 January 3 - Chart: 1997 Conservative Coalition Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: 1997 House Presidential Position Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Breakdown of Conservative Coalition Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Breakdown of Party Unity Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Breakdown of Presidential Support Votes |
| January 3 - Chart: Clinton's Support and Opposition |
| January 3 - Chart: Leading Conservative Coalition Scorers |
| January 3 - Chart: Leading Party Unity Scorers |
| January 3 - Clinton Finds Support on Hill Despite GOP's Vocal Attacks |
| January 3 - CONSERVATIVE COALITION: Political Trends Come Together To Diminish Coalition's Clout |
| January 3 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Hill: Same Old Tale With Modern Twists |
| January 3 - Despite Drop in Partisan Votes, Bickering Continued in 1997 |
| January 3 - Members' Diligence in Casting Ballots Climbs to a 45-Year High |
| January 3 - RECESS NOTES: Gonzalez's Plans Are Unclear As Second Session Nears |
| January 10 - At Diner, Too Much Government on Menu |
| January 10 - Clinton's Child Care Proposal Draws GOP Supporters and Critics |
| January 10 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Could Gingrich Top GOP's 2000 List? |
| January 10 - FOREIGN POLICY: 'Tis the Season for Mixing Business With Pleasure |
| January 10 - HEALTH: Can Promise To Keep Costs Low Give Clinton's Plans a Boost? |
| January 10 - Hill Feels the Big Clout Of Small Business |
| January 10 - NEW YORK: Ferraro Is Back, and So Is The Character Issue |
| January 10 - NEW YORK: Meeks Wins Democratic Spot In Race to Fill Flake Seat |
| January 10 - OBITUARY: Celebrity Lawmaker Wore Renewed Fame Lightly |
| January 10 - Purchasing Plan Finds Few Friends |
| January 10 - REPUBLICAN PARTY: 'Big Tent' Advocates Look Likely To Defeat Abortion Measure |
| January 10 - RETIREMENT: House Democrats Face Losing Another Seat in the South |
| January 10 - Small Business: Other Voices |
| January 10 - TEXAS: 29 House Incumbents Bolt Out of the Starting Gate |
| January 10 - THE BUDGET: Galvanized by Rosy New Numbers, Both Sides Prepare To Skirmish |
| January 10 - TOBACCO: No Solution in Sight as Congress Prepares To Tackle Settlement |
| January 10 - TRANSPORTATION: Budget Surplus Whets Debate On More Highway Spending |
| January 17 - A Bundle From Virginia |
| January 17 - ABORTION: Roe v. Wade's Challenge at 25: Hang On to the Votes |
| January 17 - CALIFORNIA: Another Costly Run May Prove Too High a Price for Feinstein |
| January 17 - CALIFORNIA: Rep. Riggs To Run For Senate |
| January 17 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: House GOP Casts a Wide Net In Renewed Scandal Hunt |
| January 17 - CORRECTION |
| January 17 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Offstage, Dole Winks at Lobbying Law |
| January 17 - Editor's Note |
| January 17 - House Investigating Committees |
| January 17 - RECESS NOTES: Political Advocacy Case Reaches High Court |
| January 17 - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: NASA Again Finds Space For John Glenn |
| January 17 - SECTION NOTES: Special Race in New York's 6th To Feature Dueling Democrats |
| January 17 - SECTION NOTES: Virginia Legislature Revisiting House Dstrict Map |
| January 17 - SPECIAL ELECTION: California House Race Shapes Up As a Duel of Interest Groups |
| January 17 - THE CENSUS: Departure of Bureau's Director Deepens Census Controversy |
| January 24 - CALIFORNIA: Mary Bono Willing To Succeed Spouse |
| January 24 - COMMERCE: Politically Charged Task Faces Gambling Panel |
| January 24 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Forget the Eloquence; How Does He Look? |
| January 24 - Editor's Note |
| January 24 - ETHICS: Rostenkowski Hopes To Set Forth On the Road to Redemption |
| January 24 - Firebrand GOP Class of '94 Warms to Life on the Inside |
| January 24 - For Democratic Freshmen, a Tough Start |
