January 15 - Clinton's Chapter 1 Formula Runs Aground in House |
January 15 - How the Current Formula Works |
January 22 - Clinton Plans Major Shift In Lives of Poor People |
January 22 - Clinton Urged To Slow Down |
January 22 - Highlights of Clinton Plan |
January 22 - HUMAN SERVICES: As New Legal Aid Law Is Written, Old Battles Will Be Refought |
January 22 - Sampling Welfare Users |
January 22 - Welfare Rolls: Tracking the Numbers (chart) |
January 29 - Clinton Sets Get-Tough Agenda, Hard Line on Social Reforms |
January 29 - HUMAN SERVICES: Clinton's Attention to Welfare Boosts Supporters' Hopes |
January 29 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Tough Anti-Crime Bill Faces Tougher Balancing Act |
January 29 - THE STATE OF THE UNION: Clinton Stresses Welfare, Health-Care Reform |
January 29 - When Crime Hits Home (chart) |
February 5 - EDUCATION: House Panel Rejects Shifting Money to Poor Schools |
February 5 - EDUCATION: School Prayer, Choice Part of Senate 'Goals' Debate |
February 5 - SECTION NOTES: Dole Plans To Propose Gun-Buyback Program |
February 5 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Grant Plan To Fight School Violence |
February 5 - SECTION NOTES: Simon Agrees To Fight TV Violence Bills |
February 12 - Disaster Relief: A Trial Run For the Deficit Battle |
February 12 - EDUCATION : School-to-Work Program Easily Passes Senate |
February 12 - EDUCATION: Senate Passes Goals 2000; Bill Heads to Conference |
February 12 - Funding by Title |
February 12 - Panel Shifts Funds Slightly To Target Poorer Schools |
February 12 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Grants To Assist Disabled |
February 12 - SPECIAL REPORT -- FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: Commerce/Community Development |
February 12 - SPECIAL REPORT -- FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: Income Security |
February 12 - SPECIAL REPORT -- FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: Veterans Affairs |
February 26 - Democrats as Divided as Ever On Eve of First Markup |
February 26 - Home-Schooling Movement Gives House a Lesson |
February 26 - NATION OF ISLAM: House Denounces Remarks As 'Racist' Speech |
February 26 - School Aid (chart) |
February 26 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill To Fight School Violence, Crime |
February 26 - SECTION NOTES: Minority Health Programs Reauthorized by Panel |
March 5 - 1994 COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENT: Senate Special Aging |
March 5 - EDUCATION: More Funds to Poorer Schools Likely To Be Rejected |
March 5 - For a Brief Part of Each Day Children Find an Oasis at Head Start |
March 5 - Head Start Funding Nears Legislative Crossroad |
March 5 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Panel Wants Crime Bill On Floor Before Recess |
March 5 - Ohio Republicans Seize Crime, Health Issues |
March 5 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Moynihan Prevails: Senate Grants Independence |
March 12 - A Helping Hand To Lessen Crime |
March 12 - Anti-Crime Measures Move To House's Front Burner |
March 12 - EDUCATION: Anti-Tobacco Programs Approved by House |
March 12 - How Medicare Works |
March 12 - JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Complaints Fail To Emerge At Patrick Hearing |
March 12 - LABOR: More Jobless Aid Focus of Plan |
March 12 - LAW/JUDICIARY: 'Community Policing' Concept Gets a National Tryout |
March 12 - Stark's Bill Modeled on Medicare |
March 19 - BANKING: Senate Passes Bill To Create Community Lending Fund |
March 19 - EDUCATION: Conferees Reach Agreement On 'Goals 2000' Bill |
March 19 - HUMAN SERVICES: Food Stamp Bill Clears House |
March 19 - Provisions of Crime Bills |
March 19 - SECTION NOTES: Bill on Urban Recreation Gets Panel Approval |
March 19 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill to Delay Regulations on Pesticides |
March 19 - Seeking Support for Prevention |
March 26 - Clinton's Main Tenets Drive New Movement on Health |
March 26 - EDUCATION: Elementary-Secondary Aid Bill Passes House, 289-128 |
March 26 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Partisan Fault Lines Spark Delay on Anti-Crime Bill |
March 26 - School Prayer Delays 'Goals,' Keeps Senate at Work |
March 26 - SECTION NOTES: House Relaxes Rules For HUD Sales |
March 26 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Higher Threshold for Taxes On Domestics Taking Shape |
March 26 - Stark's Plan: Winners, Losers |
March 26 - VETERANS: Panel Exempts VA From Staff Cuts |
