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 1990

January 6 - Bush Lags in Appointments To the Federal Judiciary
January 6 - Federal Court Vacancies And Nominations* (chart)
January 6 - Judicial Appointments (chart)
January 6 - Stalemates of Last Decade Haunt Agenda for 1990: Social Policy
January 13 - Chairman Brooks Coming Back
January 13 - New Legislative Drive Is Set To Aid Discount Retailers
January 13 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Says He Thinks Noriega Can Get a Fair Trial in U.S.
January 13 - ROUNDTABLE: The Noriega Trial And Robert Taft
January 20 - Fight Over Chinese Students First on Congress' Agenda
January 20 - SECTION NOTES: INS Revises Guidelines For Soviet Jews
January 27 - Bush's $10.6 Billion Strategy
January 27 - IRAN-CONTRA: Secord Sentenced To Probation
January 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Names Dunne To Rights Post
January 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Names Nine To LSC Board
January 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: GOP Senators Save Bush In China Veto Test
January 27 - Legislative Proposals
January 27 - Public Laws: (Previous Public Laws, 1989 Weekly Report p. 3454)
January 27 - Republican Senators, Allies Rush to Shield Thomas
January 27 - SECTION NOTES: Jail Sentence Dominates Washington's First Week
January 27 - SECTION NOTES: Judge Rules NRSC Violated Law by 'Bundling' Funds
February 3 - An Edgy Senate Committee OKs Relaxation of RICO
February 3 - Former HUD Secretary Pierce Faces Special Prosecutor
February 3 - IMMIGRATION: Hill Eases Alien Exclusions Under McCarthy-Era Law
February 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Poindexter May Get Reagan Diaries
February 3 - Product Liability (chart)
February 10 - A Bipartisan Hill Coalition Unveils Rights Measure
February 10 - Despite Advance Controversy, Thomas Hearing Is Smooth
February 10 - Public Laws: (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 279)
February 10 - SECTION NOTES: Hate-Crimes Measure Passed by Senate
February 10 - SECTION NOTES: Reagan Invokes Privilege To Shield His Diaries
February 17 - Anti-Narcotics Alliance Urged At Colombia 'Drug Summit'
February 17 - Bush Scores Diplomatic Gain At Summit in Colombia
February 17 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 423)
February 24 - IMMIGRATION: Visa-Allocation Bill Set in the House
February 24 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Rights Bill Linkage, Turf Spats Slow ADA Progress in House
February 24 - OMB Overstepped the Bounds In Its Regulatory Review
February 24 - Refugee Admissions (chart)
February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Reagan Testimony Released In Iran-Contra Case
February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Right-to-Know Bill For Athletes OK'd
February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Committee Approves Bill on Price-Fixing
February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Judiciary OKs Thomas Nomination
February 24 - SECTION NOTES: U.S. Court Strikes Down New Federal Flag Law
February 24 - Sweeping Changes Abroad Confound U.S. Policy
February 24 - Where They Go (chart)
March 3 - DRUGS: Cooperation With Interdiction In the Eye of the Beholder
March 3 - House Panel Proposes Study Of Judicial Removal Issue
March 3 - SECTION NOTES: Lawsuit Consolidation OK'd in Disasters
March 3 - Severance Bonuses Not Barred By Conflict-of-Interest Law
March 3 - Special Counsel Named In Pierce Investigation
March 10 - EXECUTIVE POWERS: House Panel OKs Pocket-Veto Bill
March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Another Judge Strikes Down Federal Flag-Burning Law
March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush's Civil Rights Nominee Wins Senate Confirmation
March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Discrimination Bill Advances Despite Cost Concerns
March 10 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Thomas Confirmed As Appeals Judge
