 January 8 - DEFENDING NEW YORK'S MAYOR: Bond Challenges HUD Over Funds for Homeless |
| January 8 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Congress Likely To Be Asked To Provide Billions in Aid If Mideast Talks Succeed |
| January 15 - BUDGET: Clinton Makes His Cuts |
| January 15 - BUDGET: Shorter Budget Calendar Threatens Republican Plans For an Expedited Process |
| January 22 - BUDGET: Harnessing the Surplus |
| January 22 - EDUCATION: Schools Bursting With Issues |
| January 22 - The Surprising Cost of Budget-Busting |
| January 29 - STATE OF THE UNION: Even GOP's Toughest Budget Hawks Perceive Fiscal Caps' Time Has Passed |
| February 5 - BUDGET: A Legacy of Budget Surpluses And Thriving Markets |
| February 5 - BUDGET: GOP Leaders Push for 2-Year Budget Cycles |
| February 5 - Shuster Raises a Flap Over Airline Taxes |
| February 19 - BUDGET: House and Senate Republicans About $20 Billion Apart on Discretionary Spending Limit |
| February 19 - Dominant Voices |
| February 26 - INDUSTRY REGULATION: Ergonomics Debate: a Brief History |
| February 26 - INDUSTRY REGULATION: The Administration's Proposal |
| February 26 - INDUSTRY REGULATION: Washington's Repetitive Stress Over Ergonomics Rules |
| March 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP's Expensive Reply To Clinton Supplemental: Spend More -- Lots More |
| April 1 - House Sets a Costly Example For Senate's Supplemental |
| April 8 - AGRICULTURE |
| April 8 - COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND JUDICIARY |
| April 8 - DEFENSE |
| April 8 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA |
| April 8 - ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT |
| April 8 - Foreign Operations |
| April 8 - INTERIOR |
| April 8 - LABOR-HHS |
| April 8 - LEGISLATIVE BRANCH |
| April 8 - Lott vs. the Hill's Spenders: No-Win Battle for GOP? |
| April 8 - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION |
| April 8 - Prompt and Parsimonious |
| April 8 - Stall on Supplemental Spending Leaves Host of Sticky Issues |
| April 8 - The Bills |
| April 8 - TRANSPORTATION |
| April 8 - TREASURY- POSTAL |
| April 8 - VA-HUD |
| April 8 - Where the Money May Go |
| April 29 - GOP Leaders Ready to Move Spending Bills Onto Fast Track, With Some Meaty Measures First |
| May 6 - Agriculture Spending Bills Advance Quickly Despite Controversial Riders |
| May 6 - Military Construction Bill With First Anti-Missile Steps Gets House Panel's Approval |
| May 6 - Stringent Spending Allocations Bring Warnings From Democrats And Worry Some Republicans |
| May 6 - Voicing Regret Over Tight Budget, Panel Votes to Cut Hundreds From Legislative Branch Payroll |
| May 13 - Agriculture Spending Bills Host Debates on Tobacco, International Sanctions |
| May 13 - Effort to End Kosovo Mission Adds Drama to Senate Debate On Military Construction Bill |
| May 13 - House Defense Appropriators Target Army Mobility, Joint Strike Fighter |
| May 13 - House Panel Votes to Chop Legislative Branch Staffing, Counting on Senate Refusal |
| May 13 - Labor-HHS Spending Bills Bolt Out of the Starting Gate, But Clinton Digs In His Heels |
| May 13 - Piggyback Supplemental Aid May Get a Rough Ride |
| May 13 - Worried About Entanglement In Colombia, Senate Panel Slashes Clinton's Anti-Drug Aid Request |
| May 20 - Both Military Construction Bills Pass |
| May 20 - Interior Bill Moves in House With Perennial String of Riders, Cuts in Many Clinton Requests |
| May 20 - Senate Committee Approves Defense Spending Bill, Adding $4.1 Billion for Overseas Missions |
| May 20 - Senators Vote to Raise Spending On Legislative Branch Operations As House Leaders Rethink Cuts |
| May 20 - Stepped-Up Funding Abounds In House Transportation Bill; Shuster Thwarts Add-Ons |
| May 27 - Cash-Strapped VA-HUD Panel Cuts Several Clinton Initiatives |
| May 27 - Feuding Slows Legislative Branch Bill |
