 January 8 - 1994 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA: Social Policy |
| January 8 - Congress Ponders Compensation For Radiation Test Subjects |
| January 8 - HEALTH: Two Ideological Poles Frame Debate Over Reform |
| January 8 - Single-Payer Cosponsors |
| January 15 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Radiation Experiments Focus of Two Panels |
| January 29 - Clinton Sets Get-Tough Agenda, Hard Line on Social Reforms |
| January 29 - Good News on the Deficit Draws Mixed Emotions |
| January 29 - HEALTH: Clinton Uses His 'Veto Pen' To Draw Line in Debate |
| January 29 - THE STATE OF THE UNION: Clinton Stresses Welfare, Health-Care Reform |
| February 5 - Governors Agree System Ailing, Disagree Wwith Clinton on Cure |
| February 5 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Bill On Donor Program |
| February 5 - Spotlight on Cooper |
| February 5 - The Plans: Clinton vs. Cooper |
| February 12 - CBO Turns Budget Spotlight On Health-Care Overhaul |
| February 12 - How the CBO Sees It |
| February 12 - SPECIAL REPORT -- FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: Health/Medicare |
| February 12 - The President's Budget (chart) |
| February 12 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Balanced Budget, Health Keep Congress Busy |
| February 19 - Health Care: A Perilous Issue |
| February 26 - Democrats as Divided as Ever On Eve of First Markup |
| February 26 - PROVISIONS: Clinton's Health-Care Bill |
| February 26 - SECTION NOTES: Minority Health Programs Reauthorized by Panel |
| February 26 - Suspicion of Government Solutions Lingers in Small-Town America |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Committees at Work - Stress Test |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Health Care Turf House Veterans Affairs |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Health Care Turf Senate Armed Services Committee |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: House Armed Services Committee Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: House Energy and Commerce |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: House Energy and Commerce Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: House Government Operations Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: House Judiciary Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: House Natural Resources Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: House Ways and Means Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Senate Finance Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Senate Indian Affairs Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Senate Judiciary Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Senate Labor and Human Resources |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Senate Labor and Human Resources Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Senate Special Aging |
| March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Veterans' Affairs Health Care Turf |
| March 5 - Delays Buy Time for Undecideds |
| March 5 - HEALTH: GOP Seeks Unity To Bargain With Democrats |
| March 5 - Ohio Republicans Seize Crime, Health Issues |
| March 12 - Divisions Behind the Scenes |
| March 12 - HEALTH: Subcommittee Takes First Step With Work on Stark Bill |
| March 12 - How Medicare Works |
| March 12 - LABOR: Overhaul of Job Safety Law Gains Committee Approval |
| March 12 - Stark's Bill Modeled on Medicare |
| March 12 - WHAT'S AHEAD: First House Votes Set On Health Overhaul |
| March 19 - CORRECTION: Health Subcommittee Markup |
| March 19 - HEALTH: Panel Gives Preliminary Nod To Employer Mandate |
| March 19 - HOUSE: Decorum Is in Short Supply At First 'Oxford' Debate |
| March 19 - HUMAN SERVICES: Food Stamp Bill Clears House |
| March 19 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Clinic Access Bill Hotly Debated |
| March 19 - Senators Search for Compromises |
| March 26 - Clinton's Main Tenets Drive New Movement on Health |
| March 26 - Dingell Outline Softens Clinton Plan To Lure Energy Panel Democrats |
| March 26 - HEALTH: Bill To Assist the Disabled Wins Final Passage |
| March 26 - Stark's Plan: Winners, Losers |
| March 26 - VETERANS: Panel Exempts VA From Staff Cuts |
| April 2 - HEALTH: Minority Programs OK'd by Senate |
| April 2 - REGULATION: Pesticide Safety Bill Clears in Senate |
| April 2 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Measure On Transplant Organs |
| April 2 - SECTION NOTES: VA Mental Health Centers Approved by Senate |
| April 2 - Smith, Mollohan in Line |
| April 9 - The Feedback Factor |
| April 16 - Health Bills: Plans Compared |
| April 16 - HEALTH: Centrist Mood Won't Stop Work on Liberal Plans |
| April 16 - HEALTH: Congress Moves to Middle On Overhaul Bills |
| April 16 - Mitchell's Forgone Court Opportunity Shows High Stakes of Health Debate |
| April 16 - SECTION NOTES: Public Health Programs Get Senate Panel OK |
| April 23 - A Health Care Holdout |
| April 23 - HEALTH: Panels Cutting Through Clutter To Get to Heart of Debate |
| April 23 - Retooling the Most Liberal Bills |
