 January 4 - ETHICS |
| January 4 - ETHICS |
| January 4 - ETHICS |
| January 4 - Gingrich Allies Knew the Score |
| January 4 - Gingrich Responds to Allegations |
| January 4 - Spending Power |
| January 4 - Subcommittee Lays Out Details of Gingrich Ethics Violations |
| January 11 - COVER STORY |
| January 11 - COVER STORY |
| January 11 - Gingrich Case Remains Hot Issue in House |
| January 11 - GOP Leaders' Conversation Excerpts |
| January 11 - SECTION NOTES |
| January 11 - SECTION NOTES |
| January 11 - SECTION NOTES |
| January 11 - SECTION NOTES |
| January 11 - SECTION NOTES |
| January 11 - SPEAKERSHIP |
| January 18 - Alleged McDermott Offense Not 'Serious' |
| January 18 - BALANCED BUDGET |
| January 18 - ETHICS |
| January 18 - ETHICS |
| January 18 - ETHICS |
| January 18 - ETHICS |
| January 18 - SEPARATION OF POWERS |
| January 25 - Challenging Federal Role |
| January 25 - COVER STORY |
| January 25 - CQ ROUNDTABLE |
| January 25 - Environment |
| January 25 - EXCERPTS OF COUNSEL REPORT IN GINGRICH ETHICS CASE |
| January 25 - Gingrich: Paying the Penalty |
| January 25 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK |
| January 25 - Legislative Outlook |
| January 25 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK |
| January 25 - SECTION NOTES |
| February 1 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT |
| February 1 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| February 1 - CQ ROUNDTABLE |
| February 1 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE |
| February 8 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT |
| February 8 - Budget: Justice |
| February 8 - Clinton Picks Diversity Over Ideology |
| February 8 - INCUMBENCY |
| February 8 - LAW/JUDICIARY |
| February 8 - MILITARY PERSONNEL |
| February 8 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS |
| February 8 - REDISTRICTING |
| February 8 - SECTION NOTES |
| February 8 - What's Ahead: Clinton, GOP To Meet On Balanced Budget |
| February 15 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT |
| February 15 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| February 15 - Can Future Ballot Initiatives Work? |
| February 15 - COMMUNICATIONS |
| February 15 - ETHICS |
| February 15 - House Vote on Family-Planning Aid Deals Abortion Foes Rare Defeat |
| February 15 - Primed for Congressional Battle |
| February 15 - Redistricting |
| February 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| February 15 - TERM LIMITS |
| February 15 - Week Ahead: Lobbying To Greet Members at Home |
| February 22 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT |
| February 22 - By CQ Staff |
| February 22 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| February 22 - ETHICS |
| February 22 - INVESTIGATIONS |
| March 1 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT |
| March 1 - Budget Amendment Tops Light Agenda |
| March 1 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| March 1 - CQ ROUNDTABLE |
| March 1 - REDISTRICTING |
| March 1 - Senators Give Voice To GOP Gap Over Campaign Finance Overhaul |
| March 1 - Supporters Burned by 'The Torch' |
| March 1 - TERM LIMITS |
| March 8 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT |
| March 8 - CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING |
| March 8 - Coal-State Democrats Oppose New Clean Air Rules |
| March 8 - Controversial Legacy |
| March 8 - EDUCATION |
| March 8 - ETHICS |
| March 8 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 8 - FUNDS PROBE EXPECTED TO GET GO-AHEAD |
| March 8 - IDEA Key Issues Remain the Same |
| March 8 - Lake's Delays |
| March 8 - NOMINATION |
| March 8 - PRODUCT LIABILITY |
| March 8 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 8 - Thompson Touches Sensitive Nerves |
| March 15 - ABORTION |
| March 15 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| March 15 - COMMERCE |
| March 15 - ENVIRONMENT |
| March 15 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 15 - HEALTH CARE |
| March 15 - House Pace To Quicken Before Spring Recess |
| March 15 - How Nations Are Judged |
| March 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY |
| March 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 15 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 15 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| March 15 - The Deal That Got Out of the Bag |
| March 22 - ABORTION |
