June 6 - From the Editor |
June 6 - PAST AS PROLOGUE: A 'Do-Nothing' Congress Takes a Lot Of Doing, by Historical Standards |
June 6 - Recusal on Tobacco A Sweet Deal |
June 6 - Teaming Up Against Hoekstra |
June 6 - INSIDE CONGRESS: Harvard Goes Republican To Lure Congress |
June 6 - What's Ahead |
June 6 - SCIENCE: Lost in Space: NASA's Quest For a New Direction |
June 6 - Kudos and Some Criticism for Goldin |
June 6 - Touring the Stars |
June 6 - Space Troopers? |
June 6 - Competition Worries 'Space Coast' |
June 6 - A 'Clueless' Hill? |
June 6 - TAXES: Critics Say Hill May Overstep In Pressuring IRS To Ease Up |
June 6 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: D'Amato: A Streetfighter Prepares for Battle |
June 6 - Art of the Filibuster |
June 6 - BUDGET: House Budget Resolution Wins Passage But No Real Vote of GOP Confidence |
June 6 - Authorizers Balk at Herculean Task Of Finding Kasich His Savings |
June 6 - POLITICS: GOP Tiptoes Around Contradictions In Blasting Clinton's Actions on China |
June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Approves Legislative Branch Funds With Little Discussion |
June 6 - ETHICS: Gingrich Pays Fine's Second Installment |
June 6 - EDUCATION: Skepticism Over Bilingual Education Yields Bill To Give Power to States |
June 6 - TRANSPORTATION: Rockefeller Vows To Save Veterans' Benefits, Forcing Slowdown of Highway Bill |
June 6 - REGULATION: Tobacco Foes Hope Loaded Bill Will Be Hard To Say 'No' To |
June 6 - HEALTH: Managed-Care Task Force's Tensions Burst Into View |
June 6 - LAW & JUDICIARY: With Barely a Prayer of Ratification, Religious Freedom Amendment Opens Perennial Election-Year Debate |
June 6 - BANKING: Donations To Be Shielded From Creditors |
June 6 - CORRECTION |
June 6 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Clears Agriculture Bill, Restoring Food Stamps To Legal Immigrants |
June 6 - SOCIAL POLICY: Years of Belt-Tightening May Be Coming to an End For Child Nutrition Programs |
June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Defying Administration, Panel Boosts Water Spending, Criticizes Nuclear Regulation |
June 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Nevada Waste Site Defeated In Election-Year Tussle Over Reid's Senate Seat |
June 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Fresh Focus on Global Warming Does Not Dispel Doubts About Kyoto Treaty's Future |
June 6 - FCC May Vote On Internet Subsidy |
June 6 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Clinton Again Pushes Method For Census |
June 6 - Commission To Seek Assets Stolen From Holocaust Victims |
June 6 - HEALTH: House Eases Return to Jobs For Disabled |
June 6 - Medicare Commission Debates Long-Term Strategies |
June 6 - Report Gives Failing Grades On Federal Year 2000 Fix |
June 6 - Bill Would Ensure Treatment For Vets Exposed to Toxics |
June 6 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: U.S. Intelligence Takes the Heat For Dim Insight on Nuclear Proliferation |
June 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committees Flout Clinton's Plea For 'Emergency' Bosnia Funds |
June 6 - Drawing a Line on Bosnia |
June 6 - Primary Results |
June 6 - Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 (as of June 5, 1998) |
June 6 - Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
June 13 - From the Editor |
June 13 - Flag-Waving: Congress' Summertime Ritual |
June 13 - LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY: How a Bill Becomes Law |
June 13 - LETTER OF THE LAW: Supporters Fear Statute Actually May Be Enforced |
June 13 - This Week in Congress |
June 13 - COMMERCE: Private Enterprise With Official Advantages |
June 13 - Mandates and Money |
June 13 - How Fannie Mae Wins Friends And Protects Its Business |
June 13 - Adventures in Privatization |
June 13 - TECHNOLOGY: Mixed Signals in the Debate Over Encryption Technology |
June 13 - TRANSPORTATION: Highway Law Benefits Those Who Held the Purse Strings |
