 January 2 - CCC to Abide by Whitten in Funding Dispute Foes Hope to Prevail In Next Budget Cycle |
| January 2 - Final Provisions, Fiscal 1988 Labor-HHS Appropriations |
| January 2 - Fiscal 1988 Legislative Appropriations (Chart) |
| January 2 - Fiscal 1988 Transportation Funds (Chart) |
| January 2 - Funding Breakdown for Commerce/Justice/State (Chart) |
| January 2 - Immigration Controversy Avoided: Commerce, Justice, State Get $13.9 Billion |
| January 2 - Many Labor-HHS Programs Win Fund Increases |
| January 2 - Rural Speed Limit Can Be Raised: Transportation Spending Plan Bans Smoking on Brief Flights |
| January 9 - $13 Billion Pared From '88 Pentagon Spending |
| January 9 - 'Non-disclosure' Agreements Suspended: Treasury-Postal Funding Adds New Staff for Customs Service |
| January 9 - Defense Program Spending, Fiscal 1988 (chart) |
| January 9 - Federal Funding Reduced by $10 Million: District Caught in Fiscal '88 Budget Squeeze |
| January 9 - Fiscal 1988 Appropriations Approved... |
| January 9 - Fiscal 1988 D.C. Appropriations (chart) |
| January 9 - Fiscal 1988 Energy/Water Funding (chart) |
| January 9 - Fiscal 1988 HUD/Independent Agency Funds (chart) |
| January 9 - Fiscal 1988 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
| January 9 - Fiscal 1988 Treasury, Postal Funding (chart) |
| January 9 - Funding Set at $15.6 Billion: Nuclear Activities Dominate Energy and Water Spending |
| January 9 - Military Construction Funding Is Chopped (chart) |
| January 9 - New Sunflower Program Dropped: FY '88 Bill Provides $56 Billion For Agriculture and Nutrition |
| January 9 - Sen. Byrd's Clean-Coal Plan OK'd: Interior Spending Exceeds Reagan's Request |
| January 9 - Slightly Less Than Fiscal '87: $57 Billion Provided for Housing, VA, Others |
| February 6 - 'Security Aid; Totals, Fiscal 1987-88 (chart) |
| February 6 - One Option: Reshuffling Funds Administration Seeks to Ease Sting of Foreign Aid Cutbacks |
| April 2 - HUD Funding, 1978-89 (chart) |
| May 7 - House Appropriations Panels Start 'FY 89 Markup |
| May 14 - $8.8 Billion OK'd for Military Projects |
| May 14 - Anti-Drug Provision: What Does It Mean? |
| May 14 - Committee Approves 1.6 Percent Increase: Members Will Air Complaints As House Debates Its Funding |
| May 14 - Consensus Breathes Life Into Aid Spending Bill |
| May 14 - House, Senate Budget Panels Agree to Disagree |
| May 14 - No Construction Start for Supercollider: Fiscal '89 Energy, Water Bill Holds Off on New Projects |
| May 14 - Panel Recommends $10.7 Billion: NASA Request Cut to Fund Other Programs |
| May 14 - Science Panel Approves $11.5 Billion for NASA |
| May 21 - Alternative Sought to Walker Drug Measure |
| May 21 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
| May 21 - Fiscal 1989 Legislative Appropriations (chart) |
| May 21 - Military Construction Appropriations (chart) |
| May 21 - Most Cuts Rejected: House Approves $1.4 Billion To Pay for Running Congress |
| May 21 - Senate Allocations: Budget Vs. Appropriations (chart) |
| May 21 - Slight Increase in Funding: House Votes $8.8 Billion for Building Projects |
| May 21 - Spending Bills Advance Without a Blueprint: Budget Conferees Again Fail to Reach Accord |
| May 28 - $60 Billion HUD Bill Approved: Spending Tug of War Intensifies Between NASA, Other Programs |
| May 28 - Cap on Honey Loans Added: Agriculture Spending Bill Draws Veto Threat |
| May 28 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
| May 28 - Panel OKs Increase in Transportation Budget |
| May 28 - Smith Protests Funding: 'Just Isn't Enough' |
| June 4 - Panel OKs Defense, Treasury Spending Bills |
| June 11 - $9.3 Billion Spending Bill OK'd: Panel Adds Drilling Moratorium To Interior Appropriations Bill |
| June 11 - Energy and Water Spending Bill OK'd: Senate Panel Agrees to Delay Key Decision on Supercollider |
| June 11 - Objections Raised to Abortion Language: House Committee Approves Labor-HHS Spending Measure |
| June 11 - Panel Approves $3.7 Billion for D.C. |
