 April 1 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Labor Bills in Senate Face Floor Action |
| April 1 - CONGRESS: |
| April 1 - Inflation Is With Us Again, But Is the Cure Worse? |
| April 1 - Signposts for Inflation-Watchers (chart) |
| April 1 - THE BUDGET: 'Non-Tax' Revenue Option Hinted |
| April 1 - Acid-Rain Controls Advance On Both Sides of Aisle |
| April 1 - Congress Likes Crop Insurance, But Farmers Don't Agree |
| April 1 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Volcker Panel Seeks to Improve Top Workers' Pay, Status |
| April 1 - Coalition Seeks to Overcome Rural Health-Care Woes |
| April 1 - Justices Weigh Age Minimum For Capital Punishment |
| April 1 - FBI Background Investigations Draw Intensified Scrutiny |
| April 1 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Sullivan to Keep Severance Pay |
| April 1 - Political Struggles Over SDI Set to Enter New Phase |
| April 1 - Phase-One Scenarios (chart) |
| April 1 - Expectations Await Arrival Of Israeli Leader Shamir |
| April 1 - Key Difference: Talking to the PLO |
| April 1 - Judge Refuses to Compel Testimony by Reagan |
| April 1 - NICARAGUA: President's Contra-Aid Deal Still Faces Small Hitches |
| April 1 - House Panel Taking a Look At Night Vision Goggles |
| April 1 - SECTION NOTES: B-1B Bomber Fleet Grounded After Wing Mishap |
| April 1 - SECTION NOTES: Iraq Will Pay $27.3 Million To Kin of Stark Victims |
| April 1 - SECTION NOTES: U.S.-Japanese Talks Stall, But Jet Deal's Still On |
| April 1 - Long's Victory Means Shaky Start for GOP Strategy |
| April 1 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Jill Long, D-Ind. (4) |
| April 1 - Fund-Raising Gap Narrows Between Democrats, GOP |
| April 1 - Political Party Committee |
| April 1 - SECTION NOTES: Former Rep. Chappell Dies of Cancer |
| April 1 - SECTION NOTES: Wyoming Democrats Pick Vinich |
| April 1 - PROVISIONS: House Minimum-Wage Bill Has $4.55/Hour Rate |
| April 1 - DECEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Corporations and Businesses |
| April 1 - DECEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Interest Groups |
| April 1 - DECEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Labor Organization |
| April 1 - DECEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Miscellaneous |
| April 1 - DECEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: State, Local and Other Governments |
| April 1 - DECEMBER 1988 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Trade Associations |
| April 1 - Politics of Congress In the Age of TV |
| April 8 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Activity to Increase In Both Houses |
| April 8 - Speaker Goes on Offensive As Inquiry Nears End |
| April 8 - Never Alone in the Lone Star State |
| April 8 - Did Book Deal Skirt Limits? |
| April 8 - The Mallick Issue |
| April 8 - Gingrich Lieutenants Balance Political Style and Tactics |
| April 8 - Banking Panels Get Started On Shaping Bailout Bill |
| April 8 - Key Thrift Issues Facing Congress |
| April 8 - Supplemental Request Swells To $4.6 Billion in Markup |
| April 8 - Fiscal 1989 Supplemental Appropriations (chart) |
| April 8 - THE BUDGET: White House, Hill Talks Focus On Setting Broad Targets |
| April 8 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Brady Plan Faces Hurdles On Hill and Abroad |
| April 8 - Spill May Halt Drilling Bill, Help Liability Efforts |
| April 8 - ENERGY: House Panel OKs Gas Decontrol |
| April 8 - Obscure Trigger-Tax Provision Imperils Aviation Budget |
| April 8 - Job-Training Act, Under Attack, |
| April 8 - National Performance Standards (chart) |
| April 8 - Children's TV Bill Is Marked Up |
| April 8 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Fairness Doctrine Has Markup, Though Veto Is Threatened |
| April 8 - SECTION NOTES: Action on Eastern Airlines Delayed Amid Sale Plan |
| April 8 - SECTION NOTES: Minimum-Wage Debate Begins in Senate |
| April 8 - SECTION NOTES: Rostenkowski Relents On Section 89 |
| April 8 - Abortion Protagonists Gird For Crucial Court Test |
| April 8 - Supreme Court Abortion Rulings |
| April 8 - Battles on Hill Likely to Continue |
| April 8 - SUPREME COURT: Drug Enforcement Wins New Boost |
| April 8 - Drop in U.S. Infant Mortality Goal of New Legislation |
| April 8 - Lawmakers Seek Research Into Best Medical Procedures |
