 January 5 - A Regulator Comes to the Defense |
| January 5 - Constitution's Conflicting Clauses Underscored by Iraq Crisis |
| January 5 - Framers Were Wary of War Powers |
| January 5 - McCain, Glenn Get Their Turn To Plead for Exoneration |
| January 5 - REPUBLICAN PARTY: Search for an RNC Chairman Takes Root in Yeutter |
| January 5 - Senate Edges Into Gulf Debate |
| January 5 - The 'R' Word Is Official |
| January 5 - THE PUBLIC: National Opinion Ambivalent As Winds of War Stir Gulf |
| January 5 - WHAT'S AHEAD: About This Issue |
| January 12 - Banking: Big Bank Failure Underscores Deposit Insurance Debate |
| January 12 - Constitutional Questions Remain |
| January 12 - THE BUDGET: Deficit Estimates Climb $50 Billion |
| January 12 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Agent Orange Still Permeates Debate on COLA Payments |
| January 19 - Bennett: No Shrinking Violet |
| January 19 - Charting Desert Storm |
| January 19 - Congress Applauds President From Sidelines of War |
| January 19 - Defense: Effects of Gulf, Soviet Crackdown |
| January 19 - Education: Political Battle To Control the Agenda |
| January 19 - ETHICS: Keating Five Ask Exoneration As Panel's Hearings End |
| January 19 - Finance and Banking: Facing an Overhaul |
| January 19 - Foreign Policy: Congress' Potential Wartime Role |
| January 19 - GULF WAR: Bush Informs Congress: Diplomacy Has Failed |
| January 19 - Health Care: Coverage, Costs Raise Concerns |
| January 19 - Judge Ryskamp: Round 2 |
| January 19 - Law and Judiciary: New Year, Old Battles with Bush |
| January 19 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush Announces War on Iraq, Assures 'We Will Not Fail' |
| January 19 - The Gulf War and Recession Darken Outlook for 1991 |
| January 19 - THE GULF WAR: Bush Urges Cautious Realism, Says Coalition Is Solid |
| January 19 - Trade: Talk of Regional Blocs In International System |
| January 26 - AGRICULTURE: Bush Nominates Madigan For Cabinet Opening |
| January 26 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Can Bush Keep GOP United in 1992? |
| January 26 - Partisanship Likely To Drive Any Debate on New Taxes |
| January 26 - PUERTO RICO: Fading Support, Lack of Time May Hinder Status Bills |
| January 26 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: War Revives Cost of Living, Agent Orange Benefits |
| February 2 - Alexander: Great Expectations |
| February 2 - Martin: No Bush Clone |
| February 2 - STATE OF THE UNION: Bush Focuses on Support for War, Is Vague on Domestic Details |
| February 2 - STATE OF THE UNION: Bush Seeks To Inspire Support For His Persian Gulf Mission |
| February 2 - Veterans: Members Support Gulf Troops With Assistance Measures |
| February 2 - Watkins: Energy Glasnost |
| February 2 - What's Ahead: Bush Budget Request Arrives on Hill |
| February 9 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Dixon's 'Clean House' Style Wins City Budget Increase |
| February 9 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Says Allies, Not Saddam, Will Decide Course of War |
| February 9 - SCIENCE BUDGET: Hill Must Make Hard Choices Among Big-Money Projects |
| February 9 - SECTION NOTES: Pair of Veterans' Measures Passed by House |
| February 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Martin As Labor Secretary |
| February 9 - Supplementals Give Congress An Additional Look at 1991 |
| February 16 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Repeal Likely for 'Unfair' Ban On Rank-and-File Honoraria |
| February 16 - Governors Ask Congress for Relief From Burdensome Medicaid Mandates |
| February 16 - LABOR: Recession May Be Good News For Unemployment Bill |
| February 23 - Baby Bells' Fate Dangling Before Congress, Courts |
| February 23 - Bells Put a Price on Fiber Optics |
| February 23 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Tugging on the Leash Of U.S. Spymasters |
| February 23 - Getting Industries To Communicate |
| February 23 - PUERTO RICO: Referendum Bill Near Collapse |
| February 23 - SECTION NOTES: Women's Job Training Measure Revived by Senate Panel |
| February 23 - THE GULF WAR: Bush Gives Iraq an Ultimatum, Rejects Soviet Initiative |
| February 23 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: RTC Gets 'Incomplete' Grade, Urged To Improve Records |
| March 2 - BANKING: Panel Approves Strict Penalties In Money-Laundering Cases |
| March 2 - Call To Fuse Federal Programs Greeted Skeptically on Hill |
| March 2 - Candidates for Block Grants (chart) |
| March 2 - COMMUNICATIONS: Administration Renews Push For Airwaves Auction |
| March 2 - Development Programs (chart) |
| March 2 - ETHICS: Move To Revise Honoraria Ban Resurrects Debate in Senate |
