 January 14 - Cellular Radio License Lottery: FCC's Mobile Telephone Plan Faces Capitol Lobbying Attack |
| January 14 - TV Syndication Battle |
| January 14 - White House Opposes Senate Phone Bill |
| January 21 - House Battle Expected: Early Showdown Developing Over Broadcast Deregulation |
| January 21 - Summary of Major Issues Facing Congress in 1984: COMMERCE |
| January 21 - Summary of Major Issues Facing Congress in 1984: TRADE |
| January 21 - Summary of Major Issues Facing Congress in 1984: TRANSPORTATION |
| January 28 - After Illegal Seizures: Congress Plans Closer Scrutiny Of Export Policing, Licensing |
| January 28 - Charges Postponed Until 1985: Senate Buries Telephone Bill After FCC Delays Access Fees |
| February 4 - 1985 BUDGET: Department of Commerce: Reagan Seeks to Discontinue EDA, Some Broadcast Grants |
| February 4 - 1985 BUDGET: Financed by User Fees: Increased Funding for Highways, FAA Sought |
| February 11 - House Commerce Committee: Panel Approves Bill Seeking National Drinking Age of 21 |
| February 11 - Railroad Accounting Board |
| February 18 - Conferees Expected to Meet: Shipping Antitrust Compromise Proposed |
| February 18 - White House Agrees Change Needed: Truckers and Hill Allies Focus On Rewriting Major Tax Hike |
| February 25 - Commerce Department Charges Rep. McKinney With Violating Anti-Boycott Law |
| February 25 - House Panel Backs Measure To Counteract Unfair Trade |
| February 25 - Opposition in House: Senate Panel Approves Fees For Credit Card Purchases |
| February 25 - Senate Approves Shipping Bill |
| February 25 - Senate Debates Export Administration Act Amendments |
| March 3 - Action Stalled: House Addition Sidetracks Credit Card Surcharge Bill |
| March 3 - Export Lobbying |
| March 3 - Interstate Construction: Congress Acts to Free State Highway Funds |
| March 3 - Maritime Programs Reauthorized |
| March 3 - Senate Approves Tougher Curbs on Exports |
| March 3 - Trade Reciprocity |
| March 3 - Trade Retaliation Feared: Farm Lobby Groups Gang Up On Bills to Aid Wine Industry |
| March 3 - Wirth Sets Hearings on Broadcast Bill |
| March 10 - Credit Card Sucharges |
| March 10 - Exit Polls Targeted: Method Sought to Restrict Broadcast Vote Predictions |
| March 10 - Liner Agreements Win Approval: Ocean Shippers' Antitrust Measure Clears |
| March 10 - Presidential Veto Threatened: House Gives Congress Power To Block DOT Sale of Conrail |
| March 10 - TV Syndication Action Forestalled |
| March 17 - Maritime, Coast Guard Authorizations |
| March 24 - FCC Delays Business Fees |
| March 24 - Federal Reserve Bills Approved |
| March 24 - Proposal Pending in Senate: Showdown Possible on U.S. Export Subsidy |
| March 31 - Coast Guard Authorization |
| March 31 - Credit Card Pact Reached |
| March 31 - Export Administration Act |
| March 31 - Opponents Rewrite Unisex Insurance Bill |
| March 31 - Senate Commerce Approval: Bill Limiting Responsibility For Unsafe Products Voted |
| April 7 - House Endorses Credit Card Pact |
| April 7 - Industrial Policy |
| April 7 - Industry Withdraws From Talks: House Discussions Continue On Broadcast Deregulation |
| April 7 - Maritime Authorization Passed |
| April 7 - Panel Urges More Dollars for Customs Service |
| April 7 - Pay Equity for Women |
| April 14 - Amtrak Funding Authorized |
| April 14 - Banking Panel Approves Federal Reserve Changes |
| April 14 - Bumper Standard Added to Auto Theft Bill |
| April 14 - Committee Increases Public Television Funds |
| April 14 - Export Act Conferees Eye South Africa Sanctions |
| April 14 - Maritime Authorization Approved |
| April 14 - New Treaties Are in the Offing: Despite Some Growing Pains, Trade Blossoms |
| April 14 - Panel Approves U.S. Industrial Bank |
| April 14 - Trade Remedy Bill Backed by Ways and Means |
| April 21 - Company Organizes Postal Blitz: American Express Members Rally Against Card Surcharge |
| April 21 - Complaints Focus Attention on Bank Delays |
| April 28 - Pork Barrel Dangers Cited: Senate Panel Acts to Release Interstate Funds States Need |
| April 28 - Senate Advances Attack on Credit Card Fraud |
| May 5 - Broadcast Talks Break Down |
| May 5 - Hazardous Materials, Gas Pipeline Safety |
| May 5 - House Asks More Funds to Cut Illegal Imports |
| May 5 - House OKs Bill to Spur Use of Child-Restraint Seats |
| May 5 - Panel Backs Lower IDA Contribution |
| May 5 - Public Broadcast Funds Tripled |
| May 5 - Scramble On to Add Pork to Road Bill |
| May 5 - Shipbuilding Subsidies Advanced |
