 November 4 - WHAT'S AHEAD: With Logjam Broken, Quick Action Likely |
| November 4 - WHITE HOUSE: Mixed Signals, 'Agenda Gap' Plague Bush's First Year |
| November 4 - Keeping Congress, White House Close Bush's Lobbyists Walk Two-Way Street |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Franking Proposal Killed by Senate |
| November 4 - ETHICS: Committee Opens Garcia Inquiry |
| November 4 - THE BUDGET: Bush Drops Gains Tax Drive, Shifts Focus to Deficit |
| November 4 - Capital Gains: A Shift in Fortunes |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Action Still Needed On Eight Bills |
| November 4 - Gonzalez Steps on Many Toes In Lincoln Savings Inquiry |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Defense Production Act Extended 10 Months |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Committee Scrutinizes Thrift Agency Borrowing |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Market Official Supports Program-Trading Limits |
| November 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Bush's Tough Acid Rain Bill Puts Midwest on the Spot |
| November 4 - The Politics of Acid Rain |
| November 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Oil-Spill Liability Compromise Finally Reaches House Floor |
| November 4 - Anti-Lorenzo, Trump Fervor |
| November 4 - AGRICULTURE: Senate Panel OKs CFTC Bill With New Exchange Fees |
| November 4 - Ending Minimum Wage Standoff Took Give From Both Sides |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Bill Nears Completion |
| November 4 - Transportation Appropriations (chart) |
| November 4 - AGRICULTURE: Opposition Mounts Against Cason |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Helms Wins Senate OK For North's Pension |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Panel to Weigh Strategy For Vetoed D.C. Bill |
| November 4 - HOUSING: Inquiry Into HUD Scandal Entering New Stage |
| November 4 - D'Amato: Proud, Not Repentant |
| November 4 - House Committee Opens Debate On HUD Program Renewals |
| November 4 - 'Mr. Housing' Bows Out |
| November 4 - Bush's Nomination of Thomas Sets Stage for New Battle |
| November 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: D.C. Flag Burning Tests New Law |
| November 4 - Abortion Continues to Shape Hill Plans, Bush Policies |
| November 4 - HEALTH: Catastrophic-Costs Accord Near |
| November 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Convicts Judge Nixon, Removes Him From Bench |
| November 4 - EDUCATION: Vocational Aid, Literacy Bills Approved by Senate Labor |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Turf Fight Develops Over Funding Bill |
| November 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Panel Approves Renewal Of School Aid for Disabled |
| November 4 - HEALTH: FDA, Minority Health Measures Approved by Senate Labor |
| November 4 - IMMIGRATION: Haven for Central Americans Approved by Senate Panel |
| November 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: RICO Overhaul Is Revised |
| November 4 - Anti-Drug Funding (chart) |
| November 4 - DRUGS: House Approves Anti-Narcotics |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Damage-Limit Increase Nears Final Approval |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Payments for AIDS Drug Again OK'd by Panel |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Right-to-Know Bill For Athletes |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: VA-HUD Spending Bill Cleared for Bush |
| November 4 - THE PENTAGON BUDGET: Bush Team Takes a Hit on SDI, But Prevails on Other Items |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Hill, Administration at Odds Over Foreign Aid Measure |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Popular Item: Poland Aid |
| November 4 - U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS: East Bloc Is the Likely Focus Of Non-Summit Summit |
| November 4 - NICARAGUA: Washington Tries to Keep Cool As Ortega Nixes Cease-Fire |
| November 4 - INTELLIGENCE: Bush Puts Pledge Into Writing |
| November 4 - INTELLIGENCE: Rep. Hyde Takes Aim at Panel Over 'Leaks' of Its Secrets |
| November 4 - CHEMICAL WEAPONS: Making Concessions to Bush, Panel Backs Sanctions Bill |
| November 4 - PALAU: Independence Bill Gains in Senate |
| November 4 - House of the Future at Stake In 1990 Legislative Contests |
| November 4 - Overview of States (chart) |
| November 4 - Effects of Population |
| November 4 - REDISTRICTING: States Likely to Lose Districts |
| November 4 - Cutting Edge |
| November 4 - Guru in Ohio |
| November 4 - Summary of States' Procedures For Redrawing Congressional Maps |
| November 4 - REDISTRICTING: States Likely To Gain Districts |
| November 4 - Changing Money's Role Is No Easy Task |
| November 4 - States That May Gain or Lose a District |
| November 4 - States Likely To Stay the Same |
| November 4 - Voting Rights Act Plays Key Role |
| November 4 - States to Keep Single District |
| November 4 - Bush and Gorbachev to Meet On the Sea in December |
| November 4 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Bush Vetoes D.C. Funding Bill Over Abortion Language |
| November 4 - PROVISIONS: Major Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized by Congress |