| March 2 - How Block Grants Fares 1987-1991 (chart) |
| March 2 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush Announces Cease-Fire, Says 'Objectives Are Met' |
| March 2 - Proponents of Technology R and D |
| March 2 - PUERTO RICO: Referendum Bill Appears Dead After Energy Panel Vote |
| March 2 - Replaying a Familiar GOP Theme |
| March 2 - SECURITIES: House Panel Rejects Proposal To Restrain Futures Trading |
| March 9 - 20th-Century Presidents: |
| March 9 - AGRICULTURE: Madigan Approved For Agriculture |
| March 9 - Bush's Gulf Triumph Stifles Talk Of GOP Primary Challengers |
| March 9 - Bush's Two-Track Quest in Mideast |
| March 9 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Churchill, Thatcher And George Bush |
| March 9 - DRUGS: Judiciary Panel Backs Martinez |
| March 9 - Hill's Acclaim for Bush in War Won't Bring Peace at Home |
| March 9 - Houses Move One Step Closer To Bailout Authorization |
| March 9 - Parties Split Into Postwar Camps After Giving Victory Cheer |
| March 9 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush Calls on Postwar Congress For Reform and Renewal |
| March 9 - Presidential Popularity: Bush Hits the Heights |
| March 9 - SECTION NOTES: Balanced-Budget Amendment Gets Subcommittee Nod |
| March 9 - VETERANS: Vietnam Benefits Bill Cleared |
| March 16 - $100 Million Funding Increase Signals Thaw in Relations |
| March 16 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Ethics Standards Differ With Political Culture |
| March 16 - EDUCATION: Alexander Is Confirmed After Financial Exam |
| March 16 - SCIENCE: Members Fight Surprise Plans To Close Defense Labs |
| March 16 - SECTION NOTES: Federal Worker Family Leave Backed by House Panel |
| March 16 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Advances Revision Of Job Rating System |
| March 16 - Waiting for Nunn |
| March 23 - Banking Overhaul Bill Highlights |
| March 23 - SCIENCE: Space Station in Trouble Again After Redesign Is Attacked |
| March 23 - SECTION NOTES: Congress Backs Loan Breaks For Desert Storm Vets |
| March 23 - SECTION NOTES: President Cuts Poland's Debt |
| March 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Healy For NIH Directorship |
| March 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Martinez As New Drug Czar |
| March 30 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Honoraria Ban Repeal Stalled By Wider Ethics Issues |
| March 30 - Loose Lips Raise Questions |
| March 30 - SCIENCE: Supercomputer Bill OK'd by Panel |
| April 6 - A Quiet Changing of the Guard |
| April 6 - ENVIRONMENT: A Beleaguered EPA Struggles To Take a Cabinet Seat |
| April 6 - SCIENCE: Hubble Prognosis - Getting Better |
| April 6 - SCIENCE: Super Collider Surges Ahead Despite Concerns Over Cost |
| April 6 - VOTING REGISTRATION: Ford Picks Up GOP Support |
| April 6 - War on Drugs Is a Standoff In the Partisan Trenches |
| April 6 - Weighing the Price of Enforcement Against the Record of Treatment |
| April 13 - Bush Urges U.S. Approval Of Mexico Trade Pact |
| April 13 - House Panel Cuts NASA Budget But OKs Space Station Funds |
| April 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush's Support for Brady Bill Tied to Crime Proposal |
| April 13 - SCIENCE: High-Tech Funds Get Early OK |
| April 13 - Tax Estimators Crave the Shadows |
| April 13 - VETERANS: Panel Approves Job-Bias Bill For Returning Troops |
| April 20 - Ackerman Makes His Move |
| April 20 - As Reform Fever Rises, Officials Reach for National Test Thermometer |
| April 20 - Bush Sees New World Order As a New Responsibility |
| April 20 - Elbowing Democrats Aside, Bush Unveils School Plan |
| April 20 - Federal Health Insurance Revision Shows Promising Signs of Life |
| April 20 - Percent Change in Federal Health Premium (chart) |
| April 20 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush Unveils Education Plan In Speech at White House |
| April 20 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Announces Expansion Of Relief Effort in Iraq |
| April 20 - SECTION NOTES: Fire Protection Programs Get Science Panel Boost |
| April 20 - SECTION NOTES: Intelligence Bill Sidesteps Conflict With President |
| April 20 - SECTION NOTES: Supercomputer Bill Redux |
| April 20 - VETERANS: Special Pay Rate Bill Passed by Senate |
| April 27 - CIVIL RIGHTS: With Business Talks Stalled, Bush Holds Best Hand |
| April 27 - CORRECTION: Veterans' Jobs |
| April 27 - SPACE: Panel Approves NASA Bill |
| April 27 - VETERANS: Special Pay Rate Legislation Is Cleared for President |
| April 27 - VOTER REGISTRATION: Motor-Voter Legislation Headed for Floor |
| May 4 - Administration Proposes Plan To Expand Pension Coverage |
