December 1 - ’: Editor's Notebook: Moving Parts |
December 1 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Lobbyists Could Resuscitate Effort To Raise Money for Visitor Center |
December 1 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Condit Down, but Declines to Back Out |
December 1 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Cookseys Mission to the Middle East: Fact-Finding a Way Past Controversy |
December 1 - REDISTRICTING: Incumbent Security Trend Spreads to North Carolina |
December 1 - Whats Ahead: Week of Dec. 3 |
December 1 - War and Civil Liberties: Congress Gropes for a Role |
December 1 - For Ashcroft, a Judiciary Panel Grilling Will Be Familiar Experience |
December 1 - Profiling and Terrorism |
December 1 - Earmarks, Back With a Vengeance |
December 1 - Once-Profligate Courthouse Spending Is Now a Showcase for Hills Restraint |
December 1 - Projects Often Go to Shakiest Players |
December 1 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Added Pressure Has Little Effect On Stimulus Bills Glacial Pace |
December 1 - Tax Holiday: A Welcome Icebreaker |
December 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Spending Package Moves Toward Senate Floor And Likely Showdown With Bush |
December 1 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Irradiating Mail, Fumigating Offices: Capitol Hill Struggles to Revive Post-Anthrax Attack Postal Service |
December 1 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Rep. Schaffer Will Honor Self-Imposed Term Limit But Regrets Taking the Pledge |
December 1 - AGRICULTURE: Farm Bill Now Tops Senate Agenda But GOP Is Likely to Filibuster |
December 1 - Vermont's Dairy Compact Fallback Plan Generates Broad Opposition |
December 1 - ENERGY: Murkowski and Allies Fume At Pace of Energy Bill in Senate |
December 1 - ENERGY: Nuclear Company Lobbyists Turn Attention to Senate As House Passes Liability Bill |
December 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Bill Set to Clear As Bush Wins Key Provision Opening U.S. to Mexican Trucks |
December 1 - Highlights of Trucking Deal |
December 1 - Bill Options On Cloning |
December 1 - TECHNOLOGY: Companys Claim of Success In Cloning a Human Embryo Prompts Calls for Moratorium |
December 1 - EDUCATION: First Bill Drafted Could Be Last to Clear As Special-Education Funding Deadlock Stalls Bushs Priority Legislation |
December 1 - EMPLOYMENT & LABOR: Two Cloture Votes Will Determine Whether Railroad Retirement Bill Can Win Enactment This Session |
December 1 - Key Deals On Overhaul |
December 1 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: House Passes Insurance Bailout, But Curbs on Right to Sue Cloud Bills Prospects in Senate |
December 1 - DEFENSE: New Intolerance of Old Threats Fuels Push for War With Iraq |
December 1 - Lieberman Out in Front of His Party In Urging Bush to Topple Saddam |
December 1 - House-Passed Bill Boosts Pentagon Funds For Heavy Weapons, More Agile Forces |
December 1 - Supplemental Defense Funds |
December 1 - TRADE: House Backs Extension Of Export Act |
December 1 - TRADE: House Passes Diamond Trade Restrictions |
December 1 - TRADE: Panel Votes To Reauthorize Andean Pact |
December 8 - Editor's Notebook: Pressure Points |
December 8 - Hearings on Enron Collapse Ramp Up |
December 8 - Students Set Out to Form a Perfect Union: The Constitution and the Dollar Bill |
December 8 - Home-State Party Rival Gives Up Effort To Obliterate Meehan's House District |
December 8 - Putting Kentucky On the Road to Mexico |
December 8 - What's Ahead: Week of Dec. 10 |
December 8 - Power and Patience: How Daschle Picks Party's Battles |
December 8 - Health Care, Other Domestic Issues Expected Back for Second Session |
December 8 - Republicans Take Delight In Daschle's Apparent 'Byrd Problem' |
December 8 - Rivals' Missteps Help Daschle |
December 8 - White House Shows Some Muscle In Supplemental Spending Clash |
December 8 - GOP Offer of Concessions in Stimulus Bill Fails to Avert Another Breakdown of Talks |
December 8 - IRS, Businesses Warn of Difficulties With Plans for Tax 'Holiday' and Rebates |
December 8 - Tax Relief for New York |
December 8 - Reappearance of Red Ink Foreshadows Fiercely Partisan Exercise Of Raising the National Debt Limit |
December 8 - Hart's Reopening Date Uncertain Pending Analysis of Anthrax Letter, Effectiveness of Office Fumigation |
December 8 - Fear of Budget Constraints in 2002 Galvanizes Farm Bill Supporters |
December 8 - Milk Provision Revisited |
December 8 - Hill Treads Carefully in Challenging Ashcroft Over Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Powers |
