January 6 - Bush May Test Capitol Hill Clout Early With Expedited Tax-Cut Proposal |
January 13 - Talking Points: Taxes |
January 13 - Tax Cut Momentum Builds |
January 20 - O'Neill Cautions Against Notion Of Tax Cut as Economic Cure-All |
January 27 - A Senate of Singular Personalities and Possibilities |
January 27 - Hill Warned to Curb Spending |
January 27 - Lott Says Education Bill Comes First and Foremost With Bush; New Tax Code Next in Priority |
January 27 - Miller: Why So Surprised? |
January 27 - Writing Size of a Cut in the Budget Looms as Tax Turning Point |
February 3 - Bush Plan to Promote Faith-Based Charities Creates Dilemma for Both Parties |
February 3 - Bush's Tax Cut Plan Would Leave Many Snagged by Alternative Minimum Levy |
February 3 - CBO Update Bolsters Tax-Cut Plans |
February 3 - Highlights of Bush Faith-Based Initiatives Package |
February 10 - Tax Plan Destined for Revision |
February 10 - The Republican Challenge: Roping the Fiscal Strays |
February 17 - Bush's Fiscal Policy Proposals Close In on GOP Budget Writers |
February 17 - House Passes Bill to Use Social Security, Medicare Surpluses for Debt Reduction |
February 17 - Political Awakenings |
February 17 - Proposals to Alter Bush's Tax Plan Multiply Despite White House Appeals for Unity |
February 24 - Bush Faces Concern That Tax Cuts Will Be Too Much, Too Late |
March 3 - 'Dynamic Scoring' Regaining Currency |
March 3 - A Budget Glossary |
March 3 - Budget Schedule |
March 3 - Bush Says Budget Would Pay Down Debt While Aiding Schools, Retirees, Military |
March 3 - Bush's Sunny Budget Picture Leaves the Details Shaded |
March 3 - Coalitions Make a Comeback |
March 3 - Debt Reduction: Not So Fast |
March 3 - Democratic Rebuttal to Bush's Speech Emphasizes Social Security, Medicare While Decrying Tax Cut Plan |
March 3 - For Small-Business Federation, Personal Approach Gets Best Results |
March 3 - Tax Fight Energizes Democrats |
March 3 - The Elusive Middle Ground |
March 3 - This Week in Congress |
March 3 - Unveiling a Bit Too Much |
March 10 - 'Blue Dog' Democrats Get Hackles Up At GOP and Business' Tax Bill Tactics |
March 10 - Byrd Seeks a Way to Stop Tax Bill From Passing by Simple Majority Vote |
March 10 - Democratic 'Ayes' |
March 10 - Tax-Cut Bipartisanship Down to One Chamber |
March 10 - Victories and Consequences |
March 17 - House Panel's Budget Resolution Will Include Flexibility for Larger Tax Cut |
March 17 - Lieberman-Santorum Bill Would Widen Tax Deductions For Charitable Contributions |
March 17 - McCain's Panel Considers Step Toward Helping States Collect Tax On Certain Online Purchases |
March 17 - Passages and Politics |
March 17 - Private Group Tries to Ease Toughest Welfare-to-Work Cases |
March 17 - Senate Panel Votes to Expand Education Savings Accounts To Include Elementary, Secondary School |
March 17 - Tax Cut's Viability Lies In Deep Dealmaking |
March 17 - Welfare Overhaul's Next Wave |
March 24 - Big Breaks for Married Couples Offered in Latest House Tax Bill |
March 24 - Highlights of Faith-Based Initiative Proposals |
March 24 - House Budget Resolution Provides Leeway; Senate Talks of Rebating Part of '01 Surplus |
March 24 - House GOP Bets on Passing Aid to 'Faith-Based' Groups; Senate Keys on Tax Incentives |
March 24 - Nussle's Dueling Responsibilities |
March 24 - This Week in Congress |
March 31 - Alleviation of 'Marriage Penalty' Hits Bipartisan High Note in House |
March 31 - Bush's Budget Now Before the Senate, Where Moderates Wield the Critical Votes |
March 31 - Education Is Budget's Biggest Winner, But School Allies Still Aren't Happy |
March 31 - House Presses Bush's Tax Agenda While Senate Talks of Stimulus |
March 31 - This Week in Congress |
April 7 - Estate Tax Phaseout Passes House But May Be Scaled Back in Senate When Finance Panel Begins Work |
April 7 - GOP Pays Price for Collapse of Deal With Jeffords on Special Education Funds |
