 January 11 - SPEAKERSHIP |
| January 18 - COVER STORY |
| January 18 - Medicare Part A and B Breakdown |
| January 18 - Medicare: Fixes Don't Come Easy |
| January 18 - Part A Trust Fund Woes |
| January 25 - HEALTH |
| February 1 - THE 1960S: GROWTH GIVES COUNTRY A 'DEEP POCKETS' FEELING |
| February 8 - Budget: Health and Medicare |
| February 15 - Correction |
| February 15 - Medical Care for Gulf War Vets |
| February 15 - VETERANS AFFAIRS |
| February 22 - HEALTH |
| March 1 - Chemicals Covered By the Treaty |
| March 15 - COVER STORY |
| March 15 - HEALTH CARE |
| March 15 - It's a Concept, not a Category |
| March 15 - Jeffords Treads Carefully in New Post |
| March 15 - Pending Bills Propose Regulation |
| March 15 - Some State Proposals Already Mirror Federal Health Measures |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Veterans' Affairs |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Ways and Means |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Aging |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Finance |
| March 22 - HEALTH |
| April 12 - HEALTH |
| April 12 - Medicare Policy Correction |
| April 12 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 19 - 1982 Plan to Divide Waste Burden Faded |
| April 19 - HUMAN SERVICES |
| April 26 - Medicare Fund on Critical List |
| May 3 - COVER STORY: Clinton, GOP Congress Strike Historic Budget Agreement |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: House OK's Bill To Continue Power Line Health Study |
| May 10 - COVER STORY: Tobacco Foes Smell a Victory In Coming Court Battles |
| May 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Effort To Ease Restrictions Of Species Act Rejected |
| May 10 - The Farmers' Advantage |
| May 24 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: House Panel OKs Medicare Plan |
| June 7 - FDA Proposal Highlights |
| June 7 - HEALTH: User-Fee Renewal Could Boost Plan To Overhaul FDA |
| June 7 - Medicare Program Proposals |
| June 7 - RECONCILIATION: House Panel Dodges Squabbles Over Medicare in Budget Plan |
| June 14 - RECONCILIATION: Commerce Approves Proposal To Cut Medicaid Spending |
| June 14 - RECONCILIATION: Medicare Overhaul Proposals Approved by House Panels |
| June 21 - Linking Income and Costs |
| June 21 - RECONCILIATION: Finance Panel Approves Bill To Trim Medicaid Spending |
| June 21 - RECONCILIATION: Medicare Overhaul Heads For Senate Floor Battle |
| June 21 - REGULATION: Action on Tobacco Agreement Not Expected Before FalL |
| June 28 - COMMERCE: Congress Casting a Wary Eye At Tobacco Deal's Details |
| June 28 - Details of the Major Provisions Of the Tobacco Agreement |
| June 28 - RECONCILIATION: Conference Battles Are Expected Over Senate Medicare Changes |
| July 5 - RECONCILIATION: Medicare Conferees Prepare For Savings Account Fight |
| July 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tobacco Farmers' Programs Saved in House Committee |
| July 12 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hatch's 'Conservative' Style Irks Some Republicans |
| July 12 - REGULATION: Tobacco Settlement Creaks Under Review of Congress |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lawmakers Urged To Keep Bill Free of Extraneous Items |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Bill To Reverse Long Decline in Foreign Aid |
| July 19 - MEDICARE: GOP, Conferees Aim To Resolve Major Issues on Overhaul |
| July 19 - REGULATION: Wheels Turning in Congress To Make Tobacco Deal Law |
| July 19 - THE BUDGET: Internal Divisions, White House Frustrate GOP's Tax Agenda |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Budget Allocation Quiets Rancor As Labor Bills Move to Floor |
| July 26 - COVER STORY: GOP Weighs 'Impure' Budget Deal As Clinton Holds High Ground |
| July 26 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Medicare: Complexities Of a 'Simple' Solution |
| July 26 - MEDICARE: Bipartisan Consensus Hampered By Means-Testing Battle |
| August 2 - Highlights of the Agreement |
| August 2 - Medicare Spending Changes |
| August 2 - MEDICARE: Long-Term Fixes Are Delayed, But Political Logjam Broken |
| August 2 - SCIENCE: House Science Panel Approves Anti-Cloning Measure |
| August 9 - Fiscal 1998 Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| August 9 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Reviews Accomplishments, Details Next Round of Goals |
| August 16 - New York and Clinton: No Love Lost |
| August 16 - Vetoed Provisions: New York Aid |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: SOCIAL POLICY |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Budget Agreement Overshadows Congress' Autumn Agenda |
| September 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Fetal Tissue Study to Union Vote: Issues May Delay Labor-HHS Bill |
| September 6 - HEALTH: Work on Drug-Approval Rules Proceeds Without Kennedy |
| September 6 - Highlights of Regulatory Bill |
| September 6 - REGULATION: Regulatory Bill's Moderation May Be Its Weakness |
| September 6 - REGULATION: Tobacco Settlement Staggers As Hill Looks to Clinton |
