 January 3 - Some Legislative Loose Ends Enough for Confident GOP |
| January 10 - Advancing Other Agendas |
| January 10 - Congress Likely to Remain Silent On 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' |
| January 10 - Gay Marriage Polls Differ |
| January 10 - Marriage Legal Rights and Duties |
| January 10 - Parties Wary of Political Risk In Stands on Gay Marriage |
| January 24 - Healthy Forests Initiative Provisions |
| January 24 - Legal Victim Status for Fetuses Closer to Passage in House; Opponents See Attack on Roe |
| January 24 - Recess Appointment for Pickering Is Latest Volley in Nominations War |
| January 31 - Bill Would Block Food Lawsuits |
| January 31 - Hatch's Handling of Investigation Into Release of Democrats' Memo Sparks Partisan and Intraparty Fights |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Justice |
| February 7 - Taking a Jab at Senate Democrats, Bush Gives Pickering a Third Nomination |
| February 14 - GOP Tries New Strategy on Medical Liability Legislation |
| February 14 - Public Agitation May Force Bush to Take Stand on Gay Marriage |
| February 21 - Another Recess Appointment By Bush Sets William Pryor as Two-Year Judge |
| February 21 - GOP Pans for Political Gold In Kerry's Voting Record |
| February 21 - Standing Still May Be Best Action For Congress on Technology Issues |
| February 28 - Amendments: Thousands Proposed, Few Ratified |
| February 28 - Congress Shows Little Enthusiasm For Bush's Marriage Amendment |
| February 28 - Jumping the Gun on Voting Rights Act Has Opposite Effect Than Frist Hoped |
| February 28 - Renewed Assault Weapons Ban May Be the Price of Passage For Senate Gun Liability Bill |
| February 28 - Republicans' Latest Strategy On Medical Malpractice Caps: A Few Specialties at a Time |
| February 28 - Senate Poised to Join the Fray As Frist Promises Debate Soon On Fetal Protection Measure |
| March 6 - Gun Lobby Shoots Down Liability Bill Rather Than Accept Amendments |
| March 6 - Partisan Panel Has a Chance for Truce in Case of Purloined Computer Files |
| March 13 - 'Cheeseburger Bill' Puts Obesity Lawsuits at Top of Doable Tort Reform Agenda |
| March 13 - Deal for Senate Debate on Fetal Protection |
| March 13 - Indecency Bill May Raise First Amendment Issues |
| March 13 - Sergeant at Arms Left to Own Devices Regarding Probe of Downloaded Files As Judiciary Bipartisanship Dissolves |
| March 27 - Abortion Foes Plan More Bills |
| March 27 - Federal Lawsuit Jurisdiction Gets Unanimous House Vote |
| March 27 - Fetal Protection Bill Cleared As Democrats' Substitute Fails |
| March 27 - Lawmakers Alter Marriage Resolution To Make It a Bit More Agreeable |
| April 3 - 'Video Voyeurism' Measure Approved by Subcommittee |
| April 3 - House Bill to Combat Use Of New Steroid-Like Drugs Advanced by Judiciary Panel |
| April 3 - House GOP Says No to Change in Citizenship Oath |
| April 3 - Penalties for Identity Theft Increased in House Measure; Mandatory Sentencing Debated |
| April 3 - Recording Industry Asks Congress' Help in Growing Battle Against File Sharing |
| April 3 - Sensenbrenner Injects Renewed Clout Into Justice Department Oversight |
| April 3 - Terrorism Hoax Bill Advances in House |
| April 3 - WTO Rule on Gambling Ban Draws Fire |
| April 10 - As Third Senate Cloture Vote on Medical Malpractice Fails, GOP Vows to Keep Issue Alive |
| April 10 - Companies Bankrupted by Asbestos Lawsuits |
| April 10 - Federal Penalties Sought for Gang Crimes |
| April 10 - No-Fault Asbestos Claims Fund Is a ‘Personal Priority’ for Frist, But Cost Remains Big Unknown |
| April 17 - Lawmakers Eager to Weigh In on Overhaul of Intelligence |
| April 17 - Requests of CIA, FBI Went Unfilled |
| April 17 - Residents' System Gets Legal Protection |