| November 4 - Washington Memoir: Get Rich, Get Even |
| November 11 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Stopgap Funding Bill Needed - Again |
| November 11 - Leaders Trying to Conclude Session by Thanksgiving |
| November 11 - House Pay and Ethics Plan |
| November 11 - THE HOUSE: Leaders Hope Ethics Package Will Shield a Pay Increase |
| November 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senators Settle for Moderate Curbs on Franked Mailings |
| November 11 - Legislative Appropriations (chart) |
| November 11 - Damage Control Gets Harder In Lincoln Savings Probe |
| November 11 - The Five Senators and Keating |
| November 11 - Lincoln Savings: A History |
| November 11 - Congress Raises Debt Ceiling, Resists All but One Add-On |
| November 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Third Stopgap Bill Is Expected |
| November 11 - Deficit Bill Expected to Count Some Gramm-Rudman Cuts |
| November 11 - TAXES: Senate Capital Gains Vote Set; Expiring Breaks Kept Alive |
| November 11 - Baucus Warns of Hill Action If Talks With Japan Fail |
| November 11 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Bill Would Restrict Thrift Agency |
| November 11 - Tough Oil-Spill Measure Rides Atop Environmental Wave |
| November 11 - Clean-Air Bill Loses Steam In Rush to Adjournment |
| November 11 - When Madison Avenue Talks, Farm-Belt Members Listen |
| November 11 - Where the Lines are Blurred |
| November 11 - A Real Person Says 'No Thanks' |
| November 11 - ENERGY: Cuomo to Congress: Stay Out Of Deal to Close Shoreham |
| November 11 - TRANSPORTATION: Drug-Testing Bill OK'd by Senate |
| November 11 - LABOR: Minimum-Wage Bill Cleared, Ending 10-Year Stalemate |
| November 11 - NUTRITION: Food-Monitoring Bill Passed by Senate |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Extends Farm Aid To Quake Victims |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard Bill OK'd by House |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Measure On Eastern Strike |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Action Stalled On Transportation Bill |
| November 11 - Rights Bill Is Almost Ready After Long Delay, Debate |
| November 11 - The Key Court Rulings |
| November 11 - Barring Age Bias in Job Benefits |
| November 11 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Old Rights Commission Fight Seems Ready to Erupt Anew |
| November 11 - Conferees Struggle to Finish Catastrophic-Costs Rewrite |
| November 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Stalemate Drags on in House Over Abortion Funding |
| November 11 - In Debate on Abortion Funding, Only the Dynamics Are New |
| November 11 - Key Dates in Abortion Fight |
| November 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, State Bill Clears |
| November 11 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Debt Collection Facilitated |
| November 11 - In Turnabout, House Banking Advances HUD Reform Bill |
| November 11 - Kemp May Ignore Some Earmarks |
| November 11 - HUMAN SERVICES: House-Senate Conferees Agree On New Child-Care Program |
| November 11 - DRUGS: House Committees Clear Way For Narcotics-Fighting Bills |
| November 11 - States Jockey for Anti-Drug Funds |
| November 11 - Cheney Gets Praise on Hill, But Easy Part Is Over |
| November 11 - The Early Reviews |
| November 11 - Officials Paint Stark Picture Of Gramm-Rudman Cuts |
| November 11 - Foreign Aid Deals Reached, But Veto Threat Remains |
| November 11 - Pitching in for Poland, Hungary |
| November 11 - Authorization Bill Contains Sanctions Against China |
| November 11 - State Department Authorizations (chart) |
| November 11 - Solidarity, American Style, Is in Store for Walesa |
| November 11 - Walesa in Washington |
| November 11 - Triggering a Process of Triage, Conferees Pare Weapons |
| November 11 - Defense Authorizations (chart) |
| November 11 - Companion Money Bill |
| November 11 - Senate Seeks Better Oversight Of the CIA's Operations |
| November 11 - The Speaker's Right to Know |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Saudi Tank Deal Decried on Hill, But It's Likely to Proceed |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Secord Pleads Guilty, Agrees To Cooperate in Inquiry |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Panel Backs Chemical Arms Sanctions |
| November 11 - Approval of Bush Is High, But Ratings Are Slippery |
| November 11 - Presidential Approval |
| November 11 - The President's Party: |
| November 11 - The Wilder-Dinkins 'Formula' Familiar to Blacks in House |
| November 11 - Wilder Win Marks Differences Of Old Dominion and New |
| November 11 - NEW JERSEY: Finally, Florio Is Governor; Democrats Take Assembly |
| November 11 - SPECIAL ELECTIONS: Florio, Molinari Victories Open Two House Seats |
| November 11 - TEXAS: Washington and Hall to Meet For Vacant Houston 18th |
| November 11 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE On Anniversary of Election, Bush Reviews Presidency |
| November 11 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT Bush Challenges Congress On Deficit Reduction |
| November 11 - Public Laws |
