 October 2 - MANAGED CARE: GOP Leaders in Tight Spot As Managed Care Vote Nears |
| October 2 - What's Ahead |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Nine Bills, 19 Days: Mission Impossible? |
| October 2 - POLITICS AND PROTESTS: The World Descends on Seattle |
| October 2 - 'DON'T WRITE IT OFF': House Democrats Need To 'Go Country' in 2000 |
| October 2 - LAPTOP MAN EMERGES: Senate's Enzi Scores With Export Measure |
| October 2 - GOP's Health Care Tax Cuts |
| October 2 - The Many Faces of 'Reform' |
| October 2 - Hitting Them Where They Live |
| October 2 - Doctors and GOP, Longtime Allies, Part Company on Managed Care |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: It's Blame First, Deal Later In Hill's Bitter Fiscal Finale |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Again on Course For Collision With Clinton |
| October 2 - EDUCATION: House Panel Makes Progress On Deal To Reauthorize Title I Education Program |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Measure Adopted Despite Objections From Shuster Over Use of Aviation Trust Fund |
| October 2 - TRANSPORTATION: Bill Would Free Road Projects From Court-Ordered Delays, Allow More Spending on Rail |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy-Water Spending Bill Clears After House Leaders Dredge Up An Additional $1.1 Billion |
| October 2 - Chart: Energy and Water Bill Highlights |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Bill With Farm Relief Passes in House Despite Dismay Over 'Back Room' Deal-Making |
| October 2 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Juvenile Crime Bill Conferees To Meet as Optimism Rises For a Deal on Gun Control |
| October 2 - Chart: Juvenile Crime Bills Compared |
| October 2 - House Passes Fetal Protection Bill, But Abortion Foes Throw Weight Behind Other Legislative Priorities |
| October 2 - BANKING: New Strategy Debated for Banking Bill |
| October 2 - COMMUNICATIONS: Disputes Persist On Satellite TV Legislation |
| October 2 - ENVIRONMENT: Republicans Move Ahead With Limited Superfund Plan Including Small-Business Relief |
| October 2 - Chart: VA-HUD Spending Highlights |
| October 2 - Crop Insurance Bill Passes House |
| October 2 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Victims' Rights Amendment Advances |
| October 2 - Business and Society Notes |
| October 2 - Senate Confirms Fed Nominee; Ex-Im Nominee in Trouble |
| October 2 - Clinton Cites Social Policy Riders In Veto of D.C. Spending Bill |
| October 2 - Specter Runs Into Resistance Over Attempt To Subpoena Reno |
| October 2 - Sweepstakes Rules Measure Approved by House Panel |
| October 2 - TRADE: Approach of World Conference Re-Energizes Free-Trade Debate |
| October 2 - Where the Trade Bills Are |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Compromise on F-22 Production Frees Defense Bill for Floor Votes |
| October 2 - Stronger Oversight Urged For Counterproliferation Programs |
| October 2 - Richardson Relents |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: House GOP Head Count Too Low To Clear Foreign Aid Spending Bill |
| October 2 - Chart: Foreign Operations Spending |
| October 2 - DEFENSE: Members Increasingly Criticize Clinton's Policy Toward Iraq, But Disagree on Alternatives |
| October 2 - DEFENSE: Senate Prepares To Take Up Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Ratification Still a Long Shot |
| October 2 - State Department Authorization Still Stalled Over Abortion |
| October 2 - U.S. Toughens Stance on East Timor |
| October 2 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Rejects D.C. Spending Bill's 'Unwarranted Intrusions' in Local Decisions |
| October 2 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
| October 2 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| October 9 - What's Ahead |
| October 9 - The Long Way to Wellington |
| October 9 - UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Legislative Remedies for Republicans' Managed Care Headache |
| October 9 - ASSISTED SUICIDES: MDs and the GOP: More Tension Ahead? |
| October 9 - BLILEY VS. COBLE: Dispute Over Database Protection No Love Match |
| October 9 - HEALTH: GOP's Fragile Unity Fractures In Managed Care Decision |
| October 9 - HEALTH: Momentum, for the Moment |
| October 9 - Chart: Key Managed Care Provisions |
| October 9 - Medical Savings Accounts, Insurance Tax Breaks Pass House |
| October 9 - HEALTH: Liability: Courts in the Lead |
| October 9 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Uproar Over Rejected Jurist May Doom Other Nominations |