| May 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Look at Each Spending Bill -- District of Columbia |
| May 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Look at Each Spending Bill -- Treasury-Postal |
| May 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: A Look at Each Spending Bill -- VA-HUD |
| May 4 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: House Panel Approves Measure On City Payment Formula |
| May 4 - DRUG TESTING: Federal Employees Face Mandate |
| May 4 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Stalled Hatch Act Revision May Fare Better This Time |
| May 4 - House Strips Down Version Of Controversial Bill |
| May 4 - President Puts His Prestige on the Line To Rally Support for His Trade Power |
| May 4 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard, NOAA Authorization OK'd |
| May 4 - Space Station Is Questioned As House Passes NASA Bill |
| May 4 - The Art and Science of Stealthiness |
| May 4 - TRADE: Bush Defends Fast Track In Letter to Members |
| May 4 - TRADE: President Addresses Mexico Concerns |
| May 4 - TREASURY: Tight Reins Urged for Lenders Backed by Government |
| May 11 - $40 Billion 'Mission to Earth': Big Money, Little Scrutiny |
| May 11 - 'Technical' Questions About Design' Fail To Capture Hill's Attention |
| May 11 - Are 'Too Big To Fail' Banks Too Much for Congress? |
| May 11 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Bush Restricts Sununu Trips |
| May 11 - Nebulous Numbers |
| May 11 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE Bush Announces Retirement Of CIA Director Webster |
| May 11 - TAXES: High Cost Seen For IRA Plan |
| May 11 - THE BUDGET: Democrats Win Bitter Round In Fight Over Tax Hikes |
| May 11 - THE CENSUS: Limits Urged on Use Of Homeless Count |
| May 11 - Weather Forecasting on a New Scale |
| May 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Protects Domestic Funds |
| May 18 - Bit by Bit, Congress Opened Door for Medicaid |
| May 18 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Why Vice Presidents Have Job Security |
| May 18 - HEALTH: White House, on Defensive Highlights Its Agenda |
| May 18 - INTELLIGENCE: Iran-Contra May Take Back Seat At Gates' Confirmation Hearing |
| May 18 - Oregon Plan Sparks Emotional Debate Over Rationing Health Care |
| May 18 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Announces Nomination Of Gates As CIA Director |
| May 18 - SECTION NOTES: Another Panel OKs Supercomputer Bill |
| May 18 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Repeal Boat User Fee |
| May 18 - SECTION NOTES: Drug-Testing Amendment Voted Down in House |
| May 18 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Alien Status Bill |
| May 18 - SPACE: House Panel Action Threatens To Kill Space Station Funds |
| May 18 - STATE DEPARTMENT: House Passes Embassy Decision Into Hands of White House |
| May 18 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Senate Cable Regulation Bill Gives Broadcasters a Break |
| May 18 - THE CENSUS: Official 1990 Count by District (chart) |
| May 18 - What Gates Told Congress |
| May 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Debate Goes On |
| May 25 - Court, House Abortion Votes Revive Emotional Debate |
| May 25 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Panel OKs Cabinet Agency |
| May 25 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Personnel Agency Rescinds Call For Standardized Benefits |
| May 25 - House Panel's Overhaul Bill Is a Sweep for White House |
| May 25 - INTERIOR: House Panel Calls for BLM Refit With Environmental Emphasis |
| May 25 - Power of the Purse |
| May 25 - SECTION NOTES: Disabled-Children Program Cleared by Congress |
| May 25 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Loan Measure For Homeless Veterans |
| May 25 - SECTION NOTES: Proposal Would Allow Commercial Purchases |
| May 25 - SECTION NOTES: University Research Costs Could Be Limited |
| June 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury Panel's Ax Falls On Pork-Barrel Projects |
| June 1 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush Says China MFN Status Will Be Catalyst for Change |
| June 1 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Denounces House For SDI, B-2 Cuts |
| June 1 - VETERANS: Panel Backs Health Measure, Boosts Treatment for Stress |
| June 8 - ABORTION: With Court Decision Not To Act, Family Planning Falls to Hill |
| June 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Revives Space Station With Cuts to Housing |
| June 8 - Bush Insists He Won't Allow Easing of Abortion Bans |
| June 8 - ENVIRONMENT: Federal Polluters' Immunity Attacked on Two Fronts |