March 17 - Bush Seeking Modifications In Disability-Rights Bill By Julie Rovner
March 17 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Accord on RICO Revision Is Shaping Up in House By Joan Biskupic
March 17 - Rules on Count Adjustment Could End Up in Court
March 24 - Justice Scalia: Dynamo on the Court
March 24 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Sweet Nomination, Slew of Bills Approved by Senate Panel
March 24 - Legislative Intent: A Sampling of Views
March 24 - Scalia Takes a Narrow View In Seeking Congress' Will
March 24 - SECTION NOTES: Executive Privilege Upheld In Poindexter Case
March 24 - SECTION NOTES: Family-Planning Regulations Draw Split Court Rulings
March 24 - SECTION NOTES: Furor Over Flag Case Erupts in House
March 24 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Assault-Weapon Ban
March 31 - Court: Business Limit OK
March 31 - Employer Sanctions Draw Fire After Report on Job Bias
March 31 - ENVIRONMENT/LAW: House Panel Seeks Criminal Penalties
March 31 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Committee Clears Out A Drawerful of Measures
March 31 - Republicans Seek To Reduce Labor's Clout at the Polls
March 31 - States' Moves To Curb Abortion Stir Concern in Congress
April 7 - Congress Cool to Proposals To Ease Load on Courts
April 7 - Courts Study Highlights
April 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Scalia and Kennedy Defy Predictions
April 7 - IMMIGRATION: House Panel Begins Markup Of Visa-Allotment Bill
April 7 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Third House Committee OKs Disability-Rights Measure
April 7 - Rights Bill Advances in Senate As Panel Ignores Veto Threat
April 7 - SECTION NOTES: 'Hate Crimes' Measure Cleared for President
April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Court Sets Arguments In Test of Flag Law
April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Idaho Abortion Bill Vetoed by Andrus
April 14 - Anger Grows Over U.S. Limit
April 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Acts To Shield Chinese Students
April 14 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Sentencing Set For Poindexter
April 14 - OBSCENITY DEBATE: Museum Director Indicted; Members Urge Arts Curbs
April 14 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 555)
April 14 - SECTION NOTES: Court Upholds New Bank Securities Powers
April 21 - Bush Caught in Contradiction Over Job-Bias Remedies
April 21 - House Subcommittee Approves Visa-Allocation Revision
April 21 - House Votes To Help Plaintiffs Fight Vertical Price Fixing
April 21 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report p. 1154)
April 21 - Title VII Makes Strange Bedfellows
April 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Approves Line-Item Veto
April 28 - Fight Over Remedies Is Likely As ADA Nears House Floor
April 28 - SECTION NOTES: High Court Rulings Prompt Legislative Responses
April 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Joint-Venture Bill
April 28 - SECTION NOTES: Justice Ends Probe Of Fauntroy
May 5 - Civil Rights Bill Advancing Despite GOP Objections
May 5 - Disability-Rights Legislation Ready for House Action
May 5 - Flag Case Arguments: Round Two
May 5 - SECTION NOTES: 'Shock Incareration' Bill Sent to House
May 5 - SECTION NOTES: Court Gives Antitrust Power To States, Private Parties
May 5 - SECTION NOTES: Supreme Court Upholds Random Drug Testing
May 5 - Starr Takes a Moderate Line As U.S. Solicitor General
May 12 - A Mother's Story
May 12 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Big Civil Rights Bill Advances, Faces Another House Panel
May 12 - Promise, Uncertainties Mark Disability-Rights Measure
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title VI - Enforcement, Reauthorization
May 12 - SECTION NOTES: Administrative Law Judges Debated by Senate Panel
May 19 - Campaigns Grow Complicated Over Parental Notification
May 19 - Court Rulings Awaited
