 January 6 - Leaders Pursue Compromise As Override Vote Fails |
| January 6 - RECONCILIATION: A Piecemeal Solution |
| January 6 - RECONCILIATION: Dole Gambles on Budget Crisis |
| January 6 - SECTION NOTES: Congress OKs Local Spending; District Avoids Shutdown |
| January 6 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Fight Continues As Workers Return |
| January 13 - Chances of a Budget Deal |
| January 13 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Budget Talks Possible During Adjournment |
| January 20 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCEf: Clinton Discusses Whitewater, Budget and Economic Issues |
| January 20 - THE BUDGET: GOP Looks for New Strategies As Talks Stall Yet Again |
| January 27 - Republicans Throw in Towel On Seven-Year Deal |
| January 27 - THE BUDGET: Stopgap Bill Renews Funding |
| February 3 - GOP May Look to Senate Version To Revive Overhaul Effort |
| February 3 - Key Differences (chart) |
| February 3 - Other GOP Efforts May Fall Along With Budget Talks |
| February 10 - Fiscal 1996-2002 Budget Totals (chart) |
| February 10 - Hopes Fade for Breakthrough In Short or Long Term |
| February 10 - Reducing the Deficit, 1996-2002 (chart) |
| February 10 - Stopgap Spending (chart) |
| February 10 - THE BUDGET: Governors Hope Welfare, Medicaid Plan Will Lead to Overall Budget Deal |
| February 24 - Extension of Debt Limit Tops Crowded Agenda |
| February 24 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Debt Ceiling, Budget Lead Priority List |
| March 2 - Family Budgets Now the Focus |
| March 2 - THE BUDGET: Budget Deal Takes a Back Seat To Spending, Debt Limit Bills |
| March 2 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Debt Ceiling, Cuba Bill On Legislative Agenda |
| March 9 - BUDGET: Congress Passes Bill To Extend Debt Limit Temporarily |
| March 9 - GOP, Clinton Edging Toward Fiscal Precipice Again |
| March 9 - SECTION NOTES: District Spending Bill Remains Unresolved |
| March 9 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Leaders Push to Avert Another Showdown |
| March 16 - Continuing Resolution Buys Yet Another Week |
| March 16 - SECTION NOTES: District Spending Bill Sputters Forward |
| March 16 - SPENDING POWER: Republicans Break Logjam On Line-Item Veto Bill |
| March 16 - THE BUDGET: Squaring Off on the Environment |
| March 16 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Hill To Get '97 Budget As '96 Work Lingers |
| March 23 - Budget Authority, Outlays |
| March 23 - Clinton's Budget: Trying To Balance His Goals |
| March 23 - Effects of Economy on the Budget (chart) |
| March 23 - Fiscal 1997 Budget by Function (chart) |
| March 23 - FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: Receipts by |
| March 23 - GOP Negotiators Agree On Line-Item Veto |
| March 23 - PRESIDENT'S BUDGET MESSAGE: Clinton Outlines Priorities For Fiscal 1997 Spending |
| March 23 - SPECIAL REPORT: A Budget Glossary (chart) |
| March 23 - SPECIAL REPORT: The Budget Timeline (chart) |
| March 23 - SPECIAL REPORT: The President's Proposals, Listed by Categories |
| March 23 - SPENDING POWER: Simple Idea, Complex Mechanism |
| March 23 - THE WEEK AHEAD: Debt, Spending Bills Near Deadline |
| March 30 - Congress Hands President A Budgetary Scalpel |
| March 30 - History of Line-Item Veto Effort |
| March 30 - THE BUDGET: Debt-Limit Provisions |
| March 30 - THE BUDGET: GOP Backs Down, Votes To Raise Debt Limit |
| April 6 - RECESS NOTES: CBO Confirms 1996 Deficit Is Lowest Since 1979 |
| April 13 - CORRECTION: Line-Item Veto. |
| April 13 - PROVISIONS: Line-Item Veto Act |
| April 13 - SPENDING POWER: Line-Item Veto Bill Becomes Law |
| April 20 - House Passes Bill To Remove Trust Funds From Budget |
| April 20 - NOMINATIONS: Clinton's Choice for OMB Chief Lauds Role of Government |
| April 20 - SECTION NOTES: Budget Is Said To Shortchange Nuclear Weapons Work |
| April 27 - BUDGET: Commerce-Justice Compromise |
