 January 4 - Banks Reach Further in 1991 But End Up Much Like 1988 Effort |
| January 4 - Marketplace Forces Hold Key To Future Bank Legislation |
| January 4 - Taxpayers Not Off the Hook Yet |
| January 11 - BROADCAST VS. CABLE (chart) |
| January 11 - Bush Emphasizes 'Progress' At End of Japanese Trip |
| January 11 - JAPANESE TRADE TALKS: Automakers Praise 'First Step' But Lament Lack of Progress |
| January 11 - Media Wars |
| January 11 - Senate Action on Cable Bill Provokes Clash of Titans |
| January 11 - Senate Highlights |
| January 11 - TRADE TALKS: Outline of Mutual Agreement To End U.S. - Japan Discord |
| January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- Annual Business S and Ls: Bailout Funding Back on the Agenda |
| January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- New Business Cable TV: Tightening Regulations |
| January 25 - PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION: Bush Taps White House Staff For Transportation Post |
| January 25 - TRADE: Troubled High-Tech Export Bill Moves Toward Conference |
| February 1 - CABLE INDUSTRY: Veto Fight Moves Into Focus As Senate OKs Cable Bill |
| February 1 - SECTION NOTES: Hill Clears Act To Improve American Competitiveness |
| February 8 - BANKING: Brady Again Asks For Branching |
| February 8 - Bill To Clamp Down on Market Nears House Panel Markup |
| February 8 - Face-Off Over Fraud |
| February 8 - Money for U.S. Infrastructure Seen as Economic Quick-Fix |
| February 8 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Wants New Rules On Phone Reliability |
| February 8 - The Courthouse and Highway Cuts |
| February 15 - PROVISIONS: Senate Cable Regulation Bill |
| February 22 - SECTION NOTES: Transportation, Commerce Nominations Advance |
| February 22 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Charges of Liberal Bias Stall Public Broadcasting Bill |
| February 29 - BUSINESS LAW: Senate Bill Aims To Spur Joint Manufacturing |
| February 29 - Check-Kiting at the House Bank: How It Worked, How It Didn't |
| February 29 - COMMERCE: Drift Net Sanctions OK'd by House |
| February 29 - COMMUNICATIONS: House OKs Bill That Would Put Preamble on 900-Number Calls |
| February 29 - REGULATION: New Biotechnology Rules Outlined |
| February 29 - SECTION NOTES: Foreign Shipbuilding Subsidies Targeted by Panel's Bill |
| February 29 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Funds for Localities |
| February 29 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Franklin To Head Commerce |
| February 29 - Senate Clears China MFN Bill; Bush Has Promised Veto |
| February 29 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: House Panel Heeds RTC Head, Adds $25 Billion to Bailout |
| February 29 - TRANSPORTATION: 'Cardinal' Lehman To Retire; Carr in Line of Succession |
| March 7 - BANKING: 'Fair Trade' Rules Get Panel's OK |
| March 7 - CREDIT: House Panel OKs Report Approval |
| March 7 - GOP Senators Push for Control Over Public Broadcasting |
| March 7 - Highlights of Senate, House Tax Bills |
| March 7 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Funds For Amtrak Improvements |
| March 14 - Bounced Checks (chart) |
| March 14 - CABLE INDUSTRY: Republicans Seeking To Stall House Cable Re-Regulation |
| March 14 - COINAGE: Cranston Wins Big On Small Change |
| March 14 - CORRECTION: Rep. Richard H. Lehman |
| March 14 - Ethics Committee Lists 66 Offenders (chart) |
| March 14 - ETHICS COMMITTEE REPORT: Panel Calls For Disclosure Of Worst Bank Offenders |
| March 14 - More Funds Being Routed Toward RTC Pipeline |
| March 14 - SECTION NOTES: Customs Service Damage Suits Gets Voice Vote Approval |
| March 14 - SECTION NOTES: FCC Eases Rules on AM/FM Radio Station Ownership |
| March 14 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel OKs Increase For Small-Business Loans |
| March 14 - SECTION NOTES: New Publishing Rights Get Preliminary Nod |
| March 14 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Judiciary Marks Up Bankruptcy Changes |
| March 14 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves JTPA Reauthorization |
| March 21 - A Guide to Members' Explanations For the Checks That Now Look Fishy |
| March 21 - A Slowly Spreading Scandal: Check-Kiters Retrench |
| March 21 - Bank Consolidation (chart) |
| March 21 - BANKING: New Studies Give Ammunition To Interstate Branching Foes |