April 7 - It's the Day of the Centrist As Bush Tax Cut Takes a Hit |
April 7 - Law Designed for Curbing Deficits Becomes GOP Tool for Cutting Taxes |
April 14 - Bush's Frugal Bottom Line Ensures a Rough Conference |
April 14 - Bush's User Fee Plan off to a Rocky Start |
April 14 - Compromising on Tax Cuts |
April 21 - Steering the Tax Cut Debate Past a Partisan Precipice |
April 28 - After First Hundred Days, Bush Emerges as Pragmatic Warrior |
April 28 - Bush Starts to Deal on Budget, Only Hardening Resolve of Some |
April 28 - McCain Links Internet Tax Moratorium With Help for States to Tax Online Sales |
April 28 - Retirement Savings Tax Measure Gets a Solid Relaunch in House |
April 28 - Senate GOP Seeks Broad Support For Bush's Reconciliation Plan |
April 28 - Tax-Limiting Amendment Rejected Again |
May 5 - $79 Billion Boost for Agriculture Could Galvanize Farm Bill Renewal |
May 5 - Budget Deal's Ungainly Pause Is Inches From the Finish Line |
May 5 - House Retirement Measure Unlikely To Gain a Place in Senate Tax Package |
May 5 - Scaled-Down Version of Bush Tax Plan Taking Bipartisan Form at Senate Finance |
May 5 - The New Face of Internet Taxation |
May 12 - Budget Resolution Highlights |
May 12 - Gaming Profits Help Tribes Build Influence in Washington |
May 12 - GOP Budget Resolution Squeaks By, But Implementation Will Be Tougher |
May 12 - Grassley-Baucus Tax Blueprint Heads for Rough-and-Tumble Markup |
May 12 - Panel Approves Tax Breaks For Foster, Adoptive Parents; 10-Year Cost of $3.1 Billion |
May 19 - House Expands Tax Benefits For Adoption, Foster Care |
May 19 - Senate Tax Bill Trade-Offs Leave a Fragile Coalition |
May 19 - This Week in Congress |
May 19 - Treasury: More for IRS, Enforcement |
May 19 - Will Bush Turn His Veto Pen On a Fiscally Wayward GOP? |
May 26 - House Judiciary Committee Narrows Scope of Bill Aimed at Regulating 'Spam' |
May 26 - Tax Cut Backers Hurry to Beat A Touch of Surplus Pessimism |
May 26 - Tax Cut Deal Reached Quickly As Appetite for Battle Fades |
June 2 - A Top High-Tech Tax Wish |
June 2 - Charities See Incentives Slipping Away |
June 2 - Tax Debate Assured a Long Life As Bush, GOP Press for New Cuts |
June 2 - Tax Package's Timetable |
June 9 - Byrd: Different Expectations? |
June 9 - Provisions of the Tax Law |
June 9 - Tax Law Signed, Its Sunset Chided |
June 9 - Under Tight Spending Ceilings, Democrats Lower Their Sights |
June 16 - Energy Tax Initiatives |
June 16 - GOP Lawmakers Target Bills On Patients' Rights, Minimum Wage As Vehicles for More Tax Cuts |
June 16 - House Passes SEC Fee Reduction Similar to Senate's Version After Ending Agency Pay Impasse |
June 23 - Bush's 'Faith-Based' Initiative Hobbled by Growing Disputes Over Final Form, Constitutionality |
June 23 - Internet Taxes: No Accord Yet On Moratorium |
June 30 - WTO Panel's Tentative Disapproval Of New U.S. Foreign-Income Tax System Raises Hope for Comprehensive Fixes |
July 14 - Defense Budget Boost 'in Play' |
July 14 - Shrinking Surplus Promotes Restraint As Supplemental Heads to Conference |
July 14 - Trust Funds Take Center Stage As Talk of 'Deficits' Is Revived |
July 14 - Ways and Means Scales Back Bush Plan For Forestering Charitable Donations |
July 21 - Bush's House Win on 'Faith-Based' Charity Clouded by Bias Concerns in Senate |
July 21 - Panel Exceeds Bush Proposals In Approving Tax Incentives For Conservation, Production |
July 28 - House Passes Treasury-Postal Spending Bill As Senate Starts Moving a Similar Package |
July 28 - Tightening the Canadian Border |
August 4 - Panel Backs Stiffer Curb on Internet Taxes |
August 11 - 'Extenders' Could Be Up Next |
August 11 - Pressure Building for Congress To Tackle Tax Simplification |
August 11 - Rewriting Business Depreciation Rules: Economic Stimulus vs. Budgetary Cost |
September 1 - Armed Services Panels Go Out on Limb In Trying to Enact Bush's Full Request |
