 August 5 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Congress Recesses; Elections Ahead |
| August 5 - Byrd's Proposal |
| August 5 - Sen. Byrd Launches Crusade Against Influence-Peddling |
| August 5 - Lobbying Firm's Tactics Prompted Byrd To Curtail Even West Virginia Projects |
| August 5 - House-Senate Acrimony Builds Over Cost of Members' Mail |
| August 5 - ETHICS: Durenberger Probe Set by Committee |
| August 5 - ETHICS: Reps. Bates, Lukens, Savage To Face Official Inquiries |
| August 5 - Sweeping S and L Bailout Bill Heads for Final Passage |
| August 5 - The Debate on Financing |
| August 5 - Democrats Aim to Avoid Rout On Capital Gains Rate Cut |
| August 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Meets Goal, OKs 13 Bills |
| August 5 - Congress OKs $70 Billion Rise In Federal Debt Ceiling |
| August 5 - Abortion's Changing Politics |
| August 5 - Key House Votes on Abortion (chart) |
| August 5 - Enter Jesse Jackson |
| August 5 - INSULAR AFFAIRS: Puerto Rico Referendum OK'd Amid Charges of 'Slant' |
| August 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Cuts House Projects, Then Adds Its Own to Bill |
| August 5 - Pork Perhaps, But Earmarks Popular With Sponsors' Constituents |
| August 5 - SCIENCE: Panel Boosts NIST High-Tech Role |
| August 5 - Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations (chart) |
| August 5 - SCIENCE: Committee Tries to Force-Feed Aerospace Plane Funding |
| August 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Rules Maneuver Avoids Vote On Permanent Smoking Ban |
| August 5 - COMMUNICATIONS: Senators Find Few Complaints With Bush's FCC Nominees |
| August 5 - AGRICULTURE: Broad Disaster-Relief Package Clears in Last-Minute Rush |
| August 5 - AGRICULTURE: Rural-Aid Bill Passes Senate |
| August 5 - AGRICULTURE: Chicago Futures Indictments Help Propel CFTC Measure |
| August 5 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Passes an Oil-Spill Bill Tougher Than Leader Sought |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Agent Orange Bill Passed in Senate |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Deceptive-Mail Bill Goes to Senate |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Drug-Testing Measures On Collision Course |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Nuclear Clean-up Plan Unveiled by Watkins |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Pro Forma Wage Bill Sent to Senate |
| August 5 - Lucas Rejection a Blow To Bush, Thornburgh |
| August 5 - Judiciary's Rejected Nominees |
| August 5 - LAW/JUDICIARY: TV Violence Talks: Antitrust Relief |
| August 5 - Questions Mount in HUD Probe As Congress Takes a Break |
| August 5 - Proxmire Rues 'Fleece' That Fled |
| August 5 - HUD's Ethics Program Draws Fire |
| August 5 - With Bush's Blessing, ADA Bill Sails Through Senate Panel |
| August 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Averts Abortion Fight, Passes Labor-HHS Funding |
| August 5 - Dodging Touchy Census Issue, House Passes Funding Bill |
| August 5 - Hastings Trial Panel Is Ready To Submit Case to Senate |
| August 5 - IMMIGRATION: House Drops Return-Home Rule For Chinese Students Here |
| August 5 - EDUCATION: Two Panels OK Legislation To Spur Public Service |
| August 5 - HUMAN SERVICES: VISTA, Related Renewal Bills OK'd by Senate Committee |
| August 5 - IMMIGRATION: Citizenship Process Is Streamlined |
| August 5 - Human Services: WIC, Other Feeding Programs Renewed by House, Senate |
| August 5 - Senate Defense Bill Portends Tough Fights With House |
| August 5 - Super Pay for Super Specialists |
| August 5 - Citing Budget Austerity, House Chops Weapons Programs |
| August 5 - Hostage Incidents Leave Hill With Few Policy Options |
| August 5 - Challenge to Base Closings Fizzles on House Floor |
| August 5 - Military Construction Funding (chart) |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Puts Off Decision On CIA Nicaragua Role |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Senate GOP Delays Any Effort To Thwart FS-X Bill Veto |
| August 5 - FLORIDA: GOP Makes Its Choice in 18th, |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Condit, Berryhill Lead Field In Open California 15th |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Democratic Rep. Conyers Seeks Detroit Mayoralty |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Fund Raising by GOP Groups Tops Democrats' by 5-to-1 |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: GOP Reps. Ridge and Marlenee Say No to '90 Statewide Bids |
| August 5 - Rep. Robinson Jumps to GOP, Meets With Bush, Media |
| August 5 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Bush Announces Extension Of Steel-Import Quotas |
| August 5 - Bush Vetoes Congress' Plan To Stall FS-X Program |
| August 12 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Fiscal Priorities Top Congress' Agenda |
| August 12 - 101st Congress at Midyear: Overcoming the Tumult |
| August 12 - Agriculture |
| August 12 - Appropriations |
| August 12 - Banking |
| August 12 - Commerce |
| August 12 - Congress |
| August 12 - Defense |
| August 12 - Economic Affairs |
| August 12 - Education |
| August 12 - Energy |
