November 7 - Budget Negotiators Report Only Small Shifts |
November 7 - Problems Within Parties: Selling a Deal May Be as Difficult as Reaching One |
November 7 - Tax-and-Spending Trade: Reagan's Memory of 1982 'Deal' Haunts Budget Talks |
November 7 - Multiple Flash Points: Leaders Delay Battles on Omnibus Appropriations Bills |
November 7 - Bitterness Lingers From House Budget Votes |
November 7 - Adjournment Target Moving Into December |
November 7 - Ginsburg Hurt Badly by Marijuana Admission |
November 7 - Political Stability Masks Problems in El Salvador |
November 7 - Indirect Negotiations With Rebels: Reversal by Nicaraguan Leader Darkens Picture for Contra Aid |
November 7 - Split Politically, Panels to Issue Iran Report |
November 7 - Controversy Over ABM, SALT: White House, Conferees Near Deal on Arms Control Disputes |
November 7 - Will Carlucci Take a Softer Line Than Weinberger? At Pentagon and the NSC, Changes at the Top |
November 7 - Pentagon May Face Still More Pain: Defense Funding Takes an Unprecedented Cut |
November 7 - A 'New' Dole Bids Again for the White House |
November 7 - Is It Who's Up Front That Counts? Yes and No (chart) |
November 7 - The Ins and Outs of the '88 Campaign |
November 7 - Arizona's Mecham Is Recall Target |
November 7 - Gubernatorial Results: Democrats Win in Mississippi and Kentucky |
November 7 - Senate Panel Approves Farm-Credit Bailout |
November 7 - Provisions of Senate Panel's Farm-Credit Bill |
November 7 - Bill Revises Deregulation Law: House Panel on Shippers' Side In Dispute Over Railroad Rates |
November 7 - Railroads, Shippers Steamed Up Over Rewrite |
November 7 - Effects of 1930 Law Color Debate on Trade Bill |
November 7 - Leadership Urges Action This Year: Trade Conferees Inch Ahead While Avoiding Major Issues |
November 7 - President Lifts Computer Chip Sanctions |
November 7 - U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement Signed |
November 7 - Research, Manpower and Vaccine Reauthorizations: Omnibus Health-Programs Bill Cleared for President Reagan |
November 7 - The Transition: Preparing for Next President |
November 7 - 'Windfall Profits' Tax Headed for Extinction |
November 7 - Appropriations Bill Stalled: Nevada Senator Filibusters Nuclear-Waste Plan |
November 7 - House Passes Bill Providing Gas-Royalty Refunds |
November 7 - Panel Approves Endangered-Species Legislation |
November 7 - Senate Ratifies Ocean-Pollution Treaty |
November 7 - Senate Votes to Extend Special-Prosecutor Law |
November 7 - Semiconductor-Chip Bill Clears |
November 7 - Senate Moves to Guarantee Retiree Benefits |
November 7 - No Trouble Seen for McLaughlin Nomination |
November 7 - Exceptions OK'd for Security-Related Jobs: House Bars Private Employers From Using Lie-Detector Tests |
November 7 - Senate Passes Bill to Combat Family Violence |
November 7 - Shaping the Trade Bill |
November 7 - Trade, Environment Top September Interests |
November 7 - September 1987 Lobby Registrations: Businesses and Corporations |
November 7 - September 1987 Lobby Registrations: Foreign Governments |
November 7 - September 1987 Lobby Registrations: Interest Groups |
November 7 - September 1987 Lobby Registrations: Labor Organizations |
November 7 - September 1987 Lobby Registrations: State and Local Governments |
November 7 - September 1987 Lobby Registrations: Trade Associations |
November 7 - September 1987 Lobby Registrations: Miscellaneous |
November 7 - House Passes HMO Bill |
November 7 - Sen. Proxmire Outlines Banking Overhaul |
November 7 - House Approves Air-Safety Bill |
November 7 - Housing Authorization Agreement in Sight |
November 7 - Rep. Biaggi Sentenced to 2.5 Years, $500,000 Fine |
November 7 - Rep. Shays Receives Committee Assignments |
November 7 - House Panel OKs Mail-Order Sales-Tax Bill |
November 7 - Rail-Safety Bill Passed by Senate |
November 7 - Senate Panel OKs Viets Nomination - Again |
November 7 - Senate Passes Bill on VA Home-Loan Program |