June 13 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Missouri Democrat's Senate Drive Is Clouded by Desegregation Case |
June 13 - Gephardt's Dilemma |
June 13 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Parties' Suit Over Issue Ads Shapes Up as a Key Test Of Campaign Finance Rules |
June 13 - BUDGET: GOP Leaders Face Factional War As Conservative Senators Back House-Passed Tax Cuts |
June 13 - ETHICS: Measure DOA, But Debate Quite Lively |
June 13 - POLITICS & ELECTIONS: Democrats Focus Efforts On Utah's 2nd |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: CBO, Consultants and Cemetery Enliven Subcommittee Debate Over House Budget Increase |
June 13 - House Ethics Panel To Rein In Probe of Shuster |
June 13 - House Select Panel Slow To Begin China Inquiry |
June 13 - Rep. Corrine Brown Criticized Over Report of Gift to Daughter |
June 13 - REGULATION: Tobacco Debate Rages On, Keeping Bill Alive, If Unwieldy |
June 13 - Anti-Drug Provisions Added |
June 13 - CORRECTION: Tobacco |
June 13 - BANKING & FINANCE: House-Passed Bankruptcy Rewrite Demands More From Debtors |
June 13 - BANKING & FINANCE: House Backs Holocaust Commission |
June 13 - TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATIONS: FCC Votes To Shrink Internet Subsidies Program; Two Bills Would Shift Costs |
June 13 - EDUCATION: Conferees Hope Compromise Wins Democratic Support For Education Savings Accounts |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: VA-HUD Spending Measure Becomes Conservatives' Vehicle For Critiquing Kyoto Treaty |
June 13 - COMMERCE: Senate's Product Liability Deal Has Strong Prospects For Avoiding Clinton Veto |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Treasury-Postal Bill Would Defer Hill Pay Raise, Limit FEC Officials' Terms |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Bill Liquidates Funding For Tennessee Valley Authority, But Senate Solidifies Its Stance |
June 13 - Chart: Energy-Water Development Spending |
June 13 - HEALTH: Managed-Care Task Force Tries To Regroup After Outbreak of Ill Feelings |
June 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Spending Bill Gets Fast Committee Approval, But Floor Fights Are Likely |
June 13 - ABORTION: Bill Bolsters States' Parental Consent Laws |
June 13 - FINANCE: Panel Acts On Class-Action Securities Suits |
June 13 - Arguments Begin in Court Fight Over Statistical Sampling |
June 13 - House Bill Would End Overtime Pay for Some Salespeople |
June 13 - House Committee Approves Bills To Fight Drug Money Laundering |
June 13 - House Judiciary Panel Approves INS Enforcement Bill |
June 13 - Negotiators Hopeful Private Talks Will Settle IRS Overhaul Bill |
June 13 - House Measure Boosts Penalties For Internet Predators |
June 13 - DEFENSE: Pentagon's Simulated Attacks On Computers Succeed Too Well |
June 13 - DEFENSE: Defense Debate Will Focus On Bosnia, Basic Training |
June 13 - Sex-Integrated Training Retained |
June 13 - DEFENSE: Reluctant White House Urged To Send Troops To Province of Kosovo |
June 13 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Sanctions on Missile Aid To Iran Are Cleared By a Veto-Proof Margin |
June 13 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Kim Urges End To Sanctions on North Korea |
June 13 - Military Construction Bill Advances |
June 13 - Chart: Primary Results |
June 13 - Chart: Status of Appropriations FY99 |
June 13 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |
June 20 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Indicting the Courts: Congress' Feud With Judges |
June 20 - From the Editor |
June 20 - Appropriators to Pentagon: Accept Miami Digs or Move 'Em Out |
June 20 - Regula's Last Word on Park Plumbing |
June 20 - Ashcroft Buddies Up to Lott -- For Now |
June 20 - What's Ahead |
June 20 - From Reagan to Clinton, Interest Groups Refocus |
June 20 - A Gallery of Controversial Judges |
June 20 - REGULATION: Amendments and Ads Bury 'Inviolable' Tobacco Bill |
June 20 - Speaking of Tobacco |
June 20 - BUDGET: Hill Budget Office's Caution Creates Surplus of Skepticism |