| June 8 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Bill To Increase Layoff Notice |
| June 8 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Performance Standards Bill Seeks Federal Efficiency |
| June 8 - One Man's Fight for Freedom |
| June 8 - VA-HUD Spending (chart) |
| June 15 - 'Very Personal Decision' |
| June 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Customs To Get Spending Gain |
| June 15 - BANKING: Bad Financial News Persists For Banks, Thrift Bailout |
| June 15 - Bush Talks of Government Role, Criticizes Congress' Inaction |
| June 15 - CIVIL SERVICE: House Panel OKs Layoff Measure |
| June 15 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
| June 15 - CORRECTION: Performance standards bill. |
| June 15 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: House Backs Setting Formula For Federal Funds to City |
| June 15 - EDUCATION: Testing Council Plan Clears Chambers |
| June 15 - ENVIRONMENT: Nuclear Waste Storage Plant Gets Subcommittee's Approval |
| June 15 - Social Program Lobbyists Dig In |
| June 15 - TRADE: Bush Extents Credits To Soviet Union |
| June 15 - Treasury, Postal Service Appropriations (chart) |
| June 22 - Banking Bill Highlights |
| June 22 - East Meets West in Latest Fight Over Grazing Fee Increase |
| June 22 - Finding New Friends |
| June 22 - House Panel Skirts Abortion In Approving D.C. Funding |
| June 22 - House Votes for More Audits Of High-Income Taxpayers |
| June 22 - Interior Spending (chart) |
| June 22 - Labor, HHS, Education Spending (chart) |
| June 22 - Mosbacher Expected To Ignore Significant Undercount |
| June 22 - Pet Projects |
| June 22 - Senate Panel Approves Changes In Covert Action Reports |
| June 22 - Slow Start on Overhaul Bill Leaves Panel Little Time |
| June 22 - States Get More Road Money, New Leeway in Senate Bill |
| June 22 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Seidman Seeks Up to $80 Billion To Complete Thrift Bailout |
| June 22 - Whitten Clout Not Enough To Defeat CFO Funding |
| June 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bush Seeks Fourth Supplemental For Domestic Disaster Relief |
| June 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: D.C. Funds OK'd, Veto Likely |
| June 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Cuts Postal Subsidies |
| June 29 - Children's Commission Report Suggests New Tax Credit |
| June 29 - CORRECTION: Section Notes. |
| June 29 - CORRECTION: Treasury-Postal Appropriations. |
| June 29 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Bill Extends Notice Of Job Loss |
| June 29 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Senate Panel Passes Efficiency Bill |
| June 29 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Releases Funds For El Salvador |
| June 29 - SECTION NOTES: Custer Park May Be Taking Its Last Stand |
| June 29 - SECTION NOTES: Maritime Agency Measure Sees Smooth Sailing in Committee |
| June 29 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Extension For Pension Benefits |
| June 29 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Roy As Envoy to China |
| June 29 - Treasury, Postal Service Spending (chart) |
| June 29 - VETERANS: Discrimination Bill Gets Panel's OK |
| July 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Supplemental Spending Bills Bolster OMB Budget Clout |
| July 6 - Bush Carries On Fight for SDI, |
| July 6 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Announces the Nomination Of Thomas to Supreme Court |
| July 6 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Push for Independent Agency Resisted by White House |
| July 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Mikulski Trims Carefully To Pay Cost of Freedom |
| July 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Committee OKs D.C. Funds |
| July 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Bill Goes Undelivered |
| July 13 - ENVIRONMENT: Bass Protection OK'd by House |
| July 13 - FEDERAL RESERVE: Banking on Greenspan For Another Term |
| July 13 - House Travels Favorite Road To Funding Local Highways |
| July 13 - INTELLIGENCE: Gates Faces Delay and Deja Vu As Iran-Contra Resurfaces |
| July 13 - SECTION NOTES: Alexander Declines To Support Direct Student Loan Plan |
| July 13 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Increase Retirees' Social Security Benefits |
| July 13 - SECTION NOTES: Legislation Would Increase Disabled Veterans' COLA |
| July 13 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Mosbacher To Decide On Altering Census |
| July 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Deficit-Minded Bumpers Loses Round on Space Station Cuts |