| March 22 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Judiciary |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Oversight |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: House Standards of Official Conduct |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Environment and Public Works |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Judiciary |
| March 22 - COMMITTEES: Senate Select Ethics |
| March 22 - COVER STORY |
| March 22 - CQ ROUNDTABLE |
| March 22 - Ethics |
| March 22 - FOREIGN POLICY |
| March 22 - HEALTH |
| March 22 - House Probe's Outspoken Leader Finds His Own Conduct Is Raising Questions |
| March 22 - Partial-Birth vs. Roe Ruling |
| March 22 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 22 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 22 - SECTION NOTES |
| March 29 - Hill Panels Look Into Disputed Elections |
| March 29 - REDISTRICTING |
| April 5 - Attacking the System -- With Words |
| April 5 - COVER STORY |
| April 5 - DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY |
| April 5 - FUNDRAISING TERMS |
| April 5 - FUNDRAISING TERMS |
| April 5 - History of Changes In Campaign Law |
| April 5 - HOUSE PROBE |
| April 5 - LEGISLATIVE PROSPECTS |
| April 5 - Redistricting |
| April 5 - SELLING ACCESS |
| April 5 - SENATE PROBE |
| April 6 - CABLE INDUSTRY |
| April 12 - A Range of Reactions |
| April 12 - Abortion Procedure Correction |
| April 12 - Acceleration Expected On Weapons Pact |
| April 12 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| April 12 - COVER STORY |
| April 12 - Excerpts From Judge's Ruling |
| April 12 - Experts and Lawmakers Disagree On Stemming Juvenile Crime |
| April 12 - History of Line-Item Veto Effort |
| April 12 - LAW/JUDICIARY |
| April 12 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 12 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 19 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| April 19 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE |
| April 19 - ELECTION '96 |
| April 19 - HUMAN SERVICES |
| April 19 - HUMAN SERVICES |
| April 19 - LINE-ITEM VETO |
| April 19 - PATENT LAW |
| April 19 - TAXES |
| April 26 - Balanced-Budget Plan At Critical Stage |
| April 26 - COMMERCE |
| April 26 - COVER STORY |
| April 26 - CQ ROUNDTABLE |
| April 26 - Crime |
| April 26 - Did China Try To Influence Elections? |
| April 26 - Disposal and Enforcement |
| April 26 - ETHICS |
| April 26 - Human Services |
| April 26 - NEW YORK |
| April 26 - SECTION NOTES |
| April 26 - Senate Vote Expected On Weapons Treaty |
| April 26 - SEPARATION OF POWERS |
| April 26 - TREATIES |
| April 26 - United States Takes Strong Interest In China's Bid To Join Trade Group |
| May 3 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: GOP Linked to Foreign Funds In Recent Campaigns |
| May 3 - FOREIGN AID: Markup for Programs Abroad Has Unusually Smooth Start |
| May 3 - HOMEOWNERS: Protection Sought Against 'Reverse Mortgage' Scams |
| May 3 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Overwhelmingly Passes Foster Care Adoption Bill |
| May 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: GOP Caucus Rejects Proposals To Alter Confirmation Process |
| May 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Measure on Juvenile Crime Heads to House Floor |
| May 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Passes Liability Bill |
| May 3 - Leaders Seek Support For Budget Accord |
| May 3 - PRODUCT LIABILITY: Critics Ask for Bigger Changes As Panel OKs Overhaul Bill |
| May 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Extensions Of Land-Idling Contracts |
| May 3 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Panel Approves Bill To Ease Encryption Controls |
| May 10 - COVER STORY: Tobacco Foes Smell a Victory In Coming Court Battles |
| May 10 - ELECTION '96: Panel Reaches Agreement On Protocol for Probe |
| May 10 - FOREIGN AID: Clinton Wins First Round in House On Money for Programs Abroad |
| May 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: As Deal With Clinton Unravels, House OKs Juvenile Bill |
| May 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Flag Desecration Amendment Wins House Panel Approval |
| May 10 - Recess Clock Ticking For Spending Bill |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill To Deny Prisoners Social Security |
| May 10 - SECTION NOTES: Partial-Birth Abortion Critics Solicit More Senate Votes |
