 January 20 - Ashcroft Strongly Defends Views But Promises to Enforce the Law |
| January 27 - Democrats Win Postponement Of Committee Vote on Ashcroft, But GOP Still Confident of Outcome |
| January 27 - The Price of Unauthorized Appropriations |
| January 27 - Watts Proposes New Committee To Coordinate Anti-Terrorism |
| February 3 - Ashcroft Wins Confirmation By Narrowest Margin in Decades |
| February 3 - Senate Democrats On Ashcroft |
| February 10 - GOP, With Bush's Tacit Support, Puts Bankruptcy Bill on Fast Track, Hoping to Stave Off Amendments |
| February 17 - Hatch Seeks Harmony on Web Tunes |
| February 24 - One Section of Disability Law Struck Down |
| February 24 - Spy Suspect Was Mindful Of Federal Death Penalty |
| March 3 - Bills Signed |
| March 3 - How the Court Weighs In on Religion |
| March 3 - Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits On Legal Services Corporation's Suits, Re-Energizing Program's Detractors |
| March 3 - Supreme Court Strikes Down Missouri Term Limit Label Law |
| March 10 - Boston Lawyer Tapped to Head Civil Rights Division |
| March 10 - House Judiciary Approves Madrid Protocol Implementation |
| March 10 - Juvenile Justice Program Bill Likely to Avoid Gun Debate |
| March 10 - Senate GOP Leaders Try to Keep Bankruptcy Bill Free of Amendments To Avoid Conference With House |
| March 17 - Bush Calls for Drilling on Lands Designated as Monuments |
| March 17 - Copyright Law Revisions Proposed |
| March 17 - GOP Aims to Turn Tables On Texas Democrats |
| March 17 - House Passes Bill to Reduce Paperwork Burden on Business |
| March 17 - Senate Panel Approves Bill To Assist 'Bumped' Passengers |
| March 17 - Senators Float Managed-Care Proposal That Seeks to Bridge Differences On States' Options, Liability Limits |
| March 24 - Backing Off the Whip |
| March 24 - Fetal Protection Bill Heads to Full Committee |
| March 24 - House Won't Be Rushed Into Moving An Overhaul Bill, Leaders Say |
| March 24 - Key Changes to the Senate Bill |
| March 24 - McCain-Feingold Tradeoffs Heighten Qualms Within Coalition |
| March 24 - Panel Approves Juvenile Crime Bill Free of Hot-Button Provisions On Gun Control and Punishment |
| March 24 - Vetting Judges Won't Be as Easy as ABA |
| March 31 - Fetal Assault Measure Gets Panel's Nod |
| March 31 - INS, an Agency of Conflicting Missions, Could Be Split in Two Under Bush Plan |
| March 31 - Juvenile Justice Block Grant Bill Approved |
| March 31 - McCain-Feingold Survives Hard Fight Over Soft Money |
| March 31 - Political Adversaries Unite to Push For Repeal of 'Secret Evidence' Law |
| March 31 - Vigorous Court Challenges Ahead Despite Non-Severability's Defeat |
| April 28 - Activists Eye Cox's Chair |
| April 28 - Fetal Protection Bill Passes House Despite Strong Democratic Resistance; Senate Prospects Are Uncertain |
| April 28 - For Bush's Judicial Nominees, A Tough Tribunal Awaits |
| April 28 - Supreme Opportunity |
| April 28 - The Interest-Group Gantlet |
| April 28 - The Process of Selecting a Judge |
| April 28 - Torricelli Defends His Integrity In Meeting With Fellow Democrats As More Illegal-Gift Allegations Surface |
| May 5 - 'Blue Slip' Issue Claims First Casualties As Democrats Walk Out of Meeting On Justice Department Nominees |
| May 5 - Bush's Bid to Extend Immigration Measure May Set Up a Test of Leadership on Issue |
| May 12 - Bush's First Judicial Choices Highlight An Influential Conservative Court |
| May 12 - Early Signs of Comity Emerge In Judicial Nomination Process |
| May 12 - Rep. Hutchinson Promises to Balance Treatment, Enforcement as DEA Chief; Crowded Race Possible for Arkansas Seat |
| May 12 - Rep. Traficant Pleads Not Guilty, Challenges Federal Probers' Integrity; Both Parties to Field Challengers in 2002 |
| May 19 - Commerce, Justice, State: Priority Shift |
| May 19 - Court Kills Marijuana Loophole |
