May 6 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Conferees to Meet On '90 Budget |
May 6 - Rules of Political Navigation Altered by Bush Centrism |
May 6 - Ethics Issue Consumes House As Charges, Stories Mount |
May 6 - House Banking's Bailout Bill Toughens Rules for S and Ls |
May 6 - The Two Bills Compared |
May 6 - House, Senate Adopt Versions Of $1.17 Trillion Plan |
May 6 - $3.12 Trillion Debt |
May 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Revived Bill May Return to House |
May 6 - House Reconciliation Instructions (chart) |
May 6 - Caribbean Import Bill OK'd With a Deal on Ethanol |
May 6 - SECTION NOTE: Tough Line on Trade Urged by Members |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Trade Bill Credited On Exchange Rates |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Plans Tax Hearings |
May 6 - Section 89 Changes Debated Before Ways and Means |
May 6 - LaFalce: Engineering the U-Turn |
May 6 - Conferees Agree on Wage Bill, But Veto Still Anticipated |
May 6 - FEDERAL WORKERS: Rehnquist Argues For Pay Raise |
May 6 - Franking: Free Constitutions Killed by House |
May 6 - House Committee Authorizes Funding for Air Security |
May 6 - 'Cats and Dogs' Fight Over Funds |
May 6 - Markup of Land-Purchase Bill Prompts Walkout by GOP |
May 6 - ENERGY: Nuclear Regulators Blasted by Panel |
May 6 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Congress Seeks Ways to Raise Fuel-Efficiency Standards |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Promises HDTV Legislation |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes Authorization For Merchant Marine |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Wheat Sale to Soviets Approved by Bush |
May 6 - Expiring Federal Subsidies Raise a Policy Dilemma |
May 6 - Expiring Section 8 Rent-Subsidy Contracts (chart) |
May 6 - Key Senators Remain at Odds Over Immigration Reform |
May 6 - Projected Total Immigration to United States |
May 6 - Assault-Weapon Import Ban Endorsed by House Panel |
May 6 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Panel Votes to Renew VISTA, Other Programs |
May 6 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Starr Confirmation Appears Likely |
May 6 - Germans' Stance on Missiles Puts Bush in Tight Spot |
May 6 - Old Issue, New Political Equation (chart) |
May 6 - Where the Bombs Are: |
May 6 - North Verdict Ends Chapter, But Story Continues On |
May 6 - Administration, House Panel Seek Deal on Restrictions |
May 6 - Bush Administration Officials Defend Accord With Japan |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Will Oppose New Pretoria Sanctions |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Team Shifts Slightly On Chemical Weapons |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Hill to the WHO: Don't Admit the PLO |
May 6 - Is Competition in Elections Becoming Obsolete? |
May 6 - Republican Share (chart) |
May 6 - Counting the Vote: Nationwide |
May 6 - Few Close Calls (chart) |
May 6 - 1988 GOP House/Presidential Vote: |
May 6 - ELECTIONS: Registration Bill Sent to House |
May 6 - PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Bush Seeks 'New Partnership' On Central America Policy |
May 6 - Senate and House Budget Assumptions Compared |
May 6 - THE 1988 ELECTIONS: |
May 6 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Republican Ambitions In a 'Dead-Ball' Era |
May 13 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Round One Nears End On Minimum Wage |
May 13 - Wright Lawyers Battle Back But Outlook Is Gloomy |
May 13 - Disquieting Past |
May 13 - Revising Non-Profit Rules: A No-Win Undertaking |
May 13 - Small Business Woes |
May 13 - What Is a Charity? The Law Is Vague And It's Likely It Will Stay That Way |
May 13 - Panel Hands Bush a Setback On Financing of Bailout |
May 13 - A Voice of Caution on the Bailout |
May 13 - Agreement on Fiscal 1990 Plan Puts Off Tough Decisions |
May 13 - Domestic Discretionary Spending (chart) |
May 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Bill Remains Stalled |
May 13 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Funding Sought For IDB |
May 13 - Shrinking U.S. Markets (chart) |
May 13 - Washington Policy on R and D Proving Divisive Issue |
May 13 - Taking Technology Home |
May 13 - Two Views of Sematech |
May 13 - LABOR: House OKs Wage-Floor Rise, But Not by Two-Thirds |
May 13 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: OMB's Tampering of Testimony Hurts Bush's Credibility |
May 13 - Smog Bill Toughens Standards For Car, Truck Emissions |
May 13 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Agency Paralysis Blamed for Oil Theft on Tribal Land |
May 13 - ENERGY: Filibuster Warning On Gas-Price Bill |