| April 23 - Taking On a Formidable Foe |
| April 23 - The Canadian Experience |
| April 23 - Tobacco Industry Losing Allies As Congress Eyes Health Tax |
| April 23 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health Care, Banking, Bosnia Await Action |
| April 30 - HEALTH: Moderate Democrats Shun Mandate on Employers |
| April 30 - Markup Moves Slowly |
| April 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Bill To Expand Study of Brain Injuries |
| April 30 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: House Exempts Health Agency From Personnel Cuts |
| May 7 - At Every Turn, Clinton Plan Running Into Roadblocks |
| May 7 - Bad News for Cooper-Breaux Bill |
| May 7 - ENVIRONMENT: Incinerator Rules Tightened |
| May 7 - HEALTH CARE SCORE CARD |
| May 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House OKs Clinic Access Bill; Final Passage Imminent |
| May 7 - SECTION NOTES: Vets' Disability COLA Gets Senate Approval |
| May 7 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Appropriations, Health Picking Up Steam |
| May 7 - Williams Uses Firm Hand To Steer Subcommittee Toward Clinton Plan |
| May 14 - Congress Takes On the Explosive Issue of Taxing Health Care Benefits |
| May 14 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Health Care Reform May Begin at Home |
| May 14 - Details of the Kennedy Plan |
| May 14 - DRUGS: Senate Panel Votes To Restrict Diet Supplement Regulations |
| May 14 - HEALTH: Orphan Drug Bill OK'd by Panel |
| May 14 - HEALTH: Subcommittee Votes To Restrict Smoking in Most Buildings |
| May 14 - LABOR-HHS APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE |
| May 14 - Rostenkowski Sets Markup To Get Panel on Track |
| May 14 - VETERANS: Medical Projects OK'd by Panel |
| May 14 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Key Committees Begin Health Care Debate |
| May 21 - Bipartisan Deal on Benefits Gives Boost to Overhaul |
| May 21 - Breyer's Economic and Social Views |
| May 21 - Health Industry Gives More; Aids Fiscal Fitness of Many |
| May 21 - NUTRITION: School Lunch Program Boosted In Committee Vote |
| May 21 - Panel Sticks to Narrow Course, Rejects Moderating Attempts |
| May 21 - Panel Strikes Surprising Accord With Benefits, Cost Concept |
| May 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Extension For New Food Labels |
| May 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Eases Benefits Process For Black Lung Sufferers |
| May 21 - Tension on Senate Finance Puts Panel in Holding Pattern |
| May 21 - Ways and Means Relying on Chairman To Forge a Deal That Can Pass |
| May 21 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Agenda Overflowing As Recess Nears |
| May 28 - Amendments Entangle Labor Panel, Slowing Its Momentum |
| May 28 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Improve Care For Minorities OK'd |
| May 28 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Bill for Work On Medical Facilities |
| May 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill To Expand Health Care for Women Vets |
| May 28 - Slow Pace of Overhaul Frustrates Democrats |
| June 4 - COVER STORY: Ways and Means' Untested Chief Signals Continuity at Panel |
| June 4 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health Care, Defense On List After Recess |
| June 11 - Gibbons Bill Highlights |
| June 11 - Gibbons' Compromise Health Bill Gets Good Marks From CBO |
| June 11 - HUMAN SERVICES: Proposal Limits Fat In School Lunches |
| June 11 - Kennedy's Politics, Policy Collide |
| June 11 - Key Committees Bear Down On Overhaul Proposals |
| June 11 - Moynihan Plan a Starting Point |
| June 11 - Senate Labor First Out of Gate With Approval of Overhaul Bill |
| June 11 - Subcommittee Becomes First Panel To Approve Single-Payer Plan |
| June 11 - VETERANS: Senate Ready for Showdown On VHA Staff Exemption |
| June 18 - A Different Spotlight |
| June 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: D.C. Budget Woes Focus of Debates |
| June 18 - COVER STORY: Deadline Pressure Forces Talk of Compromise |
| June 18 - Democrats Band Together To Repel Assault on Employer Mandate |
| June 18 - Entitlement Reform Panel Convenes in Pessimism |
| June 18 - For Brewster, There's No Contest When It's District vs. Party Line |
| June 18 - HEALTH CARE SCORE CARD |
| June 18 - House Committee Labors Through Its Liberal Health Package |
| June 18 - How Triggers Would Work |
| June 18 - INVESTIGATIONS: House Can Retain Tobacco Papers |
| June 18 - Labor-HHS-Education Spending (chart) |
| June 18 - Triggers: Ready, Aim ... Not Yet |
| June 18 - VETERANS: Senate Clears Claims Bill |
| June 18 - What Senators Are Saying |
| June 25 - Betting Big on Public Backing, Clinton Stands Firm on Veto |
| June 25 - First House Panel Finishes Work, Gains Leverage By Its Action |
| June 25 - HEALTH: Latest FDA Tobacco Testimony Suggests Regulation Is Near |
| June 25 - HUMAN SERVICES: Nutrition Programs OK'd by Panel |
| June 25 - Moderates on Senate Finance Panel Offer a '95 Percent' Solution |
| June 25 - Single-Payer Goes to the Floor |