| April 27 - BUDGET: GOP Wary of Clinton's Call for Talks |
| April 27 - BUDGET: Middle Ground for Labor Bill |
| April 27 - BUDGET: Snagged on Language, Not Money |
| April 27 - BUDGET: The Environmental Trump Card |
| April 27 - BUDGET: VA-HUD Deal Reveals Power Shift |
| April 27 - Congress, Clinton Yield Enough To Close the Book on Fiscal '96 |
| April 27 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Members Focus Energy on 1997 Budget |
| May 4 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Leaders Seek to Clear Obstacles to Budget |
| May 11 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT: Reluctant Democrats Hold Out For Social Security 'Firewall' |
| May 11 - BUDGET: A Gentler Hand With Medicare |
| May 11 - BUDGET: Evolution of the Republican |
| May 11 - Debate Over Pentagon Budget Will Take a Narrow Focus |
| May 11 - Fiscal 1996 Interior |
| May 11 - Fiscal 1996 Labor-HHS-Education |
| May 11 - GOP Plan Gets Token Praise But Little Hope of Success |
| May 11 - WHAT'S AHEAD: '97 Budget Resolutions Take Center Stage |
| May 18 - Committee OKs Measure To Amend Budget Act |
| May 18 - THE BUDGET: Parties Launch New Struggle Over Role of Government |
| May 25 - Discretionary Spending |
| May 25 - GOP Adds Billions to Budget |
| May 25 - THE BUDGET: Senate Moves GOP Deficit Plan, But Policy Hurdles Remain |
| June 1 - WEEK AHEAD: Missile, Budget Bills On Senate Agenda |
| June 8 - BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT: Dole Backs a Losing Cause To Make Political Points |
| June 8 - Fiscal 1997 Interior Spending (chart) |
| June 8 - House GOP Opens New Drive To Pass Overhaul Bill |
| June 8 - House GOP Yields to Senate, Agrees to Extra Spending |
| June 15 - Discretionary Spending |
| June 15 - Roping the Strays |
| July 6 - Fiscal 1997 Interior |
| July 20 - REVENUES: A Capital Idea? |
| July 27 - THE BUDGET: OMB Nominee Clears Panel, But Problems May Arise |
| August 3 - COVER STORY: Protecting Pet Projects - Cautiously |
| August 31 - Frugality - in Moderation |
| August 31 - SPECIAL REPORT/ECONOMICS and FINANCE - Issue: Balanced-budget amendment. |
| August 31 - SPECIAL REPORT/ECONOMICS and FINANCE - Issue: Budget reconciliation-related tax cuts. |
| August 31 - SPECIAL REPORT/ECONOMICS and FINANCE - Issue: Fiscal 1997 Budget Resolution. |
| August 31 - SPECIAL REPORT/ECONOMICS and FINANCE - Issue: Line-item veto. |
| September 14 - Time Is Short, Accord Elusive As Real Bargaining Begins |
| September 21 - Fiscal 1997 Labor-HHS-Education |
| October 5 - Fiscal 1997 Agriculture |
| October 5 - Fiscal 1997 Interior Spending (chart) |
| October 5 - Fiscal 1997 Labor-HHS- |
| October 5 - Harmony Born of Pressure Speeds Spending Wrap-Up |
| October 5 - Mining the Omnibus Lode |
| October 12 - CORRECTION: Defense budget. |
| October 12 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: More Bargaining Chip Than Budget Knife |
| October 12 - SECTION NOTES: CBO Finds Budget Deficit Is Lowest in 15 Years |
| November 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Balanced- budget amendment |
| November 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Budget- reconciliation-related tax cuts |
| November 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Fiscal 1997 Budget Resolution |
| November 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Line-item veto |
| November 9 - 105TH CONGRESS: Budget Will Still Be the Issue To Test Moderates' Muscle |
| November 9 - WHAT'S AHEAD: President to Call Budget Meeting |
| November 16 - Democrats on Budget Amendment (chart) |
| November 16 - Supporters Like the New Odds For Passage of Amendment |
| November 16 - THE BUDGET: Challenge for Budget Spot |
| November 16 - THE BUDGET: Time Is Ripe for Agreement, But Gridlock Dies Hard |
| November 23 - Changes in New Law Hinge On Budget Deal |
| November 23 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: A Bipartisan Budget? No Duress, No Deal |
