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January 3 - A Sweeping Social Agenda for Muscle-Flexing Majority

January 3 - A Sweeping Social Agenda for Muscle-Flexing Majority

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Health

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Health

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Social Security

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Social Security

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Spending and the Deficit

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Spending and the Deficit

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Taxes

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Taxes

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Transportation

January 3 - Issues to Watch in 2005: Transportation

January 10 - 'Get It Done' Will Be Mantra For Next Try at Highway Bill

January 17 - GOP's Tough Talk on Deficit Up Against Costly Realities

January 17 - Homeland Security Michael Chertoff

January 17 - Six Obstacles to Halving the Deficit

January 24 - Oil Firms Lower Pressure on Push to Drill in Alaska

January 24 - Reinventing Bush Country

January 24 - Rumsfeld's Strategy for 'Transformation'

January 24 - Schwarzenegger's D.C. Muscle Men

January 31 - Deficit Hues Still Grim and Grimmer

February 7 - Proposed Medicaid Cuts Leave Bleeding to States

February 7 - Rewrite Takes a Road Trip

February 14 - A Budget Glossary

February 14 - A Budget Plan With More Losers Than Winners

February 14 - Budget Timetable

February 14 - Bush Budget: Agriculture

February 14 - Bush Budget: Army Corps of Engineers

February 14 - Bush Budget: Commodity Futures Trading Commission

February 14 - Bush Budget: Corporation for National and Community Service

February 14 - Bush Budget: Defense

February 14 - Bush Budget: District of Columbia

February 14 - Bush Budget: Education

February 14 - Bush Budget: Election Assistance Commission and Federal Election Commission

February 14 - Bush Budget: Energy

February 14 - Bush Budget: Environmental Protection Agency

February 14 - Bush Budget: Executive Office of the President

February 14 - Bush Budget: Export-Import Bank

February 14 - Bush Budget: Federal Communications Commission

February 14 - Bush Budget: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

February 14 - Bush Budget: Foreign Assistance

February 14 - Bush Budget: General Services Administration

February 14 - Bush Budget: Health and Human Services

February 14 - Bush Budget: Homeland Security

February 14 - Bush Budget: Housing and Urban Development

February 14 - Bush Budget: Intelligence

February 14 - Bush Budget: Judicial Branch

February 14 - Bush Budget: Justice

February 14 - Bush Budget: Labor

February 14 - Bush Budget: Legal Services Corporation

February 14 - Bush Budget: Legislative Branch

February 14 - Bush Budget: NASA

February 14 - Bush Budget: National Endowment for the Arts

February 14 - Bush Budget: National Science Foundation

February 14 - Bush Budget: National Transportation Safety Board

February 14 - Bush Budget: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

February 14 - Bush Budget: Office of Personnel Management

February 14 - Bush Budget: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

February 14 - Bush Budget: Postal Service

February 14 - Bush Budget: Securities and Exchange Commission

February 14 - Bush Budget: Small Business Administration

February 14 - Bush Budget: Smithsonian Institution

February 14 - Bush Budget: State

February 14 - Bush Budget: Tennessee Valley Authority

February 14 - Bush Budget: Transportation

February 14 - Bush Budget: Treasury

February 14 - Bush Budget: Veterans Affairs

February 14 - Bush's $1.4 Trillion Tax Proposal

February 14 - Bush's Budget: A Thousand Pages of Political Pain

February 14 - Bush's Fiscal 2006 Proposal by Agency

February 14 - Bush's Fiscal 2006 Proposal by Appropriations Panel

February 14 - Bush's Long View Called Too Rosy

February 14 - Economic Forecasts Compared

February 14 - Fiscal 2006 Budget Totals

February 14 - Political Economy: Tomorrow's Another Day

February 14 - Specifics Dog Investment Plan

February 14 - Taxes and Other Revenues by Source

February 14 - What Happened in Fiscal 2005?

February 21 - Drug Benefit Costs Still Unknown

February 21 - Pensions and Red Ink: PBGC on the Precipice

February 21 - The Real Crisis Waits Its Turn

March 7 - CBO Analysis Shows Bush Budget Will Save Less than Projected

March 7 - Democrats' Go-To Guy Gets the Facts Straight

March 7 - States and Localities: The Federalist Divide

March 14 - A New Matsui in the House

March 14 - Budget Resolutions Compared

March 14 - Foes Line Up to Blast Budget Plans

March 14 - Political Economy: Ownership Societies

March 14 - The Deficit FYI: Save a Skeptical Eye For Deficit Dance

March 14 - Working Through the Welfare Overhaul

March 21 - GOP Senators Bolt on Medicaid Cuts

March 21 - GOP Wins Mismatched Budgets

March 21 - The Long Road to ANWR Exploration

March 28 - Senate Protects Tax Cuts

March 28 - This Year's Fight: Tax Extenders

March 28 - Unions Hit the Field in Social Security Overhaul Battle

April 4 - A Hydra-Headed Retirement Crisis

April 4 - Account Options: Carve Out or Add On

April 4 - Political Economy: Follow the Money

April 4 - Social Security's Twofold Problem

April 4 - White House Pushes Its Amtrak Plan

April 11 - GOP Split on Mandatory Program Cuts

April 11 - Political Economy: Sowing a New Idea

April 18 - Senate GOP Warns: Don't Cut Too Deep

April 25 - Budgeting Without Filibuster

April 25 - GOP Hopes to Break Medicaid Impasse

April 25 - IRS Set to Lean Harder On Wayward Taxpayers

April 25 - PBGC Inherits Airlines' Woes

April 25 - PBGC Inherits Airlines' Woes

April 25 - Senate OKs Its Version of Supplemental

April 25 - States Balk at High Cost Of Federal Regulations

May 2 - Fiscal 2006 Plan Narrowly Adopted

May 9 - Debt Limit Increase Goes Quietly From House to Senate

May 9 - House OKs Perkins Renewal

May 9 - New House Rule to Curb Spending

May 23 - Vets Bring War Home to Stay

June 27 - New Stabs at Social Security Plan

July 4 - Political Economy: Now You See It . . .

