 January 4 - Appropriators Try to Ease Pain In Overdue Spending Bills |
| January 4 - Congressional Priorities: First Out of the Gate in the 108th |
| January 11 - Cause and Effect of Deficits Still Food for Debate |
| January 11 - Foreign Policy: More Programs, Less Aid |
| January 11 - GOP Reluctantly Aligns Spending Plan With White House |
| January 11 - Road Work Hits a Pothole |
| January 11 - War: Deficit-Maker Supreme |
| January 18 - As They Cobble Together the Omnibus, Republicans' Tactics Delay Hard Choices |
| January 18 - Spending Ombnibus Conferees Will Negotiate Troublesome Bills |
| January 18 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 20 |
| January 25 - President's 5-Percent Gesture Reignites Battle Over Black College Funding |
| January 25 - Spending Bill Gets to Conference, But Big Changes Are Expected |
| January 25 - Stevens Offers Provision to Help With Fish; Watchdogs Say Program Has a Different Scent |
| January 25 - What's Ahead: Week of Jan. 27 |
| February 1 - Appropriations Panels Remade To Oversee Homeland Spending |
| February 1 - Bush Holds Steady Fiscal Course Even as Deep Deficits Take Hold |
| February 1 - March of the CRs Continues |
| February 1 - Rhetoric Meets Reality In Security's Unpaid Bills |
| February 8 - Budget Rewrite Pens at the Ready |
| February 8 - Disaster-Driven Spending Ramps Up Budget Stress |
| February 8 - Fiscal '03 Spending Omnibus Struggles Toward Finish Line Amid a Chorus of Warnings |
| February 8 - Shuttle Disaster Opens Dialogue On NASA's Future and Funding |
| February 15 - Editor's Notebook: War Zone |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus Completed, But More Budget Chores Loom |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Agriculture |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Commerce, Justice, State |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: District of Columbia |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Energy and Water |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Foreign Operations |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Interior |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Labor, HHS, Education |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Legislative Branch |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Transportation |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: Treasury, Postal Service |
| February 15 - Fiscal 2003 Omnibus: VA, HUD, NASA and EPA |
| February 15 - Funding Homeland Security |
| February 15 - Omnibus Drought-Relief Plan Follows White House Blueprint as Shut-Out Democrats Bristle |
| February 15 - Stealth Operating Budget For Homeland Command? |
| February 22 - Democrats Glad to Give White House A Little Taste of Time Pressure |
| March 8 - Budget Resolutions: A Bit of Wheat, Lots of Chaff |
| March 8 - Gantlet of Senate Moderates Ready to Take On Bush Plan |
| March 15 - Budget Panels' Disparate Plans Threaten United GOP Front |
| March 15 - War Won't Unify Congress |
| March 22 - Lawmakers Intent on More Money, More Demands for Homeland Security |
| March 29 - Hill Rumbles of Aid Reprisal Follow Turkey's 'No' to U.S. |
| March 29 - Q & A With Paul Wolfowitz on Turkey Policy |
| April 5 - Enough in Supplemental for First-Responders? |
| April 5 - Lawmakers Get in a Few Digs At Non-Allies in Iraq War |
| April 5 - White House-Hill Battle Hinges on Flexible Spending |
| April 12 - A Familiar Budget Battle |
| April 12 - A Swelling Supplemental |
| April 12 - White House Wins Flexibility In Planning for Postwar Iraq |
| April 19 - Lawmakers Not Eager to Revisit Iraq Supplemental Debate Soon |
| May 10 - Young's Proposed Shift of Funds From Defense to Domestic Accounts Must Get Past Republican Hawks |
| May 17 - Bill to Boost Funds and Services For Libraries, Museums Approved |
| May 24 - Appropriators Weigh Tapping Defense to Get Domestic Bills Moving |
| May 24 - OMB Nominee Bolten Eyed as a Repairman Of Bush-Appropriator Rift |