| July 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Legislative Spending Measure Moves With Alacrity |
| July 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Approves D.C. Spending |
| July 20 - Bush Announces Agreement With Soviets On START |
| July 20 - Disasters/Gulf War Supplemental (chart) |
| July 20 - Easing a Staff Tourniquet |
| July 20 - HUMAN SERVICES: Senators Move To Overhaul Mental Health Funding |
| July 20 - INTELLIGENCE: Panel Votes To Bring Budget In From the Cold |
| July 20 - Refusal To Adjust Undercount Spurs Protest, Renews Suit |
| July 20 - SECTION NOTES: Advanced Technology Industry Gets Boost from House |
| July 20 - SECTION NOTES: Biological Diversity Bills Advance in House |
| July 20 - SECTION NOTES: Lack of Private-Public Dialogue Undercuts Firms, Says Report |
| July 20 - SECTION NOTES: Mullins Is Confirmed As Fed Official |
| July 20 - SECTION NOTES: Reservations May Get Funds For Environmental Programs |
| July 20 - SECTION NOTES: Veterans' Home Loans Could Reach Reservists |
| July 20 - VA-HUD Spending (chart) |
| July 20 - Warm Words for 'Bob' |
| July 20 - What They Said About the Census |
| July 27 - COINAGE: Veterans' Medal Gets Panel's OK |
| July 27 - Embattled GAO Fights Back; Bowsher Denies Any Bias |
| July 27 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Hatch Act Opponents Face End Run by White House |
| July 27 - From Abortion to Public Lands Are Potential Veto Targets |
| July 27 - Hatch Act Changes (chart) |
| July 27 - House NIH Vote Overturns Ban On Fetal Tissue Research |
| July 27 - MFN Datelines |
| July 27 - President Bush's Vetoes (chart) |
| July 27 - President's Mastery of Veto Perplexes Hill Democrats |
| July 27 - PUBLIC LANDS: Fight May Drag On Over Water Rights |
| July 27 - PUBLIC LANDS: Grazing-Fee Increase Included In Bureau Reauthorization |
| July 27 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Votes To Raise Disabled Vets' COLA |
| July 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs User Fees For FCC Services |
| July 27 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Increase In Veterans' Benefits |
| July 27 - TRANSPORTATION: Lawmakers Lard Highway Bill With $6.8 Billion in Projects |
| July 27 - VETERANS: House Committee Approves COLA |
| August 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Bill Slows In Its Tracks |
| August 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Favors Law Enforcement, Condemns Moscow Embassy |
| August 3 - BANKING: Riegle's Bill Bruised But Intact As Tense Markup Concludes |
| August 3 - BASE CLOSINGS: Opponents Lose Final Bid To Save Installations |
| August 3 - Bills To Increase GSE Oversight Move Ahead in House, Senate |
| August 3 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
| August 3 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: A Reactionary's Guide To the Presidency |
| August 3 - D.C. Spending (chart) |
| August 3 - ECONOMIC POLICY: House Committee Clears Bill On Defense Production Act |
| August 3 - Interior Spending (chart) |
| August 3 - Legislative Horizons |
| August 3 - Outrage Over CIA's Moving Out |
| August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Additional Acres Designated As Colorado Wilderness |
| August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Boosting Veterans' Benefits, House Clears $3 Million Bill |
| August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Veto Threatened On Weather Bill |
| August 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves New Coins To Honor Vets, Columbus |
| August 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Backs Study Of Biological Diversity |
| August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Backs Protections For Securities Investors |
| August 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Indian Panel Approves Consolidation of Programs |
| August 3 - Senate Clears Retooled Measure Strengthening Hill Oversight |
| August 3 - Senate Juggles Arms Issue In State Department Bill |
| August 3 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Consumer Protection Bills Hit Telemarketing, 900 Calls |
| August 3 - TREATY: Bush, Gorbachev Salute Treaty As New Foundation of Peace |
| August 10 - BANKING: Seidman's Parting Will Leave Loose Ends for Successors |
| August 10 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Special Report on Legislative Action in the 102nd Congress |
| August 10 - GOVERNMENT and COMMERCE: Special Report on Legislative Action in the 102nd Congress |
| August 17 - Bush Says He'll Sign Benefits Bill But Won't Declare Emergency |
| August 17 - CORRECTION: Oil and gas royalty collection. |