| May 27 - Fight Over Cuba Sanctions, Procedural Maneuvers Hold Up Agriculture Bill |
| May 27 - House Defense Bill Lifts Spending, Avoids Policy Confrontations |
| May 27 - House Interior Bill Threatened With Veto Over Funding Levels And 'Damaging' Policy Riders |
| May 27 - House Labor-HHS Bill Approved As Both GOP and Democrats Vow to Fight for More Money |
| May 27 - Senate Feud Stalls Lott's Supplemental Strategy |
| May 27 - Senate's Agriculture Supplemental Sprouts Special Projects |
| June 10 - House Braces for More Slow Going On Labor-HHS Spending Bill As GOP Leaders Scramble for Support |
| June 10 - House Committee Approves Frugal VA-HUD Measure, Expecting More Money Later |
| June 10 - House Markup of CJS Bill Sets Stage for Long Struggle Over Unpopular Cuts |
| June 10 - Politics of Parsimony Slows GOP Efforts To Move Spending Measures |
| June 17 - Energy, Water Spending Bill Moves in House |
| June 17 - House Panel Approves CJS Bill After Pitched Battles Over Peacekeeping, Guns, Tobacco |
| June 17 - House Passes Interior Bill After Deleting GOP Restrictions On Monuments Designated by Clinton |
| June 17 - Leaders Continue to Weigh Options for Emergency Spending As Prospects for Single Package Fade |
| June 17 - Senate Passes Lean Transportation Bill, Expecting It to Bulk Up in Conference |
| June 17 - Senate-Passed Defense Bill Differs Little From House's |
| June 17 - VA-HUD Bill Poised for Vote On House Floor |
| June 24 - Big Earmarks on Campus |
| June 24 - GOP Hopes to Clear Supplemental With a $12 Billion Ceiling In Time to Avert Pentagon Cuts |
| June 24 - House Panel Tightens Spigot On Energy-Water Spending, Hoping for More Money Later |
| June 24 - House Passes Spending Bill For Legislative Branch After Rescinding Severe Cuts |
| June 24 - House Passes VA-HUD Spending Bill With Smoking, Smog and Gun Provisions |
| June 24 - House Votes to Allow Justice to Tap Funds From Other Agencies for Tobacco Suit |
| June 24 - Senate Panel Easily Approves Interior Spending Measure With Rough Snowmobiling Ahead |
| June 24 - Senate's Labor-HHS Bill Commandeered as Vehicle For Political Power Plays |
| July 1 - Agriculture Spending Bill Debate Centers on Sugar Price Supports |
| July 1 - Beam Me Up, Mr. Speaker! |
| July 1 - Foreign Aid and U.S. Schools |
| July 1 - GOP Drug Plan Prevails |
| July 1 - House Foreign Aid Spending Bill Retains Provisions Opposed by Clinton |
| July 1 - House Passes Energy and Water Bill That Addresses Soaring Fuel Prices But Funds No New Water Projects |
| July 1 - House-Passed CJS Spending Bill Allows Enforcement of Gun Deal, Retains Cuts in U.N. Peacekeeping |
| July 1 - Senate Sends Conference Report On Military Construction Spending To an Expected Clinton Signature |
| July 1 - Urgency, Secrecy Carry the Day As Congress Clears Supplemental |
| July 15 - Contentious Conference |
| July 15 - Defense Bill Conferees Hold Details of Agreement Till Cost Trims Are Found |
| July 15 - Democrats Decry Low IRS Funds In House Treasury-Postal Bill |
| July 15 - Democrats Say No Way To Social Policy Riders In D.C. Spending Bill |
| July 15 - GOP Leaders Back Clinton's Request To Spend More on Enforcing Gun Laws |
| July 15 - GOP's Plan: Surrender Now, Save Strength for Elections |
| July 15 - Holbrooke Warns of Collision Between Peacekeeping Needs And Spending Constraints |
| July 15 - House Agriculture Spending Bill Passes With Contentious Provisions On Food Safety, Environment |
| July 15 - House Passes Foreign Aid Bill With Increase for Debt Relief |
| July 15 - Israel Won't Sell Radar to China |
| July 15 - Senate Panel's Energy-Water Bill Would Sharply Boost Spending for Defense Programs, Nuclear Security |
| July 15 - Western Senators Back Down On Road-Building, Snowmobiling Provisions in Interior Spending Bill |
| July 22 - Angry Senate Democrats Shackle Energy-Water Bill |