May 13 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Limits Land 'Giveaway' |
May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Proposes Oil-Spill Cleanup Fund |
May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Drug Testing Voted For Rail Workers |
May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Agrees to Delay New Ethics Rules |
May 13 - VETERANS: Benefits Changes Get Markup |
May 13 - Congress Again Scrutinizes |
May 13 - Anti-Bias Shield for Disabled Has Strong Support Base |
May 13 - Major Civil Rights Laws |
May 13 - AIDS: Covered Indirectly |
May 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Raises Limit On Settlements |
May 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Impeachment of Judge Nixon Sets Up 2nd Senate Trial |
May 13 - House Overwhelmingly Passes Vocational-Training Bill |
May 13 - Members of Congress Deplore Influence-Peddling at HUD |
May 13 - HEALTH: Family-Planning Battle Flares In Senate, Federal Courts |
May 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: ABA, Thornburgh Near an Accord |
May 13 - Crisis Gives Bush a Lesson In the Limits of Power |
May 13 - A Chronology of Events |
May 13 - Congress Is Using Aid as a Lever To Protest Rights Abuses |
May 13 - Somalia and the Sudan: Two Countries Plagued by Poverty, Famine and War |
May 13 - Bush's Cuts Would Take Away Some Hometown Bacon |
May 13 - How the Budget Pie Was Sliced (chart) |
May 13 - TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE: Critics of U.S.-Japan Jet Pact Unlikely to Block Venture |
May 13 - Former Bush Adviser Gregg Grilled on Contra Role |
May 13 - SECTION NOTES: PLO Bid to Join the WHO Continues to Rile Hill |
May 13 - SECTION NOTES: President Weighs Easing Jackson-Vanik Curbs |
May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Declines to Punish Bahamas on Drug Issue |
May 13 - ELECTIONS: Jontz, Campbell Decide to Pass On Campaigns for Senate |
May 13 - VOTING: Minority Leaders: Ease Registration |
May 13 - EDUCATION: Vocational-Training Programs Are Overhauled by House |
May 13 - TAX OPTIONS: Panel Draft Would Tighten Rules for Non-Profits |
May 13 - Bush Deplores Noriega Regime, Announces U.S. Response |
May 13 - CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT: Joint Leaders Praise President On Actions Against Panama |
May 13 - House Votes 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52 |
May 13 - Senate Vote 65 |
May 13 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Political Legacy Of 1970s Colorado |
May 20 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Speaker's Attorneys Seek Dismissal |
May 20 - Confusion, Tension, Despair: Wright Case Takes Its Toll |
May 20 - ETHICS: Televised Hearing on Motion Pivotal to Wright's Fate |
May 20 - Coelho Sends Panel Analysis Of 'Junk Bond' Deal |
May 20 - U.S. Plies Uncharted Waters In Effort to Open Markets |
May 20 - Europeans Cite the U.S. |
May 20 - Six Countries Are Likeliest Candidates For Inclusion on Trade 'Priority' List |
May 20 - 'Super 301' Process: How it Works |
May 20 - $1.17 Trillion Fiscal 1990 Plan Clears House, Senate |
May 20 - Reconciliation Instructions (chart) |
May 20 - Fiscal 1990 Budget Resolution (chart) |
May 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Turns Partisan As VA Gets Separate Bill |
May 20 - Ways and Means Ratifies Plan To Put Bailout On Budget |
May 20 - BANKING: Truth-in-Savings Bill Revived |
May 20 - SECURITIES: SEC Chief Plans To Leave Post |
May 20 - SECURITIES: High Court Arbitration Ruling Could Revive Investors' Bill |
May 20 - Deadlock Likely to Continue |
May 20 - ENERGY: Senate Panel OKs Gas-Price Bill |
May 20 - ENVIRONMENT: Senators Introduce Bill to Ban Alar |
May 20 - Hill Repairing Revolving Door, While Top Employees Exit |
May 20 - VETERANS: Benefits Changes Voted by Panel |
May 20 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Disputed Museum Gets Go-Ahead |
May 20 - LABOR: Wage-Floor Boost Heads For Veto |
May 20 - AGRICULTURE: New Rural-Development Effort Has Strong Senate Support |
May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Airport Noise Abatement Supported by House |
May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Emergency-Exit Seating Voted for Blind |
May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Nation's Oil Stockpile May Be Enlarged |
May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Liability Coverage For Space-Shuttle Project |
May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes $10 Million For Children's TV |
May 20 - Draft Welfare Regulations Draw Fire From States |
May 20 - AFDC Benefit Levels: Losing Value |
May 20 - Moynihan Fuming at HHS |
May 20 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Relaxation of Antitrust Laws Eyed for Joint Ventures |