| June 11 - Panel OKs Legislative Spending Bill |
| June 11 - Pentagon Money Bill Makes Early House Debut |
| June 11 - Veto Threat Issued: Small Funding Hike OK'd for Transportation |
| June 18 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 18 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
| June 18 - Fiscal 1989 Agriculture Funding (chart) |
| June 18 - Fiscal 1989 HUD/Agency Funds (chart) |
| June 18 - House Passes Incomplete Bill: Commerce, Justice, State Funding Bill Advances |
| June 18 - Includes $1.2 Billion to Combat AIDS: House Passes $135.8 Billion Labor-HHS Bill |
| June 18 - Interior Spending Bill Approved: House Panel Rebuffs Challenge To Offshore-Oil-Leasing Ban |
| June 18 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| June 18 - Members Exclude Themselves From Pay Raise: House, Senate Committee OK Treasury-Postal Service Funds |
| June 18 - Military Construction Appropriations (chart) |
| June 18 - Reagan Proposals Ignored: House Approves $44.1 Billion In Spending for Agriculture |
| June 18 - Senate Approves Hill Spending Bill |
| June 18 - Senate Sidesteps Fight, Votes Building Funds |
| June 18 - Space Station Decision Delayed: Their Backs Up Against a Wall, Appropriators Give Up UDAG |
| June 18 - Spending Bill Becomes Vehicle for Power Struggle |
| June 18 - Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations (chart) |
| June 25 - Abortion Language Brings Veto Threat: Senate Committee Approves Labor-HHS Funding Measure |
| June 25 - Conferees Agree on Energy and Water Funding |
| June 25 - Dispute Over 'Scoring': Oil-Leasing Controversy Dogs Interior Bill |
| June 25 - Dispute Over CCC Funding: House, Senate at Odds on Agriculture Spending |
| June 25 - Fiscal 1989 Agriculture Funding (chart) |
| June 25 - Fiscal 1989 HUD/Agency Funds (chart) |
| June 25 - House Votes Defense Appropriations (chart) |
| June 25 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| June 25 - Panel Blocks Full Abortion Ban for D.C. |
| June 25 - Pay Raise Included for Federal Workers: Senate Weighs Treasury-Postal Funding Bill |
| June 25 - Salvador-Aid Issue Re-Emerges in Senate Panel |
| June 25 - Senate Panel Approves Funding Bill |
| June 25 - Turf Fight Surfaces Over House Rule: $10.6 Billion OK'd for Transportation Programs |
| June 25 - UDAG Bites the Dust: Space Station Survives Money-Tight HUD Bills |
| June 25 - War Declared Over Report-Language Issue |
| July 2 - $282 Billion Spending Legislation: Contra, NASA Battles Loom on Defense Bill |
| July 2 - Bars Enforcement of Residency Rule: House Passes D.C. Funding Bill, With Rider |
| July 2 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
| July 2 - Fiscal 1989 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
| July 2 - House Defies Reagan in Transportation Bill |
| July 2 - Interior Spending Measure Passed: House Meets Deadline on Appropriations Bills |
| July 2 - Senate OKs Treasury-Postal Funding |
| July 2 - Spending Bill for Energy and Water Approved |
| July 9 - Abortion, Residency Rule, Gay Rights: Senate Snarled Over D.C. Funding Measure |
| July 9 - Controversial Issues Sidestepped: Senate Easily Passes Foreign Aid Funding Bill |
| July 9 - Senate Clears Energy/Water Funding Bill |
| July 9 - Stance on FY 1988 Spending Reversed: OMB's Miller Backs Away From Report-Language Battle |
| July 16 - Far More Than Administration Sought: Senate Approves $10.6 Billion For Transportation Programs |
| July 16 - House Gets Peek at Supplemental Spending Bill |
| July 16 - NASA Wins, UDAGs Lose in Senate HUD Bill |
| July 16 - Riders Burden D.C. Spending Bill |
| July 16 - Senate Shifts Oil Drilling Speedup to Alaska |
| July 30 - Amendments Held for Second Measure: House OKs 'Dire Emergency' Supplemental Bill |
| July 30 - Appropriations Set at $15 Billion: Commerce, Justice, State Funding Approved |
| July 30 - Labor-HHS Funding Bill Passed: Curbs on Abortion Funding Relaxed Slightly by Senate |