| August 17 - New Chief Financial Officers Straddle Branches of Power |
| August 17 - RECESS NOTES: Bush Chooses Taylor As FDIC Chief |
| August 17 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Confirmations Pile Up For Senate's Return |
| August 24 - Bush Back on World Stage |
| August 24 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCES: Bush Reacts Daily to Rise, Fall of Three-Day Coup |
| August 24 - VETO MESSAGE: Text of Veto Of D.C. Bill |
| August 31 - A Burgeoning Postal Business Confounds Hill Overseers |
| August 31 - CORRECTION: CQ Roundtable. |
| August 31 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Major Respond To Soviet Events |
| August 31 - PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Democratic List May Lengthen |
| August 31 - The Arizona Petition |
| September 7 - Treasury Bond Rules Under Review |
| September 7 - What's Ahead for Two Nominees |
| September 14 - ETHICS: Relief in Sight for Workers Caught in Honoraria Ban |
| September 14 - FARM CREDIT: Agriculture Panel OKs GSE Bill |
| September 14 - Fed on the Defensive |
| September 14 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Threatens To Use Veto On Israeli Loan Guarantees |
| September 14 - SECTION NOTES: Measures Would Increase Land for National Parks |
| September 14 - TECHNOLOGY: Supercomputer Bill Speeds Past Senate |
| September 14 - THE CENSUS: Sawyer Trying To Free Data For Use in Redistricting |
| September 21 - 'I Have My Style' |
| September 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Second Go-Round on D.C. Bill |
| September 21 - Fate of Overhaul in Doubt As Conflicts Solidify |
| September 21 - Gates Sure-Footed on Path Toward Confirmation |
| September 21 - LABOR: Showdown Expected With Bush Over Unemployment Benefits |
| September 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Census Study Bill |
| September 21 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Measure On Commercial Purchases |
| September 21 - The Fiers Testimony |
| September 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Another Round On Sex Surveys |
| September 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Reach Agreement On Treasury Spending |
| September 28 - CIA's Dueling Recollections |
| September 28 - COMMUNICATIONS: House OKs Broadcast User Fees For Most FCC License Holders |
| September 28 - CORRECTION |
| September 28 - HUMAN SERVICES: Focus Shifts on Child Welfare; Bill Called Budget-Buster |
| September 28 - INTELLIGENCE: Gates Accused of Imposing a Slant On CIA Studies of Soviets, Iran |
| September 28 - LABOR: ERISA Restrictions Re-Examined |
| September 28 - LABOR: Safety Catch: Opponents Find OSHA Rules Burdensome |
| September 28 - NUCLEAR REGULATIONS: Interior Subcommittee Dumps Proposed NRC Waste Rule |
| September 28 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: World Must Work for Peace, Prosperity, Bush Tells U.N. |
| September 28 - SECTION NOTES: Census Accuracy Study Approved by Panel |
| September 28 - SECTION NOTES: FCC Adopts Rules On 900 Numbers |
| September 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Drift Net Bill |
| September 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Subpoenas Alyeska Co. Records |
| September 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Drought Relief Bill |
| October 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury-Postal Measure Clears After Election Rule Dropped |
| October 5 - BANKING: Republicans Rush To Defend Clarke |
| October 5 - Bush Announces U.S. Elimination Of Short-Range Nuclear Arms |
| October 5 - CIA Insiders on Gates |
| October 5 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
| October 5 - ECONOMIC POLICY: House OKs 3-Year Extension Of Defense Production Act |
| October 5 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Approves Cabinet Status For Environmental Agency |
| October 5 - EXPORT CONTROLS: Battle on Telecommunications Poses New Obstacle for Bill |
| October 5 - FARM CREDIT: GSE Regulation Spurs Conflict |
| October 5 - Finessing Fight Over Embassy, Hill Clears Spending Measure |
| October 5 - INDIANS: Bill Would Permit Crime Prosecution |
| October 5 - INTELLIGENCE: Gates Hearings Take Lid Off CIA's Bitter Internal Feuds |
| October 5 - LABOR: Unemployment Bill Feels Tug |
| October 5 - SECTION NOTES: 'October Surprise' Panels Picked by House Leaders |
| October 5 - SECTION NOTES: Gen. Powell Reappointed Despite Woodward Ties |
| October 5 - SECTION NOTES: State Department Bill Wins Senate Approval |
| October 5 - SECTION NOTES: Watkins Seizes Control Of Nuclear Waste Site |
| October 5 - SPACE BUDGET: Down-to-Earth Funding Levels Deflate NASA Projects |