July 11 - CBO Shrinks Estimate of Budget Deficit to $325 Billion for Fiscal 2005

July 11 - Florida's Plan Would Change Medicaid Guidelines

July 11 - Gov. Bush Tries on Caps For Medicaid Spending

July 18 - GOP Trumpets Lower Projected Deficit; Democrats Cool to Report

July 25 - States and Localities: No Band-Aid for Medicaid

August 1 - Energy Tax Breaks Tilt to Windmills, Others

August 1 - Hard-Fought Energy Bill Clears

August 1 - Marathon Conference Clears Highway Bill

August 8 - Debt Limit Increase Probably Not Needed This Year, Treasury Estimates

August 15 - No Easy Remedy For AMT Blues

August 15 - Twenty-Four House Republicans Urge Panel To Keep ANWR Out of Reconciliation Bill

September 5 - Fall Agenda: Budget Reconciliation

September 5 - Fall Agenda: Social Security Overhaul

September 5 - GOP Works to Extend Tax Breaks

September 5 - Political Economy: Stormy Stagnation

September 5 - Spending Cut Assignments by Committee

September 12 - Disaster Supplements Provide $62 Billion and Counting

September 12 - New Orleans Flood Bumps Up Bottom Line on Food Stamps

September 12 - Revamped Agenda Focuses on Relief

September 19 - Recalibrating Reconciliation

September 26 - Deal Set to Write Continuing Resolution Until Spending Bills Are Completed

September 26 - Editor's Notebook: Carrying the Vision

September 26 - Fiscal Disunity Plagues the GOP

September 26 - The Deficit's Hard Truths

October 3 - Debacles, DeLay and Disarray

October 3 - Gulf States Face Resistance to Tax Relief

October 3 - House Backs Justice Authorization

October 3 - Initial Stopgap Measure Enacted

October 3 - Initial Stopgap Measure Enacted

October 10 - GOP Leaders Push More Spending Cuts

October 17 - Hurricanes Cloud Reconciliation Forecast

October 17 - Leaders Face Test in Reconciliation

October 17 - Medicaid Cuts Remain Hot Issue

October 24 - Good News, Bad News for Entitlements

October 24 - GOP Delays Vote on Budget Cuts

October 24 - House Panel Double-Teams Welfare Rewrite on Reconciliation

October 24 - Senate Panels Make Savings Recommendations

October 24 - Taking Turns on Appropriations Jurisdiction

October 31 - Budget Rebels Step Into the Gap

October 31 - Budget Savings Move Forward Haltingly

October 31 - Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare Weighed

October 31 - Digital TV Bill Heads to Conference

October 31 - Everybody Feels the Pain When Cutting Mandatory Spending

October 31 - House Panels Make Reconciliation Recommendations

October 31 - Katrina-Damaged Areas Could Receive More Aid Soon

October 31 - Likened to Voucher System, Bid to Provide Money to Katrina Victims Is Rejected

October 31 - Panels Back PBGC Increases

October 31 - Political Economy: Consuming Interest

October 31 - The Republican Study Committee's Six Checkpoints for Legislation

November 7 - ANWR Support Affirmed in Senate

November 7 - Flu Money Not in Reconciliation

November 7 - Panel OKs School Aid Amendment

November 7 - Senate Passes Cuts; House Struggles

November 14 - GOP Divide Scuttles Budget Vote

November 21 - CBO Chief to Leave at Year's End, His Job Filled by Deputy for Now

November 21 - Craig Crawford's 1600: The Mutiny Is Afoot

November 21 - Flood Insurance Funding Cleared

November 21 - Reconciliation Packages Move Forward

November 21 - Savings Bill Heads to Conference Battle

November 21 - Senate Solidly Backs Pension Rewrite

November 28 - Eco-Friendly Jewelry Means All That Glitters Is...Green

November 28 - House and Senate Budget Cut Plans Compared

November 28 - Spending Cut Plans Tamper With Entitlements

December 5 - Budget Tops Remaining Agenda

December 12 - Reconciliation Harmony

December 12 - So Many Fiscal Pieces, So Little Time

December 26 - ANWR Vote Leaves Stevens in the Cold

December 26 - Budget Bill Increases Federal Deposit Insurance Coverage

December 26 - Digital TV Transition Date Set

December 26 - Final Action on Budget Deferred

December 26 - Highlights of Budget Reconciliation Package

December 26 - Low-Level Targets of Spending Cuts

December 26 - Student Loan Provisions Save $12.7 Billion

December 26 - The Funding Perils of a Low Profile

December 26 - Welfare Overhaul One Step Away