May 19 - Crime Polls and Politics
May 19 - Election-Year Crime Measure Starts Moving Right on Cue
May 19 - House Is Nearing Passage Of Disability-Rights Bill
May 19 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Shifts on Job-Rights Bill, But Differences Remain
May 19 - SECTION NOTES: Court Hears Arguments In Flag Cases
May 19 - Senate Crime Proposals Compared
May 26 - Anticrime Package Falters After Gun Ban Retained
May 26 - Death Penalty Appeals Process
May 26 - Disability-Rights Legislation Headed for Conference
May 26 - EXECUTIVE POWERS: Pocket-Veto Bill Ready for Floor
May 26 - SECTION NOTES: AIDS Victims' Visitation Still in Dispute
May 26 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Stiffen Fraud Penalties
May 26 - SECTION NOTES: Operation Rescue Loses In Supreme Court
May 26 - Steny Hoyer: A Tireless Shepherd
June 2 - Ban on Abortion Counseling Faces Review by Justices
June 2 - Eyes On Dunne at Justice
June 2 - Ferns, Farmworkers and Legal Aid
June 2 - HUD SCANDAL: Thornburgh Seeks Wider Probe
June 2 - LSC Returning to Normalcy, But Skirmishes Continue
June 2 - Public Laws
June 2 - Secrecy Abroad
June 2 - Where There's a Drug Deal,There's a Way To Launder
June 9 - EDUCATION: Right-To-Know Bill Passed by House
June 9 - Justices Give Their Blessing To 1984 Equal Access Act
June 9 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Approves Array of Bills On Antitrust, Other Issues
June 9 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Instructs Conferees On Disability-Rights Bill
June 9 - Opponents of Gun Control Stall Crime Bill Action
June 9 - Public Laws
June 9 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce, Justice Funds OK'd by House Panel
June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committee OKs Spending Bill
June 16 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart)
June 16 - Congress Snaps to Attention Over New Flag Proposal
June 16 - Democrats Struggle Against GOP Gibes Over Who Hails the Flag More Proudly
June 16 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Ban on U.S.-Made Weapons OK'd by House Committee
June 16 - Medicaid Ruling Could Bring New Costs to States, Hill
June 16 - OHIO: Lukens Conviction Upheld on Appeal
June 16 - Proposed Amendments
June 16 - SECTION NOTES: Court Voids SEC Rule On Voting Rights
June 16 - SUPREME COURT: Majority, Minority Opinions In Flag-Burning Case
June 16 - THE CENSUS: N.Y. Court Rules On Adjustment
June 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Includes Funds For S and L Probe
June 23 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart)
June 23 - Compromise Could End Deadlock On Racketeering Legislation
June 23 - For Critics of Flag Measure, Advance Work Pays Off
June 23 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Double Penalties For Crimes Against Women
June 23 - SECTION NOTES: Vote on Cloture Scheduled For Civil Rights Bill
June 23 - SECURITIES: High Court Upholds Ruling on Futures
June 23 - SUPREME COURT: Patronage System Dealt Setback
June 30 - 'Right To Die,' Abortion Rulings Spur Calls for Hill Action
June 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Approves Spending Bill For Commerce, Justice, State
June 30 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart)
June 30 - ETHICS: Robert Garcia Wins Conviction Appeal
June 30 - FLAG AMENDMENT: Critics of Measure Win Fight, But Battle Scars Run Deep
June 30 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bill To Revise Racketeering Law Advances in Judiciary Panel
June 30 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Last-Minute Snag Means Delay For Disabled Rights Measure
June 30 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Comes Down to Wire On Anticrime Measure
June 30 - SECTION NOTES: Administrative Judge Corps Wins Panel's Backing
June 30 - SECTION NOTES: Artists' Rights Protected Under Senate Measure
June 30 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Moves To Stop Copyright Pirates
