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January 3 - ENVIRONMENT: New Mexico Waste Site Awaits EPA Decision

January 10 - TRANSPORTATION: Budget Surplus Whets Debate On More Highway Spending

January 17 - Kasich's 'Dirty Dozen'

January 24 - RECESS NOTES: McCain Plans To Offer Changes In Telecommunications Law

January 24 - SECTION NOTES: Helms Sets Terms for Hearings On Test Ban Treaty

January 31 - SECTION NOTES: Lott Seeks To Broker Deal To Break Utility Standoff

February 7 - Abundant Foes Say 'No Chance' To Clinton's Chosen Tax Breaks

February 7 - Clinton's Fancy Budget Work Upstages Skeptical GOP

February 7 - ENVIRONMENT: Clinton's Global Warming Plan Meets Wall of Opposition

February 7 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Senators Work To Gain Support For Rule-Making Overhaul

February 7 - HOUSING: Disaster Insurance Measure May Not Weather Debate

February 7 - How Each Agency and Department Would Fare Under Clinton Budget

February 14 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Senate Vote Blocks Debate On Bill To Ban Cloning

February 21 - El Nino Rains Profit

February 21 - ENVIRONMENT: In Senate, Hope Springs Again For Endangered Species Law

February 28 - COVER STORY: Congress Looks to Kentucky For Lessons on Education

February 28 - ENVIRONMENT: House-Senate Dispute Holds Up Nevada Nuclear Waste Site

February 28 - ENVIRONMENT: Politics Poisons the Debate Over Superfund Rewrite

February 28 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Agreement Elusive on Bills To Revamp Rule-Making

February 28 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Panel Moves Copyright Bills As Debate Escalates

February 28 - PROPERTY RIGHTS: Stiff Opposition Greets Bill On Local Zoning Cases

February 28 - SECURITIES: Bills Seek To Close Loophole In 1995 Lawsuits Law

March 7 - Automakers Get Mixed Results on Hill

March 7 - Demand for Bigger, Thirstier Cars Puts Consumers in Driver's Seat

March 7 - Drunken-Driving Plan Stirs Controversy

March 7 - ENVIRONMENT: Democratic Objections Slow Superfund Bill

March 7 - Rough Going for Supplemental Bill

March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Coalition Wants To Liberalize Laws on Encryption Exports

March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Legislation on Year 2000 Glitch Cleared by Senate

March 14 - Environment: Future of Superfund Overhaul Looks Anything but Bright

March 14 - ENVIRONMENT: House Passes Bill To Ease Property 'Takings' Claims

March 14 - NEW MEMBER PROFILE: Profile: Rep.-elect Lois Capps, D-Calif.

March 21 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Congress Tackling Problems With Government Printing

March 21 - LEADERSHIP: Offsets Spat Marks Latest Chapter In House GOP's Struggle To Govern

March 21 - Panel OKs Supplemental -- With Strings

March 21 - SECTION NOTES: 'Debt-for-Nature' Incentive Easily Passes House

March 21 - SECTION NOTES: Stalled Nominees Cause Durbin To Block Nuclear Waste Bill

March 28 - AGRICULTURE: Forest Policy Bill Sparks Debate

March 28 - Editor's Note

March 28 - ENVIRONMENT: Superfund Rewrite Advances, But Accord Remains Unlikely

March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Science Subcommittee OKs Invention Licensing Bill

March 28 - TRANSPORTATION: Road Wars and Special Projects Ensure House Bill's Rough Ride

April 4 - An Eight-Acre Battle

April 4 - COVER STORY: Environmental Bills Hitch a Ride Through the Legislative Gantlet

April 4 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Revolution At Twilight

April 4 - REGULATION: GOP Likely To Sidestep Overhaul, Fearing Environmental Showdown

April 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill To Create Waste Site for Three States

April 4 - Supplemental Bills Compared

April 4 - THE BUDGET: House Emergency Spending Measure Heads for Collision With Senate

April 4 - TRANSPORTATION: House Sets Up Battle With Senate In Passing $219 Billion Roads Bill

April 4 - Transportation: Special Projects

April 11 - Nunn's Triad of Interests

April 18 - ENVIRONMENT: Members Go Out on a Limb Over National Forests

April 18 - Factory Act Reflects Clout of Steam-Powered Mills

April 18 - Lew Clinton's Choice To Replace Raines at OMB

April 25 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bork Lends Help To Coalition Challenging Microsoft Dominance