| June 7 - Hoping to Avoid Repeat of Last Year, Appropriators Push for Agreement With White House on Spending Plan |
| June 14 - Agriculture: Budget Not Included In Growing Season |
| June 14 - Challenged: GOP's Resolve To Hold the Spending Line |
| June 14 - Closed Markup For Homeland Security Panel |
| June 14 - Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary: Contentious Topics Have Gone Away |
| June 14 - Defense: 'Fast' Bill Could Stall on Two Programs |
| June 14 - District of Columbia: Cuts to Budget Would Affect Favored Programs in City |
| June 14 - Energy and Water Development: Plenty of Debate Expected on Projects |
| June 14 - Foreign Operations: Overseas Aid for '04: Back to Status Quo |
| June 14 - Gridlock Has Come to Be Part of Appropriations Process |
| June 14 - Homeland Security: Panels Revamped To Move New Bill |
| June 14 - Interior: Tough Choices, But No Major Cuts |
| June 14 - Labor, Health & Human Services, Education: The Most Expensive Is Closest to Home |
| June 14 - Legislative Branch: Modest Increase Likely For Security, Visitor Center |
| June 14 - Military Bill's Budget Is Tight In House Panel |
| June 14 - Military Construction: Little Disagreement Expected on Spending Priorities |
| June 14 - Transportation, Treasury: Security Revamp Led to Catch-All Bill |
| June 14 - Veterans, Housing, NASA, EPA: Competition for Cash Has Many Contestants |
| June 21 - An Early Start in Both Chambers For Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill |
| June 21 - Defense Panel Struggles With Shortfall in Funding For Overseas Campaigns |
| June 21 - House Homeland Security Bill Advances Despite Frustration With Agency's Failure to 'Justify' |
| June 21 - House Military Construction Bill Runs Into Tight Spending Caps, Emerges 'Woefully Underfunded' |
| June 21 - Legislative Branch Bill Short-Funded |
| June 21 - McCain's 'Pork' Resolution Annoys Appropriations Chairman |
| June 21 - Obey Expresses Outrage As Conservation Takes a Big Hit In Interior Spending Bill |
| June 21 - Panel Strips Program Funds For Country-of-Origin Labeling From House Agriculture Bill |
| June 21 - Smooth Sailing in the Early Going Belies Coming Appropriations Storm |
| June 28 - Appropriators Spread the Pain as Austere Spending Bill Cuts Agriculture Programs |
| June 28 - Banking on a Supplemental |
| June 28 - Both Chambers Ready to Tackle Contentious Labor-HHS Bill |
| June 28 - Capitol Police, Architect Put on Short Fiscal Rations In Legislative Branch Bill |
| June 28 - High Court Ruling on Internet Filters Acknowledges Power of the Purse |
| June 28 - Homeland Security Bill Passes House Despite Partisan Differences |
| June 28 - Lawmakers Make Do With Diminished Defense Package |
| June 28 - Military Construction Bills Synch Up |
| June 28 - Optical Technology Company Gets Boost In House Committee Report on ID Cards |
| June 28 - Panel OKs Coast Guard Bill |
| June 28 - Senate Looks to Interior Bill as Timely Vehicle for Debate on Forest Management Policy |
| July 5 - Appropriators' Crunch Month Tests GOP Resolve, Unity |
| July 12 - Combative Conference Expected After House, Senate Pass Disparate Legislative Branch Spending Bills |
| July 12 - Conference Set On Military Construction |
| July 12 - D.C. Gets OK For School Voucher Funds |
| July 12 - Fiscal 2004 Homeland Security Bills, Compared |
| July 12 - Hobson's Homework Pays Off In Energy and Water Measure, Drawing Bipartisan Praise |
| July 12 - Homeland Security Bill's Momentum Unfazed by Cries of Underfunding |
| July 12 - House Appropriations Stay 'On Track,' While Senate Will Test Spending Caps |
| July 12 - House C-J-S Bill Glides Through Appropriations Subcommittee, But Tougher Decisions to Come |
| July 12 - House Panel Expresses Regret Over Lack of Funding for Plan To Fight HIV/AIDS Overseas |
| July 12 - Labor-HHS Bill Zips Through House Despite Strong Democratic Objections |
| July 12 - Ongoing Wildfire Funding Disputes Leave Lawmakers in a Slow Burn |