September 1 - Blame Laid, Promises Revisited As Surplus Estimates Shrink |
September 15 - Cautious on the Economy |
September 22 - A Cautious Start for Stimulus |
September 22 - Insurers Seek Protection |
September 22 - Markets Survive Shocks |
September 29 - Hill Deciding Stimulus Is Needed, Even if a Deficit Is the Result |
October 6 - Brandishing Bush Letter, Lawmakers Close In on Seven Appropriations Bills |
October 6 - Particulars of Fiscal Rescue Plan Strain Parties' Tenuous Truce |
October 6 - What's Hot, What's Not: Handicapping the Stimulus Package |
October 13 - Economic Tools at the Government's Disposal |
October 13 - Hill Looks for Fed's Blessing In Forging Stimulus Package |
October 13 - House Judiciary Votes to Renew Internet Tax Ban for Two Years; GOP Leaders Want Longer Extension |
October 13 - Move to Repeal Corporate AMT Finds New Life in Stimulus Debate |
October 13 - No Lack of Congressional Welcome For Central Banker's Active Role |
October 13 - U.S. to Appeal WTO Ruling On Export Tax |
October 20 - Moratorium on Internet Sales Tax Expires As Senate Negotiations Stall Over Whether, and How Long, to Extend It |
October 20 - Sharply Divergent Stimulus Proposals Taking Shape in House and Senate |
October 20 - Tax Break for Multinationals Decried, But Probably Destined to Pass |
October 27 - Fate of Economic Stimulus Bill In Hands of Senate Centrists |
October 27 - Internet Tax Moratorium Still Stymied |
October 27 - Polarizing Social Issues Resurface In Debate Over Jobless Benefits |
October 27 - Rank and File to the Breakfast Club: Keep Key Policy Decisions off Menu |
October 27 - Rising Unemployment Claims Drive Policy Debate |
November 3 - Economists Differ on Whether Stimulus Matters Much to Markets or Economy |
November 3 - Senate at Impasse on Stimulus Bill As Pressure for Action Grows |
November 10 - ADJOURNMENT: A Different Kind of Rush for the Holidays |
November 10 - ECONOMICS & FINANCE: Swing Democrats Exact a Price For Supporting Stimulus Bill |
November 10 - ECONOMICS & FINANCE: Thinly Backed Stimulus Bill Moves to Hostile Senate Floor |
November 17 - Delivering the Coup de Grce: Chairman Thomas Goes to the Senate |
November 17 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Stimulus Deal May Materialize Amid Smoke of Partisan Warfare |
November 17 - Internet Tax Moratorium Extension Clears After Senate Rejects Plan For Multistate 'Compact' |
November 24 - Bush-Daschle Summit May Be Only Hope for Stimulus Bill |
November 24 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Stimulus Deadlock: Will Bush Intervene? |
November 24 - Senate Expedites Victims Bill |
December 1 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Added Pressure Has Little Effect On Stimulus Bills Glacial Pace |
December 1 - Tax Holiday: A Welcome Icebreaker |
December 8 - Authorizers, Appropriators Square Off Over the Use of Gas Tax Revenue To Fund Pet Projects |
December 8 - GOP Offer of Concessions in Stimulus Bill Fails to Avert Another Breakdown of Talks |
December 8 - IRS, Businesses Warn of Difficulties With Plans for Tax 'Holiday' and Rebates |
December 8 - Tax Relief for New York |
December 15 - Business Hopes for a Boost |
December 15 - In Stimulus Bill Negotiations, It's Time to Deal or Die |
December 15 - Victims' Tax Relief Bill Passes |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Economic Stimulus |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2002 Budget Resolution |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Internet Taxes |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Tax Cut Reconciliation |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Tax Cuts (Vote 45) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Budget Resolution (Vote 69) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Tax Cuts (Vote 165) |
December 22 - Stimulus Bill Succumbs, Taking Tax Issues With It |
December 22 - Tax 'Extenders' Stall |