June 30 - Senate Ready To Begin Debate On Omnibus Civil Rights Bill
June 30 - SUPREME COURT: Court Backs Affirmative Action In Big Victory for Congress
July 7 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Court Not in Lock Step With Reagan March
July 7 - Justices Show a Propensity For Letting Others Decide
July 7 - Major Decisions of 1989-90
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title VI - Enforcement
July 14 - Congress Clears Sweeping Bill To Guard Rights of Disabled
July 14 - Deal on Civil Rights Measure Stymied by 'Quota' Issue
July 14 - Omnibus Crime Bills Talk Tough But Need Funding Backbone
July 14 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Would Overturn Abortion Regulations
July 21 - Comparison of Crime Bills
July 21 - Dole Outburst Shows Frustration Over More Than Civil Rights Bill
July 21 - Familiar Faces, Familiar Passions
July 21 - Highlights of the Bill
July 21 - IRAN-CONTRA: Judges Set Aside North Conviction
July 21 - Judiciary Panel Presses On In Drafting a Crime Bill
July 21 - Partisan Rancor Marks Vote On Civil Rights Measure
July 21 - SECTION NOTES: Four Immigration Bills Get Swift Approval
July 21 - Votes Slated Before Recess For Frank, Durenberger
July 28 - Brennan's Unique Judicial Stamp Left Mark on Congress, Too
July 28 - David H. Souter
July 28 - Factions Vie Over the Terms For Poverty Law Program
July 28 - High Court Change of Guard Ups Policy Ante for Hill
July 28 - House Panel Wraps Up Work On Omnibus Crime Bill
July 28 - LAW AND ORDER: 7-Day Wait for Gun Purchase Endorsed by House Panel
July 28 - LAW/JUDICIARY: House Panel Adds Its Stamp To Civil Rights Measure
July 28 - Many Questions on Abortion Asked But Only a Few of Them Get Answered
July 28 - Nominations 1960-Present (chart)
July 28 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Announces Court Nominee, Won't Answer Certain Questions
July 28 - PROVISIONS: Americans With Disabilities Act
July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Seeks To Broaden Inquiry Into Pierce
July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Judiciary Panel Approves Three Bills
July 28 - Senate Denounces Durenberger, Citing Financial Misconduct
August 4 - Diversity Is One Principal Goal In Deciding Whom To Let In
August 4 - House Joins in the Standoff Over Civil Rights Measure
August 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Abortion Issue Colors Debate On Poverty Law Program
August 4 - Reversing Decisions
August 11 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Fame Often Not the Rule For Court Nominees
August 11 - GEORGIA LAWSUIT: Justice Issues A Challenge
August 11 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Legal Aid Agency Tilts to Right On Management and Policy
August 11 - SECTION NOTES: More EPA Investigators Approved by Senate
August 11 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: Fail, Thompson Defend Roles In Purchasing Failed S and Ls
August 18 - A Need To Get the Facts Out
August 18 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Hill Reconsiders Immunity As North Case Is Set Back
August 18 - Major Watergate Figures
August 18 - Public Laws (Previous Public Laws, Weekly Report, p. 1822)
August 18 - Social Policy: Major legislative actions of the 101st Congress
August 25 - Hill Faces Trench Warfare Over Abortion Rights
September 1 - Legal Flash Points
September 1 - Panel Democrats Set To Ask Real Souter To Stand Up
September 1 - Senate Judiciary Panel Members Have Agendas of Their Own
September 1 - The Courts Warily Find Their Way Into the 'Political Thicket'
September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Amendment Bolsters Funds For Crime, Persian Gulf
September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Farm Bureau Leads the Lobby Against Legal Aid Lawyers
September 15 - CONFIRMATION HEARING: Senators Ask About Abortion But Souter Won't Answer
September 15 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Will High Court Retreat On Reapportionment?
