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January 9 - Funding Set at $15.6 Billion: Nuclear Activities Dominate Energy and Water Spending

January 23 - Seven States in Competition for 'Supercollider'

February 13 - $11 Billion NASA Request Expected: New White House Space Plan To Test Budget's Outer Limits

March 19 - Private Station Faces Uncertainty: Budget Struggle Heating Up Over Space Program's Future

March 26 - NASA Delays Request for Proposal: Resistance to Private Space Station Heats Up

April 2 - Plan to Overhaul NRC Sent to Senate Floor

April 9 - Space Firm Tries to Win Funds, Influence People

April 16 - Science/Technology Notes: Rocket Launchers' Insurance Limited in Subcommittee Bill

April 23 - NASA Markup Reset

April 23 - Panel Trims Supercollider Request

April 30 - Federal Funds Could Be Withheld: Panel OKs Required Drug Plan For Grant, Contract Recipients

May 7 - $700 Million Price Tag Too High: Congress Puts Brakes on Plan To Build Mini-Space Station

May 7 - Anti-Drug Plan Toned Down and Voted Up

May 7 - Funding Set at $100 Million: Supporters Struggle to Keep Supercollider Alive

May 14 - Anti-Drug Provision: What Does It Mean?

May 14 - Science Panel Approves $11.5 Billion for NASA

May 28 - Science/Technology House Votes to Share Space-Launch Liability

May 28 - Space Station Is Big Loser: Senate Panel Proposes Cuts In President's NASA Budget

June 4 - Space Station Threatened by Budget Squeeze

June 18 - Senate Passes NSF Reauthorization

July 2 - New Program on Verge of Passage: Grants for Research Facilities: Experiment to End 'Earmarks'

July 9 - Panel Approves Funds for Superconductivity

July 16 - NASA Wins, UDAGs Lose in Senate HUD Bill

July 30 - House Panel Approves Bill to Lessen Radon Threat

August 6 - $59.4 Billion Plan Approved: Conferees Save Space Station, Cut Housing, EPA, VA, FEMA

August 6 - Science/Technology Notes: Patent-Law Exemption Endorsed For Gene-Altered Farm Animals

August 13 - Dukakis' Endorsement of Space Station Sought

August 13 - SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY NOTES: NASA Authorization

August 20 - Dukakis Comes Out for Manned Space Station

August 27 - Cautious Lawmakers Fret Over Biotech Issues

September 24 - House Passes 'Superconductivity' Research Bill

September 24 - Limits on Launch Firms' Insurance Costs OK'd

October 1 - Includes Old Bureau of Standards: House OKs New 'Technology Administration'

October 1 - Space Shuttle Successfully Launched

October 8 - Bill Creating Technology Agency Clears

October 8 - Bill to Coordinate Federal Diet Advice Advances

October 8 - House OKs Patent Laws for Space

October 15 - Science/Technology Notes: 'Nutrition Monitoring'

October 15 - Science/Technology Notes: Hill Clears NSF Authorization, New Research-Facilities Grants

October 15 - Science/Technology Notes: Metals Research

October 22 - Bill Delayed Over Chinese Deal: Measure to Give Launch Firms Break on Insurance Clears Hill

October 22 - Compromise on NASA Authorization Clears

October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Science/Technology

October 29 - Science/Technology Notes: Superconductivity Bill Clears; Two Research Measures Killed

December 3 - Second Space Shuttle of 1988 Is Launched

December 24 - Legislative Outlook: Science/Technology