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January 11 - Children's Lobby: Investing in Tomorrow

January 18 - Elderly Face Soaring Costs for Hospital Stays

January 18 - Medicare Budget Facing 'Triple Jeopardy'

January 18 - The Next Step: Curbing Physicians' Fees?

January 25 - President Vetoes Health Benefit Legislation -- Jan. 17, 1986

February 1 - House Backs Advocacy Program for Mentally Ill

February 8 - Child Nutrition Conference

February 8 - Health Planning Bill Passed

February 8 - Labeling Requirements, TV Advertising Ban: Congress Clears New Curbs On 'Smokeless Tobacco' Ads

February 8 - Revised Federal Health Benefits Bill Cleared

February 22 - Community Health Bill Rejected

March 8 - Funding Frozen for Two Years: House Rejects Block Grants, Reauthorizes Health Centers

March 22 - Legislation Cleared: Cuts in Senior Citizen Meal Programs Averted

March 22 - Senate Panel Approves 'Katie Beckett' Bill

March 22 - Social Program Extensions Approved

April 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: RECONCILIATION Health

April 19 - Community, Migrant Health Centers Extended

April 26 - Plague Control Grants

April 26 - Premature Discharges, Post-Hospital Care: Lawmakers Moving to Address Medicare Quality Concerns

May 3 - Curbs on Medicare Deductible Seen

May 10 - Committee Revises Sex Abuse Laws

May 10 - Rehabilitation Aid OK'd

May 17 - Protection Sought Against Abuse, Neglect: Advocacy Services for Mentally Ill Approved

May 17 - Senate Loosens Restraints on Drug Exports

May 17 - Senate Strengthens Infant Formula Rules

May 24 - Labels on Beer, Wine and Liquor: Senate Committee Approves Health Warnings on Alcohol

May 31 - Alzheimer's Disease: A Puzzle Unsolved

May 31 - Long-Term Care: The True 'Catastrophe'?

June 14 - Major Provisions of Senate-Passed Supplemental

June 21 - Veto Possible for Supplemental Spending Bill

June 28 - Administration Draws Criticism: Senate Panel Votes Grants For Post-Transplant Drugs

June 28 - Committee Approves Help for AIDS Victims

June 28 - Panel OKs Medicare Quality-Assurance Bill

June 28 - Panel Strips Away Alcohol Warning Label

July 5 - Nutrition Monitoring Bill Passed by House

July 19 - House Approves Bill to Stem Youth Suicide

July 26 - Funding Exceeds Current Spending, Reagan Request: House Committee Approves Labor-HHS Appropriatons Bill

July 26 - House, Senate Panels Start Implementing Budget

August 2 - Alcohol, Drug Abuse Reauthorization

August 2 - Asbestos Removal From Schools

August 2 - Budget-Cutting Measure a Favorite Vehicle: Major Health Policy Changes Proposed in Reconciliation Bill

August 2 - FDA Commissioner Confirmation

August 2 - GOP Rebuffed on Spending Cuts: House Passes Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill

August 2 - Plague Bill Derailed Again

August 9 - House, Senate Panels Approve Vaccine Bills

August 9 - Panel Moves Labor/HHS Funding Bill

August 9 - Two Panels Approve Generic Animal-Drug Bills

August 16 - House Energy Approves Vaccine Bill

August 16 - House Panels Vote Ammo for War on Drugs

August 16 - House Passage, Senate Committee Approval: Congress Acting on Standards For School Asbestos Removal

August 23 - CONGRESS AT MIDYEAR: Health

September 13 - Aimed at Incompetent, Unscrupulous Doctors: Bill to Fight Medical Abuses Approved by Senate Finance

September 13 - Senate Approves School Asbestos Cleanup Bill

September 20 - ADAMHA Reauthorization Passed by House

September 20 - Compensation Bill, Stockpile Measure: Vaccine Legislation Advances In House Committee, on Floor

September 20 - Malpractice Bill Approved by House Panel

September 20 - Omnibus Human Services Authorization Cleared

September 20 - Testing of Federal Employees Stirs Fuss: Reagan, Senate Republicans Join Drug War

September 27 - Effort Made to Avoid Reagan Veto: House OKs Reauthorization For Indian Health Programs

September 27 - Senate Takes Up Compromise Anti-Drug Bill

October 4 - School Asbestos Cleanups to Be Mandatory

October 4 - Senate OKs Veterans' Compensation Bill

October 11 - Congress Clears Veterans' Disability COLA Bill

October 11 - Indian Health Bill Passed by Senate: Asbestos, Rehabilitation Bills Sent to President by Congress

October 11 - Indian Health Programs

October 11 - Senate Votes Grants for Organ Transplant Drugs

October 18 - House OKs Malpractice Data Base

October 18 - House Passes Vaccine-Injury Compensation Bill

October 25 - Omnibus Health Bill May Face Reagan Veto

October 25 - The 99th Congress Legislative Summary: Health

November 1 - Final Provisions, Fiscal 1987 Labor-HHS Funding Bill (chart)

November 1 - Spending Boosts for Health, Education: Congress Votes $114.78 Billion for Labor-HHS

November 8 - President Vetoes Health Promotion Measure

November 8 - Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee: A Swing to the Left in Panel Leadership

November 15 - Reagan Signs Omnibus Health Bill

November 15 - Texts of President Reagan's Messages Accompanying Three Pocket Vetoes

November 22 - Bowen: Expand Medicare to Cover Catastrophes

November 22 - Budget Deficit Is Key: Protecting Poor and Elderly Will Be Goal of Health Policy

November 22 - But Two Versions Enacted, Causing Problems: Five Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized by Congress

November 22 - Major Provisions of Nine-Part Omnibus Health Bill

December 13 - Anti-Smoking Forces Stoke Legislative Fires, But Tobacco Interests See Nothing But Smoke

December 13 - States Move Aggressively to Limit Smoking

December 13 - Then to Now: The Cigarette Warning

December 20 - Special Report: Legislative Outlook HEALTH

December 20 - Surgeon General Issues Warning: Report on Secondhand Smoke May Have Legislative Impact

December 27 - Implementation Set for Child Nutrition Programs