May 20 - From Expert to Advocate |
May 20 - Critics on Both Sides Take Aim At Bush Anti-Crime Plan |
May 20 - U.S.-Japan Fighter-Jet Deal Is Cleared for Takeoff |
May 20 - OAS Turning Up the Pressure On Noriega to Step Down |
May 20 - FOREIGN AID: House Threatens WHO on PLO |
May 20 - NICARAGUA: Doubts Cast on Soviet Claims Of Halting Arms Shipments |
May 20 - Top Foggy Bottom Appointees Caught in Party Crossfire |
May 20 - THE STATE DEPARTMENT: Senate Committee Drafts Bill Minus the Dollar Amounts |
May 20 - U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS: Bush Stance on Jackson-Vanik Offers Something for All |
May 20 - House Members Given Edge |
May 20 - Washington to Trenton |
May 20 - COLORADO: Skaggs Won't Run For Senate Seat |
May 20 - Poll-Closing Bill Clears Rules, But Voter Sign-up Snags |
May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Kassebaum to Seek 3rd Senate Term |
May 20 - Bush Proposes Soviet Policy Of 'Beyond Containment' |
May 20 - Administration Crime Package Urges Increased Spending |
May 20 - PROVISIONS: Wage Bill Approved, Heads For Veto |
May 20 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Senators' Lane To the Presidency |
May 27 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Leadership Changes Likely in House |
May 27 - The Turmoil and Transition: Stage Set for New Speaker |
May 27 - THE HOUSE: Wright's Hold on Speakership Slips Away as Panel Digs In |
May 27 - Two Heartbeats Away |
May 27 - Leadership Jockeying Starts As Party Shake-up Nears |
May 27 - Six Who May Seek New Jobs |
May 27 - Statement of Speaker Jim Wright May 25, 1989 |
May 27 - Once-Soft Ethics Committee Hardens Its Standards |
May 27 - Back at Home, Farm Team Awaits |
May 27 - 'The Torch' Tries to Ignite Support |
May 27 - OHIO: Lukens' Political Future Shaky After Sex Charge Conviction |
May 27 - House Defies Veto Threat |
May 27 - Neal Smith: Digging in His Heels |
May 27 - Whitten Amendment to HR2072 |
May 27 - Japan, India, Brazil Cited For Import Barriers |
May 27 - Intellectual Property |
May 27 - Judiciary Panel Rejects Bid To Ease Capital Rules |
May 27 - How Much Will a Bailout Cost? |
May 27 - BANKING: Next on Agenda? Glass-Steagall |
May 27 - SECURITIES: Takeovers Declared Good for Business |
May 27 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: U.S. Banks Warned To Ease Load |
May 27 - New Space-Shuttle Boosters Are Coming Under Fire |
May 27 - Panel's Oil-Spill Liability Bill To Pre-empt State Law |
May 27 - AVIATION: Warning Appended To Security Bill |
May 27 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Phone-Rate Abuse Target of Panel |
May 27 - Supporters of Wage-Floor Rise Try Radio and Back Rooms |
May 27 - BUREAUCRACY: Darman Reassures, But Panel Wary |
May 27 - AGRICULTURE: Farmers' Drought-Relief Bill Sprouts in House Panel |
May 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Timber Measure Meets a Hitch |
May 27 - INDIANS: Increase Voted in BIA Police Role |
May 27 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT Smog Bill Hearing Highlights Split |
May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard Personnel Increased By Panel |
May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Puyallup Tribe Settlement Approved By House |
May 27 - Thrift-Industry Salvage Bill Carries Pair of Riders |
May 27 - Former HUD Secretary Grilled On Influence-Peddling Scam |
May 27 - TAXES Split Opens Within Bush Team Over Housing Tax Credit |
May 27 - Bill to Aid Central Americans Advances in House Panel |
May 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Makes Starr Solicitor General |
May 27 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Subcommittee Approves Senior Volunteer Programs |
May 27 - IMPEACHMENT: Nixon Says He Will Remain off Bench |
May 27 - Intention to Change System Encounters Hill Reality |
May 27 - ARMS CONTROL: Bush, on More Positive Note, Leaves for NATO Summit |
May 27 - TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY: House Panel Alters Fighter-Jet Bill |
May 27 - Hill Friends Fighting to Save Endangered Fighter Jet |
May 27 - 'Top Gun': Outgunned in Long Run? |
May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Armitage, Choice for Army, Withdraws Nomination |
May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Baker Offers Blunt Words On Mideast Divisions |
May 27 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes to Praise Chinese Protesters |
May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Obey Warns He'll Hold Up Aid Over Iran-Contra Questions |
May 27 - GOP Gubernatorial Primary Seems to Be Tightening |
May 27 - Bush Cheers Soviet Changes, Wishes Gorbachev Well |
May 27 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Is Impeachment The Only Way? |