 January 12 - Will They Still Serve Pina Coladas On the Lido Deck? |
| January 19 - Bush to Seek Domestic Cuts To Pay for National Security |
| January 19 - Bush's Discretion on Use of Funds For International Family Planning Attracts Vigorous Lobbying |
| January 26 - After Years of Surpluses, Lawmakers Brace For Debate Over Belt-Tightening |
| February 2 - Daniels' Domestic Austerity Drive May Further Strain Relations With Hill |
| February 2 - Olympics Make Utah a Big Fiscal Winner, But Lawmakers Quibble Over Final Tally |
| February 2 - Will a New Era of Deficits Be Bush's Budget Legacy? |
| February 9 - 'Performance' and Politics |
| February 9 - Budget Hearing Turns Personal |
| February 9 - Clubs Come Out Swinging Again |
| February 9 - Defense Plans Praised, Domestic Squeeze Debated |
| February 9 - Lawmakers Call Bush Request for Authority To 'Transfer' Appropriations Beyond the Pale |
| March 9 - CBO Sees Short-Term Surpluses But Does Not Count Stimulus Bill |
| March 9 - CBO's 'Slight' Underestimate |
| March 9 - Hollings-Powell Face-Off Heats Up As Senate Subcommittee Considers Tauzin-Dingell Broadband Measure |
| March 9 - House 'Cardinal' Callahan Retiring |
| March 9 - Parker Loses Corps Post In Battle Over Earmarks |
| March 16 - Appropriators' Challenge: Make Up FAA Revenue Lost in Air Travel Slump |
| March 16 - Conrad in Budget Spotlight With Little Room to Maneuver |
| March 16 - Powell Urges 'Flexible' Colombia Aid |
| March 23 - Conrad's Budget Plan Approved in Committee But Faces Tough Fight on Senate Floor |
| March 23 - Supplemental Spending Plan May Unleash Battle Over Control |
| March 30 - Afghanistan War Effort to Consume Nearly $50 Million Per Day From Requested Emergency Funds |
| March 30 - Behind-the-Scenes Negotiations Giving New Momentum To Expanded Bio-Terrorism Bills |
| March 30 - Latest Supplemental Request Hits a Freer-Spending Hill |
| April 6 - Absent a Budget, Singular Spending Target An Increasingly Appealing Fallback |
| April 6 - Senate Appropriators Dissatisfied That Ridge Will Not Testify Formally; Homeland Security Spending on the Line |
| April 13 - Appropriators See Their Ceiling For Fiscal 2003 Spending |
| April 13 - Security Costs Skyrocket |
| April 13 - Will Absence of a Budget Plan Weaken the Democratic Message? |
| April 20 - Bush's Pre-Emptive Spending Challenge Sets Up Showdown With Appropriators |
| April 27 - Editor's Notebook: The Toughest Customers |
| April 27 - New Pot of Federal Dollars Has Admirers From All Over |
| May 4 - Cabinet-Level Status for Security Office Gets Push From Bipartisan Measure |
| May 4 - Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms |
| May 4 - House Moves to Boost Numbers In Supplemental Spending Bill |
| May 4 - Lawmakers Dispute Fix For Budget Cut Built Into Surface Transportation Law |
| May 11 - Crusader Down: First Salvo In Cancellation Wars |
| May 11 - GOP Eager to Raise Debt Ceiling With Minimal Political Pain |
| May 11 - Supplemental Bill a Vehicle For Fights Over Policies, Not Money |
| May 18 - Economy, Policy Matters Flummox Federal Budget Forecasters |
| May 18 - Many Divisions Yield Gloomy Forecast For Upcoming Appropriations Season |
| May 18 - Senate Contemplates Raising Highway Funds Above House's $4.4 Billion |
| May 18 - Wisconsin Seeks 'Emergency' $10 Million for Ailing Deer |
| May 25 - After Struggle for House Passage, Spending Fight Is in the Senate |
| May 25 - Customs Bills Passed |
| May 25 - Hefty Cash Infusion Helps Murtha Beat Mascara In Remapped Pa. District |
| May 25 - Riders on the House Supplemental |
| May 25 - Senators Want to Extend Sept. 11 Fund to Victims of Past Terrorism |
| June 1 - Bush-Endorsed Pet Project Bugs Sen. McCain |
| June 1 - Chambers Go Their Separate Ways On Fiscal 2003 Spending Ceiling |
| June 1 - Daschle's Dash to Pass Legislation |
| June 1 - Editor's Notebook: Deadline Pressure |
| June 1 - What's Ahead: Week of June 3 |
| June 8 - Bush's Plan Gives Appropriators Even More to Ponder This Season |
| June 8 - Hill and Bush Work to Ensure Continuity of Military Operations |