| November 11 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Court's Gentler Side: Unanimous Cases |
| November 18 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Rush to Adjournment In Time for Holiday |
| November 18 - House, Senate Differ Markedly On Pay-and-Ethics Package |
| November 18 - Adjournment Fever Defrosts Parties |
| November 18 - Calls for Investigations Put Senate Panel on the Spot |
| November 18 - Senate Ethics Actions |
| November 18 - Role of Auditors in Spotlight As Lincoln Probe Unfolds |
| November 18 - Lincoln Savings: The Human Cost |
| November 18 - Leaders Press for Final Deal On Deficit-Reduction Bill |
| November 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Pressure On to Finish Bills; Five-Day CR Is Signed |
| November 18 - Popular Expiring Rules Await Chance for Extension |
| November 18 - Revenue Effects |
| November 18 - Capital Gains Cut Dead for the Year |
| November 18 - SECURITIES: Program Trading, Data Disputes Stall Market Reform Bills |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Banking Panel Approves Schapiro for SEC |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Limits on Thrift Bailout OK'd, Put on Hold |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: SEC Authorization Passes Senate |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel OKs Steel-Quota Bill |
| November 18 - Senate Stage Is Finally Set For Clean-Air Showdown |
| November 18 - TRANSPORTATION: House Panels Rush to Pass New Waste-Hauling Rules |
| November 18 - Rural Development Initiative Bogs Down in House Panel |
| November 18 - AGRICULTURE: Environmentalists Score Win As Cason Nomination Falls |
| November 18 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart) |
| November 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Bill Finally Clears |
| November 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress OKs New D.C. Bill Permitting Local Abortions |
| November 18 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Indian Museum Bill Clears Last Hurdle |
| November 18 - PUERTO RICO: Potential Cost of Statehood Far Exceeds Other Options |
| November 18 - The Price of |
| November 18 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Senators Propose Agency Overhaul |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Coordinate Global-Change Research |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Federal Overtime Pay Passed by House |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Farm Aid To Quake Victims |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: NASA Authorization OK'd by Senate |
| November 18 - HUD-Reform Bill Is Nearing Final Approval by Hill |
| November 18 - Rep. Frank: Front and Center Again |
| November 18 - HOUSING/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Bush Plan Echoes Reaganism, Disappoints Some on Hill |
| November 18 - Anxious to Adjourn, Congress Gives Up on Abortion Funds |
| November 18 - All Sides Targeting O'Connor In Court Tests of Abortion |
| November 18 - HUMAN SERVICES: Delay on Child-Care Measure Prompts Angry Criticism |
| November 18 - Conferees Work Toward Accord On Catastrophic-Costs Law |
| November 18 - IMMIGRATION: Hill Seeks to Aid Chinese Students |
| November 18 - DRUGS: Anti-Narcotics Funding Clears; Other Bills Near Completion |
| November 18 - EDUCATION: Panel Backs Funds For Taft Institute |
| November 18 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Panel Delays Markup Of Major RICO Revision |
| November 18 - ADA Bill Approved by First Of Four House Committees |
| November 18 - EDUCATION: Aid for Disabled OK'd by Senate |
| November 18 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Both Chambers Agree to Extend U.S. Civil Rights Commission |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Copyright Tribunal Nears Revamping |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Philippine War Veterans Near Naturalization |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Research-Mouse Laboratory Cleared by Congress |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Trauma Care Grants Passed by House |
| November 18 - Dramatic Moves for Reform Challenge U.S. Strategy |
| November 18 - Every Member of Congress a Pole |
| November 18 - Aid Plans Make Progress |
| November 18 - Upheavals in East Bloc Fuel Momentum for Arms Cuts |
| November 18 - Foreign Aid Measure Puts Hill Sharply at Odds With Bush |
| November 18 - Remembering the Home Folks |
| November 18 - Foreign Aid Appropriations |
| November 18 - For Salvador, Uneasy Aid |
| November 18 - A Clash Over Philosophy, Turf |
| November 18 - A Boost for Some Refugees |
| November 18 - INTELLIGENCE: Access to Secrets Goes to Speaker |
| November 18 - INTELLIGENCE: Covert-Action Issue Finessed On Authorization Measure |
| November 18 - Defense Conferees Drag Feet On Sacrificing Weapons |
| November 18 - Funds for Major Defense Programs (chart) |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Defense Authorization Bill Cleared for President |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Bill to Punish Countries on Nerve Gas |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Nominee for Nuclear Arms Post Faces Tough Opposition |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: State Department Bill Clears, But Faces Bush's Veto |