| June 25 - Some Clinton Ideas Prove Popular While Others Are Falling Flat |
| June 25 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Communications, Bosnia Top House, Senate Lists |
| July 2 - A Disappointed Dingell |
| July 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes $249.7 Billion For Labor-HHS Spending |
| July 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Station Bounces Back With Strong House Vote |
| July 2 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Deciphering the Polls On the Health Issue |
| July 2 - Gibbons' Patched-Together Health Bill Now Faces Test on the Floor |
| July 2 - GOP Senators Backing Dole Plan |
| July 2 - Gulf War Syndrome Benefits Approved by House Panel |
| July 2 - HEALTH: Indian Affairs Backs Clinton |
| July 2 - Highlights of the Gibbons Bill |
| July 2 - House Panel Gives Victory to Clinton and Gibbons; Senate Panel Rules Out An Employer Mandate |
| July 2 - Leaders To Forge New Bill From Committee Efforts |
| July 2 - Mysterious Enemy |
| July 2 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard Renewal Bill Sets Drug-Fighting Threshold |
| July 2 - Senate Finance Panel Deals Blow To Universal Coverage Proposal |
| July 2 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Appropriations Speedup Precedes Health Care |
| July 9 - Big Decisions Now on Shoulders Of House, Senate Leaders |
| July 9 - Clinton Health Care Overhaul Compared With Committee Bills |
| July 9 - Mixed Signals |
| July 9 - Pulling the 'Soft Trigger' |
| July 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Orders District To Reduce Budget |
| July 16 - Clinton's Investment Proposals (chart) |
| July 16 - Health Care Becomes the Key To Chafee's Political Future |
| July 16 - Leaders Signal Readiness To Deal On Employer Mandates |
| July 16 - Senate Panel Aims for Flexibility In Veterans' Health Options |
| July 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Spending Bill Moves to Senate Floor |
| July 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Agriculture Bill After Detour Into Gay Rights |
| July 23 - Cost Containment Next Hurdle As Overhaul Moves to Floor |
| July 23 - HUMAN SERVICES: Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized by House |
| July 23 - INDIANS: Peyote's Protections Would Become Law |
| July 23 - Leaders Tell Clinton Measure Must Have Slower Approach |
| July 23 - Storming the Capital |
| July 23 - VETERANS: Gulf Syndrome Compensation Approved by House Panel |
| July 30 - Battle Over Medicare Part C Plan |
| July 30 - HEALTH: Leaders Using Fervent Approach To Convert Wavering Members |
| July 30 - Key Provisions of Gephardt Plan |
| July 30 - LABOR: Boxing Regulation Board Approved by Panel |
| July 30 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Restrictions On 'Orphan' Drug Rights |
| August 6 - 'King of the Hill' |
| August 6 - Clinton Health Care Overhaul Compared With Other Major Plans |
| August 6 - Contentious Health Care Debate Puts Gephardt Style to Stiff Test |
| August 6 - FLOOR SCHEDULE |
| August 6 - Food Stamp Experiments Spark Welfare Debate |
| August 6 - HEALTH: Orphan Drug Bill Gets Panel OK |
| August 6 - Indoor Air Quality Proposal Gains Subcommittee OK |
| August 6 - Judiciary Panel OKs Provisions On Malpractice, Antitrust |
| August 6 - Mitchell Aims for 95 Percent |
| August 6 - Mitchell's Arm-Twisting Efforts Focus On 10 'Undecided' Democrats |
| August 6 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Calls for Hill Action On Crime, Health Care Bills |
| August 6 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health Care Comes Front and Center |
| August 6 - With Outcome Still Uncertain, Members Face Critical Vote |
| August 13 - A Mixed Review From CBO |
| August 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Labor-HHS Bill; Measure Goes to Conference |
| August 13 - Clinton Health Care Overhaul Compared With Major House Plans |
| August 13 - CORRECTION: Health Care |
| August 13 - Democrats' Defeat Raises Specter of Gridlock |
| August 13 - House Delays Health Care Debate As Leaders Plot Strategy |
| August 13 - House Moderates Offer Plan |
| August 13 - SECTION NOTES: Committee Approves FDA Fees To Test Medical Devices |
| August 13 - SECTION NOTES: House To Fuel Research On Brain Injuries |
| August 13 - SECTION NOTES: Republicans State Objections As Bill on Lead Advances |
| August 13 - Senators Begin First Round With Pokes and Jabs |
| August 13 - TRANSPORTATION: Bill Would Extend Smoking Ban |
| August 13 - Uncertainty, Deep Divisions Cloud Opening of Debate |
| August 13 - VETERANS: Gulf Syndrome Benefits Bill Closer With House Vote |
| August 13 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Congressional Agendas Full of Uncertainty |
| August 20 - Chafee Group Unveils Last-Minute Plan |
| August 20 - HEALTH: Dietary Supplement Bill Faces A Tough Time in the House |
| August 20 - HEALTH: Dietary Supplement Bill Faces A Tough Time in the House |
| August 20 - HEALTH: Doubt Surfaces on Bill Passage As Senate Struggle Continues |
| August 20 - Major Unfinished Business Upsets Members' Plans |
