January 19 - The Environment: Energy May Pre-Empt Garbage |
January 26 - Moynihan Tries Again |
February 2 - Kemp: Looking To Get Programs Moving |
February 2 - On Policy Front, Home Is Not Where Bush's Heart Is |
February 2 - Veterans: Members Support Gulf Troops With Assistance Measures |
February 16 - Mitchell: New Priority |
February 23 - Premiums Compared |
February 23 - SECTION NOTES: Joblessness Insurance Funds To Run Short, GAO Warns |
February 23 - SECTION NOTES: Women's Job Training Measure Revived by Senate Panel |
March 2 - How Block Grants Fares 1987-1991 (chart) |
March 2 - LABOR: Parental Leave Bill Has New Hope |
March 2 - SECTION NOTES: Miller Resigns as Chairman Of Committee on Children |
March 9 - LABOR: House Panel Approves Parental Leave Bill |
March 9 - VETERANS: Vietnam Benefits Bill Cleared |
March 9 - War-Related Supplementals Win Approval From House |
March 16 - HOUSING: Kemp's Efforts To Get Funding May Hit a Brick Wall |
March 16 - SECTION NOTES: Federal Worker Family Leave Backed by House Panel |
March 16 - SECTION NOTES: Rep. Downey Tries Again On Jobless Benefits |
March 16 - Supporters of Anti-Job-Bias Bill Need a Winning Strategy |
March 23 - HOUSING: Kemp's Request Put on Hold |
March 23 - SECTION NOTES: Family Leave Measure Gets Committee OK |
March 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Martinez As New Drug Czar |
March 30 - Children in Crisis Overwhelm Foster-Care Programs |
March 30 - Fighting the Tide |
March 30 - Under the Child-Welfare Banner Lies a Patchwork of Federal Programs |
April 6 - A Quiet Changing of the Guard |
April 6 - War on Drugs Is a Standoff In the Partisan Trenches |
April 13 - HOUSING: Flood Insurance Bill Approved |
April 13 - THE BUDGET: Governors, State Legislators Offer Block Grant Plans |
April 13 - VETERANS: Panel Approves Job-Bias Bill For Returning Troops |
April 13 - When State Challenges Church On Hats, Food and Names |
April 20 - Ackerman Makes His Move |
April 20 - LABOR: Rules on Children in Workplace Focus of Partisan Jockeying |
April 20 - Reauthorization Is New Front For the Garbage Wars |
April 20 - SECTION NOTES: Supercomputer Bill Redux |
April 27 - Democrats Offer Major Plan On Childhood Hunger |
April 27 - Families and Hunger |
April 27 - FAMILY LEAVE: Senate Panel Replays Course On Previously Vetoed Bill |
April 27 - Growth of the Food Stamp Program (chart) |
April 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Panel OKs Legal Aid Bill |
April 27 - Who's Accountable for Social Security? |
May 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Look at Each Spending Bill -- Labor-HHS- Education |
May 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Look at Each Spending Bill -- VA-HUD |
May 4 - HOUSING: Insistence on OMB Figures May Scuttle Flood Bill |
May 11 - Brady's Solid House Victory Is Gun-Control Milestone |
May 11 - Disasters Strain Tight Relief Budgets |
May 11 - Feighan's Day in the Sun |
May 11 - Foley Caught Between His Party And His Constituency on Gun Control |
May 11 - HUMAN SERVICES: Focus on Children May Curtail Funding Plans for Elderly |
May 18 - Democrats Offer Compromise On Contentious Bias Bill |
May 18 - LABOR: Rehiring Preference Advocated As Family Leave Substitute |
May 18 - SECTION NOTES: Drug-Testing Amendment Voted Down in House |
May 18 - SECTION NOTES: Education Panel Approves Programs for Disabled |
May 18 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Alien Status Bill |
May 18 - Son of 'Quotas' |
May 25 - Major Controversies |
May 25 - SECTION NOTES: Disabled-Children Program Cleared by Congress |
May 25 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Loan Measure For Homeless Veterans |
May 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Drug Tests |
June 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Funding For HOPE Program |
June 8 - VA-HUD Spending (chart) |
June 22 - Labor, HHS, Education Spending (chart) |
June 29 - Another Round on 'Quotas' |
June 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Cuts Postal Subsidies |
June 29 - Children's Commission Report Suggests New Tax Credit |
June 29 - CORRECTION: Labor-HHS Appropriations. |
June 29 - Major Recommendations |
June 29 - SECTION NOTES: Custer Park May Be Taking Its Last Stand |
June 29 - SECTION NOTES: New Look at Family Violence Approved by Committee |
June 29 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Extension For Pension Benefits |
June 29 - Treasury, Postal Service Spending (chart) |
July 6 - HUMAN SERVICES: Energy Assistance Program Hit Hard by Budget Cuts |
July 6 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Push for Independent Agency Resisted by White House |
July 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Mikulski Trims Carefully To Pay Cost of Freedom |
July 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Reverses House Goals, Favors Low-Income Help |
July 13 - Crime Bill Faces House Fight Over Penalties, Appeals |
July 13 - House Travels Favorite Road To Funding Local Highways |
July 13 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Increase Retirees' Social Security Benefits |
July 13 - SECTION NOTES: Legislation Would Increase Disabled Veterans' COLA |
July 13 - Senate Crime Bill Features Provisions On Death Penalty, Handguns and Drugs |
July 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Deficit-Minded Bumpers Loses Round on Space Station Cuts |
July 20 - HUMAN SERVICES: Panel OKs Increase In Aid to Elderly |
July 20 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Legal Services Bill Advances As Controversy Fades |
July 20 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans' Home Loans Could Reach Reservists |
July 20 - VA-HUD Spending (chart) |
July 27 - CORRECTION: Older Americans Act. |