November 7 - Senate Passes Maritime Programs Bill |
November 14 - Deficit Agreement Eludes Summit Negotiators |
November 14 - Lobbying the Summit: Indirect but Vigorous |
November 14 - Cautious Senate Wants to Like Judge Kennedy |
November 14 - Major Decisions of Judge Anthony Kennedy |
November 14 - Nicaragua Peace Process Moves to Capitol Hill |
November 14 - Frustration With Reagan Policy in South Africa: Apartheid Foes Look to New Sanctions in 1988 |
November 14 - Reagan Joins Drive to Add Cabinet Chair for VA |
November 14 - Accord in Sight on Defense Authorization |
November 14 - Hard Choices on the Pentagon's Budget... ...Bring Down Two Attack-Plane Programs |
November 14 - Speedy Confirmation Expected: Carlucci Brings a Softer Tone To Hill Discussions of Defense |
November 14 - Conservatives Take Aim at New Treaty: Arms Controllers Line Up With Reagan on INF |
November 14 - House Leadership Races Turn Into Marathons |
November 14 - Rep. Ed Jenkins: He Who Hesitates... |
November 14 - Cases Involve Reps. Biaggi, Sundquist: Legal Protections for Members Challenged by Court Decisions |
November 14 - House Leaders Still Pressing Welfare Revision |
November 14 - Rep. Tom Downey: Stung But Not Stymied |
November 14 - Senate OKs Older-Americans Bill |
November 14 - Revision of Minority Contracting Program OK'd |
November 14 - Revised Family-Leave Bill Ready for Action |
November 14 - Tax Rates Linked to Layoff Experience: House Passes Bill to Shore Up Deficit-Plagued Rail Funds |
November 14 - Export Controls Hang in Balance: Trade-Bill Conferees Search For Toshiba-Ban Compromise |
November 14 - House Rejects Bid to Kill Trade Amendment |
November 14 - Nevada Struggling to Fend Off Nuclear Dump |
November 14 - Environment Notes: House, Senate Take Aim on Tin-Based Boat Paints |
November 14 - House Adopts Report 391-1: $15 Billion Housing Agreement Stalled by Senate Budget Fight |
November 14 - Rep. Crane: 'Spitting in the Wind' |
November 14 - Major Provisions of Housing Authorization Bill |
November 14 - Senate Labor OKs Family-Planning Legislation |
November 14 - Bill Seeks to Reduce Infant Mortality |
November 14 - House Passes Bill to Help Fight Price Fixing |
November 14 - Special Primary Dec. 3: Tennesseans Ply Their Wares To a Battle-Weary 5th District |
November 14 - House Again Asks to Close Polls Uniformly |
November 14 - Illinois' Gray Declares Retirement (chart) |
November 14 - Ginsburg: Out of the Running |
November 14 - Reagan Nominates Kennedy to Fill Court Seat |
November 14 - Excerpts From Nov. 9 OAS Address: Reagan Says Peace Plan Lags in Nicaragua |
November 14 - Ortega Vows to Comply With Peace Plan |
November 14 - Conferees Agree on Intelligence Authorization |
November 14 - House Urges Use of Crop Land for Wildlife |
November 14 - Reagan Seeks Crackdown on Child Pornography |
November 14 - Court Says IRS Can Resist FOIA Requests |
November 14 - Court to Rule on 1981 'Chastity Act' |
November 14 - Trade Deficit Shrinks; Market Turns Up |
November 21 - Report Deals Another Blow to Reagan Record |
November 21 - The Hill Committees' Verdict: Highlights |
November 21 - The 'Enterprise': Report Fleshes Out the Story of Shady Arms Dealings |
November 21 - Cash Flow for the Secord-Hakim 'Enterprise' (chart) |
November 21 - Shoring Up Reagan: Republicans' Dissent Decries 'Hysterical Conclusions' |
November 21 - Summit Deal Fails to Forestall Automatic Cuts |
November 21 - Budget Summit Agreement (chart) |
November 21 - House Republicans See Insult Piled on Injury |
November 21 - Controversy Shoots Down Gorbachev Speech |
November 21 - Final Amount Depends on Budget Summit: Defense Authorization Clears As Arms Control Battles Fade |
November 21 - Action May Slow Legislation: Hill Critics Go After EPA Plan To Relax Clean-Air Deadlines |
November 21 - Shultz, Wright: A Truce on Contra Diplomacy |
November 21 - Senate Action Seen as Unlikely: House Takes Up Foreign Aid Authorization Bill |