| January 24 - FOREIGN POLICY: Papal Visit Highlights Divisions Over Cuban Embargo |
| January 24 - FOREIGN POLICY: Support for Iran Sanctions Bill Still Runs Strong in Senate |
| January 24 - GOP Factions in the House Class of '94 |
| January 24 - HEALTH CARE: Private Contracting Puts Medicare Back Under the Microscope |
| January 24 - Heavy Workload Exacted a Toll |
| January 24 - NEW YORK: Meeks Faces Fight For Flake's Seat |
| January 24 - Rebels of '94 and 'Watergate Babies' Similar in Class Size, Sense of Zeal |
| January 24 - RECESS NOTES: Former Rep. Oakar Sentenced In Campaign Finance Case |
| January 24 - RETIREMENTS: Stokes' Departure Recalls Career of Firsts |
| January 24 - Rostenkowsi: In His Own Words |
| January 24 - SECTION NOTES: Helms Sets Terms for Hearings On Test Ban Treaty |
| January 24 - THE PRESIDENCY: Clinton's Latest, Worst Troubles Put His Whole Agenda on Hold |
| January 24 - Winners, Losers and Big Problems With Either Tax Overhaul Plan |
| January 31 - Both Parties Focus on Speech Not Scandal, to Chagrin of Some |
| January 31 - COVER STORY: Clinton Succeeds in Slowing Scandal's Momentum |
| January 31 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: If the Furor Subsides, Will There Be a Case? |
| January 31 - ETHICS: House Panel Gets Back to Business, Hoping To Put Rancor Aside |
| January 31 - Impeachment: How It Would Work |
| January 31 - INVESTIGATIONS: Long List of Its Own Trespasses Tempers Congress' Judgment |
| January 31 - Kasich's Quandary |
| January 31 - Lobbyists Get the High-Tech Treatment |
| January 31 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Clinton Stresses Accomplishments, Calls State of the Union 'Strong' |
| January 31 - REDISTRICTING: High Court OKs Illinois 4th |
| January 31 - REPUBLICAN RESPONSE: Lott: Fighting for the Family Is GOP's Top Priority |
| January 31 - RETIREMENT: Colorado's Rep. Dan Schaefer Won't Seek Re-Election |
| January 31 - RETIREMENT: Rep. Schiff Says His Illness Rules Out a Campaign |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: FCC Will Draft Rules to Require Free Airtime for Candidates |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Three For Judgeships |
| January 31 - SECTION NOTES: Talks on Renaming Airport For Reagan Continue |
| January 31 - THE BUDGET: Clinton Budget Reaffirms Stand Against Broad GOP Tax Cuts |
| January 31 - Three Probes Are Pending |
| February 7 - A Range of Reactions |
| February 7 - AVIATION: Partisan Rancor Flares in Debate To Rename National Airport |
| February 7 - CALIFORNIA: Rep. Harman To Enter Governor's Race |
| February 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Opinion Polls' Lag Time May Benefit Clinton |
| February 7 - Editor's Note |
| February 7 - ENVIRONMENT: Clinton's Global Warming Plan Meets Wall of Opposition |
| February 7 - ETHICS: Sentence Delayed For Rep. Kim |
| February 7 - INVESTIGATIONS: Proof of Illegal Voters Falls Short, Keeping Sanchez in House |
| February 7 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Profile: Gregory W. Meeks D-N.Y. (6) |
| February 7 - NEW YORK: Party Choice Wins Seat in Queens |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: Daschle 'Confident' of Satcher Confirmation in Senate |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Blocks Cloning Debate In Name of Medical Research |
| February 14 - 25 Democratic House Seats to Watch |
| February 14 - 25 Republican House Seats To Watch |
| February 14 - Big GOP Governors Class of '94 Riding High |
| February 14 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Probe Reports Decry Abuses, But Overhaul Still Unlikely |
| February 14 - Concerned Businesses |
| February 14 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Oversight at Its Best Was Off Center Stage |
| February 14 - Departing the Hill |
| February 14 - Early Task for '98 Candidates Is To Find New Political Footing |
| February 14 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Battle Over IMF Funding Looms As Business Steps Up Pressure |
