 January 7 - Gonzalez Introduces Housing Trust Plan as HR1 |
| January 28 - 'ABC' Child-Care Bill Reintroduced |
| January 28 - 'Issue From Hell' Persists: Expert Panel Advises No Action To Fix Social Security 'Notch' |
| January 28 - Downey Steaming After He Was Burned By Talk of Mortgage-Interest Deduction |
| January 28 - Households and Housing Subsidies Distribution by Income, 1988 |
| January 28 - Limits on Mortgage-Interest Deduction, |
| January 28 - Mortgage-Interest Deduction: Still Sacrosanct? |
| January 28 - National Service Proposal Introduced |
| January 28 - Tax Breaks for Homeowners (chart) |
| February 4 - New Parental-Leave Bills Introduced |
| February 4 - Rostenkowski's Pledge Is Limited: Some Lobby Groups Still Fret Over Mortgage-Interest Break |
| February 18 - Earned-Income and Dependent-Care |
| February 25 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Sullivan Nomination OK'd 19-0 By Key Senate Committee |
| March 4 - CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: Bennett Headed for Approval As National 'Drug Czar' |
| March 4 - Sullivan Confirmed As HHS Secretary |
| March 11 - Backers of New JOBS Program Fear Shortage of Funding |
| March 18 - Bush Outlines His Child-Care Plan |
| March 18 - Child-Care Debate Intensifies As ABC Bill Is Approved |
| March 18 - HOUSING POLICY: Cranston, Gonzalez Head Off In Different Directions |
| March 25 - Partisan Bidding War Erupts Over Aid to Poor Children |
| March 25 - Proposals for National or |
| April 1 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Sullivan to Keep Severance Pay |
| April 8 - Budget Constraints May Pinch Programs for the Disabled |
| April 15 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Bush, Congress Launch Efforts To Fight Crime, Drug Crisis |
| April 15 - LABOR: Parental-Leave Bill Moves Forward |
| April 22 - Fiscal 1989 Supplemental Bill Boosted to $4.74 Billion |
| April 22 - HUMAN SERVICES: Consensus Grows on Dual Path To Boosting Child-Care Aid |
| April 22 - Parental, Medical Leave Bill Gets Markup in Senate |
| April 29 - SECTION NOTES: Parental-Leave Measure Clears Final Panel |
| May 6 - Expiring Federal Subsidies Raise a Policy Dilemma |
| May 6 - Expiring Section 8 Rent-Subsidy Contracts (chart) |
| May 6 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Panel Votes to Renew VISTA, Other Programs |
| May 13 - Anti-Bias Shield for Disabled Has Strong Support Base |
| May 13 - Major Civil Rights Laws |
| May 13 - Members of Congress Deplore Influence-Peddling at HUD |
| May 13 - VETERANS: Benefits Changes Get Markup |
| May 20 - AFDC Benefit Levels: Losing Value |
| May 20 - Critics on Both Sides Take Aim At Bush Anti-Crime Plan |
| May 20 - Draft Welfare Regulations Draw Fire From States |
| May 20 - Moynihan Fuming at HHS |
| May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Airport Noise Abatement Supported by House |
| May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Emergency-Exit Seating Voted for Blind |
| May 27 - Former HUD Secretary Grilled On Influence-Peddling Scam |
| May 27 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Subcommittee Approves Senior Volunteer Programs |
| May 27 - TAXES Split Opens Within Bush Team Over Housing Tax Credit |
| May 27 - Thrift-Industry Salvage Bill Carries Pair of Riders |
| May 27 - Whitten Amendment to HR2072 |
| June 10 - Former Interior Secretary Watt Grilled About HUD Scandal |
| June 10 - House Agrees to Restructure Ailing Home-Loan Program |
| June 10 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Panel Votes to Renew Numerous Social Programs |
| June 17 - Congress Is Moving to Relax Earnings Test for Seniors |
| June 17 - HUMAN SERVICES: Jobless-Tax Hike OK'd to Aid Poor |
| June 17 - New Investigations Launched As HUD Scandal Widens |
| June 17 - Partisan Lines Drawn in Senate As Child-Care Debate Opens |
| June 24 - Bush Outlines His Proposal For Volunteer Service |
| June 24 - Hatch: GOP's Child-Care Maverick |
| June 24 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Panel Votes Increases For WIC, Other Programs |