| May 10 - The Farmers' Advantage |
| May 17 - ABORTION: Senate Heads for Showdown On Controversial Procedure |
| May 17 - Barbour's National Policy Forum More Like Political Committee |
| May 17 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Focus on Tax-Exempt Groups Puts Heat on Republicans |
| May 17 - COMMERCE: Electric Utilities Deregulation Runs Into an Impasse |
| May 17 - Controversial Provisions |
| May 17 - COVER STORY: Republicans Feeling the Heat As Policy Becomes Reality |
| May 17 - EDUCATION: Program for Disabled Students Cleared by Senate |
| May 17 - ENVIRONMENT: Prospects in Senate Brighten For Rewrite of Species Law |
| May 17 - Final Deal Expected On Spending Bill |
| May 17 - Immigrant Vote Swings Democratic As Issues Move Front and Center |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Flag-Burning Measure |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Protection for Volunteers Approved by Judiciary |
| May 17 - SECTION NOTES: Vote on CIA Nominee Delayed Pending Financial Inquiry |
| May 17 - TRANSPORTATION: Safety Issues Enter Debate On Highway Legislation |
| May 24 - ABORTION: Foes of Controversial Procedure Boosted by Strong Vote |
| May 24 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Partisan Jousting Shifts From House to Senate |
| May 24 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Volunteer Liability Limit Heads to President |
| May 24 - REGULATION: Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Patent Overhaul |
| May 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: Justices Hear Arguments in Challenge To Presidential Line-Item Veto Law |
| May 31 - Chairmen Disagree Over City's Request |
| May 31 - Status of Major Legislation: 105th Congress |
| May 31 - U.N., Crime-Fighting Will Tighten Budget |
| June 7 - JUDICIARY: Panel To Reassess Judicial Circuits |
| June 7 - Panels Push To Finish Budget-Deal Bills |
| June 7 - Status of Major Legislation |
| June 14 - ARMS CONTROL: 57 Senators Pressure Clinton To Ban Anti-Personnel Mines |
| June 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Juvenile Crime Bill Has Bumpy Road |
| June 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Plan To Ban Flag Desecration Wins Bipartisan Vote in House |
| June 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Vote To Limit Judges' Powers Indicates Rocky Path Ahead |
| June 14 - Records Dispute RNC Statement |
| June 14 - Roth Proposes Compromise on SSI |
| June 14 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Ban on Aid To Relocate Illegal Aliens |
| June 14 - Status of Major Legislation |
| June 21 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Burton's Deposition Authority Sparks Further Rancor |
| June 21 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Panel Approves Plan To Put Services in Federal Hands |
| June 21 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Effort To Ban Racial Preference At Federal Level Restarted |
| June 21 - Plans on SSI Eligibility |
| June 21 - REGULATION: Action on Tobacco Agreement Not Expected Before FalL |
| June 21 - SECTION NOTES: 'McVeigh Bill' Bans Benefits To Vets Who Murder |
| June 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Judiciary Panel OKs Government Seizure Bill |
| June 21 - SECTION NOTES: Juvenile Crime Block Grants Given Panel Approval |
| June 21 - SECTION NOTES: Resolution May Be in Sight On Baseball Antitrust Law |
| June 21 - SECTION NOTES: Supreme Court Upholds Latest Georgia Map |
| June 21 - Status of Major Legislation: 105th Congress |
| June 21 - THE CENSUS: Statistics Stir the Passions Of Parties' Boosters |
| June 28 - COMMERCE: Bill on Encryption Exports Gets Panel Approval |
| 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 - Excerpts of the Opinions |
| June 28 - Handgun Decision Excerpts |
| June 28 - Jenkins vs. Landrieu: Round by Round |
| June 28 - LOUISIANA: New Revelations Rock Probe Of 1996 Senate Contest |
| June 28 - Other Closely Watched Cases |
| June 28 - RECONCILIATION: Immigrant-SSI Status Remains Major Issue To Be Resolved |
| June 28 - REDISTRICTING: Court Rejects Virginia 3rd |
| June 28 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Ban Burial Honors For Veterans Who Murder |
| June 28 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Supreme Court Dismisses Case Against Line-Item Veto Law |
| June 28 - Status of Major Legislation: 105th Congress |