| February 14 - Education Moves to Head of Class As Crime, Unemployment Recede |
| February 14 - Excerpts From Panel's Reports |
| February 14 - From Arm's Length to Joined Hands |
| February 14 - GOP's Lack of Big-Name Candidates May Keep Brass Ring Out of Reach |
| February 14 - HEALTH: Satcher Confirmed For Top Health Job |
| February 14 - IMMIGRATION: Backlog, Management Woes Fuel GOP Drive To Dismantle Agency |
| February 14 - Issue Ads Often More Burden Than Blessing for Candidates |
| February 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Late Objections Stall Nominee; Confirmations Could Slow Again |
| February 14 - Retirements Hobble Democratic Comeback |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: Appropriations Chairman Livingston May Retire |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: Group Files Suit To Challenge Use of Sampling in Census |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: House Ends Investigation Of Sanchez's Election |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: House Judiciary Committee Adds New Members, Staff |
| February 14 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Oppose FCC Proposal For Free Air Time to Candidates |
| February 14 - Senate GOP Roster Shows Few Soft Spots |
| February 14 - Senate Minority Hoping to Hold Even |
| February 14 - SEPARATION OF POWERS: Line-Item Veto Struck Down Again; Appeal to High Court Imminent |
| February 14 - Sioeng Sizzle Turns to Fizzle |
| February 14 - THE BUDGET: GOP May Scale Back Tax Cuts, Adhere to Spending Caps |
| February 14 - Where Tobacco's Money Goes |
| February 14 - White House Tempest May Swamp Party's Attempt To Retake House |
| February 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Livingston Reverses Decision, Plans Run for 12th Term |
| February 21 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: McCain-Feingold Again Hobbled By Little Impetus for Change |
| February 21 - Chart: Departing the Hill |
| February 21 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Net Surfing and E-Mail Clicking With Congress |
| February 21 - GOP Centrists Get a Home of Their Own |
| February 21 - TEXAS: Hot House Races Steal Show In Nation's First Primary |
| February 21 - THE PARTIES: Democratic House Moderates Hope To Make More Suburban Inroads |
| February 28 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Money Woes Leave FEC Watchdog With More Bark Than Bite |
| February 28 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Overhaul Gridlock on the Hill Contrasts With Action in States |
| February 28 - Congress Courts Corporate Leaders To Support Education Proposals |
| February 28 - Debating the Judgment of History |
| February 28 - ENVIRONMENT: Politics Poisons the Debate Over Superfund Rewrite |
| February 28 - FOREIGN POLICY: GOP Finds Little To Applaud In U.N. Deal With Iraq |
| February 28 - HOUSE LEADERSHIP: From Coup to Coo: GOP's Paxon Dashes Hopes of Rebels |
| February 28 - PROPERTY RIGHTS: Stiff Opposition Greets Bill On Local Zoning Cases |
| February 28 - REPUBLICAN PARTY: GOP Feels Warmth and Chill In the Shadow of Reagan |
| February 28 - RETIREMENT: New York GOP Has Contender For Seat Paxon Is Vacating |
| February 28 - Senators' Votes Seem Set in Stone |
| February 28 - States Pick Up Where Congress Left Off |
| March 7 - 1998 ELECTIONS: For House Members, Higher Office Seems Less of a Lure or a Lock |
| March 7 - Automakers Get Mixed Results on Hill |
| March 7 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Panel Releases 'Dueling' Reports, Remaining Partisan to the End |
| March 7 - Chart: Do-Nothing Session? |
| March 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Somewhere on the Hill, Real News Is Happening |
| March 7 - Demand for Bigger, Thirstier Cars Puts Consumers in Driver's Seat |
| March 7 - Departing the Hill |
| March 7 - ENVIRONMENT: Democratic Objections Slow Superfund Bill |
