 January 6 - Bush Lags in Appointments To the Federal Judiciary |
| January 6 - Federal Court Vacancies And Nominations* (chart) |
| January 6 - Judicial Appointments (chart) |
| January 6 - Stalemates of Last Decade Haunt Agenda for 1990: Social Policy |
| January 13 - Chairman Brooks Coming Back |
| January 13 - New Legislative Drive Is Set To Aid Discount Retailers |
| January 13 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Says He Thinks Noriega Can Get a Fair Trial in U.S. |
| January 13 - ROUNDTABLE: The Noriega Trial And Robert Taft |
| January 20 - Fight Over Chinese Students First on Congress' Agenda |
| January 20 - SECTION NOTES: INS Revises Guidelines For Soviet Jews |
| January 27 - Bush's $10.6 Billion Strategy |
| January 27 - IRAN-CONTRA: Secord Sentenced To Probation |
| January 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Names Dunne To Rights Post |
| January 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Names Nine To LSC Board |
| January 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: GOP Senators Save Bush In China Veto Test |
| January 27 - Legislative Proposals |
| January 27 - Public Laws: (Previous Public Laws, 1989 Weekly Report p. 3454) |
| January 27 - Republican Senators, Allies Rush to Shield Thomas |
| January 27 - SECTION NOTES: Jail Sentence Dominates Washington's First Week |
| January 27 - SECTION NOTES: Judge Rules NRSC Violated Law by 'Bundling' Funds |
| February 3 - An Edgy Senate Committee OKs Relaxation of RICO |
| February 3 - Former HUD Secretary Pierce Faces Special Prosecutor |
| February 3 - IMMIGRATION: Hill Eases Alien Exclusions Under McCarthy-Era Law |
| February 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Poindexter May Get Reagan Diaries |
| February 3 - Product Liability (chart) |
| February 10 - A Bipartisan Hill Coalition Unveils Rights Measure |
| February 10 - Despite Advance Controversy, Thomas Hearing Is Smooth |
| February 10 - Public Laws: (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 279) |
| February 10 - SECTION NOTES: Hate-Crimes Measure Passed by Senate |
| February 10 - SECTION NOTES: Reagan Invokes Privilege To Shield His Diaries |
| February 17 - Anti-Narcotics Alliance Urged At Colombia 'Drug Summit' |
| February 17 - Bush Scores Diplomatic Gain At Summit in Colombia |
| February 17 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 423) |
| February 24 - IMMIGRATION: Visa-Allocation Bill Set in the House |
| February 24 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Rights Bill Linkage, Turf Spats Slow ADA Progress in House |
| February 24 - OMB Overstepped the Bounds In Its Regulatory Review |
| February 24 - Refugee Admissions (chart) |
| February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Reagan Testimony Released In Iran-Contra Case |
| February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Right-to-Know Bill For Athletes OK'd |
| February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Committee Approves Bill on Price-Fixing |
| February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Judiciary OKs Thomas Nomination |
| February 24 - SECTION NOTES: U.S. Court Strikes Down New Federal Flag Law |
| February 24 - Sweeping Changes Abroad Confound U.S. Policy |
| February 24 - Where They Go (chart) |
| March 3 - DRUGS: Cooperation With Interdiction In the Eye of the Beholder |
| March 3 - House Panel Proposes Study Of Judicial Removal Issue |
| March 3 - SECTION NOTES: Lawsuit Consolidation OK'd in Disasters |
| March 3 - Severance Bonuses Not Barred By Conflict-of-Interest Law |
| March 3 - Special Counsel Named In Pierce Investigation |
| March 10 - EXECUTIVE POWERS: House Panel OKs Pocket-Veto Bill |
| March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Another Judge Strikes Down Federal Flag-Burning Law |
| March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush's Civil Rights Nominee Wins Senate Confirmation |
| March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Discrimination Bill Advances Despite Cost Concerns |
| March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Thomas Confirmed As Appeals Judge |
| March 17 - Bush Seeking Modifications In Disability-Rights Bill By Julie Rovner |
| March 17 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Accord on RICO Revision Is Shaping Up in House By Joan Biskupic |