| June 8 - Kolbe Predicts 'Long Conference' On Supplemental Foreign Aid |
| June 8 - Senators See Spending Ceiling |
| June 8 - Veto Threat May Bounce Off Supplemental's Momentum |
| June 15 - 14th Cardinal? Maybe Next Year |
| June 15 - Agriculture: Farm Bill Disputes Expected to Carry Over |
| June 15 - Commerce, Justice, State: Local Cuts Could Offset Security Plan |
| June 15 - Defense: House GOP Wants Bill to Be First in Line |
| June 15 - District of Columbia: Long-Term Fiscal Policies, Local Disputes Plague District |
| June 15 - Dutch Left Uneasy With Tribunal Provision |
| June 15 - Energy and Water Development: Stepped-Up Security for Nuclear Facilities |
| June 15 - Foreign Operations: Outcome of Supplemental Could Be Key |
| June 15 - Funding Disagreement, Veto Threat Dog Supplemental Spending Bill |
| June 15 - House Republican Leaders Ponder Vote on Raising the Debt Limit After Senate Passes Its Own Bill |
| June 15 - Interior: Bush Seeks Cuts for Parks, Roadless Forests |
| June 15 - Labor, HHS, Education: New Focus Includes Bio-Terror Readiness |
| June 15 - Legislative Branch: Capitol Police Seek Budget Increase for More Officers |
| June 15 - Major Battle Brewing Over Minor Dollar Differences |
| June 15 - Military Construction: Lawmakers May Exceed Request for Military Construction |
| June 15 - New Focus Includes Bio-Terror Readiness |
| June 15 - Panel Would Boost Military Construction |
| June 15 - Transportation: Security Concern Could Free Road Funding |
| June 15 - Transportation: Security Concern Could Free Road Funding |
| June 15 - Treasury, Postal Service: Friction Expected With Agency Shuffle |
| June 15 - Veterans, Housing, NASA, EPA: Space, Environment Likely Battlegrounds |
| June 22 - Administration Might Eliminate Amtrak Subsidies, Busiest Routes To Scale Back the Ailing Railroad |
| June 22 - Earmarks Causing Headaches |
| June 22 - GOP Shrugging Off Treasury's June 28 Deadline for Boosting Borrowing Limit |
| June 22 - House Panel Clings to Cannon |
| June 29 - Appropriators Cut Army's Crusader, But Add Money to Save Local Jobs |
| June 29 - Deal to Keep Amtrak Moving Is a Brief Financial Reprieve |
| June 29 - Homeland Security Bipartisanship Launches Treasury-Postal Spending Bill, But Tough Issues Remain Unsolved |
| June 29 - House Legislative Branch Bill Boosts Funds for Capitol Police, Library of Congress and GPO |
| June 29 - House Panel Avoids Debate On Two Hot-Button Issues To Advance Agriculture Bill |
| June 29 - Kolbe to White House: Keep Us in the Dark |
| June 29 - Lawmakers Add Generously To Military Construction Bill In Effort to Parry Base Closures |
| June 29 - Midyear Spending Deal Likely in Early July; Democrats, Bush Harden Fiscal '03 Lines |
| June 29 - Money for Western Firefighting Is Interior Bills' Pressing Issue |
| July 6 - GOP Leaders See Some Benefit In Lame-Duck Spending Session |
| July 6 - Scandals a Windfall for SEC? |
| July 6 - TSA Gets Second Loan As Supplemental Stalls |
| July 13 - Aspiring to Appropriations Seats |
| July 13 - Gloomier OMB Forecast Adds Fuel To Fiery Budget Talks |
| July 13 - Highlights of Panels' Input On New Security Department |
| July 13 - House GOP Expresses Displeasure With Interior Spending Bill |
| July 13 - House Panel OKs Raise For Water Projects |
| July 13 - Midwestern Lawmakers Stymied In Effort to Lower Farm Income Limits |
| July 13 - No Hastert-Gephardt Meeting To Stop Congressional Pay Raise |
| July 13 - Nuclear Waste Issue as Hot as Ever Despite Senate OK of Nevada Site |
| July 13 - Police Force Merger Is Main Obstacle For Legislative Branch Spending Bill |
| July 13 - President's Hard Line on Spending Shatters Brief Bipartisan Consensus |
| July 13 - Printing Office Provides Latest Stage For Congress-White House Dispute |
| July 13 - Realtors Win Rule Delay |
| July 13 - Retirement of Veteran Appropriator Meek Prompts Rush of Democratic Hopefuls |
| July 13 - Treasury-Postal Service Spending Bill Tempts Veto With Cuba Travel Provision |