September 15 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bush Team Threatens To Veto House Version of Crime Bill
September 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Open Books On Graduation, Crime
September 15 - Souter Skirts Touchy Issues Before Senate Inquisitors
September 22 - Beefing Up the Bench
September 22 - Bush's Nominees Lack Baggage That Reagan's Often Carried
September 22 - CONFIRMATION HEARING: Souter Faces More Questions On Abortion, Court Power
September 22 - Fracas Over Abortion Advice
September 22 - Key Cases: An Early List
September 22 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Anti-Abortion Forces Prevail In Pentagon Bill Skirmish
September 22 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Thrift Scandal Fails To Slow Bill To Limit Civil RICO
September 22 - Liberal Tenets Hang in Balance As Conservatives Ascend
September 22 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Moves Measure On Antibias Sanctions
September 29 - Civil Rights Act Poised To Clear, But Bush Veto Looks Certain
September 29 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Fight Over Death Row Appeals Stalls House Crime Bill
September 29 - LAW/JUDICIARY: New Judgeships In the Hopper
September 29 - Souter Gains 13-1 Approval of Judiciary Committee
September 29 - What Does the Constitution Say?
October 6 - House Bill Lifts Visa Levels, Aids Relatives, Skilled
October 6 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Bill Aims To Deter Sex Violence
October 6 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Right-to-Abortion Measure Backed by House Panel
October 6 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Taking Tough Stance on Crime, House Boosts Death Penalty
October 6 - SECTION NOTES: Congress Authorizes Fines For Securities Offenses
October 6 - Souter Confirmed Easily
October 6 - SUPREME COURT: Panel To Weigh Overseas Reach Of Law Against Job Bias
October 13 - Highlights of Immigration Bills (Chart)
October 13 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Conferees Attempt To Rescue Imperiled Civil Rights Bill
October 13 - Simpson Holds Bill Hostage, Demands Major Changes
October 20 - Expected Bush Veto Looming Over Civil Rights Measure
October 20 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Crime Bill Differences Remain As Session Nears Its End
October 20 - Leaks From Keating Inquiry Turn Up Heat on Senators
October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Children's Advertising Bill Becomes Law
October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce, Justice, State Conference Accord
October 20 - The Death Penalty and the Court
October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, Justice Funds Clear
October 27 - Death Penalty, Other Hot Issues Dumped From Crime Bill
October 27 - Failure To Enact Civil Rights Bill Laid to Political Miscalculation
October 27 - Fourth Stopgap Bill Enacted
October 27 - MEMORANDUM OF DISAPPROVAL: Bush Vetoes Rights Bill, Objects to 'Quotas'
October 27 - Sizable Boost in Immigration OK'd in Compromise Bill
November 3 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Politics of Silence Of Court Nominees
November 3 - Fiscal 1991 Appropriations for Commerce
November 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Immigration Overhaul Cleared After Last-Minute Flap
November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Social Policy
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: States To Be Covered By Copyright Laws
November 10 - History of the Keating Case
November 10 - Issue Is Key to Several Races, But Results Cut Both Ways
November 17 - 1990 Filings by Suit, Offense (chart)
November 17 - District Court Workload (chart)
November 17 - ETHICS: Special Counsel's Overview Of Keating Five Case
November 17 - Federal Bench Will Miss Kastenmeier
November 17 - Hill Serves Notice on Courts To Speed Pace of Justice
November 17 - Last-Minute Add-Ons
November 17 - OBSCENITY DEBATE: Hill Arts Language Brings Fallout
November 17 - Public Laws (Previous public laws, Weekly Report, p. 2689)
November 24 - PROVISIONS: Clean Air Act Amendments (chart)
November 24 - Public Laws
November 24 - SENATORS' STATEMENTS: Keating Five Senators Appear Before Ethics Committee
December 1 - Groups Line Up on Both Sides Of Border Fee Proposal
December 1 - IRAN/CONTRA: Another Round Goes to North
December 1 - Public Laws
December 8 - IRAQ TESTIMONY: Cheney and Powell Testify To Armed Services Panel
December 8 - MAJOR PROVISIONS: Immigration Legislation
December 8 - Members Argue Suit Over War Powers
December 8 - Players and Places
December 8 - Politics, Debates of the '90s Fuel Scramble for Power
December 8 - Public Laws (Previous public laws, Weekly Report, p. 4043)
December 8 - SUPREME COURT: Business Favored In Pension Ruling
December 15 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Court Conservatives Bow to Precedent

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