| March 17 - Rules on Count Adjustment Could End Up in Court |
| March 24 - Justice Scalia: Dynamo on the Court |
| March 24 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Sweet Nomination, Slew of Bills Approved by Senate Panel |
| March 24 - Legislative Intent: A Sampling of Views |
| March 24 - Scalia Takes a Narrow View In Seeking Congress' Will |
| March 24 - SECTION NOTES: Executive Privilege Upheld In Poindexter Case |
| March 24 - SECTION NOTES: Family-Planning Regulations Draw Split Court Rulings |
| March 24 - SECTION NOTES: Furor Over Flag Case Erupts in House |
| March 24 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Assault-Weapon Ban |
| March 31 - Court: Business Limit OK |
| March 31 - Employer Sanctions Draw Fire After Report on Job Bias |
| March 31 - ENVIRONMENT/LAW: House Panel Seeks Criminal Penalties |
| March 31 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Committee Clears Out A Drawerful of Measures |
| March 31 - Republicans Seek To Reduce Labor's Clout at the Polls |
| March 31 - States' Moves To Curb Abortion Stir Concern in Congress |
| April 7 - Congress Cool to Proposals To Ease Load on Courts |
| April 7 - Courts Study Highlights |
| April 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Scalia and Kennedy Defy Predictions |
| April 7 - IMMIGRATION: House Panel Begins Markup Of Visa-Allotment Bill |
| April 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Third House Committee OKs Disability-Rights Measure |
| April 7 - Rights Bill Advances in Senate As Panel Ignores Veto Threat |
| April 7 - SECTION NOTES: 'Hate Crimes' Measure Cleared for President |
| April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Court Sets Arguments In Test of Flag Law |
| April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Idaho Abortion Bill Vetoed by Andrus |
| April 14 - Anger Grows Over U.S. Limit |
| April 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Acts To Shield Chinese Students |
| April 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Sentencing Set For Poindexter |
| April 14 - OBSCENITY DEBATE: Museum Director Indicted; Members Urge Arts Curbs |
| April 14 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 555) |
| April 14 - SECTION NOTES: Court Upholds New Bank Securities Powers |
| April 21 - Bush Caught in Contradiction Over Job-Bias Remedies |
| April 21 - House Subcommittee Approves Visa-Allocation Revision |
| April 21 - House Votes To Help Plaintiffs Fight Vertical Price Fixing |
| April 21 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 1154) |
| April 21 - Title VII Makes Strange Bedfellows |
| April 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Approves Line-Item Veto |
| April 28 - Fight Over Remedies Is Likely As ADA Nears House Floor |
| April 28 - SECTION NOTES: High Court Rulings Prompt Legislative Responses |
| April 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Joint-Venture Bill |
| April 28 - SECTION NOTES: Justice Ends Probe Of Fauntroy |
| May 5 - Civil Rights Bill Advancing Despite GOP Objections |
| May 5 - Disability-Rights Legislation Ready for House Action |
| May 5 - Flag Case Arguments: Round Two |
| May 5 - SECTION NOTES: 'Shock Incareration' Bill Sent to House |
| May 5 - SECTION NOTES: Court Gives Antitrust Power To States, Private Parties |
| May 5 - SECTION NOTES: Supreme Court Upholds Random Drug Testing |
| May 5 - Starr Takes a Moderate Line As U.S. Solicitor General |
| May 12 - A Mother's Story |
| May 12 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Big Civil Rights Bill Advances, Faces Another House Panel |
| May 12 - Promise, Uncertainties Mark Disability-Rights Measure |
| May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title VI - Enforcement, Reauthorization |
| May 12 - SECTION NOTES: Administrative Law Judges Debated by Senate Panel |
| May 19 - Campaigns Grow Complicated Over Parental Notification |
| May 19 - Court Rulings Awaited |
| May 19 - Crime Polls and Politics |
| May 19 - Election-Year Crime Measure Starts Moving Right on Cue |
| May 19 - House Is Nearing Passage Of Disability-Rights Bill |
| May 19 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Shifts on Job-Rights Bill, But Differences Remain |
| May 19 - SECTION NOTES: Court Hears Arguments In Flag Cases |
| May 19 - Senate Crime Proposals Compared |
| May 26 - Anticrime Package Falters After Gun Ban Retained |