| March 21 - CABLE INDUSTRY: Copyright Thicket Entangles House Re-Regulation Effort |
| March 21 - CLARIFICATION |
| March 21 - COVER STORY: Profiles of 24 Biggest Offenders; Outlooks on Possible Effects |
| March 21 - GOP Leadership Feels the Heat |
| March 21 - Guide to Players in Cable TV Game |
| March 21 - HOUSE BANK: List of Members Who Confirm Having Overdraft Problems |
| March 21 - Overdrafts Sometimes Funded Campaigns, Investments |
| March 21 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Bankruptcy Measure |
| March 28 - BANKING: Committee Stops Debating Credit Bill in Midstream |
| March 28 - ETHICS: Criminal Convictions Unlikely In Probe of Check Kiting |
| March 28 - Heather Foley 'Not a Target' |
| March 28 - House Panel's Re-Regulation Bill Targets Cable TV 'Renegades' |
| March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Restores Highway Funds |
| March 28 - Senate Approves $42 Billion For Hot Potato Bailout |
| March 28 - Senior Republicans Get Caught In Glare of Check Scandal |
| March 28 - The Video Marketplace |
| March 28 - Top Republicans, Big Overdrafts |
| March 28 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Time Running Out On Foreign Aid |
| April 4 - COINAGE: House Rejects Plan For New Designs |
| April 4 - COMMITTEES: Roe To Depart; Mineta in Line For Public Works Chair |
| April 4 - COMMUNICATIONS: Protests From Panel Democrats Snag Cable Reregulation Bill |
| April 4 - ECONOMIC AID: International Effort Is Shaped To Boost Russian Economy |
| April 4 - Proposed Aid to Russia (chart) |
| April 4 - THRIFT INDUSTRY: House Defeat of RTC Funding Unlikely To Be Last Word |
| April 11 - COMMUNICATIONS: Markey's Cable Re-Regulation Bill Survives Democrats' Defections |
| April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Amtrak Authorization Chugs Through Energy Committee |
| April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Aims To Formalize Extent of Sovereignty |
| April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Congress Takes Recess, Leaves Bailout Broke |
| April 11 - TREATIES: Day Finally Comes, Quietly, For Ike's Open Skies Plan |
| April 11 - WHAT'S AHEAD: House Bank Disclosures To Come During Break |
| April 18 - COVER STORY: Leaders Throw New Spin In Bank Ballgame |
| April 18 - Following the Leaders |
| April 18 - For Many Deposits, a Day Late Left Members Dollars Short |
| April 18 - Notice System Not Fail-Safe |
| April 18 - Overdrafts Listed From Most to Least According to House Ethics Committee |
| April 18 - Taint of House Bank Scandal Likely To Spread Unevenly |
| April 18 - Voters Will Render Judgments On Members' Checking Habits |
| April 25 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Titanic Disaster And the House Bank |
| April 25 - Dispute Over Value of Good Will Puts Brakes on Thrift Bailout |
| April 25 - ETHICS: Subpoena of House Bank Records Puts Leadership in a Bind |
| April 25 - Other Proposals |
| April 25 - S and L: Where Good Will Fits on the Books (chart) |
| May 2 - Anti-Regulatory Redux |
| May 2 - BANKING: Coin Bill Clears, Minus Redesign |
| May 2 - HOUSE BANK: Leaders, Special Counsel Exchange Letters |
| May 2 - Now Democrats Face an Inquisitor |
| May 2 - SECTION NOTES: Airline Ticket Tax Continued, Money To Fund Improvements |
| May 2 - THE THRIFT INDUSTRY: Gonzalez Gears Up Again For RTC Funding Bill |
| May 9 - COMMUNICATIONS: Caller ID Measure Shelved in Senate |
| May 9 - COMMUNICATIONS: Caller ID Measure Shelved in Senate |
| May 9 - HOUSE BANK: Overdrafts Need Not Be Filed; Courts Won't Stay Subpoena |
| May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Approves Changes In Food-Aid Regulations |
| May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Bills To Fund Coast Guard, Panama Canal Commission |
| May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Seeks Highway Funds Diverted by Courthouse |
| May 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Seeks Highway Funds Diverted by Courthouse |
| May 9 - TRADE: Agreement Made With Ukraine |
| May 9 - TRADE: Japan, Bush are Targets Of Democratic Bill |
| May 16 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Panel Revises Farm Loans and Credit |
| May 16 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes To Feed Kitty For Small Business Loans |
| May 16 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Accepts Compromise On Digital Recording |