| June 24 - National-Service Bills Compared (chart) |
| June 24 - Senate's Child-Care Measure Would Broaden U.S. Role |
| June 24 - Social Security Changes OK'd By Full Committee in House |
| June 24 - TRANSPORTATION: Truck-Stop Drugs Targeted by Bill |
| July 1 - EDUCATION: Student-Aid Expansion Eyed As Rider to Bush's Plan |
| July 1 - Flag Burning, HUD Scandal Dominate Press Queries |
| July 1 - HUD Scandal Widens Further; Kemp Scraps One Program |
| July 1 - Lantos, Shays: A One-Two Punch |
| July 1 - Panel Approves Child-Care Bill After Rancorous Markup |
| July 1 - RECONCILIATION: Flood and Crime Insurance OK'd |
| July 1 - So, When Is Our Turn? |
| July 8 - Provisions: Senate Approves Tax Credits, Subsidies for Child Care |
| July 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel OKs Spending Increases For Housing, Environment |
| July 15 - Boosting Child Care |
| July 15 - Five HUD Programs Scrutinized |
| July 15 - HUD Scandal Prompts Panel To Halt a Key Program |
| July 15 - HUMAN SERVICES: Authorization OK'd For Nutrition Aid |
| July 15 - HUMAN SERVICES: House OKs Reauthorizations Of Volunteer Programs |
| July 15 - VETERANS: Agent Orange Compensation Approved by Senate Panel |
| July 15 - Witnesses Testify on HUD Scandal |
| July 22 - Carla Hills Defends Her Role; Ex-HUD Aide Takes Fifth |
| July 22 - Child-Care Initiative (chart) |
| July 22 - Fiscal 1990 HUD, VA, Agencies (chart) |
| July 22 - House OKs $65.1 Billion Bill For HUD, VA, Agencies |
| July 22 - Just One More Project, Please . . . |
| July 22 - Killing 'Mod-Rehab' With Kindness? |
| July 22 - Ways and Means Approves Major EITC Expansion |
| July 29 - Committee OKs $155.2 Billion For Health, Social Programs |
| July 29 - Demands for Justice Action Build In HUD Scandal |
| July 29 - Labor-HHS-Education Funding (chart) |
| July 29 - RECONCILIATION: Child-Care Bill Added to Package |
| August 5 - HUD's Ethics Program Draws Fire |
| August 5 - HUMAN SERVICES: VISTA, Related Renewal Bills OK'd by Senate Committee |
| August 5 - Human Services: WIC, Other Feeding Programs Renewed by House, Senate |
| August 5 - Proxmire Rues 'Fleece' That Fled |
| August 5 - Questions Mount in HUD Probe As Congress Takes a Break |
| August 5 - With Bush's Blessing, ADA Bill Sails Through Senate Panel |
| August 12 - Housing/Community Development |
| August 12 - Human Services |
| August 12 - SECTION NOTES: HUD Critic Morrison Requests Convening of Grand Jury |
| September 9 - Anti-Bias Measure for Disabled Is Passed by Senate, 76-8 |
| September 9 - Bush's Anti-Drug Campaign Emphasizes Enforcement |
| September 9 - HUMAN SERVICES: Child-Care Measure Edges Forward |
| September 16 - High-Price Areas (chart) |
| September 16 - High-Price States (chart) |
| September 16 - HR2916: HUD, VA, Agencies (chart) |
| September 16 - Labor-HHS Funding Measure Ready for Senate Action |
| September 16 - PROVISIONS: Senate-Passed Bill Prohibits Bias Against the Disabled |
| September 16 - SECTION NOTES: Pierce Is a No-Show At HUD Hearings |
| September 16 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Votes to Reauthorize Volunteer Programs |
| September 16 - VA-HUD Rider Would Increase FHA Mortgage-Loan Limit |
| September 23 - Bush: Conflicting Views |
| September 23 - Child-Care Plans at Odds |
| September 23 - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Flood-Insurance Bill Passed by House |
| September 23 - HOUSING: House Panel Subpoenas Pierce; Kemp Eyes HUD Reforms |
| September 23 - Labor-HHS Funding Measure Ready for Senate Passage (chart) |
| September 23 - Mikulski's 'Change Purse' (chart) |
| September 23 - Senate Votes to Raise Ceiling On FHA-Backed Mortgages |
| September 30 - At Least Once in the Reagan Era HUD Favors Came From the Very Top |
| September 30 - COMMITTEES: Rep. Hall to Head Panel on Hunger |
| September 30 - HOUSING: FHA Losses Complicate Bid To Raise Mortgage Limit |
| September 30 - HUMAN SERVICES: House Braced for Floor Fight Over Child-Care Proposals |
| September 30 - Pierce Cites 5th Amendment At House Panel Hearing |