| July 12 - Panel Boosts Highway Spending, But Outlook Gloomy for Amtrak And Six-Year Transportation Bill |
| July 12 - With Overseas Operations in Mind, Chambers Accelerate Defense Bill |
| July 19 - Cardinals Are Politicians, Too |
| July 19 - Highlights of FY 2004 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill |
| July 19 - Issues of Farm Trade With Cuba, Country-of-Origin Labeling Roil Agriculture Negotiations |
| July 19 - Many Express Disappointment With Foreign Aid Measures As Panels Cut AIDS Funding |
| July 19 - Nuclear Research Funding at Center Of Energy and Water Bills Dispute |
| July 19 - Opposition to FCC Media Ruling Thwarts C-J-S Bill's Easy Passage Through Spending Panels |
| July 19 - Pushing Environmental Concerns Aside, House Passes Interior Spending Bill |
| July 19 - Senate Cautioned Against Taking Traditional Attitude Toward Earmarks |
| July 19 - Senate Defense Spending Bill Survives Democrat Skirmishes |
| July 19 - Tongass Is Environmental Test |
| July 19 - Usual Points of Contention Take a Back Seat to Vouchers In District of Columbia Bill |
| July 19 - VA-HUD Bill's Spending Limits Have GOP Floating Dicey Plan To Charge Some Veterans for Care |
| July 26 - A Long, Hard Haul Ends With Substantially Rewritten Transportation Spending Bill |
| July 26 - AIDS Program Supporters Hope Senate Will Come Through With Full Funding for Program |
| July 26 - Arm-Twisting House Leaders Push VA-HUD Bill to Passage Over Veterans' Strong Opposition |
| July 26 - C-J-S Spending Bill Becomes Venue For Wide Range of Policy Disputes |
| July 26 - D.C. Appropriations Bill Delayed; GOP Pushes School Vouchers |
| July 26 - Editor's Notebook: Trophy Bills |
| July 26 - Emergency Aid May Thwart AmeriCorps Funding |
| July 26 - Homeland Bills Compared |
| July 26 - Homeland Security Funding Debate Highlights Tension Over Priorities |
| July 26 - Lawmakers Underestimate Public Concern About FCC Media Ownership Rule |
| July 26 - Will Republicans Push the President To Wield Veto Against His Own Party? |
| August 2 - Hill Completes Pre-Recess Work On Spending Bills With a Buffed, Not Stuffed, Supplemental |
| August 2 - Lawmakers Walk a Tightrope On Economic, Security Issues |
| August 2 - Laws Passed and Pending Bills |
| August 2 - McCain's Nose Out of Joint Over Boeing Tanker Deal |
| August 9 - Cities Rely on Congress to Bill Nations For Millions in Unpaid Parking Tickets |
| August 30 - GOP Vows No Winter Meltdown in This Year's Spending Debate |
| August 30 - Grim Budget Deficit Forecasts Still Too Rosy, Say Critics |
| August 30 - Plans for Military Personnel, Their Families |
| August 30 - Reworked Budget for Space Agency Likely to Follow Columbia Hearings |
| September 6 - Art Endowment's Outreach Effort Slowly Wins New Hill Support |
| September 6 - Bush Threat to Veto Reversal Of New Media Ownership Rules Has Few Lawmakers Quaking |
| September 6 - Compromise on Amtrak Funding Sets Transportation Bill on Course |
| September 6 - Democrats Take On New Overtime Rules; Parties Jostle for Primacy on Education |
| September 6 - Latest Iraq Supplement Soars to New Heights |
| September 6 - Many Approaches to Homeland Security |
| September 6 - Members Likely to Get Raises |
| September 6 - Narrow Approval Margins For School Vouchers Causes Delay for D.C. Bill |
| September 6 - New Laws for a Safer Nation: Much Done, Much to Do |
| September 6 - VA-HUD Spending Bill: No. 2 in Cost, but Some Programs Are Top Priorities With Lawmakers |
| September 6 - What's Ahead: Week of Sept. 8 |
| September 13 - A History of Transportation Bill Gridlock |
| September 13 - Against the Grain on the Labor-HHS-Education Bill |
| September 13 - Bush's Iraq Spending Request Puts Focus on Budget Priorities |
| September 13 - Iraq Funding Will Come Slower Next Time Around |
| September 13 - Labor-HHS Bill Survives Rough Senate Debate |
| September 13 - Pension Amendment Unlikely on Transportation-Treasury Bill |