| April 24 - America's Uneasy Mandate For Domestic Intelligence |
| April 24 - Asbestos Fund Opponents Take Their Talks Into Mediation |
| April 24 - Legislating Security: Some Ideas |
| April 24 - Panel Moves Bush-Backed Measure To Expand Terrorism Death Penalty |
| April 24 - Victims' Rights Proponents Postpone Amendment Push, Settle for Senate-Passed Bill |
| May 1 - Calamity Scenario Proposals Prompt More Questions On Congressional Continuity |
| May 1 - U.S. Attorney's Office Takes Over Judiciary Committee Probe |
| May 8 - Continuity Bill Headed for House Floor |
| May 8 - Contractors Hover in Gray Area Regarding Legal Liability |
| May 8 - Satellite TV Policy Changes Not on Senate's Hurry List Despite Push From Industry |
| May 15 - 'Video Voyeurism' Could Join Ranks of Federal Crime |
| May 15 - Bill Targets 'Aggravated ID Theft' |
| May 15 - Despite Progress With Mediation, Efforts to Establish Asbestos Fund Seem to Have Reached Dead End |
| May 15 - Gangs Markup Interrupted By Quorum Failure |
| May 15 - Graham's Hard Questions |
| May 15 - House GOP Reruns Health Legislation In Effort to Spark Senate Action |
| May 15 - Judiciary Panel Seeks Stiff Penalties for Terrorism Hoaxes |
| May 15 - Partisan Rancor Continues to Jam Judicial Nominees |
| May 15 - Stem Cell Research Debate Appears Likely to Resume |
| May 22 - Bill Would Expand Copyright Powers of Recording Industry |
| May 22 - Bush Blinks in War With Democrats Over Stalled Judicial Nominees |
| May 22 - Senate Eyes Class Action Post-Recess |
| May 22 - Seven Most Imperiled Nominees |
| May 29 - Lawsuits, Lagging Economy Linked in Tort Reform Push |
| May 29 - Political Strategist David Winston Gives His GOP Clients Straight Talk |
| May 29 - Suits and Ladders |
| June 5 - CJS Bill Keeps Seat Reserved on Omnibus |
| June 5 - Congress Clears Bill to Create A Limited Antitrust Shield |
| June 5 - Constitutional Amendment On Continuity in House Soundly Rejected by GOP |
| June 5 - Extension of Visas to Deliver Doctors to Rural Areas Advances |
| June 5 - Impasse Avoided on Class Action Bill |
| June 5 - New Battle in Old War Over Judicial Nominees |
| June 5 - Opposing Sides Vow to Fight On After Court Strikes Down 'Partial Birth' Abortion Law |
| June 5 - Performance-Enhancing Steroid Precursors Facing Crackdown by Congress |
| June 5 - Senate Bill Would Have Business Compete With Prison Industries |
| June 5 - Senate GOP Won't Go to Bat For Bush Nominee Haynes |
| June 5 - Senate Panel Approves Resolution On Constitutional Amendment To Protect the Stars and Stripes |
| June 12 - Putting Politics on the Bench |
| June 19 - Concealed-Weapons Bill Advances |
| June 19 - Gay Rights Issues Reappear As Election-Year Fodder For Lawmakers on Both Sides |
| June 19 - In Debate Over Justice Funding, Democrats Aim to Make Sure Ashcroft Answers Questions |
| June 19 - Judiciary Committee Republicans Block Subpoena, but Press For More Oversight of Justice |
| June 19 - Saad Nomination Advances Despite Senate 'Blue Slips' |
| June 26 - Anti-Counterfeiting Measure Approved by House Judiciary |
| June 26 - Appropriations: House Panel Moves C-J-S Bill, Setting Stage for Floor Debate On Gun Ownership Records |
| June 26 - Bush Nominee Faces Close Senate Vote -- Thanks to GOP, Not Democratic, Concerns |
| June 26 - Gang Crimes Bill Moved by Senate Panel |
| June 26 - High Court Rules Against State Efforts To Broaden Patients' Legal Rights |
| June 26 - Senate Clears Tougher Penalties for Identity Theft In Conjunction With Felony |
| July 3 - Daschle Trust Fund Proposal Revives Asbestos Negotiations, But Passage Still a Long Way Off |
| July 3 - Ruling Suggests an Alternative For Online Pornography Law: Mandate Use of Internet Filters |