| August 12 - Environment |
| August 12 - Foreign Policy |
| August 12 - Government Operations |
| August 12 - Health |
| August 12 - Housing/Community Development |
| August 12 - Human Services |
| August 12 - Labor |
| August 12 - Law/Judiciary |
| August 12 - Science/Technology |
| August 12 - Trade |
| August 12 - Transportation |
| August 12 - Rep. Mickey Leland Missing; Plane Is Lost in Ethiopia |
| August 12 - ETHICS: Durenberger Inquiry to Focus On Book Payments, Travel |
| August 12 - ETHICS: Grand Jury Looks At Ex-Speaker |
| August 12 - Success of S and L Bailout Bill Not Fully Guaranteed |
| August 12 - S and L Bill: Troublesome 'til the End |
| August 12 - Leahy: Unknown Commodity In Farm-State Politics |
| August 12 - Senate Agriculture Chairmen |
| August 12 - All Things to All Senators |
| August 12 - SECTION NOTES: Children's TV Grants Passed by Senate |
| August 12 - SECTION NOTES: Sikes Confirmed By Senate |
| August 12 - Governors' Medicaid Protests Likely to Be Swept Aside |
| August 12 - A Catastrophic Surprise |
| August 12 - Medicaid Mandates, 1980s |
| August 12 - SECTION NOTES: HUD Critic Morrison Requests Convening of Grand Jury |
| August 12 - SECTION NOTES: Mouse-Breeding Facility Gets Senate Funding Nod |
| August 12 - SECTION NOTES: Waiver for Chinese Students Snags on Unrelated Issue |
| August 12 - New Accord Alters Equation For Contras, Hill Allies |
| August 12 - The New Accord: Dates, Procedures |
| August 12 - House Measure Would Redirect Pentagon Weapons Priorities |
| August 12 - Disputes Over Old, New Spy Gear |
| August 12 - Pentagon Appropriations (chart) |
| August 12 - NOMINATIONS: Bush Makes a Popular Choice In Powell for Joint Chiefs |
| August 12 - House Panel Claims Its Right To CIA Inquiry Reports |
| August 12 - Parties in High-Stakes Battle For Right to Draw Lines |
| August 12 - From Census to Redistricting A Guide to the Process |
| August 12 - Two Sides of the Coin (chart) |
| August 12 - Simple Question, Tough Answer: Whom Should Census Count? |
| August 12 - Military to Count in Census |
| August 12 - PROVISIONS: Congress OKs Sweeping Bill To Save Thrift Industry |
| August 12 - New Thrift Regulatory Structure |
| August 12 - Provisions: Senate Committee Gives Its OK To Puerto Rican Plebiscite |
| August 12 - The U.S. Electorate And Negative Ads |
| August 19 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Committee Posts To Be Shuffled |
| August 19 - New Leaders Pick Veterans For Key Roles on Staffs |
| August 19 - Who's Who Among Key Staff Aides For New House Democratic Leadership |
| August 19 - Economists Fault Rival Plans For Capital Gains Cut |
| August 19 - Once the Door Is Open... |
| August 19 - Capital Gains Cut: Revenue Effects (chart) |
| August 19 - Distribution of Capital Gains Rate Cut (chart) |
| August 19 - How a Taxpayer Might Fare |
| August 19 - SECURITIES: Breeden Tapped As SEC Chief |
| August 19 - THE BUDGET: CBO Projects Budget Deficit Of $141 Billion in 1990 |
| August 19 - Every Voter's a Critic On Arts Funding |
| August 19 - A Method to the Mischief |
| August 19 - Science and Math Training Stirs Concern on Hill |
| August 19 - Islands' Quest for Autonomy Making Headway on Hill |
| August 19 - Bush Nomination Returned; Fight Over Gregg Awaits |
| August 19 - Proliferation of Opinion Data Sparks Debate Over Use |
| August 19 - Polling: From Infancy to Ubiquity |
| August 19 - Rough '88 Raises Pollsters' Concerns |
| August 19 - FLORIDA: Richman Wins Democratic Nod In Race to Succeed Pepper |
| August 19 - TEXAS: Geren and Lanier Make Runoff |
| August 19 - TEXAS: Leland's Death Spawns Scrambles In Washington and Houston |
| August 19 - THE HOUSE: Rep. Smith Perishes in Crash; No Clear Successor |
| August 19 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Black Representation And Redistricting |
| August 26 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Policy Debates Loom On Spending Bills |
| August 26 - Common Cause: A Watchdog That Barks at Its Friends |
| August 26 - John Gardner's War Baby |
| August 26 - Deficit Scorecard (chart) |
| August 26 - THE BUDGET: OMB Estimates Leave Congress |
| August 26 - 'Baby Bell' Regulators Struggle for Power |
| August 26 - The Main Players |
| August 26 - The Yellow Pages War |
| August 26 - Bell Chronology |
| August 26 - Thornburgh's Bumpy Start Surprises Some on Hill |
| August 26 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hastings Witness Held in Contempt |
| August 26 - Decision on Bugged Facility Eludes Administration |
| August 26 - EGYPT: Aid Payments Used to Spur More Economic Reforms |
| August 26 - U.S. Aid Plan to Remain Intact After Non-Communists' Rise |
| August 26 - PANAMA: OAS Ministers Admit Failure In Effort to Oust Noriega |
| August 26 - GOP Seeks Inroads in 1990 As Democrats Hold Fast |
| August 26 - Democrats Striving to Break Even |
| August 26 - CALIFORNIA: Condit and Berryhill Out Front In Quiet Bid for Coelho Seat |
| August 26 - MASSACHUSETTS: Rep. Barney Frank Concedes Involvement in Sex Scandel |
| August 26 - SPECIAL ELECTIONS: Dates Set to Succeed Reps. Leland, Smith |
| August 26 - Congressional Intent And the Judiciary |