| July 20 - Arts Funding on Upswing After NEA Adopts Changes |
| July 20 - Chambers' Add-Ons For Military Construction Bill Will Complicate Conference |
| July 20 - Committee Adds $700 Million To Defense Spending Bill |
| July 20 - Congress Moves Toward Meeting Its Commitment In Latest Amtrak Bailout |
| July 20 - Conservatives Compel Hastert To Set Early Test of Spending Limits |
| July 20 - Crusader May Be Precursor To More Defense Cuts |
| July 20 - Despite Police, Taxation Issues, Smooth Sailing Anticipated For Legislative Branch Spending Bill |
| July 20 - House Homeland Security Bill Bends Strongly Bush's Way |
| July 20 - House Passes Interior Spending Bill After Standoff on Funding Increases |
| July 20 - Labor-HHS Spending Bill Glides Through Senate Panel, But Conflict Looms |
| July 20 - Lawmakers Irked as Spy Agencies Move Slowly to Alleviate Problems |
| July 20 - Panel OKs Future War Funds |
| July 20 - SEC Budget Skyrockets |
| July 20 - Senate Panel Puts Off Tough Decisions To Pass Commerce-Justice-State Bill |
| July 20 - Travel to Cuba, Contract Quotas Draw Veto Threat on Spending Bill |
| July 20 - Unyielding White House Approach Win Bush Bottom Line on Supplemental |
| July 27 - Agriculture Bills Sail Through Appropriations Committees, But Debate Expected in September |
| July 27 - Bush May Christen His Veto Pen On Treasury-Postal Spending Bill |
| July 27 - Citing Improved Fiscal Management, Senate Appropriators Add 37 Percent To D.C. Spending Bill for Fiscal 2003 |
| July 27 - Committee Approves VA-HUD Bill, Boosts Funding For Medical Care |
| July 27 - Highways, Amtrak Are Winners In Senate Transportation Bill |
| July 27 - Homeland Security's Big Hurdle: Ceding Power to White House |
| July 27 - In Effort to Avoid Disputes, Senate Follows House Lead on Environmental Funding |
| July 27 - Legislative Branch Spending Conference Could Snag Over Police Force Merger |
| July 27 - Supplemental Conferees Leave Fate Of $5.1 Billion in Bush's Hands |
| August 3 - Byrd Prepared to Slow Bill |
| August 3 - Farm Policy Constant: Costlier Than Planned |
| August 3 - Lawmakers' Keen Sense of Political Risk Trumps Avowed Goal of Budget Deal |
| August 3 - Senate Passes Defense Spending Bill, Adding $693 Million to House Total |
| August 10 - Clearing of Port Security Bill Awaits Only Resolution Of Proposed Shipper Fees |
| August 10 - Federal Regulations Face Assault on Their Foundation |
| August 10 - Tiny Rider Has Major Impact on Federal Rules |
| August 31 - White House Hopes to Take Hard Line On Labor, Health and Education Spending |
| September 7 - Amtrak Supporters Push For Speedy Vote on Appropriation |
| September 7 - Energy, Water Appropriations Approved |
| September 7 - GOP Moderates Call Funding Level Set by Leaders Unworkably Tight |
| September 7 - House Panel Adds $350 Million To Foreign Aid Spending |
| September 7 - Missile Defense Money Pivotal For House and Senate Conferees |
| September 7 - Senate Fine-Tunes Budget Deal |
| September 7 - Senate to Consider Bush's Call To Thin Forests of Fire Hazards |
| September 7 - Stalled State Bill Means No Cash for U.N. |
| September 14 - Education Tax Break Vote Canceled |
| September 14 - Overseas Spending Bill Moves, With Family Planning on Hold |
| September 14 - Rival Plans for Clearing Deadwood Roil Senate Debate on Interior Bill |
| September 14 - Senate Vote on $6 Billion in Farm Aid Will Complicate Interior Conference |
| September 14 - Spending Bills Likely to Wait For Lame Duck |
| September 21 - Bush Takes Page From Clinton In Appropriation Showdown |
| September 21 - Key Players in Spending Showdown |
| September 21 - Logjam Over National Forests Could Force Interior Spending Into End-of-Session Omnibus Measure |
| September 21 - Prospect of Continuing Resolution Means Uncertainty for Programs |
| September 21 - Rumsfeld Says Troop Strength Is Sufficient To Conduct Military Operations in Iraq |
| September 28 - Budget Conservatives, Appropriators Square Off on First Continuing Resolution, Auguring Worse Conflicts Ahead |
