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January 5 - Emerging Players: Rep. John M. Spratt Jr., D-S.C.

January 5 - Emerging Players: Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.

January 12 - Finessing Workers' Worries

January 12 - Security the Emerging Theme Of Election Year Issues

January 12 - The Social Security Faceoff

January 26 - Naming of Accountants to Serve on SEC Raises Questions in Light of Enron Woes

January 26 - Parties Appear to Feel Little Impetus To Come to Terms on Stimulus Package

January 26 - The Duel of Bush and Daschle: Men of Genteel Steel

February 2 - Bush Says National Security And Economic Revival Will Require Deficit Spending

February 2 - Olympics Make Utah a Big Fiscal Winner, But Lawmakers Quibble Over Final Tally

February 2 - Pressure for Stimulus Abates As Economy Shows Clear Signs of Revival

February 2 - Terrorism Insurance Bill Relegated to Back Burner As Urgency Is Questioned

February 2 - The Challenges at Home

February 9 - Defense Plans Praised, Domestic Squeeze Debated

February 9 - Parsing the Assumptions

February 23 - Enron's Accounting Woes Cast a Shadow On Debt-Limit Legerdemain

March 2 - Budget Work Takes a Back Seat To Parties' Symbolic Gestures

March 2 - House Narrows Stimulus Agenda As Unemployment Benefits Run Out

March 9 - Dual-Use Export Bill Advances

March 9 - Unemployment Benefits Provide Catalyst to Pass Recovery Bill

March 16 - Conrad in Budget Spotlight With Little Room to Maneuver

March 16 - Creating a Paper Trail

March 16 - House GOP Forces Treasury's Hand By Delaying Vote on Debt Ceiling

March 16 - Securities Fraud Bill Unveiled

March 16 - Treasury Secretary Issues Dire Warning: Government Checks Would Stop

March 23 - Debt Limit Left Hanging; Federal Books May Require Some Juggling

March 30 - High-Tech Lobbyists Rally Around Efforts to Scuttle Stock Options Tax Changes

March 30 - O'Neill May Have to Follow Vilified Predecessor's Lead in Shifting Funds

March 30 - Stock Options Primer

April 6 - Absent a Budget, Singular Spending Target An Increasingly Appealing Fallback

April 6 - Enron, California Energy Woes Fail to Move Lawmakers

April 6 - Treasury's Juggling Act

April 13 - Another 'Tort Reform' Battle Stalls Terrorism Insurance Measure On Its Way to the Senate Floor

April 13 - Appropriators See Their Ceiling For Fiscal 2003 Spending

April 27 - Benefits for Displaced Workers Considered Essential in Negotiations To Pass Fast-Track Authority

April 27 - Senate Finance Readies Crackdown On Corporate Offshore Tax Avoidance

May 4 - Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms

May 11 - Bush Chooses Economists For Fed Seats

May 11 - Bush's Steel Tariffs Backed in House

May 11 - GOP Eager to Raise Debt Ceiling With Minimal Political Pain

May 18 - Many Divisions Yield Gloomy Forecast For Upcoming Appropriations Season

May 18 - Sarbanes' Style Could Prove a Hindrance In His Effort to Regulate Accounting

May 25 - After Struggle for House Passage, Spending Fight Is in the Senate

May 25 - Coverage Boost For FDIC Slows Bill

May 25 - The Next Possible Trade Deals

June 8 - Senators See Spending Ceiling

June 15 - House Republican Leaders Ponder Vote on Raising the Debt Limit After Senate Passes Its Own Bill

June 15 - Senate Approaches Passage Of Terrorism Insurance Bill, But Bush Is Threatening Veto

June 22 - GOP Shrugging Off Treasury's June 28 Deadline for Boosting Borrowing Limit

June 22 - Senate Gets Some GOP Support In Passage of Terrorism Insurance Bill

June 22 - Tauzin Cooks Up Probe Of Stewart's ImClone Connection

June 29 - Congress Making Very Public Play To Invoke 'Corporate Responsibility'

June 29 - House GOP Leaders Take Political Risk, Win Enactment of Higher Borrowing Ceiling