June 20 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Despite Tougher Ethics Rules, Privately Funded Trips Flourish |
June 20 - Who Went Where, at Whose Expense |
June 20 - TAXES: Resounding Votes for a Tax Cut May Amount to Little This Year |
June 20 - TAXES: House Vote To Revoke Tax Code, Though Largely Symbolic, May Foreshadow Pitched Battles |
June 20 - Momentum for November Begins in New Mexico; Oklahoma GOP Gets Relief |
June 20 - ETHICS: House Members Remain In the Dark About Progress of Starr Probe |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: CBO Gets Vote of Confidence As Legislative Branch Bill Is Sent to House Floor |
June 20 - Chart: Legislative Branch Spending |
June 20 - ETHICS: Campaign Finance Proposal Survives a Key Vote As House Debate Continues |
June 20 - Insults Fly In Alabama's GOP Runoff |
June 20 - HEALTH: Lawmakers Undecided on Taking Lives Into Congress' Hands |
June 20 - HEALTH: House Task Force Members Report Progress on Bill To Overhaul Managed Care |
June 20 - EDUCATION: House Comes Up Short in Vote For Tuition Savings Accounts; Presidential Veto Expected |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Approves Agriculture Bill Despite Dairy Policy Dispute |
June 20 - Embargo Exemption Approved |
June 20 - Chart: Agriculture Spending |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Renewable Energy a Winner As Senate Easily Passes Energy and Water Bill |
June 20 - Chart: Energy-Water Development Spending |
June 20 - TECHNOLOGY: Satellite TV Bill Wins Panel Approval |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Budget Hawks Fight Effort To Skirt Budget Caps for Year 2000 Computer Fix |
June 20 - TRANSPORTATION: Shuster Says He Did Not Design Highway Legislation To Benefit His Family |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel Zips Through Interior Bill, Leaving Tough Questions Such as NEA for Full House |
June 20 - TECHNOLOGY: Internet Tax Ban Advances, Including Plan To Study Levies on Out-of-State Sales |
June 20 - TECHNOLOGY: Copyright Protection Bill Advances; Talks Continue On Encryption Issues |
June 20 - ABORTION: Emotions Flare In House Over Abortion Bill |
June 20 - Flag Protection Amendment Advances |
June 20 - ENERGY: Legislation To Update Oil Royalties System Produces Widely Divergent Dollar Figures |
June 20 - TRANSPORTATION: Debate on Airline Competition Lies Ahead as Panel Approves Bill To Aid Small Communities |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bid To Raise Mortgage Limit Proves To Be a Sticky Issue For House VA-HUD Panel |
June 20 - Clinton Expected To Sign Holocaust Assets Bill |
June 20 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Hill's Probes of Dealings With China Unlikely To Alter Basic Relationship |
June 20 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Albright's Overtures to Iran, Request for Overseas Spending Are Met Coolly in Congress |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Funds for Pentagon Computers Are Stripped From House Bill; Bosnia Money Also Omitted |
June 20 - Chart: Defense Spending |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Leaders' States Fare Best As House Panel Doles Out Military Construction Money |
June 20 - Chart: Military Construction Spending |
June 20 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Delay Seen For Religious Persecution Bill |
June 20 - NOMINATIONS: Clinton Shifts Richardson, Holbrooke |
June 20 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
June 20 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation, 105th Congress -- Second Session |
June 27 - From the Editor |
June 27 - 'TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS': As Chairman Archer Sees It, A Tax Break Is No Mistake |
June 27 - Clinton's China Syndrome |
June 27 - PLAYERS: A Mellowing Neumann, Picking His Fights |
June 27 - What's Ahead? Nov. 3 |
June 27 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Soft Money Speaks Loudly On Capitol Hill This Season |