| May 16 - SECTION NOTES: Reprieve Pushed for Cutback On New England Fishing |
| May 16 - TRADE: White House Pushes Trade Pact, Blasts Democrats' Bill |
| May 16 - TRANSPORTATION: House Backs Effort To Sink Foreign Ship Subsidies |
| May 23 - A Dozen Special Tax Breaks Have a Life of Their Own |
| May 23 - ETHICS: Court Won't Block Bank Subpoena |
| May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Armed 'Carjacking' Would Go Federal |
| May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Funnel Funds To Small Businesses |
| May 23 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Banking Approves One Bill, Defers 2nd |
| May 23 - TRANSPORTATION: House FAA Measure To Cut Jet Roar |
| May 30 - Cable Money Buys Attention For Three Wayward Democrats |
| May 30 - COMMUNICATIONS: Baby Bells Lose Another Battle In Effort To Expand Business |
| May 30 - Media Groups Try Paying Way To a Favorable Cable Bill |
| May 30 - More Bank Files Released |
| May 30 - SECTION NOTES: Trial Plan Proposed To Open Airwaves |
| May 30 - TAXES: High Court Points to Congress For Mail-Order Tax Ruling |
| June 6 - A History of MFN Votes |
| June 6 - An Unlikely Champion |
| June 6 - GOVERNMENT SECURITIES: Bond Market Rules Move Ahead |
| June 6 - INVESTMENT: Protection for Limited Partners Stalled in Senate Panel |
| June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Committee OKs Bill Expanding Colorado Gas Drilling |
| June 6 - SECTION NOTES: House Measure Assisting Rural Medical Providers Advances |
| June 6 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Reauthorization Of Preservation Efforts |
| June 6 - Senate Tunes Out Critics, Boosts Public TV, Radio |
| June 6 - TECHNOLOGY: Panel Approves Bill On DAT Recorders |
| June 6 - TRADE: Bush, Democrats Renew Battle Over MFN Status for China |
| June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Road Funding Promises Fall In $13 Billion Transit Bill |
| June 13 - Cable Industry: Panel Expected To Dilute Cable Regulation Bill |
| June 13 - CLARIFICATION |
| June 13 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Bill Applying Labor Law to Foreign Ships |
| June 13 - SECTION NOTES: Protection for Pacific Yew Advances Another Panel |
| June 13 - SECTION NOTES:Science Panel Signs Off On Research Projects |
| June 13 - TRADE: Finance Panel OKs Reauthorization |
| June 13 - TRADE: White House Remains Opposed As Panel OKs Revised Bill |
| June 20 - Bankruptcy Law Revision Gets Senate Approval |
| June 20 - CABLE INDUSTRY: Panel Expected To Dilute Cable Regulation Bill |
| June 20 - DEVELOPMENT BANKS: $12 Billion IMF Increase Wins House Banking Approval |
| June 20 - INSURANCE: Banking Panel OKs Industry Study |
| June 20 - Nicking Cable |
| June 20 - Panel Snips, Clips To Keep NASA's Big Birds Flying |
| June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Allows Western Ranchers To Ride Herd on Gold Diggers |
| June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard Bill Phases Out Boat Owner Tax |
| June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Credit Reporting Bill OK'd by House Panel |
| June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Digital Recording Bill Increases Tape Costs, Adds Royalty Fee |
| June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Ex-Im Reauthorization Preserves Tied Aid |
| June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Sanctions on Against Haiti Get Panel Approval |
| June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Commerce Approves Radio, Trucking Bills |
| June 20 - TAXES: Packet of Business Tax Changes Gets Finance Committee OK |
| June 20 - TRADE: House Gets Started On OPIC Bill |
| June 20 - TRADE: Trade Bill Gets Green Light, Disappointing Detroit |
| June 20 - Trading Up |
| June 27 - Bells Chronology |
| June 27 - Enterprise Zones |
| June 27 - Enterprise Zones Win OK From Ways and Means |
| June 27 - New Regulations Held Up By Gramm Maneuver |
| June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Ending MFN for China Sent to House Floor |
| June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Revises Program Providing Small-Business Capital |
| June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Acts To End Alleged Bias By Air Ticket Services |
| June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Bill Easing Credit For Novice Farmers |