| May 19 - Freeh's Contrite Visit to Hill Fails to Head Off Demands For Stronger Oversight of FBI |
| May 19 - Judiciary Approves Updating Of Copyright Law for Internet |
| May 19 - Olson Vote Adds Fuel to Partisan Fire |
| May 19 - This Week in Congress |
| May 19 - Treasury: More for IRS, Enforcement |
| May 26 - Ethics: Bipartisan Continuity |
| May 26 - House Votes To Extend Visa Program |
| May 26 - Judiciary: Nomination Gantlet |
| May 26 - Senate Gives Olson the Nod By 51-47 Vote |
| May 26 - Spilled Milk in Vermont |
| May 26 - Supreme Court to Hear Challenge To Child Online Protection Act |
| June 9 - Senate GOP Backs Down From Dispute Over Handling of Nominees |
| June 9 - Some Democrats Express Concerns About Proposed Contribution Limits, Clouding Outlook for House Debate |
| June 16 - A Different Pork Fight |
| June 16 - Agriculture Spending Add-On Puts Fiscal Discipline to Early Test |
| June 16 - Democrats Ask More Studies On Death Row Bias |
| June 16 - Foreign-Born Citizenship Law Upheld |
| June 16 - GOP Opts to Go Down Fighting As Organizing Talks Break Off |
| June 16 - Legal Services Corporation's Future Appears Secure as the Agency's GOP Detractors Concede |
| June 23 - Bankruptcy Law Rewrite Remains at an Impasse Despite Senate Power Shift |
| June 23 - Bush's 'Faith-Based' Initiative Hobbled by Growing Disputes Over Final Form, Constitutionality |
| June 23 - House Judiciary Panel Approves New Justice Department Post For Overseeing FBI |
| June 23 - House Panel Revives Effort To Ban Flag Desecration |
| June 23 - Rep. Hilliard Is Reproved By Ethics Committee For Campaign Fund Abuses |
| June 30 - 'Hard Money' Limits Upheld |
| June 30 - Daschle's 'Cheap Shot' |
| June 30 - Faith-Based Charity Bill Advances in House With Little Democratic Support |
| June 30 - High Court Again Shows a Taste For Limiting Lawmakers' Reach |
| June 30 - House Panel's CJS Spending Bill Would Scale Back Bush's Cuts For SBA, Law Enforcement |
| June 30 - Plenty of Sparks Generated By Senate's Power Transfer |
| June 30 - Proposed Panel Would Study Antitrust Law |
| July 14 - A Quiet Deal on Members' Pay |
| July 14 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending Bill Praised as 'Balanced,' Advances Quickly |
| July 14 - Confirmation Hearing on Gregory Marks First Senate Action on Backlog Of Bush's Judicial Nominees |
| July 14 - Customs Service a Big Winner In House Treasury-Postal Bill |
| July 14 - Immigration Boost for Bush |
| July 21 - $7 if by Air, $3 if by Sea? |
| July 21 - House Passes Flag-Burning Resolution |
| July 21 - Senate CJS Bill Takes Contentious Stands On Immigration Law, Peacekeeping Funds |
| July 21 - Treasury-Postal Service Spending Bill Poised for Solid House Passage |
| July 21 - Upgrades for Voting Machines |
| July 28 - Barr Requests House Probe Of Condit Case |
| July 28 - House Passes Justice Dept. Authorization |
| July 28 - House Passes Treasury-Postal Spending Bill As Senate Starts Moving a Similar Package |
| July 28 - Senate Panel Adds to Growing Number Of Competing Bills for Extending Illegal-Immigrant Residency Program |
| July 28 - Senate Panel Approves Bill To Expand List of Hate Crimes; Supporters Study Next Option |
| July 28 - Tightening the Canadian Border |
| August 11 - Microsoft Faces More Unwanted Attention on Hill |
| September 1 - Immigration Debate Gains Intensity As Hill Awaits Details From Bush |
| September 1 - Unhurried Pace of Judicial Confirmations Is Typical of a President's First Year |
| September 8 - Bush Calls Issue 'Incredibly Complex' After Mexico's Fox Urges Haste On Revised U.S. Immigration Policy |
| September 15 - Possible Privacy Proposals |
| September 15 - Surveillance in a New Light |
| September 22 - Balancing Liberty and Security |
| September 29 - America's Infrastructure at Risk: What Is the Federal Role? |
| September 29 - Committees Taking a Critical Look At Ashcroft's Request for Broad New Powers |