| May 26 - Death Penalty Appeals Process |
| May 26 - Disability-Rights Legislation Headed for Conference |
| May 26 - EXECUTIVE POWERS: Pocket-Veto Bill Ready for Floor |
| May 26 - SECTION NOTES: AIDS Victims' Visitation Still in Dispute |
| May 26 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Stiffen Fraud Penalties |
| May 26 - SECTION NOTES: Operation Rescue Loses In Supreme Court |
| May 26 - Steny Hoyer: A Tireless Shepherd |
| June 2 - Ban on Abortion Counseling Faces Review by Justices |
| June 2 - Eyes On Dunne at Justice |
| June 2 - Ferns, Farmworkers and Legal Aid |
| June 2 - HUD SCANDAL: Thornburgh Seeks Wider Probe |
| June 2 - LSC Returning to Normalcy, But Skirmishes Continue |
| June 2 - Public Laws |
| June 2 - Secrecy Abroad |
| June 2 - Where There's a Drug Deal,There's a Way To Launder |
| June 9 - EDUCATION: Right-To-Know Bill Passed by House |
| June 9 - Justices Give Their Blessing To 1984 Equal Access Act |
| June 9 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Approves Array of Bills On Antitrust, Other Issues |
| June 9 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Instructs Conferees On Disability-Rights Bill |
| June 9 - Opponents of Gun Control Stall Crime Bill Action |
| June 9 - Public Laws |
| June 9 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce, Justice Funds OK'd by House Panel |
| June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committee OKs Spending Bill |
| June 16 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 16 - Congress Snaps to Attention Over New Flag Proposal |
| June 16 - Democrats Struggle Against GOP Gibes Over Who Hails the Flag More Proudly |
| June 16 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Ban on U.S.-Made Weapons OK'd by House Committee |
| June 16 - Medicaid Ruling Could Bring New Costs to States, Hill |
| June 16 - OHIO: Lukens Conviction Upheld on Appeal |
| June 16 - Proposed Amendments |
| June 16 - SECTION NOTES: Court Voids SEC Rule On Voting Rights |
| June 16 - SUPREME COURT: Majority, Minority Opinions In Flag-Burning Case |
| June 16 - THE CENSUS: N.Y. Court Rules On Adjustment |
| June 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Includes Funds For S and L Probe |
| June 23 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 23 - Compromise Could End Deadlock On Racketeering Legislation |
| June 23 - For Critics of Flag Measure, Advance Work Pays Off |
| June 23 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Double Penalties For Crimes Against Women |
| June 23 - SECTION NOTES: Vote on Cloture Scheduled For Civil Rights Bill |
| June 23 - SECURITIES: High Court Upholds Ruling on Futures |
| June 23 - SUPREME COURT: Patronage System Dealt Setback |
| June 30 - 'Right To Die,' Abortion Rulings Spur Calls for Hill Action |
| June 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves Spending Bill For Commerce, Justice, State |
| June 30 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 30 - ETHICS: Robert Garcia Wins Conviction Appeal |
| June 30 - FLAG AMENDMENT: Critics of Measure Win Fight, But Battle Scars Run Deep |
| June 30 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bill To Revise Racketeering Law Advances in Judiciary Panel |
| June 30 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Last-Minute Snag Means Delay For Disabled Rights Measure |
| June 30 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Comes Down to Wire On Anticrime Measure |
| June 30 - SECTION NOTES: Administrative Judge Corps Wins Panel's Backing |
| June 30 - SECTION NOTES: Artists' Rights Protected Under Senate Measure |
| June 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Moves To Stop Copyright Pirates |
| June 30 - Senate Ready To Begin Debate On Omnibus Civil Rights Bill |
| June 30 - SUPREME COURT: Court Backs Affirmative Action In Big Victory for Congress |
| July 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Court Not in Lock Step With Reagan March |
| July 7 - Justices Show a Propensity For Letting Others Decide |
| July 7 - Major Decisions of 1989-90 |
| July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title VI - Enforcement |
| July 14 - Congress Clears Sweeping Bill To Guard Rights of Disabled |
| July 14 - Deal on Civil Rights Measure Stymied by 'Quota' Issue |
| July 14 - Omnibus Crime Bills Talk Tough But Need Funding Backbone |
