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January 9 - Decision on Tritium Site Angers Some Legislators

January 9 - Study Bolsters Proponents Of Nevada Waste Site

February 13 - COMMERCE: With Oil and Gas Prices Low, Passions Run High Over Fee Increase

February 13 - Senate Panel Votes To Repeal Limits on Multistate Utilities

February 13 - Veto Threat Renewed Over Nuclear Waste Storage Plan

February 27 - Critics Say Waste Proposal Won't Solve Storage Problem

February 27 - REGULATION: For Independent Contractors' Group, Price of Deregulation Is Eternal Vigilance

March 13 - Lawmakers Voice Support For Exxon-Mobil Merger

March 20 - REGULATION: As States Deregulate Electricity, Former Energy Officials Urge Hill To Set Nationwide Standards

March 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Domenici Offers Plan To Cope With Commercial Nuclear Waste; New Mexico Storage Site Opens

April 17 - ENERGY: Panel Pursues Nuclear Waste Storage Deal

April 17 - ENERGY: White House's Revamped Plan To Deregulate Electricity Gains Better Reception in Congress

April 24 - ENVIRONMENT: Interim Nuclear Waste Bill Not Ready for House Floor Despite Commerce Panel's Assent

May 22 - RADIOACTIVE TOPICS: Yucca Mountain Compromise Glows Faintly in Distance

May 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy-Water Bill Tightens Spigot On Senators' Home-State Projects; Nuclear Security Funds Bolstered

June 5 - Still Climbing Mt. Yucca

June 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Passes Energy-Water Bill Tilted Toward Defense Programs; House May Take Different Tack

June 19 - COMMERCE: Barton Calls for Action On Electricity Deregulation Despite Daunting Problems

June 19 - DEFENSE: Proposal for a Nuclear Security Agency Gains Momentum With Lawmakers

June 19 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate's On-Site Proposal Would Keep Nuclear Waste Out of Nevada -- for Now

June 26 - DEFENSE: Plan for New Agency Gains Steam Over Richardson's Objections

July 10 - Chart: Interior Spending Highlights

July 10 - Richardson 'Ready To Move' On Nuclear Weapons Agency

July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Fiscally Cautious Interior Bill Passes House as Senate Prepares For Fights on Mining, Oil, Logging

July 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Bill Would Slash Funds For Energy Department, Give Boost to Water Projects

July 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Appropriators Approve Energy-Water Bill As Opposition Broadens

July 31 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Energy-Water Bill That Differs Sharply From Senate's On Water Projects, Nuclear Arms

July 31 - Chart: Energy and Water Bill Highlights

August 7 - 'Date Rape' Drug Penalties Gain House Committee Approval

August 7 - Bill Promises Protections For Federal Subcontractors

August 7 - Electric Utility Deregulation Won'T See Action Before Fall

August 7 - House Panel Approves Screens To Save Salmon In Northwest

August 7 - House Passes Tougher Penalties For Theft Of Intellectual Property

August 7 - House Passes Tougher Penalties For Theft Of Intellectual Property

August 7 - House Votes To Postpone Ergonomics Rules

August 7 - Methamphetamine Crackdown Approved By Senate Judiciary

August 7 - Oil, Steel Loan Guarantees Cleared

August 7 - Panel Approves Class-Action Bill That Would Benefit Defendants

August 7 - Senate Clears Limits On Access To Chemical Spill Scenarios

August 7 - Senate Panel Holds Hearings On Two Ex-Im Bank Nominees

August 7 - Senate Passes Bill To Clarify Rules On Sweepstakes Mailings

September 11 - Agencies' Technology Funding Doubled In House Science Vote

September 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate's Work on Interior Bill Delayed by Oil Royalty Filibuster; Logging Restrictions Defeated

September 11 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Political Ground May Be Shifting Under Mine Operators

September 11 - Members Work for Compromise On Utility Price Deregulation

September 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Royalty Debate Has Final Hold On Interior Bill

September 18 - House Passes R and D Authorization For Department of Energy

September 25 - Agreement Reached On Energy-Water Funding Bill

September 25 - ENVIRONMENT: High-Level Acrimony In Nuclear Storage Standoff

October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy-Water Spending Bill Clears After House Leaders Dredge Up An Additional $1.1 Billion

October 2 - Richardson Relents

October 2 - Stronger Oversight Urged For Counterproliferation Programs

October 9 - REGULATION: House Panel Resumes Work On Electricity Deregulation Despite Calls To Slow Down

October 30 - REGULATION: House Subcommittee Moves Electricity Deregulation Bill With Big Issues Unresolved

November 13 - STANDOFF IN NEW MEXICO: Domenici, Richardson and Bingaman Get Behind WIPP

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Environment - Nuclear Waste

November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Industry and Regulation - Electricity Deregulation