| July 22 - Camouflage-Green Defense Bill Poised for President's Signature |
| July 22 - D.C. Spending Bill Moves; Democrats Call It 'Signable' If Riders Are Kept in Check |
| July 22 - Senate Panel Reins In Spending For Peacekeeping, Tobacco Suit In Commerce-Justice-State Bill |
| July 22 - Senate Passes Interior Spending Bill Without Several Veto-Bait Riders |
| July 22 - Senate-Passed Agriculture Bill Adds Heavily to Emergency Funds |
| July 22 - Some Cuba Sanctions Blocked In House Treasury-Postal Bill |
| July 22 - Spending Bill for Congress Is Passed by Senate; Must Be Reconciled With House Cuts |
| July 29 - Conflict Over Contraceptives Stalls D.C. Bill |
| July 29 - GOP Conferees Give In to Clinton On Labor-HHS Spending Level, But Intend to Fight Over Priorities |
| July 29 - GOP's Failed Bid to Bypass Debate On Treasury-Postal Spending Bill May Set Stage for Deal in Fall |
| July 29 - Legislative Branch Measure Held Up by House Leaders' Post-Conference Add-Ons |
| July 29 - Republican Leaders Boxed In As Spending Measures Languish |
| July 29 - Senate Clears Project-Laden Defense Bill |
| August 5 - Transportation Bill Conference Driven By National Drunken Driving Standard, Limitation of Truckers' Road Hours |
| September 2 - Administration Threatens Veto Of Transportation Spending Bill If Truck Safety Rule Is Stalled |
| September 9 - Senate Passes Energy-Water Bill Without Resolving Issue Of Missouri River Water Release |
| September 9 - Strategic Discord Among Republicans Continues to Impede Spending Bills |
| September 16 - D.C. Spending Bill Passes in House With Riders to Ban Youth Smoking, Restrict Needle-Exchange Programs |
| September 16 - Foreign Aid Spending Bill May Hit Snag Over Call to Increase Funds to Colombia |
| September 16 - House Passes 'Mini-Omnibus' Bill Combining Spending for Congress, Treasury, Postal Service; Veto Likely |
| September 16 - Senate VA-HUD Measure Yields To Most White House Demands |
| September 23 - Catchall Treasury-Postal Bill's Defeat Upends GOP's 'Mini-Omnibus' Plan And Heartens Opponents of Pay Raise |
| September 23 - CJS Spending Bill Will Bypass Senate Floor |
| September 23 - GOP Tries to Patch Its Divisions As Spending Bill Strategy Collapses |
| September 23 - Imminent Deal on Lands Proposal Could Clear Interior Spending Bill, But Policy Riders May Prompt Veto |
| September 30 - Democrats Aim to Attach Immigration Proposals To Already Packed CJS Bill |
| September 30 - GOP Leaders' Move Toward Center Yields Gradual Progress on Bills |
| September 30 - House GOP Unveils Plan to Ease Cuba Embargo, Drug Import Rules In Strategy to Move Agriculture Bill |
| September 30 - Interior Spending Bill Heads For House Vote After Deal On Lands Fund, Policy Riders |
| September 30 - Senate Passes D.C. Measure; Conferees' Biggest Challenge Will Be Social Policy Riders |
| September 30 - Veto Likely for Energy-Water Spending Bill Despite Election-Year Pressure From Missouri |
| October 7 - An Immovable President Meets Irresistible Pork |
| October 7 - Both Parties View Prospective Veto Of Energy-Water Spending Bill As Leverage in Presidential Race |
| October 7 - Byrd Pushes to Give Steel Firms A Cut of Anti-Dumping Fines |
| October 7 - Chambers Pass Interior Bill With Big, Bipartisan Increase In Funding for Public Lands |
| October 7 - CJS Conferees Haggle Over Peacekeeping, Tobacco, Immigration; Ban on Honoraria for Judges Retained |
| October 7 - Drug Re-Importation, Cuba Sanctions Addressed in Compromise Agriculture Bill |
| October 7 - House Ties Debt Relief for Russia To Cessation of Missile Sales |
| October 7 - McCain's Anti-Pork Speeches Play Well on Stump, Fall Flat in Senate |
| October 7 - Negotiators Reach VA-HUD Deal That Embraces Most Clinton Priorities But Keeps Some GOP Policy Riders |
| October 7 - Tax Proposals Could Hitch Ride On Year-End Spending Bill |
| October 7 - The Likeliest Survivors |
