 February 3 - Bush Crusades on Many Fronts To Retake President's Turf |
| February 10 - FOREIGN AID: Byrd Adds His Weight to Call For Closer Look at Funding |
| March 10 - Line Begins for Ride on Spending Bill |
| March 24 - Panama-Nicaragua Money Bill Tangled in Other Issues |
| March 31 - Funds for Panama, Nicaragua Move Down Hill Runway |
| March 31 - Supplemental Appropriations (chart) |
| March 31 - Supplemental Bill To Give Bush What He Asked, and More |
| April 7 - Fiscal 1990 Supplemental (chart) |
| April 7 - House Gives Nod to Increase In Fiscal 1990 Spending |
| April 7 - Politics, Salvador Issue Delay Panama-Nicaragua Funds |
| April 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Bill Markup Planned |
| April 21 - Dole Dust-up Over Jerusalem Touches Sensitive Nerve |
| April 28 - Abortion Fight Resumes |
| April 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Approves Line-Item Veto |
| April 28 - Fiscal 1990 Supplemental (chart) |
| April 28 - Supplemental Spending Bill Stuck on Senate Floor |
| May 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Death Penalty Issue Entangles Abortion Funding Question |
| May 5 - Budget Battles Postponed |
| May 5 - Fiscal 1990 Supplemental (chart) |
| May 5 - Senate Approves Spending Bill, Puts Off the Biggest Fights |
| May 12 - Add-Ons Hold Up Conferees On Supplemental Spending |
| May 19 - Bush Has Add-Ons, Too |
| May 19 - Deal Near on Supplemental As House Lards the Bill |
| May 19 - Hill's Insistence on HUD Pork Seems About To Pay Off |
| May 19 - Where the Grants Would Go |
| May 26 - A Pork-Heavy Supplemental Is Belatedly Sent to Bush |
| May 26 - Fiscal 1990 Supplemental (chart) |
| May 26 - Not So Dire Emergencies (chart) |
| June 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Super Collider Gets Full Nod In Energy Spending Bill |
| June 9 - PROVISIONS: 1990 Supplemental |
| June 9 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce, Justice Funds OK'd by House Panel |
| June 16 - Abortion Issue Could Threaten Natcher's Control of His Bill |
| June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committee OKs Spending Bill |
| June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy-Water Bill Goes to Floor |
| June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel Moves Treasury Bill |
| June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: HUD-VA Funding OK'd by Panel |
| June 16 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 16 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
| June 16 - House Panel Acts To Shift Foreign Aid Priorities |
| June 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Includes Funds For S and L Probe |
| June 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves First 1991 Bill |
| June 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Panel Drafts $13.1 Billion Spending Bill |
| June 23 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 23 - Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill |
| June 23 - Super Collider Paves the Way For Members' Pork Projects |
| June 23 - Water Projects (chart) |
| June 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: 4 Spending Bills Done in House |
| June 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves Spending Bill For Commerce, Justice, State |
| June 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: HUD-VA Bill Survives Attempts To Reduce Large Increase |
| June 30 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 30 - Roasting the Archenemy of Pork |
| June 30 - VA-HUD Appropriations (chart) |
| July 14 - 11th-Hour Deal on OIRA |
| July 14 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart) |
| July 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Action Is Ahead Of Last Year |
| July 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Would Allow D.C. Abortions |
| July 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committees Resolve Turf War Over Airport Trust Fund |
| July 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Harmony on Labor-HHS May End on Abortion Issue |
| July 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Secret Service Gets the Jump On S and L Bailout Crackdown |
| July 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Whitten Cuts Crop Insurance; Food Stamps Get Big Boost |
| July 14 - Labor-HHS Appropriations (chart) |
| July 14 - Transportation Appropriations (chart) |
| July 14 - Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations (chart) |
| July 21 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart) |
| July 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Cut No Quick Sale |
| July 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Committee Approves Military Construction Bill |
| July 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Partisan Sparring Punctuates Passage of Labor-HHS Bill |
| July 21 - Appropriators Go To Work (chart) |
| July 21 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
| July 21 - Labor-HHS-Education Funding (chart) |
| July 21 - SECTION NOTES: D.C. Abortion Language Sent to House Floor |
| July 21 - Senate Appropriators Approve Energy-Water Funding Bill |
| July 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Action Slows In House |
| July 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Increased Spending On Congress OK'd |
| July 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Finishes Transportation Bill |
| July 28 - Both Chambers Ready Plans For Long-term Reductions |
| July 28 - Boxing With Shadows |
| July 28 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: House Passes Spending Bill |
| July 28 - Rare Spotted Owl Lands in Lap Of Interior Subcommittee |
| July 28 - Transportation Appropriations (chart) |
| August 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Postpones Mail Debate |
| August 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Pork-Barrel Interests Evident In Senate Treasury Bill |
| August 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Oks Energy-Water Bill; Spending Exceeds Bush Plan |
| August 4 - Funding for Major Weapons (chart) |
| August 4 - House Panel's Diet Defense Bill Would Cancel B-2 Production |
| August 4 - House Slices Bush's Request In Passing $8.6 Billion Bill |
| August 4 - Military Construction Spending (chart) |
| August 4 - Trying to Trim Bills Proves Fruitless When 'Vote Now, Cut Later' Prevails |
| August 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Bill Passed by Senate |
| August 11 - Senate Bill Redirects 'Star Wars' Away From 'Brilliant Pebbles' |
| August 25 - Inflammatory Issue of Abortion Will Show Up in a Number of Bills |
| September 15 - AIDS Programs Get No Increase In Senate's Labor-HHS Bill |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Amendment Bolsters Funds For Crime, Persian Gulf |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Would Ensure Crop Protection |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Extraneous Items Snag D.C. Bill |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Farm Bureau Leads the Lobby Against Legal Aid Lawyers |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Inches Toward Goal Of 10 Bills in Two Weeks |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Drops $2 Billion In Housing, Space Funds |
