 May 2 - Editor's Note |
| May 2 - 'Commuter Murder' Proposal Hits Snag |
| May 2 - PAST AS PROLOGUE: For IMF, It's Deja Vu -- All Over Again |
| May 2 - Town Struck Twice By Veto Pen Gets Money |
| May 2 - TURNING DOWN THE HEAT: Fundraising: A Kinder, Gentler Probe? |
| May 2 - What's Ahead |
| May 2 - Group Aims Its Ads -- Even If It Means Stealing Its Candidates' Show |
| May 2 - RNC Fighting Restrictions On Issue Ad Limits |
| May 2 - ENVIRONMENT: Law Sparks Another Round In Pesticides Battle |
| May 2 - EPA's Reversal on Herbicide Ban Sows Concern and Confusion |
| May 2 - FINANCE: One Firm's Litigation Habit Drives Hill's Search for a Cure |
| May 2 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Gingrich, Leading Attack on Clinton, Takes off Gloves, Goes out on Limb |
| May 2 - Thrust and Parry: Gingrich vs. Clinton |
| May 2 - An Infuriating Effectiveness |
| May 2 - Friends and Foes of Starr Probe Grow More at Ease With P-Word |
| May 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Disaster Aid Supplemental Enacted, Stripped of IMF and U.N. Provisions |
| May 2 - ELECTIONS: Tight Races for Goodling and Fox Test Influence of Ideology, Money |
| May 2 - ELECTIONS: GOP Battle in Oregon Centers on Which Candidate Is 'Conservative Enough' |
| May 2 - ELECTIONS: Arkansas Republicans Try To Further Erode Democratic Stronghold |
| May 2 - RETIREMENT: Solomon To Retire; Oklahoma Democrats Hope To Recapture Watkins' Seat |
| May 2 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Court Appears Ready To Send Line-Item Veto Power To the Chopping Block |
| May 2 - TAXES: Latest IRS Hearings Prompt Calls For Less Bashing, More Action |
| May 2 - EDUCATION: Deal on Student Loan Interest Rates Falters Over Offsetting Cuts, Veto Threat |
| May 2 - EDUCATION: Republicans Send D.C. Voucher Program To Certain Clinton Veto |
| May 2 - SOCIAL POLICY: Fearing Election-Year Rhetoric, House Moves To Avoid Specifics On Social Security Until Next Year |
| May 2 - TRANSPORTATION: As Money Runs Out for Road Projects, Conferees Struggle Over Painful Choices |
| May 2 - Industries Choose Sides in Battle To Kill Ethanol Subsidy |
| May 2 - Correction |
| May 2 - REGULATION: Critics Warn of Black Market Despite Efforts To Include Safeguards in Tobacco Bill |
| May 2 - Tobacco Foes Look for Support |
| May 2 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Immigration Bill's Fine Print Sends Industry Into High-Tech Turmoil |
| May 2 - FINANCE: Loophole Fix Would Move Class-Action Securities Lawsuits From State to Federal Courts |
| May 2 - FINANCE: Credit Union Bill Survives Scuffles In Senate Banking |
| May 2 - HEALTH: GOP Moves To Bar Funds For Needle Programs, Offers Anti-Drug Proposals |
| May 2 - Correction |
| May 2 - TECHNOLOGY: Digital Copyright Draft Bill Gets Boost From Intense Senate Panel Negotiations |
| May 2 - FCC Plans To Toughen Stance On Phone 'Slamming' |
| May 2 - House Panel Votes To Subpoena Former Gore Aide |
| May 2 - Sen. Bennett To Lead Panel on 'Year 2000' Glitch |
| May 2 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: West Confirmed By Senate To Head VA |
| May 2 - House Votes for Ban on Sale Of Rhino, Tiger Products |
| May 2 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Senate Approves Three Nations For Membership in NATO |
| May 2 - Waiting in the Wings |
| May 2 - DEFENSE: House Panel Votes To Force Greater Segregation of Sexes In Military's Basic Training |
| May 2 - FOREIGN POLICY: Clinton Uncaps Veto Pen As State Department Bill Clears |
| May 2 - FOREIGN POLICY: Clinton and Other Critics Make Headway Against Religious Persecution Bill |
| May 2 - House Committee Approves Intelligence Authorization Bill |
| May 2 - Panel Would Search Records For Holocaust Victims' Assets |
| May 2 - Pentagon May Try to Identify Vet Buried in Tomb of Unknowns |
