 January 13 - Cochran's Decision to Back McCain On Campaign Finance Overhaul Signals a Break in GOP Opposition |
| January 20 - OMB Nominee Under Pressure To Make the Numbers Work |
| January 27 - Writing Size of a Cut in the Budget Looms as Tax Turning Point |
| February 3 - A Paltry $1.2 Billion |
| February 3 - Highlights of Bush Faith-Based Initiatives Package |
| February 10 - Tax Plan Destined for Revision |
| February 10 - The Republican Challenge: Roping the Fiscal Strays |
| February 17 - Bush's Fiscal Policy Proposals Close In on GOP Budget Writers |
| February 17 - House Passes Bill to Use Social Security, Medicare Surpluses for Debt Reduction |
| February 17 - Proposals to Alter Bush's Tax Plan Multiply Despite White House Appeals for Unity |
| February 17 - This Week in Congress |
| February 24 - Bush Faces Concern That Tax Cuts Will Be Too Much, Too Late |
| February 24 - Bush's First Press Conference Focuses on Foreign Policy, Budget and Clinton Pardons |
| February 24 - This Week in Congress |
| March 3 - A Budget Glossary |
| March 3 - Agency by Agency: Where the Money Would Go |
| March 3 - Budget Schedule |
| March 3 - Bush Says Budget Would Pay Down Debt While Aiding Schools, Retirees, Military |
| March 3 - Bush's Sunny Budget Picture Leaves the Details Shaded |
| March 3 - Coalitions Make a Comeback |
| March 3 - Democratic Rebuttal to Bush's Speech Emphasizes Social Security, Medicare While Decrying Tax Cut Plan |
| March 3 - For Small-Business Federation, Personal Approach Gets Best Results |
| March 3 - Tax Fight Energizes Democrats |
| March 3 - The Elusive Middle Ground |
| March 10 - 'Blue Dog' Democrats Get Hackles Up At GOP and Business' Tax Bill Tactics |
| March 10 - Byrd Seeks a Way to Stop Tax Bill From Passing by Simple Majority Vote |
| March 10 - Democratic 'Ayes' |
| March 10 - Panel Easily Approves Education Bill, Deferring Fights on Vouchers And 'Charter States' to Senate Floor |
| March 10 - Riders to Tell If Campaign Finance Bill Flies or Dies |
| March 10 - Tax-Cut Bipartisanship Down to One Chamber |
| March 17 - House Panel's Budget Resolution Will Include Flexibility for Larger Tax Cut |
| March 17 - Sen. Conrad Promises a Dogged Fight To Keep Medicare Funds Off-Limits |
| March 17 - Tax Cut's Viability Lies In Deep Dealmaking |
| March 24 - Big Breaks for Married Couples Offered in Latest House Tax Bill |
| March 24 - House Budget Resolution Provides Leeway; Senate Talks of Rebating Part of '01 Surplus |
| March 24 - Nussle's Dueling Responsibilities |
| March 24 - This Week in Congress |
| March 31 - Alleviation of 'Marriage Penalty' Hits Bipartisan High Note in House |
| March 31 - Bush's Budget Now Before the Senate, Where Moderates Wield the Critical Votes |
| March 31 - Education Is Budget's Biggest Winner, But School Allies Still Aren't Happy |
| March 31 - House Presses Bush's Tax Agenda While Senate Talks of Stimulus |
| March 31 - This Week in Congress |
| April 7 - Estate Tax Phaseout Passes House But May Be Scaled Back in Senate When Finance Panel Begins Work |
| April 7 - GOP Pays Price for Collapse of Deal With Jeffords on Special Education Funds |
| April 7 - House Democrats' Tepid Response May Imperil McCain-Feingold |
| April 7 - It's the Day of the Centrist As Bush Tax Cut Takes a Hit |
| April 7 - Law Designed for Curbing Deficits Becomes GOP Tool for Cutting Taxes |
| April 7 - Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Undermine McCain-Feingold |