| June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes for Hike In Minivan Tariffs |
| June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Public Works Committee Revises Pipeline Bill |
| June 27 - TECHNOLOGY: Competitiveness Bill Advances |
| June 27 - TRANSPORTATION: Congress Ends Rail Shutdown By Forcing Mediation |
| June 27 - Two Powerful Chairmen Duel To Shape the Bells' Future |
| July 4 - A Hoarse Voice on Unemployment |
| July 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lawmakers Make Spending U-Turn |
| July 4 - COMMERCE: Price-Fixing Bill Killed in House |
| July 4 - GSEs: New Rules OK'd By Senate |
| July 4 - House Committee Tries Anew To Press China for Reforms |
| July 4 - House Judiciary Panel Supports Restraints on Bell Companies |
| July 4 - House Passes Urban Aid Bill With Deal on Capital Gains |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: $23 Billion Draft Bill OK'd For Commerce, Justice, State |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Bills Would Require Sprinklers, Address Pipeline Safety |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: House Measure Would Bolster Aviation Workers in Disputes |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Metric Packaging Unnecessary, House-Passed Bill Says |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Regulations Approved For Health Insurers |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Bill Would Assist Gas Station Owners |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes 2 Bills Targeting U.S. Technology Industry |
| July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Three Measures Aim to Boost Maritime Competitiveness |
| July 4 - TECHNOLOGY: Partisan Rancor Dogs Measure To Increase Competitiveness |
| July 4 - Transportation Appropriations (chart) |
| July 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Delivers Small Victory To U.S. Postal Service |
| July 11 - Bumpy Road to Courthouse |
| July 11 - House Raids Foreign Aid To Fund Roads, Transit |
| July 11 - House Tax Writers Go To Work On Long List of Small Favors |
| July 11 - INVESTIGATIONS: Post Office Report Delayed By Issue of Naming Names |
| July 11 - SECTION NOTES: Customs Forfeiture Bill Rejected in House |
| July 11 - SECTION NOTES: Subcommittee OKs Bill On Fraud Reporting |
| July 11 - TRADE: Japan Would Be Chief Target Of House-Passed Bill |
| July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Space Station Is Safe for Now, But Funding Fight Goes On |
| July 25 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
| July 25 - ENERGY: Bill To Set National Policy Remains Blocked Over Coal-Tax Provision |
| July 25 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate OKs Bill To Let States Turn Away 'Imported' Trash |
| July 25 - FOREIGN AID: Strauss Urges House To OK Bill To Help Ex-Soviet Nations |
| July 25 - House and Senate Cable Bills Compared |
| July 25 - House Overwhelmingly Passes Sweeping Reregulation Bill |
| July 25 - REFUGEES: Quicker Processing At Airports Urged |
| July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Toughens Approval Process For Patent Extensions |
| July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Chambers Iron Out Differences On Rail Safety Programs |
| July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Non-Metric Containers Bill Clears Congress |
| July 25 - SECURITIES: CFTC Bill Talks Move Along |
| July 25 - TAXES: House Passes Bill To Modify Code |
| July 25 - TRADE: House Tries Again To Restrict MFN Status for China |
| July 25 - TRADE: Romania, Albania Get Nod on MFN |
| August 1 - ACCOUNTING: Bill Would Require Whistleblowing |
| August 1 - Administration Renews Push For S and L Salvage Funds |
| August 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bills Pare Administrative Costs But Try To Create Jobs |
| August 1 - Bills To Cut Oil Dependence Finally Head to Conference |
| August 1 - Commerce, Justice, State Spending (chart) |
| August 1 - Conference Agenda (chart) |
| August 1 - HOUSE BANK SCANDAL: Ackerman Quits Ethics Panel; Probe of Leak Uncertain |
| August 1 - INVESTMENTS: Measure To Curb Advisers Moves |