| May 2 - Albright Certifies Ukraine Eligible To Receive Rest of Aid |
| May 2 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
| May 9 - COMMERCE: Fact of Fear: Seeking Truth in the Tobacco Liability Debate |
| May 9 - From the Editor |
| May 9 - Appropriators Getting Antsy for Work |
| May 9 - FOLLOW-UP: Here's One Bill Gingrich Wants No Part Of |
| May 9 - Democrats Serve Up School Lunch Fight |
| May 9 - PROGNOSIS: Few Are Betting Money On Banking Overhaul |
| May 9 - What's Ahead |
| May 9 - Tobacco Liability Proposals |
| May 9 - POLITICS: Trial Lawyers Take Skills From Court to Campaigns |
| May 9 - Road Bill Conferees May Grab Money From Ill Veterans Who Smoked |
| May 9 - The Religious Right's Foreign Policy Revival |
| May 9 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Hubbell Tapes Imbroglio Puts GOP Finance Probe on the Defensive |
| May 9 - The Webster Hubbell Tapes: Comparing Versions |
| May 9 - Burton's Blunders |
| May 9 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Agreement on Judgeships No Guarantee Of Quick Confirmations |
| May 9 - THE BUDGET: As Kasich Trolls for Votes, Appropriators Dust Off Plan B |
| May 9 - POLITICS: Campaign Finance Issue Could Be Key to Expensive Kentucky Battle |
| May 9 - POLITICS: Leading GOP Contender For Idaho's 2nd District Says No to Term Limits |
| May 9 - IRS Overhaul Wins Big in Senate Despite Democrats' Cost Concerns |
| May 9 - House and Senate IRS Overhaul Bills Propose More Oversight, Add Rights |
| May 9 - TECHNOLOGY: Bill May Curb Internet Use By Pedophiles |
| May 9 - EDUCATION: Higher Education Reauthorization Gets the Go-Ahead From House |
| May 9 - TRANSPORTATION: Clinton Administration Sets Conferees in Motion With a Road Plan of Its Own |
| May 9 - HEALTH: Rep. Norwood's Persistence, Democratic Pressure Keep Focus on Managed Care |
| May 9 - SOCIAL POLICY: Bill To Extend SSI Benefits for Disabled OK'd |
| May 9 - SOCIAL POLICY: Vocational Programs Will Be Biggest Hurdle as Conferees Take Up Job Training Bill |
| May 9 - SCIENCE: Space Station Backers Warn NASA To Bring Costs Down to Earth |
| May 9 - TECHNOLOGY: Satellite Organization Pins Hopes on Senate To Stop Privatization Bill |
| May 9 - DEFENSE: Basic Training, Base Closings May Dominate Defense Debate |
| May 9 - Cohen Orders Exhumation of 'Unknown' Vietnam Veteran |
| May 9 - DEFENSE: Intelligence Bills Target New Threats |
| May 9 - U.N. Ambassador in Line for Energy Secretary's Post |
| May 9 - Chart: Primary Results |
| May 9 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
| May 16 - A 'War Widow' Who Never Wed Gave Birth to the Marriage Penalty |
| May 16 - PLAYERS: 'Senator No' Stays Quiet -- Perhaps Too Quiet |
| May 16 - PROCESS: Today's Tax Term |
| May 16 - This Week in Congress |
| May 16 - TRANSPORTATION: America Hits the Highways, And Congress Must Navigate |
| May 16 - Conferees Trim Bill, Near Agreement, But Clinton Still Threatens Veto |
| May 16 - From The Editor |
| May 16 - Mass Transit in Growth Mode |
| May 16 - HEALTH: Nutrition Program's Tempest in a Cereal Bowl |
| May 16 - ENVIRONMENT: Maelstrom of Opposition Hurts 'Heritage Rivers' Plan |
| May 16 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Dueling Campaign Finance Bills Threaten Overhaul's Chances |
| May 16 - Comparison of Campaign Finance Bills |
| May 16 - Teachers' Union Learns Harsh Lesson On Mixing Dues With Politics |
| May 16 - The Elusive Eight Votes |
| May 16 - ELECTIONS: Breaux, Tauzin Aim To Regain Open Primary |
| May 16 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: House GOP Struggles To Salvage Campaign Finance Probe |
| May 16 - Thomas: Unfalteringly Loyal |
| May 16 - BUDGET: Kasich Drops Specific Cuts After Appropriators, Senate Flay His $100 Billion Plan |