April 2 - EDUCATION: Goals 2000 Bill Clears Senate In Early-Morning Session |
April 2 - HEALTH: Minority Programs OK'd by Senate |
April 2 - House Democrats Divide on Welfare |
April 2 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill On Sales by HUD |
April 2 - Smith, Mollohan in Line |
April 2 - Welfare Bills |
April 2 - Welfare Overhaul Forces Ready To Start Without Clinton |
April 16 - Bills: House vs. Senate |
April 16 - EDUCATION: Conferees Give Conditional OK On School-to-Work Measure |
April 16 - HEALTH: Centrist Mood Won't Stop Work on Liberal Plans |
April 16 - HEALTH: Congress Moves to Middle On Overhaul Bills |
April 23 - Death Penalty Expansion |
April 23 - Highlights of House Crime Bill |
April 23 - HOUSING: HUD Plan To Shift Funding Draws Sharp Criticism |
April 23 - More Cops, Jails: House Takes A $28 Billion Aim at Crime |
April 23 - SECTION NOTE: House Clears Legislation On Overdue FmHA Loans |
April 23 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Rostenkowski Unveils Package Designed To Shore Up System |
April 30 - CORRECTIONS: Mann votes on family leave. |
April 30 - HEALTH: Moderate Democrats Shun Mandate on Employers |
April 30 - HUMAN SERVICES: Clinton Pares Back Welfare Plan |
April 30 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Passes Head Start Bill; Conference Work Is Next |
April 30 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Panel Approves Tribal Bills |
April 30 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Nearing Showdown On Assault Weapons Ban |
April 30 - Legislators Draw in the Reins On Environmental Rules |
April 30 - Markup Moves Slowly |
April 30 - SECTION NOTES: Arson Research Grants Authorized by House |
April 30 - Social Security Facts |
April 30 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Panel Votes to Raise Threshold For Taxes on Domestics |
April 30 - SUPREME COURT: Justices: 1991 Civil Rights Law Can't Be Used Retroactively |
May 7 - CORRECTION: Supplemental Security Income Benefits. |
May 7 - Defining Weapons |
May 7 - HOUSING: House Votes To Crack Down On Flood Insurance Rules |
May 7 - HUMAN RESOURCES: Panel Reauthorizes Lunch Program |
May 7 - PROVISIONS: Anti-Crime Bills Compared |
May 7 - SECTION NOTES: Vets' Disability COLA Gets Senate Approval |
May 7 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Panel Debates Disability Pay, OKs Agency Independence |
May 14 - CORRECTION: Assault Weapons Ban |
May 14 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Health Care Reform May Begin at Home |
May 14 - HEALTH: Subcommittee Votes To Restrict Smoking in Most Buildings |
May 14 - HUMAN SERVICES: Bill To Improve Head Start Awaits Clinton Signature |
May 14 - LABOR-HHS APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE |
May 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Lawmakers Carve Out Territory On Crime Bill Provisions |
May 14 - Montgomery Girds for Battle Over Chairman's Post |
May 14 - Rostenkowski Sets Markup To Get Panel on Track |
May 14 - SOCIAL SECURITY: House Revises Wage Base For Domestic Workers |
May 14 - VA-HUD APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE |
May 14 - VETERANS: Medical Projects OK'd by Panel |
May 21 - Breyer's Economic and Social Views |
May 21 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Approves Bill To Make Social Security Independent |
May 21 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Conferees Under Orders |
May 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Extension For New Food Labels |
May 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Eases Benefits Process For Black Lung Sufferers |
May 21 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Cleanup Planning For Dumps on Indian Lands |
May 21 - SECTION NOTES: Women Vets, Building Bills Advanced by House Panel |
May 28 - Bill Highlights |
May 28 - CORRECTION: Assault Weapons Ban |
May 28 - Debate Over Replacement Rule Exposes Division on Housing |
May 28 - HOUSING: Crime Issue Animates Debate Over Public Housing Bill |
May 28 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Measure To Give More Control To Tribes OK'd by Panel |
May 28 - Major Funding Sources |
May 28 - Panel Enhances Premium Subsidies, Adds More Benefits to Measure |
May 28 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Improve Care For Minorities OK'd |
May 28 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Bill for Work On Medical Facilities |
May 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill To Expand Health Care for Women Vets |