| March 7 - FOREIGN POLICY: Opponents of Certifying Mexico As Drug Ally Face Uphill Battle |
| March 7 - House Committee Rosters |
| March 7 - ILLINOIS: GOP Has Heated Fight To Pick Challenger for Moseley-Braun |
| March 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hyde Staying Above Clinton Fray But Tries To Raise Panel Profile |
| March 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: When Congress Decides a President's 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' |
| March 7 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Productivity Likely To Be Low As GOP Sets Slow Pace |
| March 7 - Partnership Seeking a Fuel-Efficient Car |
| March 7 - Puerto Rico: Bill on Island's Political Status Skirts Trouble in House |
| March 7 - RETIREMENT: Torres Retires, Seeks To Anoint Son-in-Law as Successor |
| March 7 - Senate Committee Rosters |
| March 7 - THE BUDGET: Differences May Prompt GOP To Leave the Surplus Alone |
| March 14 - BANKING: House Deal Offers Bit of Hope For Glass-Steagall Overhaul |
| March 14 - CALIFORNIA: Kim Escapes Prison Sentence But Still Faces Ethics Panel |
| March 14 - Chart: March 10 Texas Primary Results |
| March 14 - FOREIGN POLICY: Seeking Showdown With Clinton, Gingrich Gets One With GOP |
| March 14 - HEALTH: Clinton Pressures Lawmakers To Cure Managed Care |
| March 14 - INVESTIGATIONS: GOP Struggles To Find Strategy To Deal With Starr Fallout |
| March 14 - MEDICARE: Failure is Not an Option For This Commission |
| March 14 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Profile: Rep.-elect Lois Capps, D-Calif. |
| March 14 - NOMINATION: Conservatives, White House Step Up Fight Over Hormel |
| March 14 - REGULATION: Ball Is Rolling as Leaders Consider Prospects for Tobacco Legislation |
| March 14 - RETIREMENT: Departing from Tradition, A Kennedy Calls a Halt |
| March 14 - ROUNDTABLE: Case for Free Airtime Gets Easier To Make |
| March 14 - SPECIAL ELECTION: Capps Succeeds Her Husband |
| March 14 - VETERANS: Panel Approves Bill To Tighten Rules for Arlington Burials |
| March 21 - Blacks in Congress |
| March 21 - Bumpy Road for 'NAFTA Highways' |
| March 21 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Burton's Request for Funds Stalls As Investigations Fatigue Hits GOP |
| March 21 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Having Something for Everyone Spells Trouble for Overhaul Bill |
| March 21 - COVER STORY: Surface Racial Harmony on Hill Hides Simmering Tensions |
| March 21 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Where Does the Public Draw the Line? |
| March 21 - Editor's Note |
| March 21 - EDUCATION: With a Steady Hand, Coverdell Has His Fingers in Many Pots |
| March 21 - GOP Initiatives Hamper Efforts To Reach Out To Minority Groups |
| March 21 - HEALTH: Lawmakers Begin Looking for Cure For Insurance Portability Law |
| March 21 - LEADERSHIP: Offsets Spat Marks Latest Chapter In House GOP's Struggle To Govern |
| March 21 - March 17 Illinois Primary Results |
| March 28 - CALIFORNIA: Bono, Lee Look Poised To Join Largest Female Delegation |
| March 28 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Despite Leadership Opposition, Overhaul Issue Remains Potent |
| March 28 - COVER STORY: Labor Wants Out of the Limelight After Glare of Probes, Backlash |
| March 28 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Tobacco Deal Is Simply Too Juicy To Resolve |
| March 28 - Editor's Note |
| March 28 - ELECTION '98: Clinton Scandal, Starr Probe Trickle Down Into Elections |
| March 28 - Finding the Funds |
| March 28 - INVESTIGATIONS: Starr Report May Create Legal, Political Minefield in House |
| March 28 - Labor Picking Its Big Fights for '98 |
| March 28 - LABOR: GOP, Labor Board Lock Horns Over Union Elections Policy |
| March 28 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Seeking Some Control Over Federal Judges |
| March 28 - MILITARY: Burial Restrictions Pass House |
| March 28 - NEW MEXICO: Democrats Off to a Fast Start In Race To Succeed Schiff |