July 13 - Tougher Accounting Legislation Resurrected in Senate

July 20 - Buck Stops Short of Redesign As Vending Industry Digs in its Heels

July 20 - Senate Panel Puts Off Tough Decisions To Pass Commerce-Justice-State Bill

July 20 - Stock Declines Aid Democrats In Push for Stiff Accounting Rules

July 27 - A Worried Congress Forced Into Legislative Overdrive

July 27 - Bankruptcy Bill Set to Clear

July 27 - Chambers Name Conferees On Terrorism Insurance Bill After Deal Ends Stalemate

July 27 - Deal Puts Fast Track on Track

July 27 - Regulation Is Back in Vogue

August 3 - Curbing Corporate Tax Avoidance Jumps to Top of Hill's Agenda

August 3 - Lawmakers' Keen Sense of Political Risk Trumps Avowed Goal of Budget Deal

August 10 - ELECTION 2002 Other Races to Watch: Business Regulation

August 10 - Future of Social Security Bubbles Up As Leading Indiana Debate Topic

August 10 - Provisions of the Corporate Fraud Bill

August 31 - Revenue Decline a Tepid Issue for Voters Despite Democratic Finger-Pointing

September 7 - Economic Stimulus Package Quietly Leaves Priority List For Bush, Many Republicans

September 14 - Abortion Provision Has House Republicans Lying Low On Bankruptcy Overhaul Measure

September 14 - Hearings May Be as Mighty As the Legislative Pen

September 14 - Union Priorities Get Short Shrift In Press to Move Senate Pension Bill

September 21 - Stall of Key Tax, Economic Measures May Have Cost Senate Democrats One of Their Best Campaign Weapons

September 28 - Guns and Butter, Again

September 28 - Potential Allies View Trade and Aid As Compensation for Cooperation

September 28 - Senate Finance Chairman's Agenda Trumped by Democratic Leader

September 28 - The High Cost of Might

September 28 - War May Not Hurt Economy

October 5 - Better Braced for Oil Shocks

October 5 - Not Even Rumblings of War Shake Loose an Energy Policy

October 5 - Punitive Damages Issue Leaves Terrorism Insurance Bill Teetering

October 5 - Senate-Passed Bill Has Tax Increase For Expatriates, Breaks for Military

October 12 - Bad News Due as Voters Have Their Say

October 12 - Congress Now Faces Voters Anxious About the Economy

October 12 - GOP Offers Tax Break Package To Ease Pain of Stock Losses

October 12 - Issue of Punitive Damages Still Thwarts Compromise On Terrorism Insurance Bill

October 12 - White House Communications Aide Joins SEC as Adviser to Embattled Chief

October 19 - Conservatives' Security Concerns Keep Odds Slim for Relaxing 'Dual Use' Technology Controls

October 19 - Consumer Groups Complain As SEC Executes Corporate Fraud Rules

October 19 - GOP Declares Victory Despite Unfinished Business

October 19 - Thinking Outside the House: Democrats Guess at Gephardt's Plans

October 19 - Thomas Defies GOP Leaders, Dooms Tax Cut Bill Aimed at Aiding Investors

October 26 - SEC Funding in 2003: Feast or Famine?

October 26 - Simplifying the Tax Code Is Key to Overhaul Proposals

October 26 - The Tax Code: Scrap or Simplify?

October 26 - White House and Kremlin Want End to Cold War Trade Law

November 9 - Economy Crucial for GOP

November 16 - Bush Team in Driver's Seat on Fiscal Policy

November 16 - Editor's Notebook: To The Rescue

November 16 - House Membership of Mostly Lawyers and Veterans Now Giving Way to Bankers, Executives

November 16 - President Pushes Terrorism Insurance Deal Despite Republican Leaders' Objections

November 16 - Rise of the 'Growth Hawks'

November 16 - Stimulus Proposal: End 'Double Taxation' of Dividends

November 16 - With Economy Still Lagging, Everyone Has a Stimulus Plan

November 23 - Persistence, Lobbying Pay Off In Terrorism Insurance Victory

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Debt Limit Increase

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Federal Deposit Insurance

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Investor Tax Cuts

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Terrorism Insurance

December 7 - O'Neill's Departure Signals Change of Style, Not Policy