| June 28 - SUPREME COURT: Brady Decision Reflects Effort To Curb Congress' Authority |
| June 28 - SUPREME COURT: Religious Freedom Act Overturned, Curbing Congress' Power |
| June 28 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Court Strikes Down Ban On Internet 'Indecency' |
| July 5 - COVER STORY: Round 1 of Fundraising Probe To Focus on Democrats |
| July 5 - From Break to Recess, Agenda Is Packed |
| July 5 - Resignations Roil House Finance Probe |
| July 5 - SECTION NOTES: New Map for Virginia District Will Not Be Drawn in 1997 |
| July 12 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Federal Affirmative Action Ban Clears First House Hurdle |
| July 12 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hatch's 'Conservative' Style Irks Some Republicans |
| July 12 - LOUISIANA: Election Investigation Stalls -- Perhaps Permanently |
| July 12 - Panel Wades Through Amendments |
| July 12 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Restriction On Relocation Help |
| July 12 - Status of Major Legislation |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: 9th Circuit Part of Debate On Commerce Spending |
| July 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Bill To Reverse Long Decline in Foreign Aid |
| July 19 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: An Absent Witness Plays Key Role In Second Week of Hearings |
| July 19 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| July 19 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Republicans Defeat Effort On Gun Safety Locks |
| July 19 - LOUISIANA: Vote Probe Stuck In Senate Limbo |
| July 19 - REGULATION: Wheels Turning in Congress To Make Tobacco Deal Law |
| July 19 - SECTION NOTES: Clinton Delays Lawsuits Over Confiscated Cuban Property |
| July 19 - SECTION NOTES: Judiciary Committee Approves New Bankruptcy Judgeships |
| July 19 - Status of Major Legislation (105th Congress) |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Spending Bills Pass With Few Substantive Changes |
| July 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Backs Reimbursement Of Lawmakers' Legal Fees |
| July 26 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Barbour Stays Cool as Democrats Shift Spotlight to Republicans |
| July 26 - LAW/JUDICIARY: 'Get Tough' Juvenile Crime Bill Approved by Senate Panel |
| July 26 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Panel OKs Witness Bill |
| July 26 - Recess Clock Ticking On Budget Deal |
| July 26 - Status of Legislation (105th Congress) |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: In Senate Commerce-Justice Bill, Crime Fighting Gets Spotlight |
| August 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Weapons, Abortion To Spur Debate On Treasury Spending Bill |
| August 2 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Hearings, Short on Surprises, Cover Familiar Terrain |
| August 2 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Kim To Plead Guilty to Charges In Illegal Contribution Probe |
| August 2 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Panel Endorses Adoption Bill |
| August 2 - NEW YORK: Flake To Resign By December |
| August 2 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Add Bankruptcy Judges Passes House |
| August 2 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill to Broaden Definition of War Crimes |
| August 2 - Testimony During the Week of July 28 |
| August 2 - TRANSPORTATION: Reform-for-Cash Budget Provision Leaves Amtrak in Quandary |
| August 9 - Fiscal 1998 Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| August 9 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Reviews Accomplishments, Details Next Round of Goals |
| August 9 - REDISTRICTING: Clyburn District Stands While N.Y. Remaps Six |
| August 9 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| August 16 - ETHICS: Kim Admits Taking Illegal Donations |
| August 16 - New York and Clinton: No Love Lost |
| August 16 - Sexual Harassment, Circa 1980 |
| August 16 - Status of Major Legislation |
| August 30 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: High Drama Possible as Senate Panel Continues Fundraising Hearings |
| August 30 - INVESTIGATIONS: Grand Jury Indicts Espy on 39 Counts |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: GOVERNMENT & COMMERCE |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: INSIDE CONGRESS |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: SOCIAL POLICY |