| March 28 - SECTION NOTES: FCC Chairman Backs Off Free Air Time Proposal |
| March 28 - TRANSPORTATION: Road Wars and Special Projects Ensure House Bill's Rough Ride |
| April 4 - An Eight-Acre Battle |
| April 4 - CALIFORNIA: Rep. Kim Must Remain East For Most of Campaign |
| April 4 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: All-But-Doomed Overhaul Bill Meets Its Expected End |
| April 4 - COURT RULING: Excerpts From Judge's Opinion Dismissing Paula Jones Case |
| April 4 - COVER STORY: Environmental Bills Hitch a Ride Through the Legislative Gantlet |
| April 4 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Revolution At Twilight |
| April 4 - DEFENSE: Pentagon Enlists New Statistics In Push To Close More Bases |
| April 4 - Departing the Hill |
| April 4 - INVESTIGATIONS: Decision in Paula Jones Case Leaves Starr Determined, Congress Uneasy |
| April 4 - Lagging Do-List |
| April 4 - LEADERSHIP: On the Hill and at Home, GOP Is Torn by Internal Strife |
| April 4 - OBITUARY: Bella Abzug, Iconoclastic Voice In the House, Dies at 77 |
| April 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Declines To Take Up Bill On Puerto Rico's Status |
| April 4 - TEXAS: District Runoff for Gonzalez Seat Could End With Favored Son |
| April 4 - TRANSPORTATION: House Sets Up Battle With Senate In Passing $219 Billion Roads Bill |
| April 11 - CALIFORNIA: Bono, Lee Victories Set House Record |
| April 11 - COVER STORY: As Majority Leader, Trent Lott Discovers His Pragmatic Side |
| April 11 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: From the '89 Pay Flap To 'Primary Colors' |
| April 11 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Barbara Lee, D-Calif. |
| April 11 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Mary Bono, R-Calif. |
| April 11 - REDISTRICTING: Federal Panel Throws a Curve To North Carolina With Remap |
| April 18 - April 14 Texas Runoff Results |
| April 18 - Chart: Rayborn's Contributions |
| April 18 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Livingston Straddles Republican Fault Line As He Hunts for Votes for Speaker's Job |
| April 18 - Editor's Note |
| April 18 - ENVIRONMENT: Members Go Out on a Limb Over National Forests |
| April 18 - Funds for Others -- Or Maybe Themselves |
| April 18 - Gingrich's Lessons: Some Mea Culpas, But a Lot of Blame-Spreading |
| April 18 - Industries Get a Boost From Their Overseers |
| April 18 - Livingston, Never Shy About Money, Fights for Higher Congressional Pay |
| April 18 - POLITICS: Bayh Likely To Pick Up Senate Seat in Indiana; Fundraising Troubles GOP |
| April 18 - POLITICS: North Carolina To Postpone Elections |
| April 18 - POLITICS: Ohio Is Testing Ground For Parties' Plans To Keep or Capture House |
| April 18 - The Art of Business Lobbying Finding Profit in Regulation |
| April 18 - What's Ahead |
| April 18 - When Business Tells Washington: 'A Little More Regulation, Please' |
| April 25 - Both Parties Court the Public As Rift Widens Over Tobacco Legislation |
| April 25 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: House Oversight May Get Clinton Fundraising Probe After Burton Brouhaha |
| April 25 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Petition Pushes House GOP Leadership To Schedule Campaign Finance Debate |
| April 25 - Federal Panel OKs Schedule For North Carolina Vote |
| April 25 - GOP Poses Little Challenge In West Virginia |
| April 25 - PLAYERS: 'Wildcat' Baesler Draws On Hoops Past |
| April 25 - POLITICS: Four Walk Out of the Closet And Toward the House |
| April 25 - Republican Prospects Strong In Nebraska |
| May 2 - Correction |
| May 2 - Editor's Note |
| May 2 - ELECTIONS: Arkansas Republicans Try To Further Erode Democratic Stronghold |
| May 2 - ELECTIONS: GOP Battle in Oregon Centers on Which Candidate Is 'Conservative Enough' |
| May 2 - ELECTIONS: Tight Races for Goodling and Fox Test Influence of Ideology, Money |