| August 1 - Panel Preserves Budget Walls In Transportation Spending |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Anti-Theft Bill Urges Marking Auto Parts |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: CFTC Conference Makes Limited Progress |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Desalinization Bill Passes Senate |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill Would Limit Military Land Use |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Ex-Im Bank Charter |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: House Turns Down Attempt To Restrict Mining |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Promoters Push Osprey Despite Recent Crash |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Rising Bankruptcies Require More Judges |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes To Repeal Tax On Recreational Boats |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: State Attorneys General Target Credit Bill |
| August 1 - SECTION NOTES: Worldwide Action Urged To Protect Dolphins |
| August 1 - SMALL BUSINESS: Bill Would Ease SBA Payments |
| August 1 - Tax Bill Gets Bipartisan Nod From Senate Finance Panel |
| August 1 - TRADE: Albania, Romania Nearer MFN |
| August 1 - TRADE: Democrats Renew Pressure On Free-Trade Pact |
| August 1 - TRADE: Minivan Tariff Hike OK'd by House |
| August 1 - TRANSPORTATION: Surprise Vote OKs N.Y. Courthouse |
| August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: 'Donor' States Lose Highway Dollars In Senate Transportation Bill |
| August 8 - COMMERCE: Bill Would Tighten Patent Renewals |
| August 8 - COMMUNICATIONS: House Clears CPB Funding With Little Dissent |
| August 8 - For Competitiveness Council, More Dings From Democrats |
| August 8 - GOVERNMENT BONDS: Gonzalez Protects Bank Regulators |
| August 8 - INVESTMENTS: Advisers Would Get New Rules, Fees |
| August 8 - LABOR: The Family Leave Bill Returns In Time for GOP Convention |
| August 8 - LABOR: Wage Law Change Is Approved |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Albania MFN Bill Moves Forward |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Commercial Space Measure Passed by House |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Conferees Crack Down On Dual Trading |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Enterprise for Americas Measures Approved |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Action On Marine Die-Offs |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Bill On Ex-Im Bank |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill Rings Up REA For High-Tech Hookups |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Commerce Panel OKs Insurance Study |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Measure Would Create New Underwater Preserves |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Charts Bill For Private Pilots |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Payment Protection Sought For Produce Vendors |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Committee Backs Flexible SBA Payments |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel OKs Measures On Government Employees |
| August 8 - SECTION NOTES: Technology Competition Bill Stalls in the House |
| August 8 - TRADE: Finance Committee Reports Bill On China MFN Restrictions |
| August 8 - TRADE: House Signals Concerns On Free-Trade Pact |
| August 8 - TRADE: OPIC Bill Encourages Use of U.S. Exports |
| August 8 - Transportation Spending (chart) |
| August 15 - Bush Says Free-Trade Pact Promises Growth, Jobs |
| August 15 - COMMERCE: Small-Business Bill Passes House |
| August 15 - Energy Conferees |
| August 15 - ENERGY: Protection Sought For Gas Stations |
| August 15 - Filberts, Goats and Belgian Endive |
| August 15 - Highlights of Free-Trade Pact |
| August 15 - INTERIOR: Three Wilderness Bills Seek Improved Management |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Albania Trade Measure Cleared by Senate |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Includes Program On Marine Mammals |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Investment Advisers Bill Advances |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Rail Safety, Airport Bill Clears House |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Satellite Photography Program Would Be Revamped by Bill |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Bill Authorizes Travel, Tourism Office |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization Bill |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate's Grant to Amtrak Would Start Routes in New Regions |