May 28 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Senate Cleans Up Nanny Tax |
June 4 - A Decade of Debate |
June 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY:Fight Over Crime Bill Now Turns to Money |
June 4 - The Strings on Tax-Exempt Status |
June 4 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health Care, Defense On List After Recess |
June 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: More Quake Relief Sought by Clinton |
June 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Station's Fight for Life Backed Anew by Committee |
June 11 - HUMAN SERVICES: Proposal Limits Fat In School Lunches |
June 11 - SECTION NOTES: African-American Museum Approved by Panel |
June 11 - Subcommittee Becomes First Panel To Approve Single-Payer Plan |
June 11 - VETERANS: Senate Ready for Showdown On VHA Staff Exemption |
June 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: D.C. Budget Woes Focus of Debates |
June 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Backs Crime Spending, Argues Over Peacekeeping |
June 18 - Controversial Racial Justice Proposal An Explosive Issue for Lawmakers |
June 18 - Entitlement Reform Panel Convenes in Pessimism |
June 18 - Financing the Welfare Changes |
June 18 - How Triggers Would Work |
June 18 - HUMAN SERVICES: Long-Awaited Welfare Proposal Would Make Gradual Changes |
June 18 - Labor-HHS-Education Spending (chart) |
June 18 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Cost of Anti-Crime Package Edges Past $30 Billion |
June 18 - PROVISIONS: Head Start Reauthorization |
June 18 - Reauthorization Bill Approved After Hot Debate on Crime |
June 18 - SECTION NOTES: House Appropriations OKs Supplemental Spending |
June 18 - Senate Panel Easily Approves $12.7 Billion Measure |
June 18 - The Issue of Prayer |
June 18 - Triggers: Ready, Aim ... Not Yet |
June 18 - VETERANS: Senate Clears Claims Bill |
June 25 - A Tougher Domestic Violence Law |
June 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, Justice, State Bill Heeds Clinton Requests |
June 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Focusing on D.C.'s Fiscal Woes, Committee OKs Spending Bill |
June 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Sidesteps Abortion Issue In Passing Labor-HHS Bill |
June 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Mortgage Funds Get Boost From Senate |
June 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Station Debate Ensured By Panel's Vote To Fund It |
June 25 - HEALTH: Latest FDA Tobacco Testimony Suggests Regulation Is Near |
June 25 - HOUSING: Chambers Differ on How Big An FHA Loan Can Be |
June 25 - HUMAN SERVICES: Nutrition Programs OK'd by Panel |
June 25 - HUMAN SERVICES: Welfare Overhaul Hearing Set; Action Pegged to Other Issues |
June 25 - Panel Democrats Hold Together Despite Wrangles Over Benefits |
June 25 - Racial Sentencing Provision Snarls Crime Legislation |
June 25 - VA, HUD, Independent Agencies (chart) |
July 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves Crime Funds, Rejects Peacekeeping Cuts |
July 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes $249.7 Billion For Labor-HHS Spending |
July 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Station Bounces Back With Strong House Vote |
July 2 - Gulf War Syndrome Benefits Approved by House Panel |
July 2 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Panel Votes To Put U.S. At Bargaining Table |
July 2 - Mysterious Enemy |
July 2 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard Renewal Bill Sets Drug-Fighting Threshold |
July 2 - SECTION NOTES: Holocaust Survivor Bill Approved by Panel |
July 2 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Measure On Torture Lawsuits |
July 9 - Big Decisions Now on Shoulders Of House, Senate Leaders |
July 9 - Mixed Signals |
July 9 - Pulling the 'Soft Trigger' |
July 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Orders District To Reduce Budget |
July 16 - CLARIFICATION: Community Development Banks |
July 16 - Clinton's Investment Proposals (chart) |
July 16 - CRIME: Black Caucus Support at Risk Over Death Sentence Issue |
July 16 - EDUCATION: Aid Bill Tinkering Continues; Senate Floor Fights Likely |
July 16 - HUMAN SERVICES: Bill Would Guard Aid To Holocaust Victims |
July 16 - Industry Is a House Divided Over FHA Loan Expansion |
July 16 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Panel Backs Sharp Rise In Anti-Crime Spending |