| October 5 - THE CENSUS: Head Counting Study OK'd; '90 Numbers Still Disputed |
| October 5 - VA-HUD Spending (chart) |
| October 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Treasury Bill Eyes |
| October 12 - Bells' Services Get Court OK |
| October 12 - Education Bill Highlights |
| October 12 - EDUCATION: Panel Approves Pell Grant Plan, But Tougher Tests Are Ahead |
| October 12 - ENERGY: Watkins' Seizure of Waste Site Meets With Mixed Reviews |
| October 12 - LABOR: President Vetoes Jobless Bill |
| October 12 - SECTION NOTES: Plan To Study Census Is Sent on to Bush |
| October 12 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Controversial Proposal Calls For Pay-As-You-Go Bailout |
| October 19 - A Bureaucrat's Job: Saga of John Hiler |
| October 19 - INTELLIGENCE: Senate Soundly Rejects Plan To Confirm CIA Deputies |
| October 19 - PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE: Unemployment Bill Vetoed by Bush |
| October 19 - SECTION NOTES: Indian Prosecution Bill Approved by Senate |
| October 19 - Thomas, Hill Field Questions Before Judiciary Committee |
| October 19 - Uranium Enrichment Inc. |
| October 26 - BANKING: Taylor Confirmed By Senate |
| October 26 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush Wants Leak Investigated, New Confirmation Process |
| October 26 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Hails Civil Rights Accord, Sees 'Joyous Day' for Nation |
| October 26 - SECTION NOTES: Conflict of Interest Waiver Approved by House Panel |
| November 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: After Sound, Fury on Interior, Bill Signifies Nothing New |
| November 2 - FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Honoraria Ban Could Be Eased, But Byrd Remains Opposed |
| November 2 - Halloween on the House Floor |
| November 2 - Interior Spending (chart) |
| November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Get Numbers On Welfare Dependency |
| November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Disability Prevention Passed by House |
| November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Immigrant Applicants Rerouted From INS |
| November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel OKs Services For Alzheimer's Victims |
| November 2 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes $90 Million in Aid For Drought-Stricken West |
| November 2 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: COLA Bill Is Sent To White House |
| November 9 - BANKING: Clarke Nomination Turned Down |
| November 9 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: District Bid For Autonomy Still Divides Congress |
| November 9 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Puts Best Face on Election, Voices Concern for Economy |
| November 9 - SECTION NOTES: Compromise NASA Bill Heads For Senate |
| November 9 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Reauthorization Of Civil Rights Commission |
| November 9 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes to Reauthorize Health Information Programs |
| November 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Indians Panel Backs Native Languages Bill |
| November 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate OKs Bill to Beef Up Anti-Abuse Effort |
| November 16 - COMMUNICATIONS: Senate Cable Regulation Bill Headed for Another Season |
| November 16 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Back Pay Sought For Gulf Service |
| November 16 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: New Bills Would Make GSA More Accountable |
| November 16 - INDIANS: Bills Settle Claim, Offer Tribes Aid |
| November 16 - INTELLIGENCE: Conferees Act To Slow CIA Move, Urge Bush to Uncloak Spending |
| November 16 - NASA's Star Fades, Eclipsed By Down-to-Earth Concerns |
| November 16 - Plowshare Plan Beaten |
| November 16 - SECTION NOTES: Census Adjustment Wouldn't Change Funding Allocation |
| November 16 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Moves To Correct Mistake on Drug Prices |
| November 16 - Stormy Weather |
| November 16 - VETERANS: Minority Bill OK'd With a Protest |
| November 23 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Panel Approves Bill To Provide More Budget Control for City |
| November 23 - GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS: Glenn Trying To Shed Light On Rule-Making Process |
| November 23 - Key Democrats (chart) |
| November 23 - SCIENCE: NOAA Storms End in House, But More Squalls Likely |
| November 23 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard Authorization Bill Heads Into Conference |
| November 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill To Aid Indian Self-Government |