| September 28 - Congress Gives Itself Three Months To Update 1996 Welfare Law, But a Deal Seems a Long Way Off |
| September 28 - Guns and Butter, Again |
| September 28 - House Appropriations Committee Considering Hard-Line Tactics With Amtrak Funding |
| September 28 - Logging Debate Holding Up Interior Bill |
| September 28 - Panel Approves Draft Spending Plan for D.C. |
| September 28 - State Department Bill Includes Final Payoff of U.N. Arrears |
| October 5 - Appropriators Parry Bush Move To Bypass Printing Office |
| October 5 - Bill Forgiving Student Loans Gets Nod From House |
| October 5 - Formulation of Long-Term Stopgap Is Yet to Be Determined |
| October 5 - Transportation Spending Bill Destined To Offer Less Road-Building Money |
| October 12 - Homeland Security Department Adrift in Appropriations Doldrums |
| October 12 - House Approves Defense Spending Plan That Allows for Controversial 767 Leases |
| October 12 - House GOP Leaders Frustrated In Drive for Longer-Term CR |
| October 12 - If VA-HUD Bill Passes House Intact, Key Differences With Senate Could Make for Sticky Conference |
| October 12 - Military Construction Bill Cleared but on Hold, Awaiting Stalled Defense Authorization |
| October 12 - No Deals Reached This Year To Salvage Environmental Bills |
| October 12 - Short-Term Relief for Highways |
| October 12 - Ulterior Motive Suspected In Department Revamp |
| October 12 - Water Projects Bill Likely Dead for Year |
| October 19 - GOP Declares Victory Despite Unfinished Business |
| October 19 - Rumsfeld Defense Plan on Track As Senate Clears Spending Bill |
| October 19 - Senate Approves Resolution To Curb New Tax Cuts And Entitlement Programs |
| October 26 - Military Pay Raise Proposal Still Snagged in Conference Because of Veterans' Benefits Provision |
| October 26 - Ohio Veteran Attaches $1.8 Million To Defense Budget for Biotech Gadget |
| October 26 - Out-of-Towners Get a Shot At Leading Pro Forma Sessions |
| November 2 - Few Foresee Progress During Lame Duck On Stalled Fiscal 2003 Spending Bills |
| November 2 - Security Feels the CR Squeeze |
| November 9 - House Overview: Nurturing the GOP Agenda |
| November 9 - Lame Duck May Have Legs |
| November 9 - More Partisan Budget Panel Expected |
| November 9 - Veteran Appropriator May Try Bush |
| November 16 - Appropriators Make a Point with PAYGO |
| November 16 - Emboldened Bush Aims To Break Budget Busters |
| November 16 - House GOP Leadership Places 'Cardinals' on Precarious Perch |
| November 16 - President Pushes Terrorism Insurance Deal Despite Republican Leaders' Objections |
| November 16 - Turf Battles Could Lie Ahead In Fight To Oversee Homeland Department |
| November 23 - Department's Blueprint Approved, Final Plan Far From Complete |
| November 23 - GOP Majority in Both Houses No Guarantee That Appropriators Can Stay Under Bush's Budget Cap |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Agriculture Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Amtrak Authorization |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Appropriations Overview |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Defense Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: District of Columbia Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Energy and Water Development Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2002 Supplemental |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2003 Budget Resolution |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Interior Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Military Construction Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Port Security |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Transportation Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations |
| December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations |
| December 7 - GOP Leaders Plan Omnibus Blitz To Meet Bush's Budget Demands |
| December 14 - Party Unity Vote Study: Bracing for Battles Postponed |
| December 14 - Rumsfeld Tones It Down For New Round of Budget Talks |