| July 3 - Supreme Court Hands Congress the Lead in Rewriting Terror Suspect Detention Rules |
| July 10 - A New Indecency Standard: Lost in 'Terminal Vagueness'? |
| July 10 - Chasing Indecency |
| July 10 - Fearing Spate of Amendments, Frist Pulls Class Action Bill After Senate Cloture Vote Fails |
| July 10 - Frist Fills 'Amendment Tree,' Irks Colleagues |
| July 10 - GOP Plans Partisan Fight On Nominees |
| July 10 - Indecent or Obscene? Some Ground Rules |
| July 10 - Senate Readies For Debate on Gay Marriage |
| July 17 - Assessing the Gay Vote |
| July 17 - Conservatives See 'DOMA' As Another Means to the End |
| July 17 - Energizing the GOP Base |
| July 17 - Gay Marriage Issue Resonates Primarily in Halls of Congress |
| July 17 - House Panel Moves to Shield Social Security Numbers |
| July 17 - To Undecideds, Marriage Amendment Is a Low Priority |
| July 24 - Amendment to Allow Ban on Flag Burning Could Get Fall Senate Consideration |
| July 24 - GOP Now 0-for-20 as Judicial Nomination Wars Resume |
| July 24 - High-Tech Passport Plan Extended |
| July 24 - Long-Stalled DNA Bill Gets Delayed Again |
| July 24 - Social Security Privacy Bill Advances |
| July 24 - Vote on Defense of Marriage Act Provision Treads Tricky Legal Ground in Limiting Courts' Jurisdiction |
| August 7 - Cheers and Jeers Resound for Bill to Ban File Sharing |
| August 7 - File Sharing: Fair or Unfair Use? |
| August 7 - Lawmakers Gamble on Success of Pet Provisions in C-J-S Bill |
| August 7 - Sentencing Guidelines in Legal Limbo as High Court Sets October Hearing |
| September 4 - Court Ruling Puts Congress in Crossfire of Internet File-Sharing Controversy |
| September 4 - Odds Stacked Against Renewal of Ban on Assault Weapons |
| September 11 - DNA Package Faces GOP Resistance |
| September 11 - Enforcement Key to House 'Spyware' Bill |
| September 11 - House GOP Takes New Tack To Move Stalled Tort Reform, Floating Four Smaller Measures |
| September 11 - Panel OKs Bill To Prevent Copyright Theft |
| September 11 - Sensenbrenner Digs In on Moribund Bankruptcy Bill |
| September 18 - 'Heightened Tensions' Fray Judicial-Legislative Relations |
| September 18 - Conservatives Defend 'Nuke' Option To Protect a High Court Nominee |
| September 18 - Editor's Notebook: Black Robes |
| September 18 - House Gives Go-Ahead to Bill Aimed at 'Frivolous' Lawsuits, Part of GOP Tort Reform Push |
| September 18 - House Passes Tort Measures |
| September 18 - Panel Seeks to Bar Courts From Reviewing Pledge |
| September 18 - Social Conservatives Taking On the Courts |
| September 25 - Bill Wins Approval to Establish Copyright Royalty Judges |
| September 25 - Copyright Authentication Bill Passes in House |
| September 25 - House Bill Aims to Keep Federal Courts Away From Pledge of Allegiance Cases |
| September 25 - House Energy Subcommittee Gives States Right to Refuse |
| September 25 - House Judiciary Approves Bill to Crack Down on Cockfighting |
| September 25 - Inmate DNA Testing Bill Wins Robust House Support, But Senate Shelf Life Is Short |
| September 25 - Lawmakers Seek to Crack Down on 'Video Voyeurism' |
| September 25 - Next Presidency: A Long War on Terrorism |
| September 25 - Next Presidency: The Judicial Nomination Wars |
| September 25 - Panel Approves Bill to Boost Prevention of Elder Abuse |
| September 25 - Panel OKs Bill to Toughen Drug Penalties |
| October 2 - Diverse Groups Oppose Hatch Filesharing Bill |
| October 2 - Hatch Caught Between Technology And Entertainment Industries As Anti-Piracy Bill Hits Impasse |
| October 2 - House Conservatives Seek Voters' Attention With Action On Gay Marriage Amendment |
| October 2 - House Judiciary OKs Two-Year Extension of Doctor Program |
| October 2 - House Repeal of D.C. Gun Laws Not Likely to Advance Further, Except as an Election Issue |