December 8 - Senate Democrats to Make Final Effort To Add Special-Education Funding As Negotiators Finish Up Overhaul Bill |
December 8 - Rep. Johnson Offers Deal On 'Mental-Health Parity' In Labor-HHS Package |
December 8 - Senate's Energy Policy Rift Grows As Democrats Unfurl Their Bill And GOP Loses ANWR Vote |
December 8 - Authorizers, Appropriators Square Off Over the Use of Gas Tax Revenue To Fund Pet Projects |
December 8 - Senate Passes House Bill Allowing Railroad Pension Fund To Invest in Stocks and Bonds |
December 8 - Regional Bells Gear Up For End-of-Session House Vote On Bill to Ease Local Competition Rules |
December 8 - Daschle's Negotiators Seek Deal On Senate Version of Measure To Guarantee Terrorism Insurance |
December 8 - Lawmakers Hunt for Money To Assist Health Care Providers |
December 8 - On the Agenda |
December 8 - D.C. Spending Measure Goes To President |
December 8 - House Panel Floats Bill on Bio-Terrorism |
December 8 - General Aviation Aid Bill Offered |
December 8 - Senate Confirms Walters As Drug Policy Director |
December 8 - After One-Vote Victory in House, Fast-Track Bill Lands in Senate |
December 8 - Freshman Initiation: Putnam's Lonely 'No' Vote on Trade Bill |
December 8 - More Than Military Funding Hinges on Base-Closure Dispute |
December 8 - Senate Nears Passage of Defense Bill With Controversial Aircraft Leasing |
December 8 - Conferees on Intelligence Bill Toss Out Provision for Creating Panel to Probe Intelligence Lapses |
December 8 - Hill Debates Harder Stance Toward Iraq |
December 8 - Sanctions Against Sudan Stall in Senate |
December 8 - House Passes Aid Bill for Zimbabwe |
December 8 - New Turf No Blessing For Some Incumbents |
December 15 - Editor's Notebook: Back in Play |
December 15 - International Criminal Court Treaty: One Clinton Signs; the Other Votes No |
December 15 - Plan to Give Lobbyists Special Access Provokes Political Skirmishing |
December 15 - For Lewis, a Partial Victory On African-American Museum |
December 15 - Paper Chase: Burton Issues Warning to Bush |
December 15 - What's Ahead: Week of Dec. 17 |
December 15 - In Stimulus Bill Negotiations, It's Time to Deal or Die |
December 15 - Victims' Tax Relief Bill Passes |
December 15 - Business Hopes for a Boost |
December 15 - 'The Hammer' Becomes The Heir Apparent |
December 15 - DeLay Wants Blunt to Succeed Him But Others Want a Whip Less Beholden |
December 15 - Senate GOP Leadership to Shift |
December 15 - Years of Power and Penance: His Standing Restored, Armey Bows Out |
December 15 - House, Senate Grapple Over Spending Bills; White House Stays Focused on Bottom Line |
December 15 - No Urgency on Debt Ceiling |
December 15 - Balloting Overhaul Bill Passes House And Makes Sudden Strides in Senate; Packages Differ in Key Respects |
December 15 - States, Schools Looking Ahead To How Overhaul Will Work |
December 15 - How Three Key Points of Contention Were Settled in the Final Bill |
December 15 - House Bill Provisions |
December 15 - With Bio-Terrorism Funds in Place, Will Powers and Policies Fall by the Wayside? |
December 15 - Railroad Pension Overhaul Clears by Veto-Proof Margins; President Is Expected to Sign |
December 15 - Farm Bill's Chances in Senate Fade As Republicans Maintain Filibuster |
December 15 - Dairy Support Plan Reworked |
December 15 - In Setback for the Bells, Broadband Deregulation Vote Is Delayed in House Until March |
December 15 - Foes of Yucca Mountain Waste Site Face Their Most Critical Battle Yet |
December 15 - Social Security Overhaul Panel's Report Lands With a Thud |
December 15 - The Commission's Options |
December 15 - Lawmakers Still Feeling Their Way On Whether to Intervene In Plan for Military Tribunals |
December 15 - Bristol-Myers Loses Loophole In Drug Bill |
December 15 - Tentative Deal Reached on Brownfields |
December 15 - Bush's Move to Void ABM Pact Has Democrats Looking for Options |
December 15 - Finance Panel Moves Gingerly On Fast-Track Trade Bill, Scheduling Second Markup |
December 15 - Congress Compromises on Base Closings, Delaying Pain--and Savings--Several Years |
December 15 - Conferees on Defense Spending Face Substantial Differences Over Shipbuilding and Overhaul |
December 15 - Intelligence Authorization Calls for Greater Reliance On Spies and New Technology |
December 15 - Two Contested Bush Nominations Win Senate Panel's Approval; Helms Blocks a Third |
December 15 - House Readies Resolution on Iraq |
December 15 - House Votes to Increase Efforts To Fight AIDS Worldwide |
December 15 - Senate Clears Incentives For Zimbabwe to Change Policies |
December 22 - Editor's Notebook: Finding the Finish Line |