| October 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: As More Spending Bills Move, GOP Weighs Cutting All 13 To Keep Social Security Vow |
| October 9 - TAXES: Roth Urged To Scale Back His Tax Extenders Proposal, Rethink Stand-Alone Status |
| October 9 - Ewing Says He Won't Run Again |
| October 9 - Specter's Subpoena Request Gets Blocked Again |
| October 9 - BANKING: United at Last, Financial Industry Pressures Hill To Clear Overhaul |
| October 9 - Banking Deal Appears at Hand As White House Reissues Veto Threat |
| October 9 - EDUCATION: House Bill To Revamp Title I Still Faces Pile of Amendments |
| October 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Labor-HHS Bill Billions of Dollars Richer Than House Version |
| October 9 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Drops Reauthorization Of Older Americans Act After Jobs Program Outcry |
| October 9 - TRANSPORTATION: Senate Passes FAA Bill, Setting Up Tough Conference Over Treatment of Trust Fund |
| October 9 - Final Transportation Spending Bill Gives Clinton More Money But Limits Options for Spending It |
| October 9 - A Legislative Emergency? |
| October 9 - Chart: Transportation Spending Highlights |
| October 9 - Chart: Agriculture Spending Highlights |
| October 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Bill Poised To Clear After Conferees Increase Funding For Rental Subsidies and FEMA |
| October 9 - REGULATION: House Panel Resumes Work On Electricity Deregulation Despite Calls To Slow Down |
| October 9 - TECHNOLOGY: E-Signature, Trademark Bills Advance |
| October 9 - Conference on Juvenile Crime Awaits House Negotiations |
| October 9 - House Clears Farm Bankruptcy Bill |
| October 9 - House Votes To Extend Deal To Share Aerospace Insurance |
| October 9 - Panel Votes To Reauthorize Coastal Management Grants |
| October 9 - Bill Orders Safety Board To Aid Train Wreck Victims' Families |
| October 9 - House Passes Increase in Aid To Victims of Child Abuse |
| October 9 - DEFENSE: Senators Struggle To Put Nuclear Treaty Back in Bottle |
| October 9 - Treaty Provisions |
| October 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Republicans Wheedle the Votes To Clear Foreign Operations Bill, But Veto Is Likely Over Aid Levels |
| October 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Bill Conferees Agree To Fund Some F-22 Production But Also Require More Testing |
| October 9 - Correction: Export Controls |
| October 9 - Nuclear Agency Eruption |
| October 9 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
| October 9 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| October 16 - BUDGET: Buying Down the Debt: Policy by Stalemate |
| October 16 - What's Ahead |
| October 16 - FISHING BUDDIES: The Massachusetts-Alaska Alliance |
| October 16 - THE DEAL THAT WASN'T: For Lott and Daschle, War Means Mutually Assured Destruction |
| October 16 - BACK-SCRATCHING: Seeing a Political Advantage Through a Budget Loophole |
| October 16 - Web Site of the Week |
| October 16 - BUDGET: The Weapon of Choice |
| October 16 - Budget Experts Follow the Paper Trail Of Social Security Trust Funds |
| October 16 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Treaty Vote a 'Wake-Up Call' |
| October 16 - Treaty Rejection Casts a Shadow Over Non-Proliferation Efforts in Asia |
| October 16 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Harsh Words, Sharp Maneuvers Mark Campaign Finance Debate |
| October 16 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Senate Task Force Disbanded; Probe of Justice Department Handed to Judiciary Panel |
| October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Pushes for Second Stopgap Bill, Maneuvers To Clear Labor-HHS Spending |
| October 16 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Independent Counsel Closes Babbitt Inquiry |
| October 16 - LABOR: Minimum Wage Bill's Prospects Uncertain as Opinions Form Over Timetable, Tax Provisions |
| October 16 - Chart: Membership Changes, 106th Congress |
| October 16 - POLITICS: Porter's Retirement Gives GOP 16 Open House Seats To Defend, Reorders Appropriations Chairmanships |
| October 16 - BANKING: Compromises Give a Big Boost To Financial Services Rewrite |
| October 16 - Chart: Emerging Financial Services Accord |
| October 16 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Leaders' Quest for Compromise On Gun Control Legislation Yields No Breakthroughs |
| October 16 - HEALTH: House, Senate Make Progress on Bills To Rescind Some Medicare Cuts While Avoiding Major Overhaul |