| July 14 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Would Overturn Abortion Regulations |
| July 21 - Comparison of Crime Bills |
| July 21 - Dole Outburst Shows Frustration Over More Than Civil Rights Bill |
| July 21 - Familiar Faces, Familiar Passions |
| July 21 - Highlights of the Bill |
| July 21 - IRAN-CONTRA: Judges Set Aside North Conviction |
| July 21 - Judiciary Panel Presses On In Drafting a Crime Bill |
| July 21 - Partisan Rancor Marks Vote On Civil Rights Measure |
| July 21 - SECTION NOTES: Four Immigration Bills Get Swift Approval |
| July 21 - Votes Slated Before Recess For Frank, Durenberger |
| July 28 - Brennan's Unique Judicial Stamp Left Mark on Congress, Too |
| July 28 - David H. Souter |
| July 28 - Factions Vie Over the Terms For Poverty Law Program |
| July 28 - High Court Change of Guard Ups Policy Ante for Hill |
| July 28 - House Panel Wraps Up Work On Omnibus Crime Bill |
| July 28 - LAW AND ORDER: 7-Day Wait for Gun Purchase Endorsed by House Panel |
| July 28 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Panel Adds Its Stamp To Civil Rights Measure |
| July 28 - Many Questions on Abortion Asked But Only a Few of Them Get Answered |
| July 28 - Nominations 1960-Present (chart) |
| July 28 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Announces Court Nominee, Won't Answer Certain Questions |
| July 28 - PROVISIONS: Americans With Disabilities Act |
| July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Seeks To Broaden Inquiry Into Pierce |
| July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Judiciary Panel Approves Three Bills |
| July 28 - Senate Denounces Durenberger, Citing Financial Misconduct |
| August 4 - Diversity Is One Principal Goal In Deciding Whom To Let In |
| August 4 - House Joins in the Standoff Over Civil Rights Measure |
| August 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Abortion Issue Colors Debate On Poverty Law Program |
| August 4 - Reversing Decisions |
| August 11 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Fame Often Not the Rule For Court Nominees |
| August 11 - GEORGIA LAWSUIT: Justice Issues A Challenge |
| August 11 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Legal Aid Agency Tilts to Right On Management and Policy |
| August 11 - SECTION NOTES: More EPA Investigators Approved by Senate |
| August 11 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Fail, Thompson Defend Roles In Purchasing Failed S and Ls |
| August 18 - A Need To Get the Facts Out |
| August 18 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hill Reconsiders Immunity As North Case Is Set Back |
| August 18 - Major Watergate Figures |
| August 18 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report, p. 1822) |
| August 18 - Social Policy: Major legislative actions of the 101st Congress |
| August 25 - Hill Faces Trench Warfare Over Abortion Rights |
| September 1 - Legal Flash Points |
| September 1 - Panel Democrats Set To Ask Real Souter To Stand Up |
| September 1 - Senate Judiciary Panel Members Have Agendas of Their Own |
| September 1 - The Courts Warily Find Their Way Into the 'Political Thicket' |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Amendment Bolsters Funds For Crime, Persian Gulf |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Farm Bureau Leads the Lobby Against Legal Aid Lawyers |
| September 15 - CONFIRMATION HEARING: Senators Ask About Abortion But Souter Won't Answer |
| September 15 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Will High Court Retreat On Reapportionment? |
| September 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Team Threatens To Veto House Version of Crime Bill |
| September 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Open Books On Graduation, Crime |
| September 15 - Souter Skirts Touchy Issues Before Senate Inquisitors |
| September 22 - Beefing Up the Bench |
| September 22 - Bush's Nominees Lack Baggage That Reagan's Often Carried |
| September 22 - CONFIRMATION HEARING: Souter Faces More Questions On Abortion, Court Power |
| September 22 - Fracas Over Abortion Advice |
| September 22 - Key Cases: An Early List |
| September 22 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Anti-Abortion Forces Prevail In Pentagon Bill Skirmish |