December 22 - Brownback Battles to Bar Construction Of Tribal Casino Next to Cemetery |
December 22 - Navy Anti-Missile Program Fails Nunn-McCurdy Price Check |
December 22 - Expansion Planned For Arlington Cemetery |
December 22 - Supporters Within Striking Distance Of Forcing a Vote on Shays-Meehan |
December 22 - The Year Ahead |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: A Year of Power Struggles And Common Purpose |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Appropriations Summary |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Session's Highlights |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Agriculture Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Defense Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: District of Columbia Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Energy and Water Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Interior Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Military Construction Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Transportation Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Veterans, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fiscal Year 2001 Supplemental -- Defense |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Anti-Terrorism Supplemental Appropriations |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Farm Aid |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Farm Bill Reauthorization |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Bankruptcy |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Terrorism Insurance |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2002 Budget Resolution |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: SEC |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Budget Process |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Campaign Finance |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Defense Authorization |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Missile Defense |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Use of Force Resolution |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Elementary, Secondary Education |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Energy |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Nuclear Liability |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Brownfields |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: The President's Cabinet |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Intelligence Authorization |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Iran, Libya Sanctions |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Pakistan Waivers |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: State Department Authorization |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Sudan Peace Act |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: U.N. Dues |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Illegal Diamonds |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Patients' Rights |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Prescription Drug Benefit |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Bio-Terrorism |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Ergonomics |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Anti-Terrorism |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Railroad Retirement |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fetal Protection |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Immigration |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Juvenile Justice |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Election Reform |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Judicial Appointments |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Faith-Based Initiatives |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Human Cloning Ban |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Social Security Overhaul |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Tax Cut Reconciliation |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Economic Stimulus |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Internet Taxes |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Broadband |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fast Track Trade Authority |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: China's Trade Status |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Export Administration Act |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Airline Bailout |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: U.S.-Jordan Trade Agreement |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: U.S.-Vietnam Trade Agreement |