| October 6 - Anti-Terrorism Bills Head for Floor Votes, But Tough Negotiations Lie Ahead |
| October 6 - Lawmakers Start Work on Measures To Protect Infrastructure, Population |
| October 6 - Money-Laundering Bill Gets New Life As Financial Tool Against Terrorists |
| October 6 - Security Issue Prompts a Hard Look At Entire U.S. Transportation System |
| October 6 - Through Security Mandates and Bailout, U.S. Takes Hands-On Role in Airlines |
| October 13 - Chambers' Divergent Actions On Money-Laundering Laws Complicate Anti-Terrorism Bill |
| October 13 - House Passes Anti-Terrorism Bill That Tracks White House's Wishes |
| October 20 - Deal Clears Way for Final Passage Of Anti-Terrorism Legislation |
| October 20 - Senate Judicial Nominations Spat Again Frustrates Appropriators |
| October 20 - The Makings of a Deal |
| October 27 - Key Anti-Terrorism Provisions |
| October 27 - Terrorism Bill's Sparse Paper Trail May Cause Legal Vulnerabilities |
| November 3 - CJS Conferees Struggle With Funding Levels |
| November 3 - Solomon: A GOP Stalwart |
| November 10 - ADJOURNMENT: A Different Kind of Rush for the Holidays |
| November 10 - AVIATION SECURITY: Passenger List Politics |
| November 17 - BASEBALL: Rooting for a Home Team |
| November 17 - Free of Controversial Add-Ons, Commerce-Justice-State Bill Enjoys Timelier Hill Passage |
| November 17 - Government Cracking Down On Student Visa Process |
| November 17 - Highlights of Ashcrofts INS Restructuring Plan |
| November 17 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Immigration Liberalization: Delayed but Not Abandoned |
| November 17 - NOMINATIONS: 2 Senators Sons. There the Similarity Ends |
| November 17 - Reforms Many Shades of Meaning |
| November 17 - SOCIAL POLICY: Policymakers Struggle With Issues Of Fairness and Frugality In Compensating Terrorism Victims |
| November 17 - TRADE: Andean Trade Legislation Passes House |
| November 24 - CHURCH AND STATE: School Prayers For a Nation at War? |
| November 24 - LAW & JUDICIARY: New Assertions of Executive Power Anger, Frustrate Some on Hill |
| November 24 - Provisions of the Aviation Security Law |
| December 1 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Cookseys Mission to the Middle East: Fact-Finding a Way Past Controversy |
| December 1 - For Ashcroft, a Judiciary Panel Grilling Will Be Familiar Experience |
| December 1 - Profiling and Terrorism |
| December 1 - TRADE: Panel Votes To Reauthorize Andean Pact |
| December 1 - War and Civil Liberties: Congress Gropes for a Role |
| December 8 - Hill Treads Carefully in Challenging Ashcroft Over Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Powers |
| December 8 - Senate Confirms Walters As Drug Policy Director |
| December 15 - International Criminal Court Treaty: One Clinton Signs; the Other Votes No |
| December 15 - Lawmakers Still Feeling Their Way On Whether to Intervene In Plan for Military Tribunals |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Anti-Terrorism |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Fetal Protection |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Immigration |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Judicial Appointments |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Juvenile Justice |
| December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Patients' Rights |
| December 22 - House Clears Bill to Limit Public Disclosure by Judges |
| December 22 - House Key Vote: Anti-Terrorism (Vote 398) |
| December 22 - Justice Authorization Set for Conference |
| December 22 - Senate Confirms Georgia Judge, Leaves Others for Next Year |
| December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Anti-Terrorism (Vote 313) |
| December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Ashcroft Confirmation (Vote 8) |
| December 22 - Wireless License Sale Measure Dies |
