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 Legal Affairs
 2001

January 20 - Ashcroft Strongly Defends Views But Promises to Enforce the Law
January 27 - Democrats Win Postponement Of Committee Vote on Ashcroft, But GOP Still Confident of Outcome
January 27 - The Price of Unauthorized Appropriations
January 27 - Watts Proposes New Committee To Coordinate Anti-Terrorism
February 3 - Ashcroft Wins Confirmation By Narrowest Margin in Decades
February 3 - Senate Democrats On Ashcroft
February 10 - GOP, With Bush's Tacit Support, Puts Bankruptcy Bill on Fast Track, Hoping to Stave Off Amendments
February 17 - Hatch Seeks Harmony on Web Tunes
February 24 - One Section of Disability Law Struck Down
February 24 - Spy Suspect Was Mindful Of Federal Death Penalty
March 3 - Bills Signed
March 3 - How the Court Weighs In on Religion
March 3 - Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits On Legal Services Corporation's Suits, Re-Energizing Program's Detractors
March 3 - Supreme Court Strikes Down Missouri Term Limit Label Law
March 10 - Boston Lawyer Tapped to Head Civil Rights Division
March 10 - House Judiciary Approves Madrid Protocol Implementation
March 10 - Juvenile Justice Program Bill Likely to Avoid Gun Debate
March 10 - Senate GOP Leaders Try to Keep Bankruptcy Bill Free of Amendments To Avoid Conference With House
March 17 - Bush Calls for Drilling on Lands Designated as Monuments
March 17 - Copyright Law Revisions Proposed
March 17 - GOP Aims to Turn Tables On Texas Democrats
March 17 - House Passes Bill to Reduce Paperwork Burden on Business
March 17 - Senate Panel Approves Bill To Assist 'Bumped' Passengers
March 17 - Senators Float Managed-Care Proposal That Seeks to Bridge Differences On States' Options, Liability Limits
March 24 - Backing Off the Whip
March 24 - Fetal Protection Bill Heads to Full Committee
March 24 - House Won't Be Rushed Into Moving An Overhaul Bill, Leaders Say
March 24 - Key Changes to the Senate Bill
March 24 - McCain-Feingold Tradeoffs Heighten Qualms Within Coalition
March 24 - Panel Approves Juvenile Crime Bill Free of Hot-Button Provisions On Gun Control and Punishment
March 24 - Vetting Judges Won't Be as Easy as ABA
March 31 - Fetal Assault Measure Gets Panel's Nod
March 31 - INS, an Agency of Conflicting Missions, Could Be Split in Two Under Bush Plan
March 31 - Juvenile Justice Block Grant Bill Approved
March 31 - McCain-Feingold Survives Hard Fight Over Soft Money
March 31 - Political Adversaries Unite to Push For Repeal of 'Secret Evidence' Law
March 31 - Vigorous Court Challenges Ahead Despite Non-Severability's Defeat
April 28 - Activists Eye Cox's Chair
April 28 - Fetal Protection Bill Passes House Despite Strong Democratic Resistance; Senate Prospects Are Uncertain
April 28 - For Bush's Judicial Nominees, A Tough Tribunal Awaits
April 28 - Supreme Opportunity
April 28 - The Interest-Group Gantlet
April 28 - The Process of Selecting a Judge
April 28 - Torricelli Defends His Integrity In Meeting With Fellow Democrats As More Illegal-Gift Allegations Surface
May 5 - 'Blue Slip' Issue Claims First Casualties As Democrats Walk Out of Meeting On Justice Department Nominees
May 5 - Bush's Bid to Extend Immigration Measure May Set Up a Test of Leadership on Issue
May 12 - Bush's First Judicial Choices Highlight An Influential Conservative Court
May 12 - Early Signs of Comity Emerge In Judicial Nomination Process
May 12 - Rep. Hutchinson Promises to Balance Treatment, Enforcement as DEA Chief; Crowded Race Possible for Arkansas Seat
May 12 - Rep. Traficant Pleads Not Guilty, Challenges Federal Probers' Integrity; Both Parties to Field Challengers in 2002
May 19 - Commerce, Justice, State: Priority Shift