| August 30 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Budget Agreement Overshadows Congress' Autumn Agenda |
| August 30 - More Pressure on Reno |
| August 30 - REGULATION: The Plot Thickens for Congress After Florida Tobacco Deal |
| September 6 - ARIZONA: Symington Convicted of Fraud; Hull Takes Over as Governor |
| September 6 - Campaign Finance Hearings: Testimony During the Week of Sept. 1 |
| September 6 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Temple Nuns, Attorney General Bring News for Gore |
| September 6 - COVER STORY: Advocates Setting Own Agenda For Campaign Finance Change |
| September 6 - Crash Bolsters Alcohol Provision |
| September 6 - Detailing the Issues |
| September 6 - IMMIGRATION: Republicans' 1996 Policy Changes Come Back To Haunt Them |
| September 6 - INVESTIGATIONS: Democrats Use Senate Slowdown To Try To End Election Probe |
| September 6 - REGULATION: Effort To Toughen Meat Inspection Again Headed for Likely Defeat |
| September 6 - REGULATION: Regulatory Bill's Moderation May Be Its Weakness |
| September 6 - REGULATION: Tobacco Settlement Staggers As Hill Looks to Clinton |
| September 6 - Soft Money: The Root of All Evil Or a Party-Building Necessity? |
| September 13 - A Sample of Sanctions, From Travel to Tuna |
| September 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Final 1998 Spending Measure Gets Off Ground in Senate |
| September 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Indian Policy Shift To Be Considered |
| September 13 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Hearings Get Hung Up on Intent As Gore Calls Prove Costly |
| September 13 - Clinton May Break His Silence With a Few Revisions to the Deal |
| September 13 - COMMERCE: Fifth Panel Given More Time To Study Encryption Morass |
| September 13 - Congress Enters Uncharted Territory With Bill on Religious Persecution |
| September 13 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Remembrance of Past Not Spoken Here |
| September 13 - ETHICS: House Panel To Resume Watch As Moratorium Is Lifted |
| September 13 - House Ethics Cases Pending |
| September 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Crimes Committed With Guns May Carry Higher Penalties |
| September 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Sex Offender Bill Sparks Debate |
| September 13 - LINE-ITEM VETO: Effort To Save 'Canceled' Items Moves Tentatively Forward |
| September 13 - Many Fingers in the Pie |
| September 13 - MILITARY PERSONNEL: Study Finds Sexual Harassment Exists Throughout Army |
| September 13 - PRODUCT LIABILITY: Narrow Version of Vetoed Bill Would Aid Medical Suppliers |
| September 13 - Proliferation of Sanctions Creates A Tangle of Good Intentions |
| September 13 - REGULATION: Senate Votes Rev Up Momentum For Tougher Tobacco Deal |
| September 13 - Testimony During the Week of Sept. 8 |
| September 13 - VETERANS: Burial Changes OK'd by Panel |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Agree To Fortify FDA's Tobacco Initiative |
| September 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Progress Remarkably Smooth On Fiscal '98 Spending Bills |
| September 20 - Campaign Finance Hearings: Testimony During the Week of Sept. 15 |
| September 20 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Shift in Political Wind Detected Among Howls Over Dead Deal |
| September 20 - COVER STORY: Conservatives Repackaging Agenda on Social Issues |
| September 20 - ENVIRONMENT: Bipartisan Proposal To Overhaul Species Act Takes First Steps |
| September 20 - ETHICS: Filing Complaints in House: Now for Members Only? |
| September 20 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel Backs Controversial Bill To Fight Religious Persecution |
| September 20 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Details Five Key Elements For Teen Smoking Legislation |
| September 20 - Prisons on the Range |
| September 20 - REDISTRICTING: Texas, North Carolina Maps Upheld by Federal Panels |
| September 20 - Status of Major Legislation (as of Sept. 19, 1997) |
| September 20 - THE HOUSE: Dornan Barred From Floor After Verbal Altercation |
| September 20 - The Issues: From Religion to Taxes |
| September 27 - A Decade of Key Rulings |
| September 27 - Appropriations Process: Down to the Wire |
| September 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Showdown Over Census Still in the Offing |
