January 6 - Moynihan Seeks to Roll Back Social Security Tax Rate (charts) |
January 6 - Stalemates of Last Decade Haunt Agenda for 1990: Social Policy |
January 20 - SECTION NOTES: Kemp Kills Reagan-Era Co-Insurance Program |
January 27 - Bush's $10.6 Billion Strategy |
January 27 - President's 'Points of Light' Still Only a Dim Twinkle |
January 27 - Progress of the Points |
February 3 - Former HUD Secretary Pierce Faces Special Prosecutor |
February 17 - Unneeded Policies and the Elderly |
March 3 - Bill To Spur Community Service Wins Approval in Senate |
March 3 - HOUSING: Legislation Already Enacted, But HUD Hearings Go On |
March 3 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Greenspan Offers Critique Of Moynihan Proposal |
March 3 - Special Counsel Named In Pierce Investigation |
March 10 - HOUSING: Ex-HUD Official May Testify |
March 10 - HUMAN SERVICES: Long Deadlock on Child Care May Get Resolved Soon |
March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Discrimination Bill Advances Despite Cost Concerns |
March 17 - House Child-Care Compromise Faces Challenge on Floor |
March 17 - HOUSING/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Kemp Outlines HOPE Proposal To Skeptical House Panel |
March 17 - HUD SCANDAL: Report Criticizes Ethics Program |
March 24 - GOP Cries 'Foul' Again |
March 24 - HUMAN SERVICES: Church-State Squabble Stalls Child-Care Bill in House |
March 24 - NUTRITION: Committee Approves Increases In Food Programs for Poor |
March 31 - Bush Veto Threat Shadows Child-Care Legislation |
March 31 - Comparison of Child-Care Bills As Passed by House, Senate |
March 31 - LABOR: GOP Opposition Stalls Action On Age-Discrimination Bill |
April 7 - House Gives Nod to Increase In Fiscal 1990 Spending |
April 7 - HOUSING: Congress Permits Bargaining For Housing Trust Funds |
April 7 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Subcommittee Approves Big Head Start Expansion |
April 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Third House Committee OKs Disability-Rights Measure |
April 7 - PROVISIONS: House Child-Care Bill |
April 21 - Gains: Real or Illusory? |
April 21 - HUMAN SERVICES: Child-Care Bill Held Hostage By Senate Republicans |
April 21 - Poverty War's Accidental Success |
April 28 - D'Amato-Dodd Bill Denounced |
April 28 - Households Added To Federally |
April 28 - Housing Proposals Compared |
April 28 - HUMAN SERVICES: Republicans Unhand Child-Care Bill |
April 28 - Little New Aid Is Expected Despite Growing Need |
April 28 - SECTION NOTES: 'Whistleblower' Extension Approved on Partisan Vote |
May 5 - HOUSING: Pierce Directed HUD Grants, Jailed Aide Tells Panel |
May 5 - HUMAN SERVICES: Social Security Earnings Test Could Be Eased Slightly |
May 5 - Major Expansion of Head Start OK'd by House Committee |
May 5 - Sweeping Program Overhaul Moving in Both Chambers |
May 12 - House Passes Parental Leave; White House Promises Veto |
May 12 - HUD SCANDAL: Congress Lax About Oversight, Inspectors General Say |
May 12 - HUMAN SERVICES: After a Delay, Child-Care Bill Is Ready for Conference |
May 12 - Overhaul of Federal Programs Approved by House Panel |
May 12 - Parental Leave - |
May 12 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel OKs Measure To Reduce Disabilities |
May 19 - Deal Near on Supplemental As House Lards the Bill |
May 19 - Hill's Insistence on HUD Pork Seems About To Pay Off |
May 19 - OBSCENITY DEBATE: Arts Groups Called to 'Summit' On Endowment Renewal |
May 19 - SECTION NOTES: Aid to Disabled Students OK'd by House Panel |
May 19 - Where the Grants Would Go |
May 26 - SECTION NOTES: Second HUD Alumnus Accuses Pierce |
June 2 - HUD SCANDAL: Thornburgh Seeks Wider Probe |
June 2 - New Fight Likely Over Change In Mobile Home Standards |
June 9 - Scrap Over Construction Plan Provokes Delay in Markup |
June 9 - SECTION NOTES: Child-Care Conference Gets Under Way |
June 9 - SECTION NOTES: FHA in Financial Trouble, Kemp Tells Senate Panel |
June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: HUD-VA Funding OK'd by Panel |
June 16 - Renewal of Housing Programs Is Ready for Floor Action |
June 16 - Tenacious Texan at Work |
June 23 - CHILD CARE: Policy Disputes, Turf Quirks Complicate Conference |
June 23 - House Committee's Arts Bill Takes the Easy Way Out |
June 23 - Housing-Reform Discussions Have Up-and-Down Week |
June 23 - SECTION NOTES: HUD Developer Takes Fifth As House Probe Continues |
June 23 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans' Housing Bill Wins Subcommittee OK |
June 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: HUD-VA Bill Survives Attempts To Reduce Large Increase |
June 30 - HUD's Kemp Comes Out on Top In Negotiations With Senate |
June 30 - HUMAN SERVICES: Emergency WIC Funding Bill Is Cleared by Congress |
June 30 - Roasting the Archenemy of Pork |
June 30 - VA-HUD Appropriations (chart) |