| September 13 - School Vouchers Program Divides Senate Democrats as D.C. Bill Moves to Floor |
| September 13 - Student Aid Amendment Approved in Labor-HHS Bill |
| September 13 - Unhappy Marriage: Transportation Bill in Trouble After Link With Treasury |
| September 20 - Chambers Expected to Approve Homeland Security Conference Report That Retains Employee Flexibility |
| September 20 - Closer Scrutiny Expected On Latest Supplemental |
| September 20 - Conferees Send 'Very Strong Signal' In Rushing Through Defense Bill |
| September 20 - Congress to Shut Down House Corrections Office |
| September 20 - Costly Capitol Visitor Center Survives In $3.5 Billion Conference Agreement On Legislative Branch Spending |
| September 20 - Details of New Spending Request Arrive |
| September 20 - Energy and Water Spending Bill Leaks Animosity as It Heads to Conference |
| September 20 - Even 'Environmental' Earmarks A Euphemism for Pet Projects |
| September 20 - Interior Bill Nears Senate Passage; Both Parties Back Added Money For Forest Fire Suppression |
| September 20 - Senate GOP Finds Silver Lining In Year-End Spending Package |
| September 20 - Stay Tuned: FCC Deregulation Temporarily Thwarted By Dorgan Amendment, Senate |
| September 27 - Congress Clears Bare-Bones Defense Appropriations Bill |
| September 27 - Congress Clears Bill to Fund Itself, Includes Cuts for Police, Architect |
| September 27 - D.C. Appropriations Bill Languishes in the Senate Over Private-School Vouchers |
| September 27 - Defense Authorizers Losing Authority |
| September 27 - Defense: Big Tickets and the Small Print |
| September 27 - GOP's Appropriations Wrap-Up Slips Into Well-Worn Groove Of CRs and Omnibus Bills |
| September 27 - Homeland Department Gets the Dollars, Along With a Number of Strings |
| September 27 - Iraq Supplemental Will Pass, But Many Say Well Is Going Dry |
| September 27 - Search Is On for Filched Antiquities In Move to Buy Back Senate History |
| September 27 - Senate Adds Money to Fight Wildfires; Alternative to Fund-Shifting Urged |
| October 4 - Condition of Nation's Greensward Becomes an Item on Hill Agenda |
| October 4 - GOP Pulls Senate D.C. Bill As Neither Side Yields On Private-School Vouchers |
| October 4 - House Democrats Claim Victory On Labor-HHS Conference Motion |
| October 4 - Lawmakers at Loose Ends Over Form of Supplemental |
| October 4 - Lawmakers Disregard Bush Criticism Regarding 'Technical Corrections' |
| October 4 - Veterans Look for Sympathy in Senate After Bipartisan Betrayal in House |
| October 4 - Vote GOP Switchers Send Overtime Message |
| October 11 - Bush Plays Lobbyist in Chief To Keep Iraq Funds as Grants |
| October 11 - Election System Revamp Stymied By Tight Federal Purse Strings |
| October 11 - New Budget Committee Chairman To Inherit a Thankless Job |
| October 11 - Turning Down the Volume On 'Mexico City' Abortion Language |
| October 18 - Appropriations Going Better Than Last Year -- Barely |
| October 18 - Labor-HHS-Education Conferees Wrangle Over Size of NIH Increase |
| October 18 - Senate Rejects White House Plea, Adopts Iraqi Loan Amendment |
| October 25 - Adding Money for Veterans Puts House in a Political Bind |
| October 25 - Bush Issues Veto Threat For Aid Bill |
| October 25 - Cuba Travel, Employee Privatization Pose Veto Threat for Transportation Bill |
| October 25 - Defense Budget Needs Boost To Cover Personnel, Weapons |
| October 25 - GOP Rebellion on Nature of Iraq Funds Augurs Further Grief for White House |
| October 25 - One Down, Five More to Go for Senate and Fiscal 2004 Spending Measures |
| October 25 - Painful Task of Cutting Funds Holds Military Construction Bill From Accustomed Cakewalk |
| October 25 - Tiny Alaska Town's Biggest Business Gets a Boost, But First, Some Federal Housekeeping Is in Order |
| October 25 - Warner Plan Could Resolve Tanker Dispute |
| November 1 - Bush Wins Supplemental Battle, May Face Loss in War on Terror |