December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Aviation Security |
December 22 - Key Votes 2001: Strategy of Confrontation Yields Marginal Results |
December 22 - How CQ Picks Key Votes |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Ashcroft Confirmation (Vote 8) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Campaign Finance (Vote 64) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Ergonomics Rules (Vote 15) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Budget Resolution (Vote 69) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Tax Cuts (Vote 165) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Patients' Rights (Vote 220) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Farm Bill (Vote 273) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Use of Force Resolution (Vote 281) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Anti-Terrorism (Vote 313) |
December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Base Closings (Vote 286) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Ergonomics Rules (Vote 33) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Tax Cuts (Vote 45) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Education (Vote 130) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Arsenic Standards (Vote 288) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Campaign Finance (Vote 228) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Drilling in ANWR (Vote 317) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Human Cloning (Vote 302) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Patients' Rights (Vote 329) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Defense (Vote 342) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Farm Bill (Vote 366) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Anti-Terrorism (Vote 398) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Aviation Security (Vote 423) |
December 22 - House Key Vote: Fast Track Trade Authority (Vote 481) |
December 22 - Stimulus Bill Succumbs, Taking Tax Issues With It |
December 22 - Tax 'Extenders' Stall |
December 22 - Appropriations Season Concludes, But Big Battles, Red Ink Await Next Year |
December 22 - Supplemental Highlights |
December 22 - Experts Still Have No Ready Answers About How to Rid Hill of Anthrax |
December 22 - South Carolina's Wilson Sworn In at Last Minute, Completing Hill Roster |
December 22 - Blunt's Early Advantage in Whip Race Dissuades Some Challengers, But LaHood Hopes for an Upset |
December 22 - Farm Groups' Intense Pressure Fails to Breach Partisan Walls |
December 22 - Returning Issues |
December 22 - Labor-HHS Bill Boosts Funding, Steers Clear of Controversy |
December 22 - Education Bill Gives Both Parties Achievements to Tout, Concessions to Explain |
December 22 - Terrorism Insurance Measure Stalls, With Economic Effects to Be Seen |
December 22 - Homeland Security Measures, Including Bio-Terrorism Programs, To Head to Conference in January |
December 22 - Capital Infusion, Help From Biden Buy Time for Amtrak As Self-Sufficiency Deadline Nears |
December 22 - The 1997 AMTRAK Rescue |
December 22 - Wireless License Sale Measure Dies |
December 22 - Brownfields Redevelopment Measure Clears |
December 22 - Lower SEC Fees Bill Clears Congress |
December 22 - Congress Clears Bill to Aid Makers of Pediatric Remedies |
December 22 - Justice Authorization Set for Conference |
December 22 - Senate Confirms Georgia Judge, Leaves Others for Next Year |
December 22 - Bill to Tighten Student Visas Waits on Senate |
December 22 - House Clears Bill to Limit Public Disclosure by Judges |
December 22 - New NASA Chief Confirmed |
December 22 - Student Loan Bill Snagged by Democrat Dispute |
December 22 - B-2's Success in Afghanistan Reinvigorates Proponents |
December 22 - Bill Takes Incremental Approach Toward Reshaping the Military |
December 22 - Final Foreign Operations Bill Focuses on Traditional Priorities; Afghanistan to Be Addressed Later |
December 22 - Congress Clears Defense Bill; Boeing Wins Plan to Lease New Tankers for Refueling |
December 22 - Fast-Track Opponents All but Throw in the Towel As Bill Advances in Senate |
December 22 - Democrats Still Seeking to Block Reich Nomination |
December 22 - House Demands Iraq Allow Inspections |
December 22 - House Passes Bills for Anti-Terrorism Treaties |
December 22 - International Court Provision Dropped in Conference |
December 22 - Military Aid Bill Includes Debt Relief for Russia |
December 22 - Senate Bills Would Create Commissions to Probe Sept. 11 |