| October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: To Expedite Farm Relief, Senators Reluctantly Clear $69 Billion Agriculture Bill |
| October 16 - HEALTH: Senate Leaders Dig In Heels Against Making Concessions To House Managed Care Bill |
| October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Condemns Interior Bill For Environmental Riders, Freeze on Spending for Arts |
| October 16 - ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Moves Modest Superfund Bill |
| October 16 - TECHNOLOGY: Panel Approves E-Signature, Trademark Bills |
| October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Final VA-HUD Bill Adds Hurricane Aid And Extra Money for Rental Subsidies |
| October 16 - Chart: VA-HUD Spending Highlights |
| October 16 - HEALTH: Ways and Means Approves Expansion of Disability Benefits As Search for Offsets Continues |
| October 16 - EDUCATION: House Panel Gives and Takes, Setting Tighter Federal Regulations, Giving States Title I Flexibility |
| October 16 - TRANSPORTATION: House Passes Bill To Create Separate Agency for Oversight Of Truck and Bus Safety |
| October 16 - 'Date Rape' Drugs Targeted In House-Passed Measure |
| October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate Pass Revised D.C. Measure |
| October 16 - Bill To Ban Assisted Suicide Heads to House Floor |
| October 16 - Organ Transplant Bill Approved |
| October 16 - Business and Society Notes |
| October 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defense Spending Bill Clears, Swathed In Camouflage Green |
| October 16 - Army Speeds Up Plans To Travel Lighter, Hit Harder |
| October 16 - Chart: Defense Spending Highlights |
| October 16 - Bills Signed |
| October 16 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
| October 16 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| October 23 - What's Ahead |
| October 23 - 'WE FEEL GOOD': Facing Uncertain Odds, Gambling Industry Draws an Inside Straight |
| October 23 - 2000 Agenda Looks Very Familiar |
| October 23 - LEGISLATING 101: Lott Will Be Engineer of the Disability Train |
| October 23 - BANKING: Financial Services Bill In the Final Stretch |
| October 23 - Financial Services Accord |
| October 23 - BANKING: Who Wins if Barriers Fall? |
| October 23 - Decades of Efforts To Change The Glass-Steagall Act |
| October 23 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Campaign Finance Crusaders Regroup After Latest Defeat |
| October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Finds Hastert Strategy Paying Off in Fiscal Showdown |
| October 23 - 'Lesser of Two Evils' |
| October 23 - TAXES: Senate Tax Extenders Bill May Be 'Tempting Vehicle' For Floor Amendments |
| October 23 - LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: House Stymied On Minimum Wage Increase |
| October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: CJS Compromise Speeds Toward A Final Confrontation |
| October 23 - Chart: Commerce-Justice-State Spending |
| October 23 - EDUCATION: House Passes Title I Overhaul Bill Minus Vouchers and Broad Block Grants |
| October 23 - HEALTH: House, Senate Panels Approve Bills To Rescind Some Medicare Cuts, But Democrats Object to Financing |
| October 23 - TRANSPORTATION: Conferees Hope To 'Unlock' Aviation Trust Fund Money To Meet Long-Term Needs |
| October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Clears Interior Bill, Setting Stage for Post-Veto Talks On Policy Riders, Funding Levels |
| October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Negotiators Search for Consensus On D.C. Policy Riders, Other Items In Labor-HHS Spending Measure |
| October 23 - HEALTH: HHS Sets Out Modified Rules For Giving Sickest Patients Priority for Organ Transplants |
| October 23 - SOCIAL POLICY: As Senate Passes 'Partial-Birth' Ban, One Side Sees Victory Within Reach, The Other Sees a Campaign Issue |
| October 23 - Product Liability Bill Debated |
| October 23 - Justice Department Bent Rules On FALN Clemency, Hatch Says |
| October 23 - Panel Votes To Curb President's Ability To Designate Monuments |
| October 23 - House Bill Would Give Agencies More Computer Security Options |
| October 23 - Ways and Means Approves Bill To Assist Low-Income Fathers |
| October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Determined To Yield Little In Talks on Vetoed Foreign Aid Bill |
| October 23 - HEALTH: Conferees Face Struggle To Pay For Popular Measure To Expand Health Benefits for Disabled |