| September 27 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Overhaul Bills Head to a Vote, But Obstacles Remain |
| September 27 - COVER STORY: Paralyzed Congress on Sidelines In Financial Services Evolution |
| September 27 - Dornan Election Challenge Drags On |
| September 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Bill Expands Offender Registry |
| September 27 - LOUISIANA: Landrieu Election Probe Yields Little Besides Partisan Animosity |
| September 27 - McCain, McConnell Turn to Hardball As Campaign Finance Cools Camaraderie |
| September 27 - Power Outage at the TVA |
| September 27 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| September 27 - Testimony During the Week of Sept. 22 |
| October 4 - A Shift to Nuts and Bolts |
| October 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Fights Off Opposition To Move Commerce Bill |
| October 4 - Campaign Finance Hearings: Testimony During the Week of Sept. 29 |
| October 4 - Campaign Finance To Dominate |
| October 4 - CHART: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| October 4 - EDUCATION: House Panel Votes Uanimously For Loan Consolidation Bill |
| October 4 - ETHICS: Ex-Rep. Oakar Pleads Guilty |
| October 4 - ETHICS: New Panel Decides To Continue Cases |
| October 4 - FOREIGN POLICY: Panel Gingerly Approves Bills Chiding China |
| October 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Affirmative Action Issues Top High Court's Docket |
| October 4 - LOUISIANA: Lack of Evidence Brings Probe Of Senate Election to an End |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: Albright Urged To Push Israel For Suspect's Extradition |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Bills To Criminalize Internet Theft |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Rejects Senate Provision On Frozen Iraqi Assets |
| October 4 - SECTION NOTES: Informal Working Group Set Up To Enact Tobacco Settlement |
| October 4 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: New FCC Panel Members Face Pressure Over '96 Overhaul |
| October 11 - ABORTION: Clinton Once Again Vetoes 'Partial Birth' Bill |
| October 11 - CALIFORNIA: Ruling Against Term Limits May Alter '98 House Races |
| October 11 - Campaign Finance: Testimony During the Week of Oct. 6 |
| October 11 - COVER STORY: Death Rattle Sparks Search For Signs of Political Life |
| October 11 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Reform Stalemate: Clinton's Legacy |
| October 11 - DRUGS: Few Differences Remain in Move To Streamline FDA Process |
| October 11 - Fundraising Issues Not Taking Break |
| October 11 - House Probe: Different Spotlight Shines on Familiar Territory |
| October 11 - INTERIOR: House Bill Gives Landowners Greater Appeal Power |
| October 11 - REGULATION: Flight Attendants' Settlement Reinvigorates Tobacco Foes |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: GOP Deciding Next Step For Product Liability |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: Helms Demands Documents On Cuba Sanctions |
| October 11 - SECTION NOTES: Religious Persecution Bill Delayed Again in House |
| October 11 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Line-Item Boosters Reconsider As Clinton Vetoes Hit Home |
| October 11 - STATE DEPARTMENT: Bill Blessed by Helms Falls Prey To Naysayers in the House |
| October 11 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| October 11 - The White House Videotapes: A Timeline of the Controversy |
| October 18 - An Issue From Ancient Times |
| October 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Opponents of Line-Item Veto Law Try Again for Redress in Court |
| October 18 - COVER STORY: Potent Forces Brace for Battle On Bankruptcy Law Overhaul |
| October 18 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: A Law of Unintended Consequences |
| October 18 - Frantic Pace Expected To OK Spending Bills |
| October 18 - LABOR: GOP Wants To Unload Costs Of Monitoring Teamsters |
| October 18 - Looking Back at Labor |
| October 18 - Major Bankruptcy Bills |
| October 18 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| October 18 - TRANSPORTATION: With Strike Looming, Amtrak Deal May Be in the Works |
| October 18 - VETO MESSAGE: President Repeats Objections To Abortion Measure |
| October 25 - BANKRUPTCY: Senate Bill Would Require More Debtor Repayment |
| October 25 - DRUGS: House OKs Goals For Drug Control |
| October 25 - FOREIGN POLICY: Chinese Leader's Summit Visit Puts Congress at Crossroads |