| April 8 - Budget Constraints May Pinch Programs for the Disabled |
| April 8 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Education Proposal Draws Fire on Hill |
| April 8 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Widens Import Ban On Assault Weapons |
| April 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes Rewards For 'Whistleblowers' |
| April 8 - Little Clear Progress Seen In Wake of Meetings |
| April 8 - Egypt Caught in Fiscal Tight Spot |
| April 8 - Baker Urges Congress to Pass A Simple Contra-Aid Bill |
| April 8 - Gorbachev Yields No Ground Yet |
| April 8 - North's Testimony, Document Show Top-Level Role in Aid |
| April 8 - Department's No. 2 Man Given Plaudits - and Admonition |
| April 8 - Senators Question Savings To Be Realized by List |
| April 8 - DRUG INTERDICTION: Sanctions Facing Uphill Battle |
| April 8 - REFUGEE QUOTAS: Bush Team Is Moving to Open Gates for Soviet Emigres |
| April 8 - Democrat's 3rd District Win Deals Blow to GOP Plans |
| April 8 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Glen Browder, D-Ala. (3) |
| April 8 - ELECTION LAW: Uniform Poll-Closing Measure Again Approved by House |
| April 8 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Alaska Oil Spill Top Concern At Bush's Press Briefing |
| April 8 - SENATE VOTES 27-28 |
| April 8 - HOUSE VOTES 17-18 |
| April 8 - Switching to the GOP Is a Tricky Game |
| April 15 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Ethics Panel to Issue Jim Wright Report |
| April 15 - Speaker Draws Battle Lines In Fight for Political Life |
| April 15 - The Process Unfolds |
| April 15 - The Publishing World |
| April 15 - Of Party Fealty - And Revenge |
| April 15 - Car, Cash, Condo: The Mallick Connection |
| April 15 - Chronology of an Investigation |
| April 15 - ETHICS: Coelho Investment Under Scrutiny |
| April 15 - REPUBLICANS: Gingrich Forced to Defensive By Democratic Allegations |
| April 15 - Bush Bailout Plan Advances On Both Sides of the Hill |
| April 15 - Everyone's a Pepper |
| April 15 - Capital Standards: A Key Battle |
| April 15 - Negotiators Agree on Outlines |
| April 15 - Budget Plan Entails Tax Bill, But Details Are Up in Air |
| April 15 - Panel Issues Tax Options for LBOs |
| April 15 - Panel Considers New Benefits For Caribbean Imports |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: Hills Reports on GATT Talks |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: Rostenkowski Receives Steel Quota Report |
| April 15 - For Regional Dairy Issues, |
| April 15 - Minimum Wage Passes Senate, Heads to Bargaining Table |
| April 15 - FEDERAL WORKERS: Hatch Act Changes Voted by Panel |
| April 15 - LABOR: Parental-Leave Bill Moves Forward |
| April 15 - Congress Still Moving Quickly To Decontrol Gas Prices |
| April 15 - FEDERAL WORKERS: Bush's Package on Ethics, Pay Seeks Uniform Standards |
| April 15 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Broadcasting Bills Head For Floor |
| April 15 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Bush, Congress Launch Efforts To Fight Crime, Drug Crisis |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: 'Whistleblower' Bill Signed Into Law |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: President Nominates Truly As Head of NASA |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: Rostenkowski Introduces Section 89 Changes |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: Tongass Forest Bill Is Marked Up |
| April 15 - Colleges and Universities Give Little but Advice |
| April 15 - 1987-88 Contributions by |
| April 15 - Honoraria Received in 1987 |
| April 15 - Kennedy, Waxman Introduce |
| April 15 - TRAUMA CARE: House Panel OKs Grant Program |
| April 15 - HEALTH: Catastrophic-Insurance Law Survives First Challenge |
| April 15 - Hastings Wants Taxpayers To Pay for His Defense |
| April 15 - Questions, Criticism Surround Apparent Choice of Lucas |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Liability Bills |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Judiciary OKs Bill on TV Violence |
| April 15 - Hill Gives Contra Package Bipartisan Launching |
| April 15 - Tough Road to 'Free' Elections |
| April 15 - U.S. Aid to Contras |
| April 15 - Contra-Aid Provisions |
| April 15 - Letters on Contra Aid |
| April 15 - Cristiani Asks U.S. Officialdom For Benefit of the Doubt |