| August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Trade Commission Authorized For First Time Since '81 |
| August 15 - SECURITIES: Prospects Brighten For CFTC Bill |
| August 15 - Senate Committee Authorizes $31.3 Billion for the FAA |
| August 15 - TECHNOLOGY: Competitiveness Bill Gets Past Quorum Traps, Goes to Floor |
| August 15 - TECHNOLOGY: Panel Joins Chorus of Approval On Digital Audio Tape Bill |
| August 15 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Bells Bill Stays With Brooks |
| August 15 - TRANSPORTATION: Airline Ticket Bill Passes House |
| August 15 - TRANSPORTATION: Transportation 'Corrections' Include Six New Projects |
| September 5 - PROVISIONS: House-Senate Cable Bills |
| September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: ECONOMICS AND FINANCE |
| September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCE |
| September 12 - COMMERCE: Product Liability Bill Killed By a Close Senate Vote |
| September 12 - Conference Tackles Huge Bill, But Thorniest Issues Remain |
| September 12 - ENVIRONMENT: Agriculture OKs Mining Bill |
| September 12 - Free-Trade Pact Buffeted By Election-Year Forces |
| September 12 - Highlights of Free-Trade Pact |
| September 12 - HOUSE BANK: Resentment, Anticipation Build As Letters Sprinkle the Hill |
| September 12 - LABOR: Diverging Views on Values Doom Family Leave Bill |
| September 12 - Regulation Foes Plan Barrage As Conferees Approve Bill |
| September 12 - SECTION NOTES: Colorado Wilderness Bill On Conference Fast Track |
| September 12 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Merchant Marine, Inland Waterway Bills |
| September 12 - SECTION NOTES: Independent Investigation Requested |
| September 12 - SECTION NOTES: Royalties for Home Recordings Part of Digital Audio Bill |
| September 12 - SECTION NOTES: Safety Commission Renewal Includes New Toy Rules |
| September 12 - SECTION NOTES: Walter Jones, Citing Ill Health, Hands Reins to Rep. Studds |
| September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Save Super Collider But Can't Resolve Test Ban |
| September 19 - Big Donations From Cable, Hollywood Shouted at Lawmakers To Oppose Bill |
| September 19 - COMMERCE: Competitiveness Bill Stalled After Heated Floor Debate |
| September 19 - ENERGY: Huge Conference Fails To Confront Policy Bill's Major Conflicts |
| September 19 - GOVERNMENT SECURITIES: Watchdog Bill Now Doubtful After Rule Suspension Try |
| September 19 - Hollywood's Heat |
| September 19 - House-Senate Disparities |
| September 19 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Carjacking Bill Snagged By Committees' Wrangling |
| September 19 - Media PAC Contributions: |
| September 19 - Scarred by Media War, Cable Bill Wins Solid Vote From House |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Affecting Miners, Ranchers Wins House Approval |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Alter Travel Rules For Federal Workers |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Colorado Wilderness Bill Moves to Conference |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Reauthorization Of U.S. Tourism Agency |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: House Panels OK Markey's Radon-Fighting Bill |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Pipeline Safety Bill Passes House |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Toned-Down Workplace Bill Would Amend OSHA |
| September 19 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Approves Bill On Digital Audio Tape |
| September 19 - Those Who Switched |
| September 19 - TRADE: Bill Suspends MFN For Yugoslavia |
| September 19 - TRADE: Dole May Oppose China MFN If Wheat Sales Suffer |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Cut $200 Million, Pave Way to Approval |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Divisive Proposals Dropped |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Negotiators Leave Veto Bait In District Spending Bill |
| September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Transportation Conferees Yield, Cut Millions, Labor Provisions |
| September 26 - COMMERCE: Competitiveness Logjam Breaks |
| September 26 - Democrats Face Off With Bush On $32 Billion Bill |
| September 26 - Energy Bill History |
| September 26 - ENVIRONMENT: Chambers Vote To Clamp Down On Federal Polluters |