| May 2 - Friends and Foes of Starr Probe Grow More at Ease With P-Word |
| May 2 - Group Aims Its Ads -- Even If It Means Stealing Its Candidates' Show |
| May 2 - RETIREMENT: Solomon To Retire; Oklahoma Democrats Hope To Recapture Watkins' Seat |
| May 2 - RNC Fighting Restrictions On Issue Ad Limits |
| May 2 - Tobacco Foes Look for Support |
| May 2 - TURNING DOWN THE HEAT: Fundraising: A Kinder, Gentler Probe? |
| May 2 - What's Ahead |
| May 9 - Chart: Primary Results |
| May 9 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Agreement on Judgeships No Guarantee Of Quick Confirmations |
| May 9 - POLITICS: Campaign Finance Issue Could Be Key to Expensive Kentucky Battle |
| May 9 - POLITICS: Leading GOP Contender For Idaho's 2nd District Says No to Term Limits |
| May 9 - POLITICS: Trial Lawyers Take Skills From Court to Campaigns |
| May 16 - Comparison of Campaign Finance Bills |
| May 16 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Dueling Campaign Finance Bills Threaten Overhaul's Chances |
| May 16 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: House GOP Struggles To Salvage Campaign Finance Probe |
| May 16 - ELECTIONS: Alabama, Mississippi Democrats Hope To Stem Rising GOP Tide |
| May 16 - ELECTIONS: Breaux, Tauzin Aim To Regain Open Primary |
| May 16 - ELECTIONS: Several Races Could Heat Up, But Status Quo Should Prevail In New Jersey |
| May 16 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Growing Ranks of Cigarette Tax Critics Invigorate Big Tobacco's Lobbying Effort |
| May 16 - POLITICS: Iowa Candidates' Coffers Swell As Presidential Hopefuls Crowd In on the Way to 2000 |
| May 16 - Primary Results |
| May 16 - Teachers' Union Learns Harsh Lesson On Mixing Dues With Politics |
| May 16 - The Elusive Eight Votes |
| May 16 - Thomas: Unfalteringly Loyal |
| May 23 - BUDGET: Kasich's Moderated Spending Cut Drive Faces GOP Disunity, Democratic Scorn |
| May 23 - ELECTIONS: Brady Wins Pennsylvania's Special Election |
| May 23 - ESSAY: Neither Statesmanship nor Partisanship Seems To Trump a Beguiling Smile |
| May 23 - From the Editor |
| May 23 - New Member Profile: Robert A. Brady, D-Pa. (1) |
| May 23 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Changing Demographics Keep Orange County in Play |
| May 23 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Supporters of Campaign Finance Overhaul Grow Wary as House GOP Leaders Signal a Summer of Protracted Debate |
| May 23 - POLITICS: All in a Day's Battle: McCain, the Eager Warrior |
| May 23 - POLITICS: North Carolina Redistricting Plan Advances |
| May 23 - POLITICS: Opportunity for Democrats To Regain Majority Begins With New Mexico Election |
| May 23 - Primary Results |
| May 23 - Top Individual Campaign Donor Is a Familiar Figure in Washington |
| May 30 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: The GOP's House Divided: Social Activists vs. Business |
| May 30 - Conservative Icon: Goldwater's Legacy Echoes Throughout the Country |
| May 30 - POLITICS: South Carolina's Heated Senate Race Pits the Old Against the New |
| May 30 - Primary Results |
| June 6 - Art of the Filibuster |
| June 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Nevada Waste Site Defeated In Election-Year Tussle Over Reid's Senate Seat |
| June 6 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: D'Amato: A Streetfighter Prepares for Battle |
| June 6 - POLITICS: GOP Tiptoes Around Contradictions In Blasting Clinton's Actions on China |
| June 6 - Primary Results |
| June 13 - Chart: Primary Results |
| June 13 - ETHICS: Measure DOA, But Debate Quite Lively |
| June 13 - From the Editor |
| June 13 - Gephardt's Dilemma |
| June 13 - LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY: How a Bill Becomes Law |
| June 13 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Democrats Focus Efforts On Utah's 2nd |
| June 13 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Missouri Democrat's Senate Drive Is Clouded by Desegregation Case |