| April 14 - Agency by Agency: Where the Money May Go |
| April 14 - Bush Budget Provides Total Tally for 2002 Games |
| April 14 - Bush Social Policy Comes Into Focus With Cutbacks, Shift to Local Programs |
| April 14 - Bush's Frugal Bottom Line Ensures a Rough Conference |
| April 14 - Bush's User Fee Plan off to a Rocky Start |
| April 14 - Compromising on Tax Cuts |
| April 14 - Crunch Time |
| April 14 - Cuts in Business Breaks Resisted |
| April 28 - After First Hundred Days, Bush Emerges as Pragmatic Warrior |
| April 28 - Bush Starts to Deal on Budget, Only Hardening Resolve of Some |
| April 28 - Senate GOP Seeks Broad Support For Bush's Reconciliation Plan |
| May 5 - $79 Billion Boost for Agriculture Could Galvanize Farm Bill Renewal |
| May 5 - Budget Deal's Ungainly Pause Is Inches From the Finish Line |
| May 5 - Scaled-Down Version of Bush Tax Plan Taking Bipartisan Form at Senate Finance |
| May 12 - Budget Resolution Highlights |
| May 12 - GOP Budget Resolution Squeaks By, But Implementation Will Be Tougher |
| May 12 - Grassley-Baucus Tax Blueprint Heads for Rough-and-Tumble Markup |
| May 12 - House Panel Moves Railroad Pension Bill |
| May 12 - Panel Approves Tax Breaks For Foster, Adoptive Parents; 10-Year Cost of $3.1 Billion |
| May 12 - Senate's Agenda to Rest on Rulings Of Referee Schooled by Democrats |
| May 19 - Senate Tax Bill Trade-Offs Leave a Fragile Coalition |
| May 19 - Will Bush Turn His Veto Pen On a Fiscally Wayward GOP? |
| May 26 - Budget: Prairie Populist Takes Over |
| May 26 - Democratic 'Ayes' |
| May 26 - Finance: Partnering on Top Priorities |
| June 2 - A Top High-Tech Tax Wish |
| June 2 - Tax Debate Assured a Long Life As Bush, GOP Press for New Cuts |
| June 2 - Tax Package's Timetable |
| June 9 - Byrd: Different Expectations? |
| June 9 - Tax Law Signed, Its Sunset Chided |
| June 9 - Under Tight Spending Ceilings, Democrats Lower Their Sights |
| June 16 - GOP Lawmakers Target Bills On Patients' Rights, Minimum Wage As Vehicles for More Tax Cuts |
| June 23 - Divisions in House Over Size Of Agricultural Aid Package Presage Farm Bill Battles to Come |
| June 23 - Leaders Vow Supplemental Bill Will Set Example of Restraint |
| June 30 - Farmers Want More Aid Than House Offers |
| June 30 - Trim Supplemental Spending Bill May Bulk Up on Senate Floor |
| June 30 - Wielding the Waiver: PAYGO Rule, Budget Cap As Political Weapons |
| July 14 - Combest, Stenholm Unveil Proposal to Greatly Boost Crop Subsidies for Farmers |
| July 14 - Defense Budget Boost 'in Play' |
| July 14 - Shrinking Surplus Promotes Restraint As Supplemental Heads to Conference |
| July 14 - Trust Funds Take Center Stage As Talk of 'Deficits' Is Revived |
| July 21 - Midyear Spending Package Clears After Daschle Heeds Cheney's Appeal |
| July 28 - Fall Clash Over Spending Priorities Could Set Course for Rest of 107th |
| July 28 - House Committee Backs Farm Bill Boosting Subsidies for Primary Crops |
| July 28 - Senate Democrats Touch Off Fight In Voting to Tap Future Farm Aid Funds |
| August 4 - Both Parties Declare Political Victory As Senate Clears Farm Aid Bill |
| August 4 - Dairy Compact Withdrawn |
| August 4 - Railroad Bill Passes House, Budget Hurdle |
| August 4 - Stopgap Bills Unlikely to Be Bush's Weapon of Choice in Fiscal Endgame |
| August 4 - Two House Committees Spar Over Best Approach To Budget Process Rewrite |
| August 11 - 'Extenders' Could Be Up Next |
| August 11 - Pressure Building for Congress To Tackle Tax Simplification |