| May 5 - Trade Preference System Extension Approved |
| May 12 - Air Passenger Protections Shifted |
| May 12 - Congressional Panels Advance Safety Bills: Hazardous Materials and Pipeline Safety |
| May 12 - Grants Administration's Request: Senate Panel Backs Trade Bill To Allow Canada, Israel Talks |
| May 12 - House Approves Expanded Bank Boards |
| May 12 - Public Broadcast Cuts Rebuffed |
| May 12 - Senate Committee Approval: Bills Take Aim at Odometer Fraud, Big Trucks |
| May 12 - Senate Committee Divided: House Panel Adds Projects To Interstate Funding Bill |
| May 12 - White House Opposes Plan: New Shipbuilding Subsidies Win Approval of House Panel |
| May 19 - House Passes Puerto Rico Cruise Bill |
| May 19 - Transportation Appropriations OK'd by Panel |
| May 26 - House Appropriations Committee: Commerce, Justice, State Funding Bill OK'd |
| May 26 - Thorny Issues Remain: Bargain on Export Procedure Struck by Conference Panel |
| June 2 - Groundwork Laid for Push Eliminating Broadcast Equal Time, Fairness Rules |
| June 2 - Unprecedented U.S. Bailout: Rescue of Continental Bank Fires Deregulation Debate |
| June 9 - Bill on Commercial Space Launches Passed |
| June 9 - Bill Shifting CAB Powers Passed by House |
| June 9 - Cable TV Deregulation Compromise Reached |
| June 9 - House Links Highway Aid, Drinking Age of 21 |
| June 9 - No Easy Answers in Sight: Congress Seeking a Handle On Ballooning Trade Deficit |
| June 9 - Panel OKs Justice, Commerce Funds |
| June 9 - Panel Provides $11.8 Billion: Transportation Funding Bill Raises Threat of Reagan Veto |
| June 16 - Lawmakers Seek Crackdown on Phony Goods |
| June 16 - May Fall Victim to Crowded Agenda: Bill Blocking Sports Team Moves Approved |
| June 16 - Minimum Drinking Age |
| June 16 - Panel Rejects Effort to Cut Endowment Funds |
| June 16 - Revised Version Fails: Senate Panel Axes Broadcast 'Freedom of Expression' Bill |
| June 16 - Semiconductor Chip Bill Passed |
| June 23 - Banking Deregulation Bill Moving |
| June 23 - Drunken Driving Compromise Reached |
| June 23 - Import Relief Urged for Domestic Industries |
| June 23 - Senate Passes Three: Fiscal '85 Appropriations Bills Pick Up Speed as Recess Nears |
| June 30 - CAB Sunset Bill Moves Forward |
| June 30 - Congress Clears Drunk Driving Legislation |
| June 30 - Democracy Endowment Funding Trimmed: Commerce, Justice, State Bill Passed by Senate |
| June 30 - Loopholes Closed But Deregulation Differs: Panels Advance Divergent Banking Bills |
| June 30 - Relaxes Local Control: House Commerce Panel OKs Compromise Cable TV Bill |
| June 30 - Tired MADD Mother Heads for Home |
| June 30 - Transportation Appropriations |
| July 7 - Conferees Get Commerce, Justice, State Bill |
| July 7 - Congress at Mid-Year 1984: Banking/Commerce |
| July 7 - Congress at Mid-Year 1984: Communications |
| July 7 - Congress at Mid-Year 1984: Trade |
| July 7 - Misuse of Confidential Information: Conferees Expected to Back Senate Insider Trading Bill |
| July 14 - DOT Rule May Shift Air-Bag Battle to States |
| July 14 - Reins Placed on Potential Cable Snoops |
| July 14 - TV Companies Want Quick Deregulation: Fragile Cable Compromise Threatened by Court Ruling |
| July 21 - Cable Companies Attack Bill |
| July 21 - Democratic Platform Text 1984: Chapter I: Economic Growth, Prosperity, and Jobs |
| July 21 - Reagan Signs Bill Authorizing Landsat Sale |
| July 28 - Central Restaurant Kitchen Inspections |
| July 28 - House Passes Public Broadcast Bill |
| July 28 - House Sends Insider Trading Bill to President |
| July 28 - Moratorium, Inquiry Sought on Conrail Sale |
| July 28 - Trade Remedies Bill Passed by House |
| August 4 - Accord on Commerce, Justice, State Funds |
| August 4 - House Banking Panel Revives Renegotiation Board |
| August 4 - House Committee Moves Against Fake Products |
| August 4 - House Panel Curbs Merger Tactics |
| August 4 - Mortgage-Backed Securities Bill Approved |
| August 4 - Pressure Mounts on Protectionist Trade Bills |
| August 4 - Senate Panel Nears Vote on Trade Measure |
| August 4 - Transportation Bill Stalled |
| August 11 - Administration Backs Idea: House Acts to Ban Big Trucks From Older Interstate Roads |
| August 11 - Cigarette, Toy Safety Bills Voted by House |
| August 11 - Controversial Programs Get the Nod: Funding for Commerce, Justice and State Clears |
| August 11 - Deepwater Port Bill Clears |
| August 11 - Election Projections |
| August 11 - ICC Nominees |
| August 11 - Public Broadcast Funding |