| October 2 - Judge Puts Civil Liberties Ahead of Patriot Act Provision |
| October 2 - Judiciary Panel Expands List of Banned Anabolic Steroids |
| October 2 - Judiciary Stiffens Penalties for Promotion of Animal Fighting |
| October 2 - Panel OKs Bill to Protect Military From High-Cost Insurance, Funds |
| October 2 - Senate Judiciary Tightens L-1 Rules |
| October 9 - Conferees Drop Indecency Measure |
| October 9 - Congressional 'Spyware' Fix Likely to Prove Elusive |
| October 9 - House Republicans' Plan to Split 9th Circuit Court Is Adopted; No More Action Expected in 108th |
| October 9 - Intellectual Property Bills Combined |
| October 9 - Lawmakers Take Aim at Sale of Chemical Drug Dealers Seek |
| October 9 - Opposition Leaves Bill Offering Inmates DNA Access Missing Link in Evidence Chain |
| October 9 - Senate Passes Revised Bill to Create Copyright Judges |
| October 16 - Add-Ons End Years of Wrangling, Clear Path for DNA Testing Bill |
| October 16 - Criminal Justice Bill Highlights |
| October 16 - Frist's Highs and Lows |
| October 16 - House vs. Senate Intelligence Overhaul Plans |
| October 23 - Immigration: Bills Caught in Intraparty Limbo |
| October 30 - Age and Experience on the Supreme Court |
| October 30 - Rehnquist Illness Highlights Potential Effect Of Presidential Contest on High Court |
| November 6 - Film Industry Joins the Battle Against Internet Pirates |
| November 6 - No Election Day Meltdown, But Problems Remain |
| November 6 - Senate Judiciary in the 109th Congress |
| November 13 - Democrats in Political Bind Over Gonzales Confirmation As Hill Braces for Hearing |
| November 13 - Senate Seniority System Helps Specter Stay the Course |
| November 20 - Minority's 'Tyranny' Necessitates GOP's 'Constitutional Option' |
| November 20 - New Three-Judge Panel To Settle Copyright Disputes |
| November 20 - Specter Nears Judiciary Chair As Seniority Wins the Day |
| November 27 - C-J-S Appropriations: Trouble-Free, for a Change |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Asbestos Claims Compensation |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Broadcast Indecency Penalties |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Class Action Lawsuit Limitations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Commerce, Justice State and Judiciary Appropriations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Crimes Against the Fetus |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: DNA Testing for Convicts |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Flag Desecration Constitutional Amendment |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Gay Marriage Ban Constitutional Amendment |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Gun Control and Liability for Gunmakers and Dealers |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Identity Theft Crackdown |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Judicial Confirmations |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Liability Limits for Foodmakers |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Medical Malpractice Liability Limits |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Minimum Wage Increase |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Online Piracy |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Restrictions on the Federal Courts |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Victims' Rights Guarantees |
| December 4 - The Tentative Intelligence Overhaul Deal |
| December 11 - Aiming for the Fast Track on Asbestos Bill |
| December 11 - Narrow Intellectual Property And Domain Fraud Bill Cleared |
| December 11 - Recommended, and Actual, Intelligence Reorganization |
| December 11 - Senate Clears Video Voyeurism Curbs |