| July 30 - Penalty Urged on Pension Cash-outs |
| July 30 - Senate Passes Agriculture Spending Bill |
| August 6 - $59.4 Billion Plan Approved: Conferees Save Space Station, Cut Housing, EPA, VA, FEMA |
| August 6 - 'Dire' Spending Bill Stalled by Contra-Aid Fight |
| August 6 - House Seeks to Boost LIHEAP Funding |
| August 6 - Treasury-Postal Conference Stalls |
| August 13 - Accord Reached on Treasury-Postal Funding: Conferees OK Pay Raise, but Not for Congress |
| August 13 - Agreement Reached on All Other Points: Labor-HHS Conference Ends; Abortion Issue Still Unsettled |
| August 13 - Conferees Agree on Interior Spending Bill |
| August 13 - Congress Clears 'Dire' Fiscal 1988 Spending Bill |
| August 13 - Dukakis' Endorsement of Space Station Sought |
| August 13 - On Burden-Sharing, a Softening of the Blow |
| August 13 - Senate Sets Stage to Renew Defense Debate |
| August 27 - Reagan Signs Second of 13 Appropriations Bills (chart) |
| September 3 - 100th Congress Will Finish on a Partisan Note |
| September 10 - Bill Sent to Reagan: House, Senate Split Differences On Interior Appropriations Bill |
| September 10 - Conferees Agree on Military Construction Funding |
| September 10 - First Time Since 1980: Congress Clears Treasury-Postal Funding Bill |
| September 10 - Fiscal 1989 Treasury, Postal Funding (chart) |
| September 10 - Funding Bill Caught in Election-Year Squeeze |
| September 10 - Labor Plan Imperils Transportation Bill |
| September 10 - Next Move Is Up to Senate: Abortion Fights Stall Action on Labor-HHS Bill |
| September 10 - Thoughts Turning to Year-End 'CR' |
| September 17 - $8.8 Billion Pentagon Construction Bill Clears |
| September 17 - Final Fiscal 1989 Labor-HHS Appropriations (chart) |
| September 17 - Fiscal 1989 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
| September 17 - Military Construction Funding (chart) |
| September 17 - Senate Caves on Abortion Funding: Congress Clears Labor-HHS Spending Bill |
| September 17 - Split Over Labor Plan Stalls Transportation Bill |
| September 17 - Thirteen Spending Bills: Halfway There |
| September 24 - Agreement Sought on Agriculture Spending |
| September 24 - Conferees Reach Agreement: Funding OK'd For Commerce, Justice, State |
| September 24 - Could Mean First Bill Since 1981: Foreign Aid Conferees Agree After All-Night Talks |
| September 24 - Members Bow to Veto Threat: Conferees Drop Labor Items, Agree on Transportation Bill |
| September 24 - Reagan Vows Not to Sign 'CR': Wright, Byrd Pushing to Finish All 13 Spending Bills by Oct. 1 |
| October 1 - Congress Dictates to City: |
| October 1 - Congress Races to Complete Spending Bills |
| October 1 - Controversial Provisions Dropped: |
| October 1 - Defense Impasse Over; Both Sides See Victory |
| October 1 - Fight Over Legal Services: Congress Clears Spending Bill For Commerce, Justice, State |
| October 1 - Fiscal 1989 Transportation Funds (chart) |
| October 1 - Foreign Aid Appropriations, Fiscal 1989 (chart) |
| October 1 - Funding Breakdown for Commerce/Justice/State (chart) |
| October 1 - Legislative Appropriations: |
| October 1 - More Funds for Drug Interdiction: $11 Billion Transportation Spending Bill Clears |
| October 1 - Rare Aid Funding Bill Comes Down to the Wire |
| October 1 - Reagan Signs Spending Bill for Interior |
| October 1 - Regular Appropriation Bills Cleared by Start of Fiscal Year |
| October 8 - 11th-Hour Lobbying Rescued Foreign Aid Bill |
| October 8 - Congress Clears Spending Bills at Last Minute |
| October 8 - Last Stop for Defense Bill: 'Earmark' Fight |
| October 15 - Fiscal 1989 Defense Appropriations: The Final Totals (chart) |
| October 15 - Pentagon Money Bill Sticks to 'Summit' Script |
| October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Appropriations |
| November 12 - Senate Appropriations Panel Faces Shake-up |
| December 10 - Atkins Gets Appropriations Slot: Kennedy Muscle No Match for House Seniority |
| December 17 - Budget Timetable for Fiscal 1990 (chart) |