| April 15 - Bipartisan Agreement Keeps A Routine Bill Just That |
| April 15 - State Department Funds (chart) |
| April 15 - Loosening the Aid Reins |
| April 15 - DRUG INTERDICTION: Senators Opting for Patience Over Punishing Mexico |
| April 15 - North Ends Six Days on Stand As Lawyers Near Wrap-Up |
| April 15 - BASE CLOSINGS: Opponents Wage Uphill Battle |
| April 15 - Republican Strategy at Stake In Special At-Large Race |
| April 15 - JIM WRIGHT STATEMENT: Speaker Defends Conduct, Vows to Fight Critics |
| April 15 - JOINT FISCAL AGREEMENT: White House, Congress Reach Bipartisan Budget Accord |
| April 15 - HIGHLIGHTS: Thrift Rescue Plan Approved By Senate Banking Panel |
| April 15 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: President, Congress And Power Politics |
| April 22 - WHAT'S AHEAD: '89 Supplemental Bill Goes Before House |
| April 22 - Fate of Embattled Speaker Shifts to Political Realm |
| April 22 - North Sabine Lake Deal |
| April 22 - Formulating Ground Rules |
| April 22 - Wright Allies Keep Low Profile Amid Debate Over Ethics |
| April 22 - Standing by Their Man (chart) |
| April 22 - Assessing a Day's Work |
| April 22 - Dissenters From the Old School |
| April 22 - Ethics Committee Votes Were Divided On Wright's Book Deals, 'Interest' Issue |
| April 22 - Bush Plan Passes Senate Largely Unscathed |
| April 22 - Winners and Losers in the Struggle To Craft a Thrift-Bailout Bill |
| April 22 - Bipartisan Pact Lets Everyone |
| April 22 - FY '90 Budget Resolution by Function (chart) |
| April 22 - Reconciliation Instructions (chart) |
| April 22 - Fiscal 1989 Supplemental Bill Boosted to $4.74 Billion |
| April 22 - TAXES: |
| April 22 - THE ECONOMY: Panel Stresses Consensus On State of Economy |
| April 22 - Clean-Air Package, Part I: Toxic Air Pollutants |
| April 22 - LABOR: Lawmakers Seek to Discourage Company Pension Raiders |
| April 22 - Lawmakers Seeking to Fortify Older Workers' Protection |
| April 22 - Parental, Medical Leave Bill Gets Markup in Senate |
| April 22 - FEDERAL WORKERS: House OKs Easing Hatch Act Curbs |
| April 22 - TRANSPORTATION: Highway, Rail Bills Are Marked Up |
| April 22 - AGRICULTURE: $1.9 Billion Farm-Budget Cut, But How Much Is 'Real'? |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Committee Authorizes Consumer Agency |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Gas-Price Decontrol Passed by House |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Global-Change Research Voted by Panel |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Authorization For Maritime Agencies |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Fairness Doctrine |
| April 22 - ABA's Role Under Scrutiny In High Court, Senate |
| April 22 - SUPREME COURT: Justices Asked to Impose Lid On Punitive-Damage Sums |
| April 22 - GUN CONTROL: Panel Moves Bills to Prohibit Sales of Assault Weapons |
| April 22 - IMPEACHMENT: Hastings Trial Set To Start July 10 |
| April 22 - IMMIGRATION: Revision of McCarthy-Era Law OK'd by House Subcommittee |
| April 22 - SUPREME COURT: Court Ducks Ruling On Secrecy Forms |
| April 22 - Surtax Reduction a Possibility, But Critics Demand Repeal |
| April 22 - HUMAN SERVICES: Consensus Grows on Dual Path To Boosting Child-Care Aid |
| April 22 - 'Earmark' Tradition Shows Staying Power on Hill |
| April 22 - ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: New Aid Plan for Philippines Advances in House Panel |
| April 22 - LATIN AMERICA: Controversies on Aid Programs Are Sidestepped - for Now |
| April 22 - Bush Offers Trade Benefits As Reward for Reforms |
| April 22 - North Jury Begins Deliberating On Lying, Other Charges |
| April 22 - Chronology of the North Case |
| April 22 - DRUG INTERDICTION: Kerry Is Seeking to Tighten Rules on Cooperation |
| April 22 - Defense Spending Decisions Sure to Stir Controversy |
| April 22 - THE PENTAGON: Bush Team: Records Bespeak Pragmatism, Not Ideology |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: House Vote Clears the Way For Base Closings |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Managua Election 'Reforms' Disappoint Bush Team |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Two Envoy Nominees Face Iran-Contra Queries |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Two Key Hill Members Weigh In On Egypt Aid Freeze |
