January 4 - CLARIFICATION: Veterans services package. |
January 4 - ENVIRONMENT: New Udall Foundation Bill To Replace Vetoed One |
January 4 - PROVISIONS: Medicaid Financing Limits |
January 11 - CORRECTION: Fiscal 1992 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations/Passage. |
January 11 - Proposals From Hill and White House |
January 11 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health-Care Debate Gets Under Way |
January 18 - GOP Remedies for Health Care |
January 18 - Health-Care Grievances, Fears Aired at Nationwide Meetings |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- New Business Health-Care Overhaul: A Running Start |
January 25 - 'Play or Pay' Gains Momentum As Labor Panel Marks Up Bill |
January 25 - Senate Bill Highlights |
February 1 - HEALTH: A Last-Minute GOP Revolt Gets Bush's Attention |
February 8 - Benefits Tax Dropped |
February 8 - Bush Outlines Health Plan, Attacks Other Approaches |
February 8 - Bush's Plan Short on Details, Long on Ambition, Critics |
February 8 - Fetal Tissue Research Renewal Threatens NIH Omnibus Bill |
February 8 - HEALTH: Senate Panel Bill Prescribes Discounted Clinic Drugs |
February 8 - The Bush Health-Care Plan: Highlights and Proposals |
February 15 - Congress Poised to End Deadlock On Overhaul of Food Safety |
February 15 - Overview of Bills |
March 7 - Democratic Differences |
March 7 - Health Provisions in Tax Bill |
March 7 - HEALTH: Insurance Reforms Slide By Senate Finance in Tax Bill |
March 7 - HUMAN SERVICES: Panel Separates Treatments As It Extends Grants |
March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Federal Policy Announced For Pacific Yew |
March 14 - HEALTH: Drug Manufacturers Win Round In Senate Debate on Prices |
March 14 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Legislation To Treat Vets for PTSD |
March 21 - Protecting Retired Coal Miners |
March 28 - A Family Planning Visit |
March 28 - HUMAN SERVICES: New Treatment and Grant Plan Wins Easy House Approval |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Fund Research On Electromagnetic Fields |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Certification Sought For Fertility Clinics |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Indian Health Bill Moves in House |
April 4 - Counseling Rule Defended |
April 4 - Fetal Research |
April 4 - SECTION NOTES: U.S. Customs Overtime Pay, Other Benefits Targeted |
April 11 - HEALTH: Bill Would Help In Vitro Users |
April 11 - HEALTH: Details of Insurance Reform Keep Democrats Divided |
April 11 - HEALTH: Long-Term Care Plan Unveiled |
April 11 - Tangled Jurisdiction |
April 18 - HEALTH: Legislators Ready To Speed Medicare Patient Refunds |
April 18 - HEALTH: Senate Favors, Sends To House Generic Labeling Penalty Bill |
April 18 - Paying Doctors' Bills |
May 2 - Family Planning History |
May 2 - House OKs Bill To Reauthorize Family Planning Program |
May 2 - President Expected To Sign Generic-Drug Fraud Bill |
May 9 - PROVISIONS: NIH Reauthorization Bills |
May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Seeks Protection For Clinic Workers |
May 16 - HEALTH: Conferees Split and Revamp Federal Treatment Agency |
May 16 - Tobacco Roadblocks for Teens |
May 16 - VETERANS: Health Bill Clears; Workers' Bill, Too |
May 23 - Funders Losing and Drug Czar Oppose Agency Overhaul |
May 23 - HEALTH: Fetal Research Splits Abortion Foes, May Mean First Bush Veto Override |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Child Nutrition Bills Passed by Senate |
May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Extension Of Medical Devices Law |
May 23 - The 20-Year Feud Over Research, Turf |
May 30 - Backers of Fetal Research Bill Fall Short of Their Goal |
May 30 - NIH - The Big Picture |
May 30 - SECTION NOTES: Expanded Veterans' Benefits Approved by House Panel |
May 30 - SECTION NOTES: Medical Equipment Rules Deadline Extended |
May 30 - SECTION NOTES: Treatment Agency Overhaul Fails A Second Time |
June 6 - D.C. Judge Muzzles 'Gag' Rule |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: D.C.'s Act Extending Benefits To 'Partners' Hits a Wall |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: House GOP Offers Its Plan For Health-Care Reform |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: House Measure Assisting Rural Medical Providers Advances |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Mental Health Agency Bill Is Stalled in Senate |
June 13 - HEALTH: ADAMHA Report Clears Senate |
June 13 - HEALTH: Hurried House Democrats Divided In Search of a Reform Package |
June 13 - Highlights of House GOP Bill |
June 13 - SECTION NOTES: District Health Benefits Act Weathers Holloway Attack |
June 20 - HEALTH: Democrats Agree on Road Map, If Not Direction, for Overhaul |
June 20 - HEALTH: Despite '90 Veto, Senators Push To Change Orphan Drug Act |
June 20 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: 'Inadequate' Alcohol Treatment Cut From Health Service Bill |
June 27 - HEALTH: As Bush Rejects NIH Renewal, Backers Ready New Plan |
June 27 - Projected Savings Attributable |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Let Military File Malpractice Suits |
June 27 - VETERANS: Bills Offering Help Advance in Senate |
June 27 - VETO MESSAGE: President Faults NIH Measure 'On Almost Every Ground' |
July 4 - HEALTH: Democrats Take Two Paths To System Overhaul |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Alzheimer's Research Programs Reauthorized in House |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Sets $200 Million Cap For Orphan Drugs |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill To Verify Fertility Success Rates |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Labor-HHS Spending Bill Gets Panel's Approval |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Regulations Approved For Health Insurers |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Substance Abuse Bill Sent to White House |