| November 1 - Congress Weighs Pros, Cons Of the 'Omnibus' Approach |
| November 1 - Crafting an Omnibus Spending Bill: Power Trumps Popular Will |
| November 1 - Despite Republican Infighting, Senate Passes AIDS Relief Bill With Increase in Program Funding |
| November 1 - Feinstein Takes On Weed Whackers In Latest States' Rights Skirmish |
| November 1 - Omnibus for the Ages |
| November 1 - Senate Poised to Clear Interior Bill Over Objections in Both Chambers To Indian Affairs Provisions |
| November 1 - Veto Threats Complicate Appropriations Process |
| November 8 - Lawmakers Complete Work on Interior Bill, Paring Down Funds for Land Purchases |
| November 8 - Negotiators Grind Out Agreement on Military Construction Bill |
| November 8 - Plethora of Partisan Issues Makes Agriculture Appropriations Vulnerable to Inclusion in Omnibus |
| November 8 - Senate Plans Final Floor Debates On Stand-Alone Funding Bills Before Turning to Omnibus |
| November 8 - Supplemental Sans Roll Call Provides Cover All Around |
| November 8 - Tough Negotiation Wraps Up As Energy Conferees Compromise On Nuclear Waste, Weapons |
| November 15 - Mindful of Florida's Clout, Conferees Drop Cuba Travel From Transportation Bill |
| November 15 - Pace Intensifies for Wrapping Up Unfinished Bills Into Omnibus |
| November 15 - Regula to Labor-HHS Naysayers: Don't Tug on Superman's Cape |
| November 15 - Senate Clears Military Construction |
| November 15 - VA-HUD: Anxious Vets Await Extra Funding |
| November 22 - Conferees Agree on AIDS Funds, Move Closer to Final Deal On Foreign Aid Spending Bill |
| November 22 - D.C. Funding Will Include Voucher Trial |
| November 22 - Deals on Nuclear Waste and Weapons Allow Energy-Water Bill to Clear |
| November 22 - GOP Squabbling Nearly Derails Year-Ending Omnibus Bill |
| November 22 - Omnibus to Be Final Vehicle For VA Boost |
| November 22 - Outsourcing Complicates Spending Bill |
| November 22 - White House Budget Director Bolten Earns Hill Kudos for Low-Key Style |
| November 29 - GOP Fast-Tracks Its Own Agenda; Stalls All That's Left for Democrats |
| December 6 - Agriculture: Cuts Hit Conservation, Research |
| December 6 - District of Columbia: Voucher Bill Nears Finish Line |
| December 6 - Earmark-Laden Omnibus Faces Two-Pronged Senate Attack |
| December 6 - Foreign Operations: Hill Firm on More AIDS Money |
| December 6 - Labor-HHS-Education: Bush Scores on Overtime Pay |
| December 6 - Policy Riders Slow C-J-S Bill |
| December 6 - Transportation-Treasury: New Spending Formula Fizzles |
| December 6 - VA-HUD: Veterans Win More Health Funding |
| December 6 - White House Spending Blasted As Being Too High, Misdirected |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Agriculture Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Defense Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: District of Columbia Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Energy, Water Development Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2003 Defense Supplemental Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2003 Disaster Supplemental Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2003 Omnibus Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2004 Omnibus Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2004 War Supplemental Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Foreign Operations Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Homeland Security Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Interior Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Legislative Branch Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Military Construction Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Transportation, Treasury Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations |
| December 13 - 2003 Legislative Summary: Water Projects |
| December 13 - Control of D.C.'s City Budget Modified |
| December 13 - GOP Hopeful for Quick Resolution on Spending Omnibus in New Year |