| October 7 - Third World Debt Relief Still Stalled |
| October 7 - Treasury-Postal Bill Advances As Side Deal Adds More Money For IRS, Anti-Terrorism Efforts |
| October 14 - 'Mini-Omnibus' Treasury, Postal, Legislative Branch Spending Bill Clears With Phone Excise Tax Repeal |
| October 14 - Agriculture Spending Measure Heads for Senate Floor As Clinton Indicates Support |
| October 14 - Clinton Cites Missouri, California Provisions In Vetoing Energy-Water Appropriations Bill |
| October 14 - Clinton Promises His Signature On Compromise VA-HUD Bill |
| October 14 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending Remains Hung Up on Immigration, Tobacco, FCC Licensing Proposals |
| October 14 - Conferees Agree on Increase In Foreign Aid, Still Grapple With Abortion-Related Restrictions |
| October 14 - Conferees Reach Accord On Needle Exchange Issue, Freeing D.C. Spending Bill |
| October 14 - It Keeps Growing, and Growing. . . |
| October 14 - Outgoing Senators Share Some Wealth |
| October 14 - Senate Passes Energy-Water Bill After Stripping Out Restrictions On Management of Missouri River |
| October 14 - White House Draws Hard Line On Stopgap Spending Bills in Effort To Budge GOP in Policy Disputes |
| October 21 - Agriculture Spending Bill Sent to Clinton |
| October 21 - Armenian Resolution Vote Canceled at Clinton's Request |
| October 21 - Congress Sends Project-Laden VA-HUD Measure to Clinton |
| October 21 - Consensus Builds to Wrap Up War of Words on Spending Bills |
| October 21 - Foreign Aid Conferees at Impasse |
| October 21 - Republicans Expected to Welcome Back Floor Votes |
| October 21 - Tempers Flare as Democrats Push To Add More Education Funding To Labor-HHS Measure |
| October 21 - The Old College Try Pays Off |
| October 21 - Traficant May Get 'Beamed Out' of Democratic Caucus |
| October 28 - Aid for Russia |
| October 28 - Ballooning the Bottom Line: Blame Enough for Two Parties |
| October 28 - Foreign Aid Bill Gives Clinton Requested Debt Relief Funding |
| October 28 - Labor-HHS Spending Measure Is Likely Candidate for Omnibus |
| October 28 - Senate Hands Clinton CJS Bill; Immigration Issues at Heart of Veto Threat |
| November 4 - Treasury-Postal Bill in Play Following Veto |
| November 18 - Cantwell-Gorton Count Continues; GOP Leads in 4 of 5 Close House Races |
| November 18 - Clinton Asks More for Mideast |
| November 18 - D.C. Spending Bill Cleared After Being Split From Contentious C-J-S Measure |
| November 18 - Domenici to Seek Craig's Post |
| November 18 - First Test of Promised Comity Is Late Lame-Duck Session |
| November 18 - House Freshmen's Focus: Not Chads, But Nuts and Bolts of Capitol Life |
| November 18 - Partisan Anger Over Election Delays Spending Finale Yet Again |
| November 18 - With Leaders' Posts Uneventfully Filled, Chairmanship Competition Gets Serious |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Agriculture |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Appropriations Summary |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice, State |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Defense |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: District of Columbia |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Energy and Water |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2000 Supplemental |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Interior |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Military Construction |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Transportation |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Treasury, Postal Service |
| December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Veterans, Housing and Urban Development |
| December 16 - Education Funding Spared |
| December 16 - Immigration Deal Frees CJS Bill |
| December 16 - Omnibus Spending Deal Clears As White House Settles for Less |