| August 11 - Small Business Centers Bill Clears |
| August 11 - Turf Fight Threatens Transportation Money Bill |
| August 18 - CAB Transfer Awaits Conferees |
| August 18 - Dual Battle Set Over Highway Funding Bills |
| August 25 - Text of 1984 Republican Party Platform: SECURITY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL |
| September 1 - Public Broadcast Bill Vetoed |
| September 8 - Cloture Vote Set: Critics Block Senate Action On Banking Deregulation Bill |
| September 8 - Hill Politics Delay Repair of 'America in Ruins' |
| September 8 - House Revives Shipbuilding Subsidies |
| September 8 - In Highway Bill Lobbying, the Touch is Local |
| September 8 - In States, Same Crunch, Different Priorities |
| September 8 - Reagan Refuses to Restrict Copper Imports |
| September 15 - Conferees Reach Accord on CAB Sunset |
| September 15 - Reagan and Mondale at Odds Over Relieving the Growing Trade Deficit |
| September 15 - Special Report: Banking Deregulation Bailing Out Banks: How Much Is Too Much? |
| September 15 - The Regulators: More Than One Watchdog |
| September 15 - To Avoid Veto Override: Funding Compromise Sought On Public Broadcasting Bill |
| September 15 - Trade Package Shaping Up in Ways and Means |
| September 22 - Cargo Bill Rejected |
| September 22 - House Passes Rail Bill |
| September 22 - Inspections of Some Rides Restored |
| September 22 - Minor Trade, Tariff Bill Passes House |
| September 22 - Panel Approves Bill to Thwart Auto Theft |
| September 22 - Public Broadcasting Bill Passed by Senate |
| September 22 - Senate Eludes Protectionists, OKs Trade Bill |
| September 22 - Senate Sends CAB Compromise to President |
| September 22 - State Money Held Up: Filibuster Stalls Senate Action On Interstate Funding Bill |
| September 22 - Steel's Hill Allies Ponder Import Bars |
| September 22 - Transit, Train Subsidies At Issue: Transportation Gets Low Campaign Profile |
| September 29 - Cable TV Compromise, Public Broadcasting |
| September 29 - Export Control Conference Quickens |
| September 29 - Highway Bill Snarled by Other Controversies |
| September 29 - Pipeline Safety Bill Approved |
| September 29 - Ways and Means Panel Votes Trade Package |
| October 6 - Administration Views Prevail: Conferees on Trade Bill Agree To Free Trade, Steel Provisions |
| October 6 - Auto Theft Bill Passed |
| October 6 - Conferees Deadlock on Export Bill |
| October 6 - Congress Speeds Recall of Dangerous Toys |
| October 6 - HUD Amendments Cleared |
| October 6 - Opposed to Equal Employment Provision: Senate Conservatives Block House-Passed Cable TV Bill |
| October 6 - Park Ride Inspections |
| October 6 - Public Broadcast Bill Cleared for Reagan |
| October 6 - Senate-House Differences Threaten Road Bill |
| October 13 - 'An Exercise in Frustration': Export Controls Act Thwarted By a Standoff on Capitol Hill |
| October 13 - Equal Employment Compromise: Moribund Cable TV Measure Is Revived, Revised, Cleared |
| October 13 - Highway Bill Conferees Stalemated |
| October 13 - Maritime Programs Reauthorized |
| October 13 - Truck Safety Bill Cleared |
| October 13 - Wide-Ranging Trade Package Clears Congress |
| October 20 - Coast Guard Authorization Cleared |
| October 20 - DOT, Related Agencies: Transportation Funding Is Set At $11.6 Billion for Fiscal '85 |
| October 20 - Fiscal 1985 Transportation Funds |
| October 20 - Summary of Major 1984 Congressional Action: BANKING/COMMERCE |
| October 20 - Summary of Major 1984 Congressional Action: TRADE |
| October 20 - Summary of Major 1984 Congressional Action: TRANSPORTATION |
| November 3 - Three Bids Survive: DOT's Plan to Sell Conrail Viewed Skeptically on Hill |
| December 1 - House Hearings Planned on 55 mph Speed Limit |
| December 8 - Congress to Face Product Liability Bill in 1985 |
| December 8 - Product Liability Bill Involves Arcane Legal Terms |
| December 15 - FCC, Members Agree on TV Rule |
| December 15 - Hill Opposition Fades: FCC Is Expected to Approve Revised Phone Access Charge |
| December 15 - Issues of Environment and Regulation: Congress to Consider Impact, Problems of Gene Engineering |
| December 15 - Slow Move From Laboratory to Market |
| December 22 - FCC Revises Rule on Station Ownership |
| December 22 - Special Report: Congressional Agenda BANKING/COMMERCE |
| December 22 - Special Report: Congressional Agenda TRADE |
| December 22 - Special Report: Congressional Agenda TRANSPORTATION |
| December 22 - Telephone Access Charge Set |