July 16 - Leaders Signal Readiness To Deal On Employer Mandates |
July 16 - Oil-State Senator Tosses Match Into Gasoline Additive Debate |
July 16 - Once Again, Abortion Is the Issue |
July 16 - Proposed Limits on FHA Loans (chart) |
July 16 - Senate Panel Aims for Flexibility In Veterans' Health Options |
July 23 - Abortion Battle Resurfaces In Veterans Panel Vote |
July 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Crime Funding Moving Ahead In Commerce-Justice Bill |
July 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Spending Bill Moves to Senate Floor |
July 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate OKs Bill Requiring D.C. To Cut Budget by $75 Million |
July 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Agriculture Bill After Detour Into Gay Rights |
July 23 - BANKING: Conferees Stall On Two Major Bills, Holding Up Banking Agenda |
July 23 - BANKING: House Approves Energy Panel's Bill on Insurance 'Redlining' |
July 23 - CORRECTION: Abortion |
July 23 - Democrats' Disagreements Delay, Imperil Crime Bill |
July 23 - District of Columbia Spending (chart) |
July 23 - HOUSING: House Passes Reauthorization After Fight Over Aliens |
July 23 - HUMAN SERVICES: Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized by House |
July 23 - HUMAN SERVICES: Holocaust Bill Clears Senate |
July 23 - INDIANS: Peyote's Protections Would Become Law |
July 23 - LABOR/ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Administration Urges Congress To Push Pension Bill |
July 23 - LABOR: Ways and Means Subcommittee OKs Job Retraining Bill |
July 23 - Leaders Tell Clinton Measure Must Have Slower Approach |
July 23 - Leadership Perks |
July 23 - SECTION NOTES: Weatherization Discrepancies Addressed in Renewal Bill |
July 23 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Conference OKs Bill Creating Independent Agency |
July 23 - Storming the Capital |
July 23 - VA, HUD, Independent Agencies (chart) |
July 23 - VA-HUD Bill's 'Special Projects' Get Red-Carpet Treatment |
July 23 - VETERANS: Gulf Syndrome Compensation Approved by House Panel |
July 30 - $33 Billion Crime Measure Heads to Last Hurdles |
July 30 - BANKING: Conferees Iron Out Final Knots, Combine Two Major Bills |
July 30 - Battle Over Medicare Part C Plan |
July 30 - Chances for Overhaul in Doubt As Time for Action Dwindles |
July 30 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending (chart) |
July 30 - Crime Bill's Final Version |
July 30 - EDUCATION: Funding Formula, Prayer Issue Hold Up Senate Action |
July 30 - HEALTH: Leaders Using Fervent Approach To Convert Wavering Members |
July 30 - HUMAN SERVICES: Panel OKs Federal Worker Part Of Child Support Measure |
July 30 - NEA's Brushes With Controversy |
July 30 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Restrictions On 'Orphan' Drug Rights |
July 30 - SECTION NOTES: Peyote Protection Bill Advances in House |
July 30 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Crime Bill Advances To Top of Agenda |
August 6 - 'King of the Hill' |
August 6 - Assault Weapons Ban, Death Penalty Stall House Action on Crime Bill |
August 6 - Assistance Experiments |
August 6 - BANKING: House Approves Interstate, Community Lending Bills |
August 6 - Bill Aims To Protect Religious Freedom |
August 6 - Candidates Embrace Crime Issue |
August 6 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Conferees Agree To Cut Federal Payment |
August 6 - Effects of Costly Crime Bill Will Be Tough To Measure |
August 6 - FLOOR SCHEDULE |
August 6 - Food Stamp Experiments Spark Welfare Debate |
August 6 - HEALTH: Orphan Drug Bill Gets Panel OK |
August 6 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Panel Approves Bill To Toughen Indian Child-Protection Act |
August 6 - Judiciary Panel OKs Provisions On Malpractice, Antitrust |
August 6 - Mitchell Aims for 95 Percent |
August 6 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Calls for Hill Action On Crime, Health Care Bills |
August 6 - Senate Passes School Aid Bill But Shifts Funding Formula |
August 6 - The Latest Untouchable Fund |
August 6 - VETERANS: House Approves Veterans' Bills |
August 13 - A Mixed Review From CBO |
August 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves D.C. Budget |
August 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Labor-HHS Bill; Measure Goes to Conference |
August 13 - BANKING: Community Lending Bill Clears; Interstate Branching Held Up |
August 13 - Clinton, Democrats Scramble To Save Anti-Crime Bill |