| April 22 - COLORADO: Rep. Brown Leads Republicans In Race for Senate Seat |
| April 22 - GUBERNATORIAL RACES: GOP Primary Slates Crowded In New Jersey, Virginia |
| April 22 - PROVISIONS: Minimum-Wage Bills: Key Differences |
| April 22 - JANUARY 1989 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Corporations and Businesses |
| April 22 - JANUARY 1989 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Foreign Governments |
| April 22 - JANUARY 1989 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Interest Groups |
| April 22 - JANUARY 1989 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Labor Organization |
| April 22 - JANUARY 1989 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: State, Local and Other Governments |
| April 22 - JANUARY 1989 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Trade Associations |
| April 22 - JANUARY 1989 LOBBY REGISTRATIONS: Miscellaneous |
| April 22 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: District-Map Fluidity And Bob Whittaker |
| April 29 - PROVISIONS: Senate Thrift-Bailout Bill Follows Bush Outline |
| April 29 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Broader Questions Behind Jim Wright |
| April 29 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Resolutions On Both Floors |
| April 29 - New Questions, Legal Fight Stall Wright Proceedings |
| April 29 - Gingrich Denies His Book Deal Was Similar to Speaker's |
| April 29 - Ethics Cases Over the Years |
| April 29 - Democrats Stage a Retreat On FY '89 Supplemental |
| April 29 - FY1989 Supplemental: Mandatory |
| April 29 - House Panel Falls Into Line Behind Bipartisan Deal |
| April 29 - Fiscal 1990 Budget Resolution (chart) |
| April 29 - Domestic Discretionary Spending (chart) |
| April 29 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Rules for Capital Stiffened By House Banking Panel |
| April 29 - A Tough Choice on New Thrift Rules |
| April 29 - TRADE: Fight on Caribbean Imports Gives Rise to Tax Idea |
| April 29 - Dispute Flares Over Ethanol Imports |
| April 29 - Can Anderson Bridge Gap To Fill His Wider Role? |
| April 29 - California's Man of Stone |
| April 29 - Congress Divided on Solutions To Capital's Crime Wave |
| April 29 - 700 More Cops and a Jail |
| April 29 - FEDERAL WORKERS: Ethics Under Study By House Panels |
| April 29 - Utah's Nuclear Fusion Scheme May Create Fission on Hill |
| April 29 - Coal-Slurry Bill Is Marked Up, But Opposition Still Strong |
| April 29 - MARINE/FISHERIES: Conservation Bills Voted by House |
| April 29 - AVIATION: Security Bill, Probe Unsettling House |
| April 29 - COMMERCE: Phone-Sale Scams Target of Panel |
| April 29 - SECTION NOTES: 'Baby Bell' Deregulation Introduced in House |
| April 29 - SECTION NOTES: Nuclear Regulatory Body Told to Pay Own Way |
| April 29 - SECTION NOTES: Parental-Leave Measure Clears Final Panel |
| April 29 - Major Health-Policy Changes |
| April 29 - A Reader's Guide to the 'Game' |
| April 29 - Bush, Rostenkowski Say 'No' To a Medicare Surtax Cut |
| April 29 - HEALTH: Report Finds Links Between Referrals, Lab Billings |
| April 29 - Vocational-Training Measure Approved by House Panel |
| April 29 - Democrats Take a Swipe at OMB |
| April 29 - Justices Give Few Clues In Key Abortion Case |
| April 29 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Nominates Lucas For Top Rights Job |
| April 29 - SECTION NOTES: House Committee Votes To Impeach Judge |
| April 29 - SECTION NOTES: Law-Enforcement Liability, Military Malpractice |
| April 29 - Bush's Revisions May Augur Policy Shifts in Future |
| April 29 - MX: Ballistic Issue for Democrats |
| April 29 - Winners and Losers Among Programs In Bush's New Budget for Pentagon |
| April 29 - Deal Reached on FS-X |
| April 29 - FOREIGN AID: Africa Subcommittee Attaches Strings to Some Programs |
| April 29 - Rigged Elections Could Bring U.S.-Noriega Rift to Head |
| April 29 - Hill Presses Administration Over Policy on Emigres |
| April 29 - Members Request Hill Inquiry On North Trial Documents |
| April 29 - Republicans Breathe Easier After Wyoming Victory |
| April 29 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Craig Thomas, R-Wyo. (At Large) |
| April 29 - ETHICS: Committee Lists Speaker's Alleged Violations |
| April 29 - Phelan's Report Accuses Wright On More Than 100 Counts |