| August 20 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health Care, Crime Bills Keep Congress Going |
| August 27 - COVER STORY: Hard-Fought Crime Bill Battle Spoils Field for Health Care |
| August 27 - HEALTH: Prospects for Major Overhaul Fade as Senate Goes Home |
| August 27 - RECESS NOTES: Senate Passes Legislation On Child Nutrition |
| August 27 - VETERANS: Senate Approves Veterans Bills |
| August 27 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Legislators Head Home For Shortened Recess |
| September 10 - Chances for Limited Measure Slight As Congress Returns |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: A SALVAGE OPERATION |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: An Opportunity Lost? |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Bankruptcy Overhaul |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Clinton Health Care Overhaul Compared With Other Major Plans |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: CLINTON'S QUANDRY |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Health Care Overhaul |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: OSHA Overhaul |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Product Liability |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Safe Drinking Water |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Veterans' Health |
| September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Water Pollution |
| September 10 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health Care, Purchasing Among the Top Items |
| September 17 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Media Are the Source Of Public Negativism |
| September 17 - Support Erodes as Key Backers Voice Little Hope for Passage |
| September 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Conference Report Makes a Dent in the Deficit |
| September 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Goes to Senate After House Adopts Report |
| September 24 - Details of Bipartisan Bill |
| September 24 - HEALTH: Mitchell Trying To Find A Graceful Exit |
| September 24 - Labor's High Hopes Faded Fast |
| September 24 - Labor-HHS-Education Spending (chart) |
| September 24 - VETERANS: Persian Gulf Syndrome Bill Approved by Senate Panel |
| September 24 - With Health Care Receding, GATT Pact Gains Urgency |
| October 1 - A Health Care Chronology |
| October 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: After Delay Over Amendments, Senate Clears Labor-HHS Bill |
| October 1 - D.C. Bill Goes Down to the Wire Before Senate Stamps It OK |
| October 1 - Demise of Health Care Overhaul Produced Big Winners and Losers |
| October 1 - Overhaul Issue Unlikely To Rest in Peace |
| October 1 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Promote Boxing Safety Wins Committee Approval |
| October 8 - End of Session Marked By Partisan Stalemate |
| October 8 - ENVIRONMENT: Safe Drinking Water Bill Stalls, Puts Cities on the Spot |
| October 8 - HEALTH: Deal Struck on Regulation Of Dietary Supplements |
| October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Child Nutrition Renewals Address New Guidelines |
| October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Minority Health Bill Closer to Passage |
| October 8 - SECTION NOTES: New Airplane Smoking Ban Stalls in Senate |
| October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Nurse-Training Bill Passes Senate |
| October 8 - SECTION NOTES: U.S.-Mexico Health Bill Goes to the President |
| October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Veterinarians Bill Clears House |
| October 8 - VETERANS: Deal Clears Way for Approval Of Gulf Syndrome Measure |
| October 8 - VETERANS: Key Women's Health Provisions Are Removed From Measure |
| October 15 - HEALTH: 'Medicare Select' Clears Congress |
| October 15 - HEALTH: Senate Clears Compromise Bill On Dietary Supplements |
| October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill on Traumatic Brain Injuries Fails To Clear in House |
| October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Republican Senators' Hold Kills Minority Health Programs |
| October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Legislation On Certain Oils, Fats |
| October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate, but Not House, Acts On Office for Rare Diseases |
| October 15 - VETERANS: Persian Gulf Syndrome Bill Heads to President |
| November 5 - Food Program Spending (chart) |
| November 5 - Health Care's Painful Demise Cast Pall on Clinton Agenda |
| November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health Care Overhaul |
| November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: OSHA Overhaul |
| November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Veterans' Health and Benefits |
| November 5 - Major Food Programs |
| November 12 - Dole Signals Cooperation, Says GOP Must Produce |
| November 19 - 'CONTRACT WITH AMERICA': House GOP Offers Descriptions Of Bills To Enact 'Contract' |
| December 31 - Malpractice Changes High on List |
| December 31 - Some Modest Proposals On Republican Table |