July 14 - Congress Clears Sweeping Bill To Guard Rights of Disabled |
July 14 - HOUSING: Bill Heading to House Floor In Shadow of Veto Threat |
July 14 - HUMAN SERVICES: School Volunteer Aid Considered |
July 14 - Labor-HHS Appropriations (chart) |
July 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Partisan Sparring Punctuates Passage of Labor-HHS Bill |
July 21 - CHILD CARE: House Gambit To Delay Funds Fails To Budge Conferees |
July 21 - Labor-HHS-Education Funding (chart) |
July 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Committee Passes Community Service Bill |
July 21 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes To Reauthorize Funding for Homeless |
July 28 - Financing |
July 28 - HOUSING: Members Weighing Remedies For Ailing FHA Program |
July 28 - PROVISIONS: Americans With Disabilities Act |
July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Seeks To Broaden Inquiry Into Pierce |
July 28 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: COLA Adjustment OK'd for Disabled |
August 4 - Housing Grants and Programs (chart) |
August 4 - Kemp Is Dealt Major Defeat On Home-Loan Program |
August 4 - New Programs: Highlights |
August 11 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Bill Aims To Protect American Indian Children |
August 18 - Social Policy: Major legislative actions of the 101st Congress |
September 8 - Child Care Compromise |
September 8 - Child-Care Measure Is a Venue For Windfall for the Elderly |
September 8 - Financing A $70,000 Home (chart) |
September 8 - For Kemp, Time To Deliver |
September 8 - How Earnings Test Works (chart) |
September 8 - New Programs: Highlights |
September 8 - Politically Resonant Decisions Loom Over Housing Aid |
September 8 - PROVISIONS: Housing Authorizations |
September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Drops $2 Billion In Housing, Space Funds |
September 15 - Committee Offers Compromise On Long-Delayed NEA Bill |
September 15 - SECTION NOTES: American Indians Gain Federal Benefits |
September 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Open Books On Graduation, Crime |
September 15 - SECTION NOTES: Conference Scheduled On Housing Bills |
September 15 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Seeks To Inform Public About Beaches |
September 22 - SECTION NOTES: Conferees May Be Closing In On Child-Care Bill |
September 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Spending Gets Backing |
September 29 - Conferees Trying To Blend Shelter, Social Services |
September 29 - SECTION NOTES: Tighter Rules Sought On Hazardous Waste |
September 29 - SECTION NOTES: TV Decoders Sought For Hearing Impaired |
September 29 - VA-HUD Funds (chart) |
October 6 - 'Special Purpose' Grants (chart) |
October 6 - COMMUNICATIONS: Closed-Captioning Access Opened |
October 6 - ENERGY: State Grant Bill Clears Senate |
October 6 - HOUSING: Disputes Great and Small Bog Down Negotiations |
October 6 - HUMAN SERVICES: Budget Agreement May Boost Child-Care Bill Momentum |
October 6 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Prevent Mailing Of Hazardous Products |
October 6 - Senate Challenges Kemp Over Special Projects |
October 13 - Hill, Kemp Continue Wrangling Over Authorization Measure |
October 13 - The Armstrong Factor |
October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Programs Beat Out HUD On Conferees' Priority List |
October 20 - Conferees' Authorization Bill Marks Turnabout in Policy |
October 20 - HUMAN SERVICES: Disability Bill Is Cleared |
October 20 - Negotiators Nearing Accord On Child-Care Package |
October 20 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: House Votes To Aid Vietnam Veterans |
October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: $80 Billion VA-HUD Measure Is Cleared for President |
October 27 - Congress Wraps Up Decision On Child-Care Legislation |
October 27 - HOUSING: Coin Redesign Almost Snags Sweeping Policy Overhaul |
October 27 - MEMORANDUM OF DISAPPROVAL: Bush Vetoes Rights Bill, Objects to 'Quotas' |
November 3 - Fiscal 1991 Appropriations for Labor, |
November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Government and Commerce |
November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Social Policy |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Aid for Homeless Reauthorized |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Cleared Bill Protects American Indians |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill To Bury Exposed Pipelines |
November 3 - VA-HUD Funds (chart) |
November 3 - VA/HUD: Space Scores Win In Spending Test |
November 3 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: Debate Over Agent Orange Stalls COLA Measure |
November 10 - NEW HOUSE PROFILE: Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. (3) |
November 24 - PROVISIONS: Clean Air Act Amendments (chart) |
December 8 - PROVISIONS: Housing Authorizations |