July 11 - HEALTH: More FDA Enforcement Power Favored in Party-Line Vote |
July 11 - SECTION NOTES: House Veterans' Affairs Panels OK Benefit Improvements |
July 11 - SECTION NOTES: Yew Tree Measure Passed; Senate Bill Pending |
July 25 - Labor, HHS Spending (chart) |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Provide For DES Research |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill Mandating Harvest of Pacific Yew |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans' Affairs Approves Benefit Increases |
July 25 - Social Program Cuts Austere; Discomfort To Be Felt by All |
July 25 - Wary Clinton, Hill Democrats Slow-Dance at Arm's Length |
August 1 - HEALTH: Panel OKs Bill To Reauthorize, Revise Disability Programs |
August 1 - Labor, HHS, Education Spending (chart) |
August 1 - PENSION LAW: Health-Care Claims Changes Prompt All-Out Battle |
August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Black Lung Bill Would Help Miners Collect Benefits |
August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Acts To Stop Food Stamp Cuts |
August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill To Expand Nutrition for Preschoolers |
August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes for Increases For Vets' Disabilities |
August 8 - HEALTH: Bills Tackle Malpractice Costs, Medicare Payments and Fraud |
August 8 - HEALTH: Committee Takes Middle Road On Lead Poisoning Bill |
August 8 - HEALTH: Oregon's Bid To Boost Coverage Gets Federal Red Light |
August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Extension In Hawaiian Health Care |
August 15 - HEALTH: 21 Years After Its Partial Ban, House Votes To Study DES |
August 15 - HEALTH: Bill Would Expand AIDS Benefits |
August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Proposes To Push Back Drug Licensing Deadline |
August 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Bill To Stop Food Stamp Reduction |
August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Native Hawaiians' Health Focus of Senate Measure |
August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Rehabilitation Act Conference Expected Soon After Recess |
September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: SOCIAL POLICY |
September 12 - Harkin Seeks $4 Billion Shift From Defense to Domestic |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Resists Adding Money To Popular Social Programs |
September 19 - HEALTH: Bill Amends Drug-Price Law That Backfired for VA |
September 19 - HEALTH: Drugmakers Back User Fee Bill To Speed FDA Drug Approval |
September 19 - HEALTH: Insurance Savings Would Fund Care |
September 19 - HEALTH: Lead Amendment Targets Schools |
September 19 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Bills To Improve Health Care Through the Year 2000 |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Criminal Penalties Extended In Health-Care Fraud Bill |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Mammogram Standardization Bills Approved |
September 26 - HEALTH: House Restores Drug Discounts To VA and Others |
September 26 - HEALTH: Objections in Senate May Slow Fast-Moving Drug Measure |
September 26 - Pentagon as Cancer-Fighter? |
September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Conferees Agree on Overhaul Of Medical Training Funding |
September 26 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Renewal Of Health Review Agency |
September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Law Would Ban 'Bounties' For Mental Patients |
September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Mammography Regulatory Bill Advances in House |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign HEALTH CARE -- The Choice: Reform - Or a 'Train Wreck' |
October 3 - A Burning Issue for Vets |
October 3 - ABORTION: 'Gag Rule' Is Tied Into Place; New NIH Bill in Works |
October 3 - MEMORANDUMS OF DISAPPROVAL: As End of Congress Nears, Bush Turns Often to Veto |
October 3 - Politics and Pressure Converge; Derwinski Resigns as Secretary |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: DES Awareness Programs Cleared by Senate |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill To Benefit Black Lung Survivors |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Reauthorization Of Health Training Bill |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill Renewing Health Review Agency |
October 3 - Short but Grim Conference Meets Bush's Demands |
October 3 - VETERANS: Benefits Measures Pushed Through |
October 10 - HEALTH: Malpractice Measure Clears; One of Many Health Bills |
October 10 - HEALTH: New FDA 'User Fee' Bill Clears; Vitamin Labeling Addressed |
October 10 - HEALTH: The Senate Hones Its Revision Of Drug Discounts; Bill Clears |
October 10 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Hill Clears Handful of Measures Benefiting American Indians |
October 10 - Labor-HHS-Education Spending (chart) |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Calls for Reports On Fertility Success |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Expand Cancers On Vet Compensation List |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Health-Care Fraud Measure Dies After Senate Passage |
October 10 - VETERANS: Backers Prevail Upon Senators; Health, Other Bills Clear |
November 14 - PROVISIONS: Prescription Drug Fees |
November 28 - HEALTH: Clinton Has Rx for Reform - Will Congress Take the Cure? |
November 28 - Managed Competition |
December 12 - TRANSITION: When It's Time To Choose Sides, Clinton Picks From Home Team |
December 19 - KEY SENATE VOTES: 10. Family and Medical Leave |