| October 25 - HEALTH: Clash Over Compliance Leaves Mental Health Law Unclear |
| October 25 - NOMINATIONS: Clinton's Civil Rights Nominee Gives GOP a Tough Choice |
| October 25 - PRODUCT LIABILITY: GOP Awaits Clinton Response To Product Liability Bill |
| October 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Let Homeowners Cancel Mortgage Insurance |
| October 25 - SECTION NOTES: Illegal Alien Provision Extended Again |
| October 25 - TAXATION: Clinton, Democrats Climb Aboard The IRS Overhaul Bandwagon |
| October 25 - Writing a 'Practical' Religious Freedom Bill |
| November 1 - Ballots: Gay Rights to Patients' Rights |
| November 1 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: GOP Fails To Transform Probe Into 'Clinton's Watergate' |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Breakfast With Jiang Changes No Minds |
| November 1 - FOREIGN POLICY: Parties Find Common Ground In Iran Sanctions Bills |
| November 1 - GOP Oversight Target: Big Government |
| November 1 - IMMIGRATION: Visa Program Gets Boost |
| November 1 - LABOR: Privacy of Medical Records Under Hill Microscope |
| November 1 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Religious Freedom Amendment Doesn't Have a Prayer in '97 |
| November 1 - Oversight's Legal Underpinnings |
| November 1 - Privacy Bills Pending |
| November 1 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| 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 - China Bills |
| 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 - FOREIGN POLICY: House Poised To Pass Sanctions Against Those Who Aid Iran |
| November 8 - Key GOP Issues |
| November 8 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Lee Nomination, Splits Give GOP Pause on Affirmative Action |
| November 8 - No Sanctuary in the Capitol |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Kim's Treasurer Sentenced In 1992 Campaign Case |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Narrow Product Liability Bill Gets Thumbs Down |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Renews Drug Czar Office, Institutes More Requirements |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes To Hire Lawyers To Help in Teamsters Case |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Reform Party Files Lawsuit Over Campaign Financing |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bankruptcy Bills To Help Farmers, Schools |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senators, Clinton Agree on Plan For Safer Air Bags in Cars |
| November 8 - SECTION NOTES: Solicitor General Nominee Wins Praise at Hearing |
| November 8 - Tobacco Industry Courts the Hill With Compromise, Conciliation |
| November 8 - TOBACCO POLITICS: U.S. Looks to Canada's Example In Efforts To Curb Tobacco Use |
| November 8 - TRANSPORTATION: Agreement To Rescue Amtrak May Be Around the Bend |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce-Justice Funding Goes Down to the Wire |
| November 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Scrapping School Voucher Plan, Congress Clears D.C. Bill |
| November 15 - COMMERCE: Round 1: Bliley Wants Release Of Tobacco Industry Papers |
| November 15 - Complex and Often Confusing Ways To Appoint Independent Counsels |
| November 15 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Civil Rights Pendulum Swings Against Lee |
| November 15 - DRUGS: FDA Measure Looks Healthy After GOP Concessions |
| November 15 - Editor's Note |
| November 15 - ENVIRONMENT: Westerners Adjust Their Sights And Take Home Some Wins |
| November 15 - Hard Times Ahead in Senate |
| November 15 - HUMAN SERVICES: President Expected To Sign Foster Care Adoption Bill |
| November 15 - Independent Counsels: The Investigations |
| November 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Democrats Block Formal Vote As Lee Nomination Fails |
| November 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Independent Counsel Law Draws a Fickle Audience |
| November 15 - LINE-ITEM VETO: Clinton Veto Halts Attempt At Line-Item Override |
| November 15 - Most Provisions Kept in FDA Bill |