August 13 - CORRECTION: Health Care |
August 13 - Democrats' Defeat Raises Specter of Gridlock |
August 13 - FEDERAL SPENDING: Commission Moves Carefully On Entitlement Cuts |
August 13 - For Some Republicans, a Tough Call |
August 13 - House Delays Health Care Debate As Leaders Plot Strategy |
August 13 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Despite Opposition, Panel OKs Bill Protecting Indian Sites |
August 13 - LABOR/ECONOMICS: Bill To Tighten Pension Rules Heading to House Floor |
August 13 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Says Vote on Crime Bill 'Failed the American People' |
August 13 - SECTION NOTES: House Authorizes Programs On Railroad Safety |
August 13 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Bill To Strengthen Child Support Enforcement |
August 13 - SECTION NOTES: Republicans State Objections As Bill on Lead Advances |
August 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Renewal Of Homeless Program |
August 13 - SOCIAL SECURITY: 10 Years Later, House Clears Bill To Make Agency Independent |
August 13 - Votes on Crime Bill |
August 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Funding for Crime Programs Heads to President |
August 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Home Loan Limits Rise Slightly In Final VA-HUD Bill |
August 20 - Clinton's Appeal to the People Carries Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Risks |
August 20 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending (chart) |
August 20 - Gun Ban 'Energized' NRA Members |
August 20 - Major Unfinished Business Upsets Members' Plans |
August 20 - Marathon Talks Produce New Anti-Crime Bill |
August 20 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Changes Policy on Cuba, Describes View of Crime Bill |
August 20 - Section Notes: House Passes Bill Giving More Control to Indians |
August 20 - Section Notes: Railroad Jobless Bill Passes House |
August 20 - The Crime Compromise |
August 20 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Health Care, Crime Bills Keep Congress Going |
August 27 - $30 Billion Anti-Crime Bill Heads to Clinton's Desk |
August 27 - HEALTH: Prospects for Major Overhaul Fade as Senate Goes Home |
August 27 - RECESS NOTES: Senate Passes Legislation On Child Nutrition |
August 27 - The Modified Crime Bill |
August 27 - VETERANS: Senate Approves Veterans Bills |
August 27 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Legislators Head Home For Shortened Recess |
September 10 - SPECIAL ISSUES REPORT: Housing |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: A SALVAGE OPERATION |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: An Opportunity Lost? |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Community Development Lending |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Crime Bill, Assault Weapons Ban |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Fiscal 1994 Supplements |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Government Mandates |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Immigration |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Insurance 'Redlining' |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Major Domestic Bills Had Bipartisan Support |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: National Highway System |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Social Security Independence |
September 10 - SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Welfare Overhaul |
September 17 - A Cleveland Cornucopia |
September 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Mixed Reaction To Barry Victory |
September 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Safeguards HUD Projects, Proving Earmarks' Popularity |
September 17 - CORRECTION: Housing Vote |
September 17 - Getting a Run for Their Money |
September 17 - Support Erodes as Key Backers Voice Little Hope for Passage |
September 17 - VA, HUD, Independent Agencies (chart) |
September 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Conference Report Makes a Dent in the Deficit |
September 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Amendments Stall D.C. Budget Just Short of Final Approval |
September 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Goes to Senate After House Adopts Report |
September 24 - Details of Bipartisan Bill |
September 24 - Education Bill Provisions |
September 24 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Bills on Child Abuse Payments, Sick Leave Passed by House |