May 19 - Court Kills Marijuana Loophole
May 19 - Freeh's Contrite Visit to Hill Fails to Head Off Demands For Stronger Oversight of FBI
May 19 - Judiciary Approves Updating Of Copyright Law for Internet
May 19 - Olson Vote Adds Fuel to Partisan Fire
May 19 - This Week in Congress
May 19 - Treasury: More for IRS, Enforcement
May 26 - Ethics: Bipartisan Continuity
May 26 - House Votes To Extend Visa Program
May 26 - Judiciary: Nomination Gantlet
May 26 - Senate Gives Olson the Nod By 51-47 Vote
May 26 - Spilled Milk in Vermont
May 26 - Supreme Court to Hear Challenge To Child Online Protection Act
June 9 - Senate GOP Backs Down From Dispute Over Handling of Nominees
June 9 - Some Democrats Express Concerns About Proposed Contribution Limits, Clouding Outlook for House Debate
June 16 - A Different Pork Fight
June 16 - Agriculture Spending Add-On Puts Fiscal Discipline to Early Test
June 16 - Democrats Ask More Studies On Death Row Bias
June 16 - Foreign-Born Citizenship Law Upheld
June 16 - GOP Opts to Go Down Fighting As Organizing Talks Break Off
June 16 - Legal Services Corporation's Future Appears Secure as the Agency's GOP Detractors Concede
June 23 - Bankruptcy Law Rewrite Remains at an Impasse Despite Senate Power Shift
June 23 - Bush's 'Faith-Based' Initiative Hobbled by Growing Disputes Over Final Form, Constitutionality
June 23 - House Judiciary Panel Approves New Justice Department Post For Overseeing FBI
June 23 - House Panel Revives Effort To Ban Flag Desecration
June 23 - Rep. Hilliard Is Reproved By Ethics Committee For Campaign Fund Abuses
June 30 - 'Hard Money' Limits Upheld
June 30 - Daschle's 'Cheap Shot'
June 30 - Faith-Based Charity Bill Advances in House With Little Democratic Support
June 30 - High Court Again Shows a Taste For Limiting Lawmakers' Reach
June 30 - House Panel's CJS Spending Bill Would Scale Back Bush's Cuts For SBA, Law Enforcement
June 30 - Plenty of Sparks Generated By Senate's Power Transfer
June 30 - Proposed Panel Would Study Antitrust Law
July 14 - A Quiet Deal on Members' Pay
July 14 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending Bill Praised as 'Balanced,' Advances Quickly
July 14 - Confirmation Hearing on Gregory Marks First Senate Action on Backlog Of Bush's Judicial Nominees
July 14 - Customs Service a Big Winner In House Treasury-Postal Bill
July 14 - Immigration Boost for Bush
July 21 - $7 if by Air, $3 if by Sea?
July 21 - House Passes Flag-Burning Resolution
July 21 - Senate CJS Bill Takes Contentious Stands On Immigration Law, Peacekeeping Funds
July 21 - Treasury-Postal Service Spending Bill Poised for Solid House Passage
July 21 - Upgrades for Voting Machines
July 28 - Barr Requests House Probe Of Condit Case
July 28 - House Passes Justice Dept. Authorization
July 28 - House Passes Treasury-Postal Spending Bill As Senate Starts Moving a Similar Package
July 28 - Senate Panel Adds to Growing Number Of Competing Bills for Extending Illegal-Immigrant Residency Program
July 28 - Senate Panel Approves Bill To Expand List of Hate Crimes; Supporters Study Next Option
July 28 - Tightening the Canadian Border
August 11 - Microsoft Faces More Unwanted Attention on Hill
September 1 - Immigration Debate Gains Intensity As Hill Awaits Details From Bush
September 1 - Unhurried Pace of Judicial Confirmations Is Typical of a President's First Year
September 8 - Bush Calls Issue 'Incredibly Complex' After Mexico's Fox Urges Haste On Revised U.S. Immigration Policy
September 15 - Possible Privacy Proposals
September 15 - Surveillance in a New Light
September 22 - Balancing Liberty and Security
September 29 - America's Infrastructure at Risk: What Is the Federal Role?