| June 13 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Parties' Suit Over Issue Ads Shapes Up as a Key Test Of Campaign Finance Rules |
| June 20 - ETHICS: Campaign Finance Proposal Survives a Key Vote As House Debate Continues |
| June 20 - ETHICS: House Members Remain In the Dark About Progress of Starr Probe |
| June 20 - From Reagan to Clinton, Interest Groups Refocus |
| June 20 - Insults Fly In Alabama's GOP Runoff |
| June 20 - Momentum for November Begins in New Mexico; Oklahoma GOP Gets Relief |
| June 27 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Burton Panel Breaks Impasse, Immunizes Four |
| June 27 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Soft Money Speaks Loudly On Capitol Hill This Season |
| June 27 - From the Editor |
| June 27 - Heather Wilson, R-N.M. (1) |
| June 27 - POLITICS: Judges Approve North Carolina Redistricting |
| June 27 - Primary Results |
| June 27 - The Essential Middleman When Planning a Grand Old Party |
| June 27 - What's Ahead? Nov. 3 |
| July 4 - Chart: Alabama Gubernatorial Primary Results |
| July 4 - POLITICS: Parties Appeal Judge's Ruling On Issue Ads |
| July 11 - Chart: Census Cost and Population |
| July 11 - Chart: Democrats Struggling to Hold Ground |
| July 11 - Chart: Departing the Hill |
| July 11 - Chart: Early Primary Turnout |
| July 11 - Chart: GOP Aiming To Keep Its Edge |
| July 11 - Chart: Outlook Brightens For Senate GOP |
| July 11 - Chart: Senate Minority Hopes To Limit Losses |
| July 11 - POLITICS: California, the Coveted Prize |
| July 11 - POLITICS: Census: A Political Calculation |
| July 11 - POLITICS: Putting a Dent in the GOP |
| July 11 - POLITICS: Reaction to Starr's Report: Which Way Will It Swing? |
| July 11 - POLITICS: Senate Hopefuls' Trial by Fire |
| July 11 - Up in Smoke |
| July 18 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Legal Maneuvers Over Issue Ads Steal Spotlight From Congress' Ongoing Campaign Finance Debate |
| July 18 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Lots of Inertia, Little Lawmaking As Election '98 Approaches |
| July 18 - N.C. Race Measures Marketability Of Patients' Rights Issue |
| July 18 - POLITICS: Race Overshadows Ideology In Republican Primary For Georgia House Seat |
| July 25 - Chart: Primary Results |
| July 25 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Campaign Finance Debate Gathers Steam |
| July 25 - POLITICS: As Black Leaders Split With Democrats, Republicans Jump Into the Opening |
| July 25 - POLITICS: Rep. Manton Of N.Y. 7th Will Retire |
| August 1 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: 'Soft Money' Restrictions Near Passage in House, But Senate Still Unreceptive |
| August 1 - ELECTIONS: Sen. Campbell Faces Challenge Over His Ideological Purity; Romero Runs Hard Against Lamm |
| August 1 - LEADERSHIP: Can the Revolutionary Resist Running for President? |
| August 8 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Campaign Finance Gets Day in the Sun, But Senate's Shadow Is Looming |
| August 8 - Chart: Primary Results |
| August 8 - COMMERCE: Disney in Washington: The Mouse That Roars |
| August 8 - LAW AND JUDICIARY: Panel Steps Up Confrontation Over Campaign Finance Memos, Voting To Cite Reno for Contempt |
| August 8 - Overhaul Bill's Highlights |
| August 15 - AGRICULTURE: Economic Uncertainties Set Tone for Campaigns In the Farm Belt States |
| August 15 - AGRICULTURE: Farmers Have the Whip Hand In Drive for Control of House |
| August 15 - Chart: Primary Results |
| August 22 - 'A Critical Lapse in Judgment' |
| August 22 - 'Disappointed' Democrats Let Clinton Face the Fallout Alone |
| August 22 - Chart: Primary Results |
| August 22 - LAW: Clinton's Address Fails To Defuse Ticking Time Bomb of Starr Report |
| August 22 - POLITICS: Nevada Democrats Heartened By Crowded Republican Field In Race To Succeed Ensign |
| August 22 - POLITICS: Wisconsin Democrats Hope To Capture Open 1st, 2nd Districts |
| August 22 - Reactions: Conciliation, Condemnation |