November 21 - Bulk of Provisions Are Secret: Intelligence Bill Includes Steps For a Closer Watch on Soviets |
November 21 - Pepper Wins a Round on Long-Term Care Bill |
November 21 - Debate Postponed Until December: Once-Burned House Leaders Shy Away From Welfare Fight |
November 21 - Rep. Carper Unveils His Own Welfare Plan |
November 21 - Major Provisions, Older Americans Act Renewal |
November 21 - Past Bills Have Failed: Lawmakers Take Plunge Again On Product-Liability Measure |
November 21 - All-Terrain Vehicles Targeted: Panels Try to Bolster Consumer Safety Board |
November 21 - More Access to Programming: Senate Committee OKs Plan To Aid Satellite-Dish Owners |
November 21 - Panel Approves Truck Safety Bill |
November 21 - Bad Feelings Smoothed Over: Senate Panel Approves Burnley to Head DOT |
November 21 - 'Compromise' Wins Few Republican Friends: Revised Family-Leave Measure OK'd by Divided House Panel |
November 21 - House Passes Bill Overhauling 1939 Hatch Act |
November 21 - Bigger Loans, Fewer Foreclosures: House Passes Bill Revising VA-Loan Program |
November 21 - House Votes Cabinet Chair for the VA |
November 21 - Backers Regroup to Save Bill: Housing Agreement Stymied By Senate Budget Maneuvers |
November 21 - Fiscal 1988 Energy/Water Funding (chart) |
November 21 - Senate Passes Energy and Water Spending Bill |
November 21 - Ruling Leaves 'Insider Trading' Undefined |
November 21 - Excerpts From Majority Report: 'Secrecy, Deception, Disdain' Ruled Iran-Contra Policies |
November 21 - Excerpts From Minority View: Minority Lambastes Majority's 'Political Bias' |
November 21 - Congress Clears SEC Reauthorization |
November 21 - Greenspan Urges Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act |
November 21 - Carlucci Confirmed as Secretary of Defense |
November 21 - House Committee OKs Endangered Species Bill |
November 21 - House Passes NOAA Reauthorization |
November 21 - Kennedy Confirmation Hearings to Start Dec. 14 |
November 21 - Senate OKs Conference Report on Counsel Law |
November 21 - Senate Panel OKs Probe of Bureau of Indian Affairs |
November 21 - House Ethics Holds Closed Hearings on Murphy |
November 21 - Rep. Brown Quits Intelligence Panel in Protest |
November 21 - Rep. Duncan Sued by FSLIC in Bank Case |
November 21 - Trade Conferees OK Some Education Provisions |
November 28 - Gore's Big Risk: Center-Right May Not Show |
November 28 - Southern Democrats: |
November 28 - Gore's No Nunn, But He Catches South's Eye |
November 28 - Lungren Named California Treasurer |
November 28 - INF Pact to Sweeten Reagan-Gorbachev Summit |
November 28 - U.S.-Soviet Summits of the Past (chart) |
November 28 - Regional Issues: Also on the Summit Agenda: Afghan, Persian Gulf Conflicts |
November 28 - Turning Budget Pact Into Law Won't Be Easy |
November 28 - Rostenkowski on GOP Role: Never Again |
November 28 - First Test for Summit Plan: Budget Deal Adds to Problems Facing Omnibus Funding Bill |
November 28 - Senate to Start Action on Tax-Raising Bill... ...While House Will Wait for Conference |
November 28 - Budget Action Takes Precedence: New Medicare Cuts May Delay Catastrophic-Insurance Bill |
November 28 - Reagan Takes Fight on Farm Subsidies Abroad |
November 28 - Farm Subsidies: A Worldwide Phenomenon |
November 28 - Senate Panel Prepares to Debate Bank Powers |
November 28 - Veto Threat, House Position May Cause Delay: Senators Must Move Quickly To Salvage Housing Measure |
November 28 - Congress Tightens, Reshapes Defense Budget |
November 28 - Authorizations for Defense: A Comparison |
November 28 - Special-Prosecutor Reauthorization Provisions |
November 28 - Armed Services May Hold Hearing on Gen. Powell |
November 28 - Rep. Lott Protests Waivers of Points of Order |
November 28 - Sentencing Guidelines Challenged in Court |
November 28 - Democratic Fields Take Shape in Three States |
November 28 - Harmonized Tariff Schedule to Be Pushed |
November 28 - Two Drop Out in Tennessee 5th |
November 28 - Few Late-Bloomers in '88 Presidential Field |