| September 26 - FINANCIAL SERVICES: Credit Reporting Bill Is Pulled After Close Amendment Vote |
| September 26 - Forest, Desert Protection Bills Near Extinction in Senate |
| September 26 - GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES: Deal Reached on New Rules For Fannie, Freddie |
| September 26 - In Senate, a Strong Majority Again Backs Regulation |
| September 26 - INVESTMENT: Money Adviser Bill Gets House OK |
| September 26 - LABOR: Modest Jobs Plan May Develop From Deep in Defense Bill |
| September 26 - LABOR: Senate Overrides Bush On Family Leave Act |
| September 26 - Rifts Remain on National Policy As Huge Conference Races On |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Bare-Bones BLM Authorization Gets Senate Approval |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Improve Forest Health Would Allow More Logging |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Ban U.S. Cruises Given on Foreign Ships |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Making States Check Beach Pollution |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Royalty Fee For Music Makers |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Five-Year Ban On Drift-Net Fishing |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill To Create Paperwork Reduction Agency |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Authorizers Would Halt Pork Barrel Restorations |
| September 26 - SECTION NOTES: Whistleblowers Rewarded; Debtors Punished |
| September 26 - SECURITIES: Conferees' Compromise Allows CFTC Bill To Finally Move |
| September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT -- Beyond the Campaign COMPETITIVENESS: Strong on Research, Soft on Development |
| September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign COMMUNICATIONS -- Wave of Technology Demands New Policy |
| September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign ENVIRONMENT -- Protections, Costs Must Be Reconciled |
| September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign Further Reading |
| September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign TRADE -- Will NAFTA Prove A Policy Prophecy? |
| September 26 - Spending Bills Slim Down |
| September 26 - TRADE: Bill To Update Customs Service Faces Uncertain Future |
| September 26 - TRADE: China MFN Bill Sent to Bush |
| October 3 - 'Cash-Outs' Were Once Common |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Lean Spending Bills Are Likely To Squeeze By on Schedule |
| October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: Slight Increases for Most; CJS Bill Clears Quickly |
| October 3 - BANKING: Bill Would Penalize Money Launderers |
| October 3 - BANKING: Lawmakers Hope To Snip Industry's Red Tape |
| October 3 - COMMUNICATIONS: Bill Restricting the Bells Seems Unlikely To Move |
| October 3 - COMMUNICATIONS: Bush Pressured by Friends To Back Off Cable Veto |
| October 3 - COMMUNICATIONS: Houses Passes Bill On Telemarketing |
| October 3 - EXPORT-IMPORT BANK: Staff Fine-Tunes Reauthorization |
| October 3 - GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES: New Fannie, Freddie Oversight Begins Moving Again |
| October 3 - Highway Act's Promises on Hold As Transportation Bill Clears |
| October 3 - HOUSE BANK: Walker: Bad Checks Covered Gambling |
| October 3 - INVESTMENTS: Time Crunch Kills OPIC Measure |
| October 3 - Postal Purchases 1986-1992* (chart) |
| October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Measure Clarifies Credit Reform Snafu |
| October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill Mediating Trucker-Customer Quarrels |
| October 3 - SECURITIES: CFTC Bill Is Seen Likely To Clear |
| October 3 - Senate Passes Foreign Aid Bill Backing U.S. Arms for Bosnia |
| October 3 - SOVIET AID: Freedom Support Act Gets Final Senate Approval |
| October 3 - Stamp-Buying in the House: A Few Members Got a Lot |
| October 3 - Tax Negotiators Press Ahead With No Word From Bush |
| October 3 - TRADE: Senate Rejects MFN Override |
| October 3 - Transportation Spending (chart) |
| October 3 - Transportation Spending (chart) |
| October 10 - 35 Hits and a Miss |
| October 10 - After Two-Year Odyssey, Energy Strategy Clears |
| October 10 - AGRICULTURE: Bill Aimed at New Farmers Would Ease FmHA Loans |
| October 10 - Bill's Taxes Are a Blessing to Some And a 'Mugging' to Others |