| September 5 - Chart: Primary Results |
| September 5 - District Remap Has Watt In a Real Race |
| September 5 - No Tolerance for 'Spam' |
| September 5 - Political Web Sites |
| September 5 - POLITICS: Contest for Control of the House Focuses on Washington State |
| September 5 - POLITICS: Home Page as Hustings: Candidates Work the Web |
| September 5 - POLITICS: Lack of Liberal Consensus Bolsters Flynn's Chances In Massachusetts 8th |
| September 5 - POLITICS: N.Y. Democrats Try To Avoid Repeat of 1992 Collapse As Rivals Keep Heat on Ferraro |
| September 5 - REGULATION: GOP's Secret Weapon Against Regulations: Finesse |
| September 5 - Senate Race Finds Hot Issue |
| September 12 - A Scandal on Hold |
| September 12 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: McCain-Feingold Bill On Campaign Financing Proves Dead on Revival |
| September 12 - Chart: Primary Results |
| September 12 - POLITICS: Slouching Toward Election Day, Democrats Are Anxious and Angry |
| September 19 - Chart: Primary Results |
| September 19 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: GOP Walks Tightrope On Way to Adjournment |
| September 19 - FINANCE: Burton Moves To Cite Reno For Contempt |
| September 19 - POLITICS: Clinton Scandal Is Scarcely Visible On Campaign Trail So Far |
| September 26 - Chart: Primary Results |
| October 3 - Impeachment Vote Has Extra Weight For Incumbents in Tough Races |
| October 3 - LOBBYING: Insurance Agents' Muscle in House Helps Their Fight Against Extinction |
| October 3 - POLITICS: For Women Candidates, An Uncertain Season |
| October 3 - POLITICS: On the Stump in Beverly Hills: Gore as Campaigner-in-Chief |
| October 3 - Three Endangered Senators |
| October 10 - House Report on Campaign Finances Is Inconclusive About Clinton's Role |
| October 10 - IMPEACHMENT: Are Judiciary Members' Jobs on the Line? |
| October 17 - POLITICS: Conservative Southern Democrats Seek House Seats -- and Credibility |
| October 24 - Chart: 11 Democratic-Held Governorships |
| October 24 - Chart: 24 Republican-Held Governorships |
| October 24 - Chart: Republicans' Position Strengthens; Democrats' Endangered List Lengthens |
| October 24 - From the Editor |
| October 24 - POLITICS: Elections Expected To Produce Modest Gains for Republicans |
| October 24 - POLITICS: Governors: States of Suspense |
| October 24 - POLITICS: House: The Scandal Recedes |
| October 24 - POLITICS: Senate: GOP on the March |
| October 24 - POLITICS: The Disengaging Voter |
| October 24 - POLITICS: The Impeachment Factor |
| October 31 - ABORTION: The Abortion Rights Battle: Energizing for the Next Session |
| October 31 - Highlights of State Ballot Measures |
| October 31 - POLITICS: Negative Campaigning: Denounced, Denied -- And Indispensable? |
| October 31 - POLITICS: Parties, Interest Groups Pour Money Into Issue Ads |
| October 31 - POLITICS: This Year's State Ballot Initiative Could Be Next Year's Federal Legislation |
| October 31 - TECHNOLOGY: Hoping To Fend Off Regulation, High-Tech Industry Steps Up Its Campaign Contributions |
| November 7 - Chart: Election Results |
| November 7 - ELECTIONS: For GOP, a Few Points of Light |
| November 7 - From the Editor |
| November 7 - Re-Energized 'New Deal' Coalition Boosts Democrats for 2000 |
| November 7 - Voters' Plea for Moderation Unlikely To Be Heeded |
| November 14 - Legislative Summary: Washington Focus |
| December 5 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Campaign Finance Overhaul's Supporters Hope for a Boost From Clinton-Dole Audits |
| December 12 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Commission Upholds Use Of 'Issue Ads' |
| December 12 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Interest Groups Seek Best Value For Copious Campaign Dollars |
| December 12 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Who Gave What in the Final Days |
| December 12 - The Rules on Spending |
| December 19 - A New Start for the House |