| November 23 - Senate Panel Endorses Treaty To Cut Forces in Europe |
| November 23 - TECHNOLOGY: Computer Measure Moves Forward |
| November 23 - Veterans Bills Move |
| November 23 - VETO MESSAGE: LHHS Spending Bill Rejected by Bush |
| November 30 - Bush, Congress Offer Sneak Preview Of the Coming Election-Year Tax War |
| November 30 - First Session Winds Down After Tax-Cut Dither |
| November 30 - GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES: Complaint From Fannie Mae Delays Senate Measure |
| November 30 - HEALTH: Aid for Training Reauthorized |
| November 30 - PUBLIC LANDS: Old Faithful, Salt Flats Would Get Protection |
| November 30 - SCIENCE: Computer, NASA Funds Cleared |
| November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Transfer Water Project to Indian Tribes |
| November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Copyright Renewal Bills Advance |
| November 30 - SECTION NOTES: House Agrees To Erase Ban On Honoraria for Workers |
| November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Immigration Measures Cleared for Bush |
| November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Rewards for Fraud Reporting Win Nod from House |
| November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Backs Plan to Preserve Native Alaskan Languages |
| November 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Prod Watkins To Build Reactor |
| November 30 - Slowly, Surely, House Approves Bill To Protect Calif. Desert |
| November 30 - VETERANS: House OKs Services Package, Minority Affairs Officer |
| December 7 - Bush Adds Middle-Class Aid To Republican Agenda |
| December 7 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Signs Bill To Recognize Micmac Indians of Maine |
| December 7 - SESSION WRAPUP: ECONOMICS and FINANCE |
| December 7 - SESSION WRAPUP: GOVERNMENT and COMMERCE |
| December 7 - SESSION WRAPUP: SOCIAL POLICY |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: A BRIDGE TO AMES |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: CHANGING RELATIONSHIP District of Columbia Appropriations |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: COMMERCE, JUSTICE, |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: District of Columbia (chart) |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: EARTH VS. SPACE VA, HUD Appropriations |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Energy and Water Development Appropriations (chart) |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: FAR-FLUNG PROJECTS |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: FOREIGN OPERATIONS(chart) |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Justice Rules Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: NUTS AND BOLTS Treasury, Postal Appropriations |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: SILVER LININGS |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: The Annual Appropriations Cycle From President to Congress |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: The World On Hold Foreign Operations Appropriations |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE(chart) |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: VA, HUD, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES(chart) |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: WATER BARONS TAP RESEARCH FOR LARGESS |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: WATERWAYS and WEAPONRY Energy and Water Appropriations |
| December 7 - Supplement: Where The Money Goes Commerce, Justice, State - FY 1992 |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Where the Money Goes District of Columbia -- Fiscal Year 1992 |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: WHERE THE MONEY GOES Energy and Water Appropriations |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Where The Money Goes Foreign Operations -- Fiscal Year 1992 |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Where The Money Goes Treasury, Postal -- Fiscal Year 1992 |
| December 7 - SUPPLEMENT: Where The Money Goes VA, HUD -- Fiscal Year 1992 |
| December 7 - THE WHITE HOUSE: Skinner More Popular on the Hill, But Few Expect Real Change |
| December 21 - CORRECTION: Banking bill vote. |
| December 21 - Huge Deficit Adds Pressure For Spending Rules Change |
| December 21 - PROVISIONS: Surface Transportation Law |
| December 21 - THE ECONOMY: Amid Grim Economic Outlook, Fed Slashes Interest Rate |
| December 28 - 1991 Senate Presidential Position Votes ... |
| December 28 - Leading Scorers: Presidential Support (chart) |
| December 28 - Presidential Support and Opposition: Senate |
| December 28 - Presidential Support, Presidential Opposition: House |