| September 22 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Thrift Scandal Fails To Slow Bill To Limit Civil RICO |
| September 22 - Liberal Tenets Hang in Balance As Conservatives Ascend |
| September 22 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Moves Measure On Antibias Sanctions |
| September 29 - Civil Rights Act Poised To Clear, But Bush Veto Looks Certain |
| September 29 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Fight Over Death Row Appeals Stalls House Crime Bill |
| September 29 - LAW/JUDICIARY: New Judgeships In the Hopper |
| September 29 - Souter Gains 13-1 Approval of Judiciary Committee |
| September 29 - What Does the Constitution Say? |
| October 6 - House Bill Lifts Visa Levels, Aids Relatives, Skilled |
| October 6 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bill Aims To Deter Sex Violence |
| October 6 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Right-to-Abortion Measure Backed by House Panel |
| October 6 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Taking Tough Stance on Crime, House Boosts Death Penalty |
| October 6 - SECTION NOTES: Congress Authorizes Fines For Securities Offenses |
| October 6 - Souter Confirmed Easily |
| October 6 - SUPREME COURT: Panel To Weigh Overseas Reach Of Law Against Job Bias |
| October 13 - Highlights of Immigration Bills (Chart) |
| October 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Conferees Attempt To Rescue Imperiled Civil Rights Bill |
| October 13 - Simpson Holds Bill Hostage, Demands Major Changes |
| October 20 - Expected Bush Veto Looming Over Civil Rights Measure |
| October 20 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Crime Bill Differences Remain As Session Nears Its End |
| October 20 - Leaks From Keating Inquiry Turn Up Heat on Senators |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Children's Advertising Bill Becomes Law |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce, Justice, State Conference Accord |
| October 20 - The Death Penalty and the Court |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, Justice Funds Clear |
| October 27 - Death Penalty, Other Hot Issues Dumped From Crime Bill |
| October 27 - Failure To Enact Civil Rights Bill Laid to Political Miscalculation |
| October 27 - Fourth Stopgap Bill Enacted |
| October 27 - MEMORANDUM OF DISAPPROVAL: Bush Vetoes Rights Bill, Objects to 'Quotas' |
| October 27 - Sizable Boost in Immigration OK'd in Compromise Bill |
| November 3 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Politics of Silence Of Court Nominees |
| November 3 - Fiscal 1991 Appropriations for Commerce |
| November 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Immigration Overhaul Cleared After Last-Minute Flap |
| November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Social Policy |
| November 3 - SECTION NOTES: States To Be Covered By Copyright Laws |
| November 10 - History of the Keating Case |
| November 10 - Issue Is Key to Several Races, But Results Cut Both Ways |
| November 17 - 1990 Filings by Suit, Offense (chart) |
| November 17 - District Court Workload (chart) |
| November 17 - ETHICS: Special Counsel's Overview Of Keating Five Case |
| November 17 - Federal Bench Will Miss Kastenmeier |
| November 17 - Hill Serves Notice on Courts To Speed Pace of Justice |
| November 17 - Last-Minute Add-Ons |
| November 17 - OBSCENITY DEBATE: Hill Arts Language Brings Fallout |
| November 17 - Public Laws (Previous public laws, Weekly Report, p. 2689) |
| November 24 - PROVISIONS: Clean Air Act Amendments (chart) |
| November 24 - Public Laws |
| November 24 - SENATORS' STATEMENTS: Keating Five Senators Appear Before Ethics Committee |
| December 1 - Groups Line Up on Both Sides Of Border Fee Proposal |
| December 1 - IRAN/CONTRA: Another Round Goes to North |
| December 1 - Public Laws |
| December 8 - IRAQ TESTIMONY: Cheney and Powell Testify To Armed Services Panel |
| December 8 - MAJOR PROVISIONS: Immigration Legislation |
| December 8 - Members Argue Suit Over War Powers |
| December 8 - Players and Places |
| December 8 - Politics, Debates of the '90s Fuel Scramble for Power |
| December 8 - Public Laws (Previous public laws, Weekly Report, p. 4043) |
| December 8 - SUPREME COURT: Business Favored In Pension Ruling |
| December 15 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Court Conservatives Bow to Precedent |