| September 13 - HEALTH: Cosmetics Labeling Agreement Paves Way for FDA Overhaul |
| September 13 - HEALTH: Critics: Law Could Be Unhealthful For Elderly -- and for Medicare |
| September 13 - LINE-ITEM VETO: Effort To Save 'Canceled' Items Moves Tentatively Forward |
| September 13 - Medicare Options Available |
| September 13 - PRODUCT LIABILITY: Narrow Version of Vetoed Bill Would Aid Medical Suppliers |
| September 13 - The Gloves Are on as Republicans Fight For Small Victories |
| September 13 - VETERANS: Burial Changes OK'd by Panel |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Agree To Fortify FDA's Tobacco Initiative |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel OKs D.C. Spending Bill, But Full-Scale Fights Loom |
| September 20 - COMMERCE: President Punts Tobacco Issue Toward Campaign '98 |
| September 20 - DRUGS: GOP Prescribes Bipartisanship For Overhaul of FDA |
| September 20 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Details Five Key Elements For Teen Smoking Legislation |
| September 27 - DRUGS: FDA Overhaul One Step Closer; Democrats Say Fight Isn't Over |
| September 27 - PROVISIONS: Inside the Tax-Cutting Bill |
| September 27 - SECTION NOTES: Value of Tobacco Settlement Is Overstated, Agency Says |
| September 27 - Senate Bill Aims to Speed Review of Drugs, Medical Devices by FDA |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: Imported Food Safety Proposal Unveiled by President |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: Informal Working Group Set Up To Enact Tobacco Settlement |
| October 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves $49.8 Billion Agriculture Spending Bill |
| October 11 - DRUGS: Few Differences Remain in Move To Streamline FDA Process |
| October 11 - REGULATION: Flight Attendants' Settlement Reinvigorates Tobacco Foes |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: Satcher Moves Closer To Surgeon General |
| October 11 - Versions of House, Senate Bills Similar |
| October 25 - HEALTH: Clash Over Compliance Leaves Mental Health Law Unclear |
| October 25 - LABOR: Panel's Party-Line Vote on OSHA Shows Divisions Over Revamp |
| October 25 - Less Is More for Latest Overhaul Bill |
| October 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Labor Panel Approves Satcher Nomination |
| November 1 - Ballots: Gay Rights to Patients' Rights |
| November 1 - GOP Oversight Target: Big Government |
| November 1 - LABOR: Privacy of Medical Records Under Hill Microscope |
| November 1 - Privacy Bills Pending |
| November 1 - SECTION NOTES: $750 Million Hemophilia Fund Approved by House Panel |
| November 1 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: House Panel Calls for Action On Gulf War Health Care |
| November 1 - With Just a Week Left, Many Bills Remain |
| November 8 - Costly Mix of Soldiers and Cigarettes Has Pentagon Saying No to Tradition |
| November 8 - Countdown to Adjournment |
| November 8 - COVER STORY: Carlton: Small-Town Lawyer With a Big-Time Voice |
| November 8 - DRUGS: Republicans Close to Deal On Streamlining FDA |
| November 8 - No Sanctuary in the Capitol |
| November 8 - Tobacco Industry Courts the Hill With Compromise, Conciliation |
| November 8 - Tobacco PAC Contributions |
| November 8 - TOBACCO POLITICS: U.S. Looks to Canada's Example In Efforts To Curb Tobacco Use |
| November 15 - COMMERCE: Round 1: Bliley Wants Release Of Tobacco Industry Papers |
| November 15 - DRUGS: FDA Measure Looks Healthy After GOP Concessions |
| November 15 - Fiscal 1998 Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| November 15 - Most Provisions Kept in FDA Bill |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans' Benefits Rights Bill Cleared by Senate |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Vote on Satcher Delayed Until 1998 by Senate |
| November 22 - CLARIFICATION |
| November 22 - HEALTH: Managed Care Faces Showdown Over Federal Regulation |
| November 22 - Pending Bills on Managed Care |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: FDA Streamlining Measure Signed by Clinton |
| November 22 - REGULATION: Federal-State Tobacco Dispute May Land in Congress |
| November 29 - Editor's Note |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, 1st Session: Social Policy |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Appropriations |
| December 6 - First Session Highlights |
| December 6 - HEALTH: FDA's Approval of Irradiation Missing Meaty Details |
| December 6 - HEALTH: Medicare Panel Takes Shape Amid Controversy |
| December 6 - REGULATION: Tobacco Industry Hands Over Subpoenaed Papers |
| December 6 - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. |
| December 13 - Bliley Shows Some Muscle |
| December 13 - Highlights: Here's To Good Health |
| December 13 - REGULATION: Lawyers' Fees Emerge as Threat To Tobacco Legislation |
| December 13 - Voters Urge Change In Managed Care |
| December 20 - COMMERCE: Latest Crop of Tobacco Documents Hardens Industry Foes' Resolve |
| December 20 - Key Senate and House Votes |
| December 20 - RECESS NOTES: Compromise on Coverage For Mentally Ill Reached |