| November 15 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Says He Is Still Confident Of Fast Track's Ultimate Passage |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeks Reports on Diplomats Accused of Crimes |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Boehner To Sue McDermott Over Tape of Phone Call |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Calls for Strike at Iraq As Last Resort on Inspections |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Final China Bill, Radio Free Asia Funding |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Waxman As Solicitor General |
| November 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Resolution Raps Russia For Religious Discrimination |
| November 22 - CALIFORNIA: House GOP's Electoral Fortunes May Lie in the Golden State |
| November 22 - COVER STORY: Electric Power Competition: Slow Burner, Lots of Heat |
| November 22 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Reno Could Burst Critics' Balloons |
| November 22 - Dellums: Journey of an Outsider |
| November 22 - Fiscal 1998 Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| November 22 - LAW/JUDICIARY: More Challenges to Clinton Nominees Cause Judicial Stalemate |
| November 22 - LEADERSHIP: Gingrich, Aides Rediscover Unity, But Coup Attempt Still Echoes |
| November 22 - Pending Bills on Managed Care |
| November 22 - Pension First, Then Sentence |
| November 22 - RECESS NOTES: Teamsters Head Disqualified From Seeking Re-Election |
| November 22 - REGULATION: Federal-State Tobacco Dispute May Land in Congress |
| November 22 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| November 22 - TRANSPORTATION: Emotional Issues Are Playing Big Role in Airbag Debate |
| November 29 - COVER STORY: Lawmakers Gingerly Step Into the Information Age |
| November 29 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Congress Shaking Its Money-Maker |
| November 29 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Battle Over Lee Could Escalate With Recess Appointment |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, 1st Session: Inside Congress |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, 1st Session: Social Policy |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Appropriations |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Economics and Finance |
| December 6 - 105th Congress, First Session: Government and Commerce |
| December 6 - Attorney General Janet Reno |
| December 6 - CALIFORNIA: GOP Battle Could Provide Spark In Race for Rep. Capps' Seat |
| December 6 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Reno's Independent Counsel Call Leaves Angry GOP Few Options |
| December 6 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Why Clinton Survived Yet Another Scandal |
| December 6 - Diverting Moments |
| December 6 - First Session Highlights |
| December 6 - LOUISIANA: Primary Statute Struck Down |
| December 6 - REGULATION: Tobacco Industry Hands Over Subpoenaed Papers |
| December 6 - RETIREMENT: McDade To Call It Quits After 18 House Terms |
| December 6 - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. |
| December 6 - Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. |
| December 6 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| December 6 - TECHNOLOGY: Internet Industry Hopes Self-Policing Will Click |
| December 13 - Bliley Shows Some Muscle |
| December 13 - GOP Finds Issue Cuts Both Ways |
| December 13 - Highlights: Affirmative Action |
| December 13 - Highlights: Here's To Good Health |
| December 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Reno, Freeh Appearance Sparks Posturing on Counsel Law |
| December 13 - RECESS NOTES: California Report Cuts Number Of Illegal Voters |
| December 13 - REGULATION: Lawyers' Fees Emerge as Threat To Tobacco Legislation |
| December 13 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress |
| December 20 - COMMERCE: Latest Crop of Tobacco Documents Hardens Industry Foes' Resolve |
| December 20 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: A Resilient Speaker Climbs Capitol Hill |
| December 20 - DEFENSE: Call for Separate Training Reignites War of Words |
| December 20 - Key Senate and House Votes |
| December 20 - Middle-of-the-Road Path Proves Much Smoother for GOP |
| December 20 - PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS: Naming Lee to Acting Position, Clinton Tempers Controversy |
| December 20 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Focuses on Preparing For Next Century |
| December 20 - Public Laws |
| December 20 - RECESS NOTES: Compromise on Coverage For Mentally Ill Reached |
| December 20 - RECESS NOTES: House Members Briefed On Freeh-Reno Memo |