April 25 - Rep. Rocket Man

May 2 - ENVIRONMENT: Law Sparks Another Round In Pesticides Battle

May 2 - EPA's Reversal on Herbicide Ban Sows Concern and Confusion

May 2 - House Votes for Ban on Sale Of Rhino, Tiger Products

May 16 - ENVIRONMENT: Maelstrom of Opposition Hurts 'Heritage Rivers' Plan

May 16 - ENVIRONMENT: New Mexico Site Ready for Nuclear Waste

May 16 - House Passes Tougher Penalties For Neglecting Child Support

May 30 - AGRICULTURE: Congress Turns to Problem Of Animal-Waste Pollution

May 30 - Battles Over Jurisdiction Likely To Keep Congress From Merging Food Agencies

May 30 - Farmers Stung by Regulations

May 30 - FOREIGN POLICY: Hill Inaction on Export Controls Left Decisions in Clinton's Hands

May 30 - TRANSPORTATION: Senators Pile On the Take-Home Projects After Coaxing House To Reduce Its List

June 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Fresh Focus on Global Warming Does Not Dispel Doubts About Kyoto Treaty's Future

June 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Nevada Waste Site Defeated In Election-Year Tussle Over Reid's Senate Seat

June 6 - Kudos and Some Criticism for Goldin

June 6 - Report Gives Failing Grades On Federal Year 2000 Fix

June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Spending Measure Becomes Conservatives' Vehicle For Critiquing Kyoto Treaty

June 13 - House Measure Boosts Penalties For Internet Predators

June 13 - House Select Panel Slow To Begin China Inquiry

June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Zips Through Interior Bill, Leaving Tough Questions Such as NEA for Full House

June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Renewable Energy a Winner As Senate Easily Passes Energy and Water Bill

June 20 - Regula's Last Word on Park Plumbing

June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Battles Over Kyoto Treaty May Delay House Action On VA-HUD Spending Bill

July 11 - Identity Theft Measure Sails Through Senate Panel

July 18 - Clinton Expected To Sign Tropical Forest Protection Bill

July 18 - COMMERCE: House Commerce Approves Digital Copyright Protections, With Assurances for Lawful Use

July 18 - Reauthorization Clears For National Science Foundation

July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Little Compromise Goes a Long Way In Interior Spending Debate

July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Restricts Rulemaking on Global Warming

August 1 - ENVIRONMENT: Opposition to Global Warming Treaty Is Cropping Up in Spending Bills

August 1 - House Votes To Allow Shipments Of Nuclear Waste to Texas

August 1 - POLITICAL SCIENCE: Talk of Less Government Sometimes Proves Cheap

August 1 - TAXES: Vote Bodes Ill For Internet Tax Agreement

August 8 - House Panel Backs Overhaul Of National Park Management

August 22 - Projects Added to Interior Bill Defy Easy Labeling

September 5 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Clears Nuclear Waste Compact Bill

September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lott Pulls Interior Bill As Debate Bogs Down In Muddle of Add-Ons

September 19 - REGULATION: Fisheries Regulators Must Navigate Shoals Of Conservation and Commerce

September 19 - REGULATION: On-Line Smut Curb Criticized As Too Tough

September 19 - Schools of Thought

September 19 - WHAT PRICE, HOLLYWOOD?: For Filmmakers, 'Lights, Camera, Checkbook'

September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy-Water Bill Conferees Agree To Give Less to TVA, More to Corps of Engineers

October 3 - Senate Takes Up Internet Tax Moratorium

October 10 - Creation of Utah Monument Deemed Politically Motivated

October 10 - Parks Bill Defeated in House; Democrats Blame 'Rancid Pork'

October 10 - TAXES: Senate Bill To Place Moratorium On New Internet Taxes

October 17 - Alaska Road Project Re-Routed To Avoid Wilderness Area

October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Compromise Revives Measure To Increase Visas For Highly Skilled Workers

October 17 - Dozens of Parks Projects Get A New Lease on Life

October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Spending Rises for Forest Service And Parks; Administration Prevails On Clean Water, Climate Initiatives

October 31 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: National Parks, Private Funds: Trouble in Paradise?

November 14 - Legislative Summary: Governmental Regulations

November 21 - ENVIRONMENT: A Year After Kyoto Pact's Completion, The Political Heat Is Unabated

November 21 - Not Banned in Philadelphia