| May 16 - ELECTIONS: Several Races Could Heat Up, But Status Quo Should Prevail In New Jersey |
| May 16 - POLITICS: Iowa Candidates' Coffers Swell As Presidential Hopefuls Crowd In on the Way to 2000 |
| May 16 - ELECTIONS: Alabama, Mississippi Democrats Hope To Stem Rising GOP Tide |
| May 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriators Embark on Punishing Year |
| May 16 - BANKING & FINANCE: Financial Services Overhaul Squeaks By in House |
| May 16 - BANKING & FINANCE: Bankruptcy Bill Would Make Erasing Debt Tougher for Consumers |
| May 16 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Growing Ranks of Cigarette Tax Critics Invigorate Big Tobacco's Lobbying Effort |
| May 16 - Tobacco Legislation's Rapid Pace Emboldens Backers, Confounds Foes |
| May 16 - HEALTH: Senate Democrats Want Broad Managed Care Measure, While House Discussions Continue |
| May 16 - BANKING & FINANCE: Senate Passes Bill To Move Class Action Securities Suits From State Courts to Federal |
| May 16 - ENVIRONMENT: New Mexico Site Ready for Nuclear Waste |
| May 16 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: Vets' Care Gets Boost From Medicare Bill |
| May 16 - REGULATIONS: As Government Delays Action, Hatch Leads Microsoft's Critics In Urging Antitrust Scrutiny |
| May 16 - TECHNOLOGY: States Get Study of Sales Taxes, On-line Industry Gets Moratorium In Internet Agreement |
| May 16 - Committee Approves Bill to Ease Licensing for Inventions |
| May 16 - House Passes Tougher Penalties For Neglecting Child Support |
| May 16 - Senate Passes Bill to Protect Digital Copyrights |
| May 16 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: India's Nuclear Detonations Rattle Clinton's Arms Control Strategy |
| May 16 - Ammunition for Senate Debate |
| May 16 - U.S. Companies Brace for Fallout From Trade Curbs Against India |
| May 16 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Warmer U.S.-Iranian Relations Get Cold Shoulder in Congress |
| May 16 - 18 Years of Punishment |
| May 16 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Religious Persecution Bill Passes House by Strong Margin |
| May 16 - DEFENSE: Senators Seek Compromise With Administration On Bosnia Deployment |
| May 16 - Debate on China Policy Heats Up as Clinton Trip Impends |
| May 16 - Helms Offers Cuba Aid Bill, Seeking To Put Onus on Castro |
| May 16 - Primary Results |
| May 16 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
| May 23 - From the Editor |
| May 23 - 105th Congress -- 2nd Session |
| May 23 - PLAYERS: Cox: Turning to an Old China Hand |
| May 23 - Reps May Nix Clicks' Dirty Tricks |
| May 23 - A Bitter Bluegrass Feud |
| May 23 - ANATOMY OF A VOTE: Gingrich the Whip Saves Financial Services Bill |
| May 23 - PAST AS PROLOGUE: Voting in the Dark |
| May 23 - POLITICS: All in a Day's Battle: McCain, the Eager Warrior |
| May 23 - REGULATION: Defeat of Liability Limits Hits Tobacco Bill Hard |
| May 23 - FOREIGN POLICY: As the Dust Settles in India, U.S. Rethinks Nuclear Policy |
| May 23 - The Spread of Nuclear Weapons |
| May 23 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Changing Demographics Keep Orange County in Play |
| May 23 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: White House's China Missile Scandal Energizes GOP, Subdues Democrats |
| May 23 - Top Individual Campaign Donor Is a Familiar Figure in Washington |
| May 23 - ESSAY: Neither Statesmanship nor Partisanship Seems To Trump a Beguiling Smile |
| May 23 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Supporters of Campaign Finance Overhaul Grow Wary as House GOP Leaders Signal a Summer of Protracted Debate |
| May 23 - BUDGET: Kasich's Moderated Spending Cut Drive Faces GOP Disunity, Democratic Scorn |
| May 23 - ELECTIONS: Brady Wins Pennsylvania's Special Election |
| May 23 - New Member Profile: Robert A. Brady, D-Pa. (1) |