July 27 - LABOR: Democrats Press Bills to Aid Jobless Americans |
July 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Aid Elderly Moves Forward |
July 27 - SECTION NOTES: Small-Business Women Would Get Help |
July 27 - SECTION NOTES: Social Security Exemption OK'd by Committee |
July 27 - VETERANS: House Committee Approves COLA |
August 3 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Panel Votes To Approve Programs for Elderly |
August 3 - HUMAN SERVICES: Raft of Bills To Aid Children Advance/s/ in House, Senate |
August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Proponents Seek Funding For Anti-Hunger Bill |
August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Bill Would Safeguard Rights of Mentally Ill |
August 3 - The $50,000 Question |
August 10 - HUMAN SERVICES: Senate OKs Mental Health Bill; Rural Areas Get More Funds |
August 10 - SECTION NOTES: Labor-HHS Spending Bill Gets a Recess, Too |
August 10 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Bill To Expand Veterans' Benefits |
August 10 - SOCIAL POLICY: Special Report on Legislative Action in the 102nd Congress |
August 24 - VETO MESSAGE: Text of Veto Of D.C. Bill |
August 31 - The Arizona Petition |
September 14 - CORRECTION: Pension Law. |
September 14 - HUMAN SERVICES: Children's Needs Get Priority |
September 14 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Averts Veto Threat, Votes Aid for Elderly |
September 14 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Give Counseling To Vets and Their Families |
September 21 - LABOR: Senate's Hopes for Leave Bill Face Bush's Opposition |
September 21 - NEA Attacked Again |
September 21 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Measure Aiding Children With Disabilities |
September 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Money Rearranged For Favored Programs |
September 28 - HUMAN SERVICES: Focus Shifts on Child Welfare; Bill Called Budget-Buster |
September 28 - LABOR: ERISA Restrictions Re-Examined |
September 28 - LABOR: Job Program for Disadvantaged Is Approved by House Panel |
September 28 - SECTION NOTES: Measure To Reauthorize Anti-Drug Programs OK'd |
October 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Rolls Out Jumbo Pork Barrel |
October 5 - Capitol Hill's Ire Increases Along With Drug Prices |
October 5 - CORRECTION: House crime bill. |
October 5 - LABOR: Family Leave's Fate Uncertain Despite Two-Thirds Support |
October 5 - SECTION NOTES: Drug Prevention, Education Programs for Youth Gangs |
October 5 - SECTION NOTES: Health, Human Services Bills Advance in the House |
October 5 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Nutrition Program For Low-Income People |
October 5 - VA-HUD Spending (chart) |
October 12 - LABOR: President Vetoes Jobless Bill |
October 19 - Natcher vs. Hatfield |
October 19 - SECTION NOTES: Food Stamp Boost OK'd; Funding a Problem |
October 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Conferees Haggling Over Dollars, Not Issues |
November 2 - Danforth's Persistence Paid Off In Thomas, Civil Rights Battles |
November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Get Numbers On Welfare Dependency |
November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Disability Prevention Passed by House |
November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Tribes To Be Compensated For Land Lost to Dams |
November 2 - Selected Programs In HR2707 (chart) |
November 2 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: COLA Bill Is Sent To White House |
November 9 - Labor, HHS, Education (chart) |
November 9 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Reauthorization Of Civil Rights Commission |
November 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Indians Panel Backs Native Languages Bill |
November 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Bill to Beef Up Anti-Abuse Effort |
November 16 - HUMAN SERVICES: Earnings Test Repeal Revived As Seniors' Act Advances |
November 16 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Long, Hard Week Looms As Adjournment Nears |
November 23 - Key Democrats (chart) |
November 23 - LABOR: Increase in Jobless Benefits Has White House Approval |
November 23 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Panel Votes Food Stamp Increase |
November 23 - Waters Stirs Up a Tempest, Challenging Montgomery |
November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Collegial Courtesy Requires Senate To Pass Bill Twice |
November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Jobless Benefits Extension Sent to President Bush |
November 30 - SECTION NOTES: President Sent Reauthorization Of 'Boarder Baby' Program |
November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Backs Plan to Preserve Native Alaskan Languages |
November 30 - VETERANS: House OKs Services Package, Minority Affairs Officer |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: BETWEEN THE LINES |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: EARTH VS. SPACE VA, HUD Appropriations |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: HOPEFUL RECIPIENTS |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION (chart) |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: SILVER LININGS |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: THE SOCIAL TAB Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: VA, HUD, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES(chart) |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Where The Money Goes Labor, HHS, Education -- Fiscal Year 1992 |
December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Where The Money Goes VA, HUD -- Fiscal Year 1992 |
December 21 - PROVISIONS: Surface Transportation Law |