate Labor Backs Anti-Tobacco Bill |
June 22 - Labor, HHS, Education Spending (chart) |
June 29 - Children's Commission Report Suggests New Tax Credit |
June 29 - CORRECTION: Labor-HHS Appropriations. |
June 29 - Funding Minuet |
June 29 - HUMAN SERVICES: Mental Health Plan Wins Panel OK |
July 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Reverses House Goals, Favors Low-Income Help |
July 13 - SECTION NOTES: Legislation Would Increase Disabled Veterans' COLA |
July 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Helms Wins Big on AIDS Issue, But Victory May Not Last |
July 20 - HUMAN SERVICES: Senators Move To Overhaul Mental Health Funding |
July 27 - House NIH Vote Overturns Ban On Fetal Tissue Research |
July 27 - LABOR: House Panels Vote Measures On Worker Health, Safety |
July 27 - SECTION NOTES: Fresh Pizza Added To School Lunches |
July 27 - Teen Sex and the House |
August 3 - HEALTH: Family Planning Reauthorization Tests Abortion Restrictions |
August 3 - HEALTH: Generic-Drug Bill Moves Past Panel |
August 3 - HEALTH: Measure Would Set Lab Standards |
August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Committee Moves To Restrict Some Uses of Lead |
August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Proponents Seek Funding For Anti-Hunger Bill |
August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Bill Would Safeguard Rights of Mentally Ill |
August 10 - A Democratic Signal? |
August 10 - Block Grants (chart) |
August 10 - Bush Plan for Doctors' Fees Is Criticized as Wrong Rx |
August 10 - HUMAN SERVICES: Senate OKs Mental Health Bill; Rural Areas Get More Funds |
August 10 - SECTION NOTES: Labor-HHS Spending Bill Gets a Recess, Too |
August 10 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Bill To Expand Veterans' Benefits |
September 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Future of Labor-HHS Measure |
September 14 - HEALTH: Rhetoric Flares Up On Health Care |
September 14 - New Round Over AIDS |
September 14 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Give Counseling To Vets and Their Families |
September 21 - HEALTH: Oregon Courts Hill Skeptics On New Medicaid Approach |
September 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Another Round On Sex Surveys |
September 28 - LABOR: ERISA Restrictions Re-Examined |
September 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Drug Measures |
September 28 - SECTION NOTES: Measure To Reauthorize Anti-Drug Programs OK'd |
October 5 - Capitol Hill's Ire Increases Along With Drug Prices |
October 5 - SECTION NOTES: Health, Human Services Bills Advance in the House |
October 5 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Nutrition Program For Low-Income People |
October 12 - CORRECTION: VA MEDICAL LABORATORIES. |
October 12 - HEALTH: Panel Compromises With Bush On Medical Training Loans |
October 12 - HEALTH: Panel OKs Divisive FDA Powers Bill |
October 12 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Health-Care Bills |
October 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Unable To Choose Between Education, Health |
October 19 - Natcher vs. Hatfield |
October 19 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans Hospice Bill Approved by Senate |
October 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Conferees Haggling Over Dollars, Not Issues |
October 26 - HEALTH: Congress, Administration Duel Over State Medicaid Funds |
October 26 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel OKs Authorization Of Public Health Programs |
October 26 - SECTION NOTES: Legal Rights Protection For Mentally Ill OK'd |
October 26 - Women's Health Issue |
November 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Health, Education Conferees Push Tough Choices to '93 |
November 2 - HEALTH: Battle Continues Over Medicaid |
November 2 - HEALTH: Boarder Baby Help Wins Senate OK |
November 2 - HEALTH: Drug-Copy Review To Be Tightened |
November 2 - HEALTH: Lead Exposure Bill Stalls in Markup |
November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Disability Prevention Passed by House |
November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel OKs Services For Alzheimer's Victims |
November 2 - Selected Programs In HR2707 (chart) |
November 2 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: COLA Bill Is Sent To White House |
November 9 - HEALTH: Panel Gives States the Nod On Medicaid Financing |
November 9 - HEALTH: Wellness Programs Reauthorized |
November 9 - HUMAN SERVICES: Panel OKs Separate Block Grant To Fight Substance Abuse |
November 9 - Labor, HHS, Education (chart) |
November 9 - Lead Weights: Congress Wary of Costs and Mandates |
November 9 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes to Reauthorize Health Information Programs |
November 9 - The Lead Threat |
November 9 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Stopgap Spending Bill Due To Expire |
November 16 - Growing Health-Care Debate Widens Partisan Divisions |
November 16 - HEALTH/EDUCATION: Two Similar Bills Aim at Loans For Medical Education |
November 16 - HEALTH: Pesticides Measure Backed by Panel |
November 16 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Moves To Correct Mistake on Drug Prices |
November 16 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Bill Aimed at Disease Control |
November 16 - Talking Points |
November 16 - The Tide of History Turns Again On National Health Insurance Ideas |
November 16 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Long, Hard Week Looms As Adjournment Nears |
November 23 - HEALTH: Both Chambers Join the Battle Over Medicaid Financing |
November 23 - HEALTH: House Members Move To Boost Variety of Health Programs |
November 23 - Key Democrats (chart) |
November 23 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Panel Votes Food Stamp Increase |
November 23 - Waters Stirs Up a Tempest, Challenging Montgomery |
November 30 - HEALTH: Aid for Training Reauthorized |
November 30 - HEALTH: States Bargain For Some Relief From Medicaid Restrictions |
November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Collegial Courtesy Requires Senate To Pass Bill Twice |
November 30 - VETERANS: House OKs Services Package, Minority Affairs Officer |
December 7 - RECESS NOTES: Senate Authorizes Funding For Illness Prevention |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: BETWEEN THE LINES |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION (chart) |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: THE SOCIAL TAB Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Where The Money Goes Labor, HHS, Education -- Fiscal Year 1992 |