September 24 - Funding Formula Compromise Holding Up Conferees |
September 24 - Labor-HHS-Education Spending (chart) |
September 24 - SECTION NOTES: Fire Prevention Measure Advances in House |
September 24 - VETERANS: Persian Gulf Syndrome Bill Approved by Senate Panel |
October 1 - A Health Care Chronology |
October 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: After Delay Over Amendments, Senate Clears Labor-HHS Bill |
October 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Earmarks Stay in VA-HUD Bill Cleared for Clinton |
October 1 - D.C. Bill Goes Down to the Wire Before Senate Stamps It OK |
October 1 - Demise of Health Care Overhaul Produced Big Winners and Losers |
October 1 - Details of the Housing Bills |
October 1 - House Gives Its Approval To School Aid Measure |
October 1 - HOUSING: Hill Trying To Build Flexibility Into HUD's Programs |
October 1 - Overhaul Issue Unlikely To Rest in Peace |
October 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Backs Indians' Right To Use Peyote in Religion |
October 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Measure On Vets' Job Rights |
October 1 - Senate Bill in Limbo |
October 1 - SOCIAL SECURITY: $1,000 Tax Threshold Backed For Domestic Workers |
October 8 - Assessing the 103rd Congress What Passed and What Didn't |
October 8 - Congress Clears 'Nanny Tax' Bill To 'Decriminalize Baby Sitting' |
October 8 - End of Session Marked By Partisan Stalemate |
October 8 - HEALTH: Deal Struck on Regulation Of Dietary Supplements |
October 8 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Trust Fund, Recognition Bills Gain House Approval |
October 8 - PENSIONS: Retiree Tax, Benefits Bills Move Forward in House |
October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Avoid Pipeline Ruptures Gets House Approval |
October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Child Nutrition Renewals Address New Guidelines |
October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Cleared Bill Restricts Changes In Child Support |
October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Minority Health Bill Closer to Passage |
October 8 - SECTION NOTES: Rights Commission Bill Heads to President |
October 8 - Senate Ends Prayer Filibuster, Clears $12.7 Billion Bill |
October 15 - Approaching an Overhaul |
October 15 - HUMAN SERVICES: Pieces of Child-Support Bill Salvaged at Session's End |
October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Restrict Pension Taxes Dies in the Senate |
October 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Bill To Extend Quake Preparedness Efforts |
October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Housing Program Renewal Bill Does Not Reach Senate Floor |
October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Maritime Safety Package Dies in Senate |
October 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Bill To Reauthorize Transportation Safety Board |
October 15 - Welfare Issue Finds Home On the Campaign Trail |
October 29 - SECTION NOTES: Illegal Immigrant Nanny Story Rocks Huffington Campaign |
October 29 - SECTION NOTES: LaRocco Admits Firm Paid To Settle Woman's Suit |
November 5 - Food Program Spending (chart) |
November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: 'School to Work' Transition |
November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Community Development Lending |
November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: District of Columbia |
November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Housing |
November 5 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Welfare Overhaul |
November 5 - Major Food Programs |
November 12 - HOUSE COMMITTEES: Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs |
November 12 - SENATE COMMITTEES: Indian Affairs |
November 19 - 'CONTRACT WITH AMERICA': House GOP Offers Descriptions Of Bills To Enact 'Contract' |
November 19 - Highlights of Welfare Proposal |
November 19 - REPUBLICAN AGENDA: Broad Plan Alters Nature Of Welfare Debate |
November 19 - REPUBLICAN AGENDA: GOP Says Proposals Show It Cares About Seniors |
November 19 - REPUBLICAN AGENDA: GOP Uses Tax Incentives To Foster Family Values |
December 3 - PROVISIONS: Community Development Banking Law |
December 10 - Parts of Welfare Plan Concern GOP Moderates, Governors |
December 10 - PROVISIONS: Crime Bill Provisions |
December 10 - Shaw's Concerns |
December 17 - PROVISIONS: Education Bill Provisions |
December 31 - Some Modest Proposals On Republican Table |