September 29 - Committees Taking a Critical Look At Ashcroft's Request for Broad New Powers
October 6 - Anti-Terrorism Bills Head for Floor Votes, But Tough Negotiations Lie Ahead
October 6 - Lawmakers Start Work on Measures To Protect Infrastructure, Population
October 6 - Money-Laundering Bill Gets New Life As Financial Tool Against Terrorists
October 6 - Security Issue Prompts a Hard Look At Entire U.S. Transportation System
October 6 - Through Security Mandates and Bailout, U.S. Takes Hands-On Role in Airlines
October 13 - Chambers' Divergent Actions On Money-Laundering Laws Complicate Anti-Terrorism Bill
October 13 - House Passes Anti-Terrorism Bill That Tracks White House's Wishes
October 20 - Deal Clears Way for Final Passage Of Anti-Terrorism Legislation
October 20 - Senate Judicial Nominations Spat Again Frustrates Appropriators
October 20 - The Makings of a Deal
October 27 - Key Anti-Terrorism Provisions
October 27 - Terrorism Bill's Sparse Paper Trail May Cause Legal Vulnerabilities
November 3 - CJS Conferees Struggle With Funding Levels
November 3 - Solomon: A GOP Stalwart
November 10 - ADJOURNMENT: A Different Kind of Rush for the Holidays
November 10 - AVIATION SECURITY: Passenger List Politics
November 17 - BASEBALL: Rooting for a Home Team
November 17 - Free of Controversial Add-Ons, Commerce-Justice-State Bill Enjoys Timelier Hill Passage
November 17 - Government Cracking Down On Student Visa Process
November 17 - Highlights of Ashcrofts INS Restructuring Plan
November 17 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Immigration Liberalization: Delayed but Not Abandoned
November 17 - NOMINATIONS: 2 Senators Sons. There the Similarity Ends
November 17 - Reforms Many Shades of Meaning
November 17 - SOCIAL POLICY: Policymakers Struggle With Issues Of Fairness and Frugality In Compensating Terrorism Victims
November 17 - TRADE: Andean Trade Legislation Passes House
November 24 - CHURCH AND STATE: School Prayers For a Nation at War?
November 24 - LAW & JUDICIARY: New Assertions of Executive Power Anger, Frustrate Some on Hill
November 24 - Provisions of the Aviation Security Law
December 1 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Cookseys Mission to the Middle East: Fact-Finding a Way Past Controversy
December 1 - For Ashcroft, a Judiciary Panel Grilling Will Be Familiar Experience
December 1 - Profiling and Terrorism
December 1 - TRADE: Panel Votes To Reauthorize Andean Pact
December 1 - War and Civil Liberties: Congress Gropes for a Role
December 8 - Hill Treads Carefully in Challenging Ashcroft Over Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Powers
December 8 - Senate Confirms Walters As Drug Policy Director
December 15 - International Criminal Court Treaty: One Clinton Signs; the Other Votes No
December 15 - Lawmakers Still Feeling Their Way On Whether to Intervene In Plan for Military Tribunals
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Anti-Terrorism
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fetal Protection
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Immigration
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Judicial Appointments
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Juvenile Justice
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Patients' Rights
December 22 - House Clears Bill to Limit Public Disclosure by Judges
December 22 - House Key Vote: Anti-Terrorism (Vote 398)
December 22 - Justice Authorization Set for Conference
December 22 - Senate Confirms Georgia Judge, Leaves Others for Next Year
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Anti-Terrorism (Vote 313)
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Ashcroft Confirmation (Vote 8)
December 22 - Wireless License Sale Measure Dies

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