| November 18 - Campaign Cash, Legal Fees* (chart) |
| November 18 - Campaign Funds for Legal Fees: It's Legal, but Is It Proper? |
| November 18 - Congressional Departures (chart) |
| November 18 - HIGHLIGHTS: House OKs HUD 'Reform' Plan; Senate Proposal in Works |
| November 18 - Public Laws |
| November 18 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Interpreting Elections: Keeping Perspective |
| November 25 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Spotlight Now Shifts To Summit, Court |
| November 25 - Congress Lowers the Curtain On a Frustrating Session |
| November 25 - FRANKING: Senate Changes Its Mail Rules To Ban Use of Political Cash |
| November 25 - House and Senate Salaries (chart) |
| November 25 - Two-Tiered Compensation Plan Likely to Stir Future Battles |
| November 25 - Bush, Congress Reach Deal On Deficit-Reduction Bill |
| November 25 - Reconciliation |
| November 25 - Reconciliation |
| November 25 - Lawmakers Came Full Circle To Goal Set in April |
| November 25 - Revenue Package in HR3299 (chart) |
| November 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bush Signs Last Eight Bills In Final Hours of Session |
| November 25 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: The Big Question on Lincoln: Why Did It Take So Long? |
| November 25 - Wall Testifies; Keating Silent |
| November 25 - Hill May Face Decision Shortly On Jackson-Vanik Limits |
| November 25 - The Sponsors: Jackson and Vanik |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Expired Steel-Quota Law Restored by Congress |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes to Confirm Schapiro for SEC |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Tied-Aid, Development Bank Authorization Cleared |
| November 25 - GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS: 'Revolving Door' Slows Down For All Federal Employees |
| November 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Clears 3rd D.C. Bill, Giving In to Bush Demands |
| November 25 - D.C. Appropriations (chart) |
| November 25 - COMMUNICATIONS: New 'Dial-a-Porn' Language OK'd |
| November 25 - Text of President's Veto |
| November 25 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Loan Fees Added To Vets' Bill |
| November 25 - ENVIRONMENT: Bill Would Create Nevada Wilderness |
| November 25 - ENVIRONMENT: Wetlands Bill Sent to Bush |
| November 25 - Catastrophic-Coverage Law Is Dismantled by Congress |
| November 25 - What's Gone, What's Left |
| November 25 - Congress Agrees to Overhaul Medicare's Doctor Payments |
| November 25 - ABORTION: Pro-Choice Members Vow 1990 Fight |
| November 25 - HUD-Reform Package Clears On Edge of Adjournment |
| November 25 - HUMAN SERVICE: Renewal of Volunteer Programs Cleared for White House |
| November 25 - O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum: Goodies Stuffed in Pepper Bill |
| November 25 - IMMIGRATION: Chinese Students Win Waiver |
| November 25 - DRUGS: Bush Wins Andean Initiative; Two Narcotics Bills Falter |
| November 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill Is Signed by President Bush |
| November 25 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Intervenes In Flag Case |
| November 25 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Crime Fight Delayed in Senate; Biden Offers His Own Plan |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Damage-Claims Measure Cleared by Congress |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Illinois Abortion Case Settled Out of Court |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Minority Health Bill Passed by Senate |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Nurse-Immigration Bill Cleared for Bush |
| November 25 - European Ferment Ups Ante For Bush and Gorbachev |
| November 25 - Conventional Forces in Europe (chart) |
| November 25 - Key Topics: Events in Eastern Europe And Some Recurring Old Questions |
| November 25 - Legislation Enacted to Begin Business, Economic Aid |
| November 25 - Hill Sidesteps a Confrontation Over Continuing Arms Aid |
| November 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: After Bush Veto, Hill Retreats To Save Foreign Aid Bill |
| November 25 - State Department Bill Dies |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Signs $286 Billion Bill For Pentagon Spending |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Intelligence Bill Sent to Bush |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Iran-Contra: Plea in One Case And Dismissal in Another |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Sen. Dole Drops Resolution On Armenia - For Now |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Action on Stello Put Off to Next Year |
| November 25 - Republican Fountain of Youth May Be Springing a Leak |
| November 25 - Students at the Polls (chart) |
| November 25 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Bush Vetoes Foreign Aid Bill Over U.N. Agency Funding |
| November 25 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Wright Episode: Politics and Ethics |