| September 30 - SECTION NOTES: House Instructs Conferees On Labor-HHS Bill |
| October 7 - Governors Scramble Signals |
| October 7 - House Child-Care Proposals Survive Floor Challenges |
| October 7 - Kemp Outlines Reform Plan For Scandal-Ridden HUD |
| October 7 - SOCIAL SECURITY: Relaxation of Earnings Test OK'd by Senate Finance |
| October 7 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Senate Passes Benefits Bill, Opens Agent Orange Talks |
| October 14 - Both Chambers Seek to Renew Crime and Flood Insurance |
| October 14 - Fiscal 1990 Appropriations for Labor |
| October 14 - Government-Sponsored Enterprises |
| October 14 - HUMAN SERVICES: WIC, Other Feeding Programs Near Final Approval on Hill |
| October 14 - Kemp, Key Democrats on Hill Joust Over HUD Programs |
| October 14 - SECTION NOTES: Child-Abuse Measures Cleared for Bush |
| October 14 - SECTION NOTES: First House Panel Moves ADA Bill |
| October 21 - Help for Quake Victims |
| October 21 - Impasse Over Anti-Deficit Bill Snags Social Initiatives |
| October 21 - Increase in FHA Mortgage Cap Retained by Conferees |
| October 21 - Should Social Security Count When Deficit Is Weighed? |
| October 21 - Social Security Trust Funds (chart) |
| October 28 - 1990 Appropriations for VA, HUD, Agencies (chart) |
| October 28 - APPROPRIATIONS: Earmarks in HUD Funding Bill Survive Brickbats in House |
| October 28 - House Approves Entitlement For Japanese-Americans |
| October 28 - HOUSING: Pierce Again Cites Fifth Amendment |
| October 28 - SECTION NOTES: Flood, Crime Insurance Renewed by Congress |
| October 28 - SECTION NOTES: Gov. Kean to Head Panel On 'Points of Light' |
| October 28 - VA-HUD Funding Bill Retains Big Hike in FHA Loan Cap |
| November 4 - 'Mr. Housing' Bows Out |
| November 4 - D'Amato: Proud, Not Repentant |
| November 4 - DRUGS: House Approves Anti-Narcotics |
| November 4 - House Committee Opens Debate On HUD Program Renewals |
| November 4 - HOUSING: Inquiry Into HUD Scandal Entering New Stage |
| November 4 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Senate Panel Approves Renewal Of School Aid for Disabled |
| November 4 - PROVISIONS: Major Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized by Congress |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: VA-HUD Spending Bill Cleared for Bush |
| November 11 - HUMAN SERVICES: House-Senate Conferees Agree On New Child-Care Program |
| November 11 - In Turnabout, House Banking Advances HUD Reform Bill |
| November 11 - Kemp May Ignore Some Earmarks |
| November 18 - ADA Bill Approved by First Of Four House Committees |
| November 18 - DRUGS: Anti-Narcotics Funding Clears; Other Bills Near Completion |
| November 18 - HIGHLIGHTS: House OKs HUD 'Reform' Plan; Senate Proposal in Works |
| November 18 - HOUSING/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Bush Plan Echoes Reaganism, Disappoints Some on Hill |
| November 18 - HUD-Reform Bill Is Nearing Final Approval by Hill |
| November 18 - HUMAN SERVICES: Delay on Child-Care Measure Prompts Angry Criticism |
| November 25 - COMMUNICATIONS: New 'Dial-a-Porn' Language OK'd |
| November 25 - DRUGS: Bush Wins Andean Initiative; Two Narcotics Bills Falter |
| November 25 - HUD-Reform Package Clears On Edge of Adjournment |
| November 25 - HUMAN SERVICE: Renewal of Volunteer Programs Cleared for White House |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Damage-Claims Measure Cleared by Congress |
| December 2 - Kemp Targets Hill Earmarks In HUD's New Spending Bill |
| December 2 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Housing |
| December 2 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Human Services |
| December 9 - Former HUD Secretary Pierce May Face Special Prosecutor |
| December 9 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Social Security Benefit Checks Will Fall Short for Months |
| December 9 - PROVISIONS: HUD 'Reform' Package Ready For Bush Signature |
| December 16 - A Bundle of Veterans' Bills |
| December 30 - SECTION NOTES: Social Security Refunds Set for Four Months |