| October 23 - Defense Bill Back on Table |
| October 23 - DEFENSE: GOP, Richardson Eyeball to Eyeball Over Nuclear Security Again, With Little Time Left for a Blink |
| October 23 - NOMINATION: Helms-Inspired Controversy Over Moseley-Braun Nomination Is a Rare Break With Tradition |
| October 23 - Bills To Execute Adoption Treaty Differ Over Agency Jurisdiction |
| October 23 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Sanctions Relief Bill To Go Alone |
| October 23 - Trade Bills Poised To Move in Senate |
| October 23 - Indyk Expected To Reprise Role As Ambassador to Israel |
| October 23 - Puerto Rico Governor Urges End To Live Fire by Navy on Vieques |
| October 23 - Religious Freedom Commission Calls for More Sudan Sanctions |
| October 23 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Says Foreign Operations Bill Endangers National Security By Shortchanging Diplomacy |
| October 23 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
| October 23 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
| October 30 - What's Ahead |
| October 30 - '.US' VS. THEM: House Seeks To Shield Voters From Porn |
| October 30 - THE ELECTION TEST: Can Appointed Senators Go the Distance? |
| October 30 - Is Senate Becoming More Partisan Than House? |
| October 30 - POLITICS AND PRINCIPLES: A Pork-Defining Issue |
| October 30 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: GOP Gains Sense of Victory By Avoiding Big Missteps |
| October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Hill Digs Deeper Than Ever Into Bag of Budget Tricks |
| October 30 - The Republicans' 1 Percent Solution: Where the Cuts Would Hit Hard |
| October 30 - Chart: Appropriations Issues |
| October 30 - SOCIAL POLICY: Social Security: Next Salvo |
| October 30 - TAXES: Marital Status and Taxes: Irreconcilable Differences? |
| October 30 - The Marriage Penalty: A Brief History |
| October 30 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: In the Lull After Chafee's Death, A Sigh of Uncertainty |
| October 30 - Government Reform Panel Grants Immunity to Huang |
| October 30 - Standoff on Nominations Intensifies |
| October 30 - TAXES: Senate Passes Tax 'Extenders'; House To Vote |
| October 30 - Judges Dismiss Suit Seeking To Redraw South Florida Districts |
| October 30 - Nebraska's Barrett Will Retire From Strongly Republican 3rd |
| October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Labor-HHS Bill, Looks to Post-Veto Revisions |
| October 30 - Chart: Labor-HHS Spending Highlights |
| October 30 - SOCIAL POLICY: Democrats Set Stage for a New Attempt To Enact Medicare Prescription Coverage |
| October 30 - Bills To Rescind Cuts Advance |
| October 30 - HEALTH: Clinton Issues Medical Privacy Guidelines |
| October 30 - HEALTH: Managed Care Conference Yet To Meet |
| October 30 - Chart: Interior Spending Highlights |
| October 30 - SOCIAL POLICY: Doctor-Assisted Suicide Ban On Sen. Nickles' Priority List Following Passage by House |
| October 30 - REGULATION: House Subcommittee Moves Electricity Deregulation Bill With Big Issues Unresolved |
| October 30 - BANKING: Banking Bill Conference Grinds Along |
| October 30 - Federated Makes Deadline |
| October 30 - TECHNOLOGY: House Passes Bill To Protect Names on Web |
| October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Ease Policy Riders In D.C. Bill |
| October 30 - Bill To Restore Estuary Habitats Approved by House Resources |
| October 30 - Domenici Seeks To End Aviation Impasse |
| October 30 - House Votes To Oppose Tariffs On International On-Line Sales |
| October 30 - Bill To Expand Cancer Treatment For Low-Income Women Moves |
| October 30 - Child Abuse Prevention Bill Wins Senate Judiciary Approval |
| October 30 - House Bill Attacks Deception In Sweepstakes Mailings |
| October 30 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: GOP's Crackdown on China Weakened by Party's Divisions |
| October 30 - TRADE: Third-World Trade Bill's Prospects Intertwine With Minimum Wage And Bankruptcy Measures |
| October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Curb Remains Key For State Bill |
| October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Leaders Agree To Fund Wye River Aid |
| October 30 - Helms Relents on Moseley-Braun Vote |
| October 30 - House Democratic Women Challenge Helms on Treaty |
| October 30 - VETO MESSAGE: Clinton Objects to Provisions On U.N., Community Policing In Commerce, Justice, State Bill |
| October 30 - Chart: Bills To Watch |
| October 30 - Chart: Status of Appropriations |