June 27 - The Essential Middleman When Planning a Grand Old Party |
June 27 - EDUCATION: Head Start Is Growing, But Is It Improving? |
June 27 - Riggs Intends To Get His Head Start Before His Big Finish |
June 27 - BUDGET: Few in Congress Grieve as Justices Give Line-Item Veto the Ax |
June 27 - Excerpts From the Opinions |
June 27 - CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Burton Panel Breaks Impasse, Immunizes Four |
June 27 - TAXES: Republicans Set Their Sights On Further Reduction In Capital Gains Tax Rate |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Preserves Special Fund for Future Probes |
June 27 - POLITICS: Judges Approve North Carolina Redistricting |
June 27 - Heather Wilson, R-N.M. (1) |
June 27 - HEALTH: GOP Tries To Claim Middle Ground With Managed Care Overhaul Plan |
June 27 - GOP's Health Care Details |
June 27 - TAXES: IRS Overhaul Passes House On Way to Speedy Enactment |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: GOP Throws Down Gauntlet, Rejecting Clinton's Agenda In House Labor-HHS Bill |
June 27 - REGULATION: Democrats and Republicans Compete To Develop Passable Tobacco Legislation |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Anti-Abortion Amendment Rides Through the House On Agriculture Spending Bill |
June 27 - TRANSPORTATION: House Panel Casts Its Vote for Competition But Hands Major Airlines a Setback |
June 27 - She Who Shuns the Senate |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Parties Join To Oppose Treasury Bill |
June 27 - EDUCATION: Education Savings Account Bill Clears Senate by Too Few Votes To Override an Expected Veto |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Battles Over Kyoto Treaty May Delay House Action On VA-HUD Spending Bill |
June 27 - Dismayed Members Ask Clinton For Direction on Space Station |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Clinton Raises the Stakes In Dispute With Republicans Over Census-Taking Method |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: WIC Plan OK'd With Measures To Curb Fraud |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Bill Includes Funding For Arts, Despite GOP Efforts To Avoid Controversial Issue |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Management of Recreation Area At Center of Larger Struggle Over Funding for TVA |
June 27 - JUDICIARY: Doubts Linger As Securities Fraud Bill OK'd |
June 27 - JUSTICE: House Passes Rare Justice Authorization |
June 27 - ABORTION: Panel Approves Out-of-State Abortion Curb |
June 27 - TECHNOLOGY: More Fighting To Come Over Internet Taxes |
June 27 - Correction: Sessions Nomination |
June 27 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Flag Protection Amendment Backers Prepare to Unfurl Drive for Senate Approval |
June 27 - Bill on Medical Device Liability Heads to House |
June 27 - Commerce Panel Votes To Delay Higher Satellite TV Fees |
June 27 - Senate Panel Votes To Expand Laws on Bribery |
June 27 - Senate Passes Authorization For Intelligence Activities |
June 27 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Business May Soon Be Taking Off For U.S. Satellite Launch Companies |
June 27 - China's MFN Status Backed |
June 27 - DEFENSE: Democrats Parry GOP Thrusts On China Policy, Bosnia Mission |
June 27 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Petro-Politics Greases the Way For a Different U.S. Approach To Nagorno-Karabakh Dispute |
June 27 - WORLD VIEW: House Funds Military Projects In Key Members' Districts, Deletes Money for Bosnia |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Military Construction Bill Passes |
June 27 - Correction: China Select Committee |
June 27 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Clinton Vetoes Sanctions on Iran Missile Aid |
June 27 - TRADE: Pointing to Farmers' Plight, Gingrich Plans a New Vote On Fast-Track Legislation |
June 27 - What the IRS Bill Does |
June 27 - Primary Results |
June 27 - Chart: Status of Appropriations Fiscal 1999 |
June 27 - Chart: Status of Major Legislation 105th Congress -- Second Session |