| May 23 - POLITICS: Opportunity for Democrats To Regain Majority Begins With New Mexico Election |
| May 23 - CORRECTION: TRIAL LAWYERS |
| May 23 - POLITICS: North Carolina Redistricting Plan Advances |
| May 23 - TRANSPORTATION: Congress Clears Huge Transportation Bill, Restoring Cut-Off Funding to States |
| May 23 - Highlights: How the Bill Would Affect Drivers, Mass Transit Passengers |
| May 23 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Shortage of Skilled Workers Fuels Immigration Bills |
| May 23 - FINANCE: Bankruptcy Bill Wins Bipartisan Approval, But Coalition Shows Signs of Weakness |
| May 23 - INDUSTRY & REGULATION: Microsoft Lawsuits Leave Lawmakers Divided Over Continued Hearings |
| May 23 - LAW & JUDICIARY: House-Passed Measure Would Punish Misuse Of Data Collections |
| May 23 - SOCIAL POLICY: Congress Gives Moderate Response To Panel's Push for Privatization Of Social Security Overhaul |
| May 23 - ABORTION: Testimony by Parents Gives an Emotional Edge to Hearings on Abortion Bills |
| May 23 - EDUCATION: House Panel Rewrites Bilingual Education, Looks For Compromise on Child Nutrition |
| May 23 - HEALTH: Gingrich to GOP Task Force: Better Managed Care Without Over-Regulation |
| May 23 - SOCIAL POLICY: Agriculture Reauthorization Fizzles As House Republicans Split Over Food Stamps for Immigrants |
| May 23 - Clinton Vetoes Voucher Measure For D.C. Schoolchildren |
| May 23 - House Passes Limits on Judges' Influence in State Prisons |
| May 23 - House Passes Reauthorization Of Customs Service |
| May 23 - Lawmakers Add Student Loan Interest Rate Fix to Transit Bill |
| May 23 - Senate Judiciary Approves Fletcher Nomination |
| May 23 - FOREIGN POLICY: Parties Agree on Need To Probe Clinton's Export Waiver for China |
| May 23 - DEFENSE: House Votes To Ban Launch Of U.S. Satellites by China, Then Passes Defense Bill |
| May 23 - TECHNOLOGY: Alarm but No Answers At Senate Hearing on Threats To Nation's Computer Networks |
| May 23 - FOREIGN POLICY: Senate Defies Veto Threat, Votes To Impose Sanctions on Aid to Iran's Missile Program |
| May 23 - Primary Results |
| May 23 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
| May 30 - From the Editor |
| May 30 - What's Happening in the House |
| May 30 - Unsafe Food Sparks Outbreaks Of Concern, Little Action |
| May 30 - Battles Over Jurisdiction Likely To Keep Congress From Merging Food Agencies |
| May 30 - AGRICULTURE: Congress Turns to Problem Of Animal-Waste Pollution |
| May 30 - Farmers Stung by Regulations |
| May 30 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: The GOP's House Divided: Social Activists vs. Business |
| May 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Again Prepares To Clash With Clinton As Arduous Appropriations Season Begins |
| May 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Legislative Gridlock Taking Its Toll On Strategic Planning for Federal Programs |
| May 30 - The Year Congress Passed the Buck On Defense Funds |
| May 30 - POLITICS: South Carolina's Heated Senate Race Pits the Old Against the New |
| May 30 - Conservative Icon: Goldwater's Legacy Echoes Throughout the Country |
| May 30 - Parents Want Expanded Ratings Information on TV, Survey Says |
| May 30 - Testimony Privilege Extends to Town Hall Meetings |
| May 30 - AGRICULTURE: Economic Slump Leaves Farmers Disgruntled With Congress, '96 Farm Law |
| May 30 - In Kentucky, No Unified Voice On Tobacco Farmers' Future |
| May 30 - TRANSPORTATION: Senators Pile On the Take-Home Projects After Coaxing House To Reduce Its List |
| May 30 - FOREIGN POLICY: Hill Inaction on Export Controls Left Decisions in Clinton's Hands |
| May 30 - Correction |
| May 30 - FOREIGN POLICY: Gingrich Ignites War of Words With Attacks on U.S. Policy During Visit to Israel |
| May 30 - Primary Results |