| August 11 - Rewriting Business Depreciation Rules: Economic Stimulus vs. Budgetary Cost |
| September 1 - Armed Services Panels Go Out on Limb In Trying to Enact Bush's Full Request |
| September 1 - Blame Laid, Promises Revisited As Surplus Estimates Shrink |
| September 8 - Between the Lockbox And a Hard Place |
| September 8 - Senate Conservatives Lose Another Powerful Nonconformist |
| September 8 - Wariness of Farm Bill's Long-Term Cost Could Set Tone for Budget Debates |
| September 15 - Cautious on the Economy |
| September 15 - Emergency Funds to Be Divided Between Recovery and Retaliation |
| September 15 - Obey Sounds a Solitary Warning Against Carte Blanche |
| September 15 - Quiet Tension Over Spending |
| September 15 - Recent Emergency Aid |
| September 15 - Tax Relief for Victims' Families |
| September 22 - A Cautious Start for Stimulus |
| September 22 - Administration Sees Conservation, Export Enhancement as Alternatives To Farm Subsidies Backed in House |
| September 22 - Insurers Seek Protection |
| September 22 - Markets Survive Shocks |
| September 22 - Spending Consensus Sought |
| September 29 - Hill Deciding Stimulus Is Needed, Even if a Deficit Is the Result |
| September 29 - War Bonds to the Rescue? |
| October 6 - Bush Calls for IDEA Rewrite |
| October 6 - Panel Clears Way for Labor-HHS Bill Despite Ongoing Split Over Education Funds |
| October 6 - What's Hot, What's Not: Handicapping the Stimulus Package |
| October 13 - Appropriators Make Two Solid Strides Toward Finishing Spending Bills |
| October 13 - Economic Tools at the Government's Disposal |
| October 13 - Hill Looks for Fed's Blessing In Forging Stimulus Package |
| October 13 - Move to Repeal Corporate AMT Finds New Life in Stimulus Debate |
| October 13 - No Lack of Congressional Welcome For Central Banker's Active Role |
| October 20 - Emergency Spending Measure Puts Bush Budget Chief on the Spot |
| October 20 - Rep. Sununu to Challenge Sen. Smith, Heeding Call From GOP Insiders Worried About Incumbent's Electability |
| October 20 - Sharply Divergent Stimulus Proposals Taking Shape in House and Senate |
| October 20 - Tax Break for Multinationals Decried, But Probably Destined to Pass |
| October 27 - Lawmakers Say Supplemental Spending Must Grow Further to Deal With Threats |
| November 3 - Annual Spending Process Takes a Back Seat to Security Issues |
| November 10 - ADJOURNMENT: A Different Kind of Rush for the Holidays |
| November 17 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Stimulus Deal May Materialize Amid Smoke of Partisan Warfare |
| December 1 - AGRICULTURE: Farm Bill Now Tops Senate Agenda But GOP Is Likely to Filibuster |
| December 1 - Earmarks, Back With a Vengeance |
| December 1 - EMPLOYMENT & LABOR: Two Cloture Votes Will Determine Whether Railroad Retirement Bill Can Win Enactment This Session |
| December 1 - Once-Profligate Courthouse Spending Is Now a Showcase for Hills Restraint |
| December 8 - Senate Passes House Bill Allowing Railroad Pension Fund To Invest in Stocks and Bonds |
| December 8 - White House Shows Some Muscle In Supplemental Spending Clash |
| December 15 - No Urgency on Debt Ceiling |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Budget Process |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2002 Budget Resolution |
| December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Budget Resolution (Vote 69) |
| December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Tax Cuts (Vote 165) |