| September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Plan For Federal Pay |
| September 15 - Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations (chart) |
| September 22 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart) |
| September 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: Food Program Bill Gets Panel's Nod |
| September 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: Trash War Dumped Into D.C. Bill |
| September 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Spending Gets Backing |
| September 29 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Funding Bill Passed by Senate |
| September 29 - VA-HUD Funds (chart) |
| October 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Battle Over Cuts Begins Anew After House Rejection |
| October 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committee Expands Oil Drilling Bans |
| October 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes $7.98 Billion Bill For Military Construction |
| October 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Subcommittee Bill Slows Cutback |
| October 6 - Interior Spending (chart) |
| October 6 - MILITARY SPENDING: Some Say Hefty Defense Slice Is Too Big for Its Own Good |
| October 6 - Senate Challenges Kemp Over Special Projects |
| October 6 - Subcommittee Focuses on Gulf In Making Funding Decisions |
| October 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Abortion Issue Roils Debate On Labor-HHS Measure |
| October 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, Justice, State Bill Gets Law-and-Order Focus |
| October 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy Bill Slices Super Collider |
| October 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Garbage Provision Dies in D.C. Bill |
| October 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tough Policy Issues Go With Aid Bill |
| October 13 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| October 13 - House-Passed Defense Bill Reflects Gulf Crisis |
| October 13 - OBSCENITY DEBATE: House Approves Compromise On Arts Endowment Bill |
| October 13 - Spending Allocations (chart) |
| October 13 - The Nine Lives of the B-2 |
| October 20 - A Rush on Spending Bills |
| October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Standoff in Abortion Battle Keeps Funding Ban Intact |
| October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Reach Agreement On Federal Pay Overhaul |
| October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy, Water Bill Passed by House |
| October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Compromise Suggests New Franking Restrictions |
| October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: House OKs Transportation Bill, Drops Drug, Radar Provisions |
| October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Programs Beat Out HUD On Conferees' Priority List |
| October 20 - Byrd Wields His Influence To Sway NEA Battle |
| October 20 - Defense Spending (chart) |
| October 20 - FOREIGN AID: Effort To Amend Measure Seen as Sign to Israel |
| October 20 - Giving Up the Gramm-Rudman Ax |
| October 20 - Protecting Fort Bragg's Birds |
| October 20 - Recapping the Budget Struggle |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce, Justice, State Conference Accord |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Military Construction Measure Gains House Approval |
| October 20 - Senate Approves Its Version Of Defense Spending Bill |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: $2 Million Education Council Entangles $182 Billion Bill |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: $80 Billion VA-HUD Measure Is Cleared for President |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: After D.C. Funding Bill Fails, Abortion's Impact Debated |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, Justice Funds Clear |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Clears Agriculture Bill |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Sees Need for More To Run Its Own Operations |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy and Water Bill Is Cleared |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Packwood's 'God Squad' Plan Fails To Make Funding Bill |
| October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Pay Reform Bill Clears House |
| October 27 - Congress Removes Restrictions On Federal Arts Funding |
| October 27 - Defense Authorization (chart) |
| October 27 - Defense Authorization Bill Cleared for President |
| October 27 - Fourth Stopgap Bill Enacted |
| October 27 - Military Construction (chart) |
| October 27 - Military Construction Bill Blocks NATO Base Plan |
| October 27 - SECTION NOTES: Transportation Funding Cleared by Senate |
| October 27 - Where They Are (chart) |
| November 3 - A Reluctant Congress Passes $15 Billion Assistance Bill |
| November 3 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart) |
| November 3 - AGRICULTURE: Crop Insurance Is Preserved |
| November 3 - D.C. Appropriations (chart) |
| November 3 - Defense Spending (chart) |
| November 3 - DISTRICT of COLUMBIA: Abortion-Free Bill OK'd by Senate |
| November 3 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
| November 3 - ENERGY and WATER: Spending Measure Cleared for Bush |
| November 3 - Fiscal 1991 Appropriations for Commerce |
| November 3 - Fiscal 1991 Appropriations for Labor, |
| November 3 - Fiscal 1991 Spending (chart) |
| November 3 - Foreign Aid Appropriations |
| November 3 - Funding for Major Weapons (chart) |
| November 3 - HEALTH: Congress Clears Flurry of Bills In Finals Days of Session |
| November 3 - Interior Spending (chart) |
| November 3 - INTERIOR: Senate Clears Bans On Oil Drilling |
| November 3 - LEGISLATIVE BRANCH: Hill Votes Funding Increase For Its Own Operations |
| November 3 - Legislative Spending (chart) |
| November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Defense and Foreign Policy |
| November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Economics and Finance |
| November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Government and Commerce |
| November 3 - Military Construction (chart) |
| November 3 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Pentagon Eases Veto Stance On $8.4 Billion Measure |
| November 3 - One Outcome of Budget Package: Higher Deficits on the Way |
| November 3 - Senate Clears Military Bill After Panel Squabbles |
| November 3 - Transportation Appropriations (chart) |
| November 3 - TRANSPORTATION: Cleared for Bush: $12.9 Billion Bill |
| November 3 - Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations (chart) |
| November 3 - TREASURY/POSTAL: Pay Reform Bill Clears House |
| November 3 - VA-HUD Funds (chart) |
| November 3 - VA/HUD: Space Scores Win In Spending Test |
| November 3 - YEAR-END ROUNDUP: Congress Cranks Out 13 Bills In Last 8 Days of Session |