| October 10 - Bush Asks for a Sign of Loyalty; Congress Changes the Channel |
| October 10 - Commerce-Justice-State Spending (chart) |
| October 10 - COMMERCE: Bills Would Curtail States' Immunity |
| October 10 - COMMERCE: Senate Authorizes Landsat 7 Satellite |
| October 10 - COMMERCE: Sports Gambling Ban Is Cleared |
| October 10 - COMMUNICATIONS: Senate Clears Bill On 900 Numbers |
| October 10 - CORRECTION: Members' postage purchases. |
| October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate OKs Treaty On Warming |
| October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Water Bill Heads to Bush's Desk Over Farm Interests' Protests |
| October 10 - FINANCE: Congressional Chapter Closes With No Bankruptcy Changes |
| October 10 - GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES: Bill Establishing New Overseer For Fannie, Freddie Clears |
| October 10 - GSE's: Farm Credit System Payback Assured |
| October 10 - HEALTH: The Senate Hones Its Revision Of Drug Discounts; Bill Clears |
| October 10 - High Noon at Yucca Mountain |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: 'Fair Use' Bill Sent To White House |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Give Banks Disaster Relief |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Child Support Reporting Bill Is Cleared by Senate |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Defense Production Act Extended for Two Years |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Ex-Im Bank Reauthorized For Five More Years |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Would Accelerate Small Business Research |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Money-Laundering Law On Its Way to Bush |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Paperwork-Fighting Bill Sinks Under Senators' Amendments |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Restrictions Approved On Futures Traders |
| October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Wright Brothers Park Gets Hill Backing |
| October 10 - Seymour's Lonely Crusade |
| October 10 - Text of Veto Message |
| October 10 - TRADE: Clinton Endorses NAFTA, Outlines Reservations |
| October 10 - TRADE: Hill Clears OPIC Reauthorization |
| October 10 - TRANSPORTATION: Senate Clears Amtrak, FAA |
| October 10 - Water Works |
| October 17 - EXPORT CONTROLS: Three Republicans Halt Export Bill |
| October 17 - THE DEFICIT: Latest Estimate: $290 Billion |
| October 31 - BANKING: 'December Surpise' Warnings Examined on Capitol Hill |
| October 31 - Cost of Bank Failures (chart) |
| October 31 - PROVISIONS: Cable TV Reregulation |
| October 31 - PROVISIONS: CFTC Reauthorization |
| November 7 - TAXES: Read Bush's Veto Pen: No New Tax Bill |
| November 7 - Turning to the Economy |
| November 14 - Roads to Recovery |
| November 14 - TAXES: Clinton Strategy Renews Debate Over Investment Tax Credit |
| November 21 - 103rd Must Pay the S and L Piper That Last Congress Put Off |
| November 21 - Doing the Numbers |
| November 28 - Environmental Groups Look for Ways To Ensure a 'Green' Trade Agreement |
| November 28 - SECTION NOTES: Nunn, Lugar Warn Against Lull In Help for Ex-Soviet States |
| November 28 - SECTION NOTES: U.N. Assembly Opposes Sanctions on Cuba |
| November 28 - Warning Bells on NAFTA Sound for Clinton |
| December 5 - RECESS NOTES: Bush To Sign NAFTA Before Departing |
| December 12 - 'Regulatory Relief' Tops Industry's Wish List |
| December 12 - Filling the Regulators' Shoes |
| December 12 - In Bentsen, Clinton Summons A Texas Titan to Treasury |
| December 12 - New Clinton Economic Team Veers Toward the Center |
| December 12 - What the Banks Want |
| December 19 - ETHICS: Bank Probe Now a Criminal Matter; About 20 Remain Uncleared |
| December 19 - Former Members' Letters |
| December 19 - Infraspeak |
| December 19 - KEY HOUSE VOTES: 12. Cable Reregulation |
| December 19 - KEY HOUSE VOTES: 4. RTC Financing |
| December 19 - KEY SENATE VOTES: 14. Cable Reregulation |
| December 19 - NOTES: Bush Eases Restrictions On Trade With Vietnam |
| December 19 - NOTES: Bush, Salinas, Mulroney Sign NAFTA Accord |
| December 19 - NOTES: Supreme Court To Hear Bank Powers Case |
| December 19 - Planes, Trains and Drains: A Wish List For the Infrastructure Industries |
| December 19 - Public Works: A Quick Boost Becomes a Tough Call |
