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January 12 - Finessing Workers' Worries

January 12 - Recess Appointments by Bush For Conservatives Reich, Scalia

January 12 - Security the Emerging Theme Of Election Year Issues

January 19 - Amtrak Report Presents Congress With Familiar, Tough Choices

January 26 - Economic Downturn May Thwart Welfare Bill Aiming to Reduce Poverty As Lawmakers Lean Toward Status Quo

February 2 - Gephardt Urges More Protections For Workers and Pensioners, Pushes for Campaign Finance Overhaul

February 9 - Death of a Stimulus Bill

February 9 - Enron Inquiry Likely to Be Broader Than Response

February 9 - Fast-Track Bill Threatened By Partisan Disagreement Over Displaced Workers

February 9 - Parsing the Assumptions

February 16 - Business Groups Worry Pension Overhaul Following Enron Demise Could Go Too Far

February 16 - Unemployment Benefits Become Political Football for Hill Republicans

February 23 - 'Return Letters': Thumbs Down From the Director's Office

February 23 - Candidates for Review: OIRA's 2002 Priorities

February 23 - Regulating the Rule-Makers: John Graham at OIRA

March 2 - Bush's Bipartisan Welfare Proposal Paves Way for Congressional Action

March 2 - Bush's Decision on Steel Tariffs May Reheat Fast-Track Debate

March 2 - Committee Pushes for Speed On Unemployment Bill

March 2 - House Narrows Stimulus Agenda As Unemployment Benefits Run Out

March 9 - Bush Breaks With Position, Moves to Protect Steel Industry

March 9 - Setting Rules for 401(k) Plans

March 9 - Unemployment Benefits Provide Catalyst to Pass Recovery Bill

March 9 - Weaving a Deal on Fast Track

March 16 - Pension Overhaul Legislation Approved by House Ways and Means In Fight to Control the Issue

March 23 - Analysts See a Seismic Shift In Health Policy Debate

March 23 - Disparate Tacks on Pension Rewrite Highlight Struggle for Control

March 30 - Bush Steel Tariffs Bite Back

March 30 - Fast Track Losing Support in House As Last Year's Backers Reconsider

March 30 - High-Tech Lobbyists Rally Around Efforts to Scuttle Stock Options Tax Changes

March 30 - Stock Options Primer

April 6 - Quick Resolution of Pension Protection Appears Unlikely as House Chairmen Square Off on Jurisdiction, Enforcement

April 13 - Brief small heds Prison Factories Get Worked Over on Hill

April 13 - Senate Unlikely to Treat Pension Changes With Bipartisan Ease of the House

April 13 - Wilderness Drilling Still in Limbo After Senate's Fourth Week of Debate

April 20 - Prison Bill Creates Unusual Alliances

April 20 - Wilderness Drilling Defeat Results in Cropped Energy Bill

April 27 - Benefits for Displaced Workers Considered Essential in Negotiations To Pass Fast-Track Authority

April 27 - GOP Supporters Help Gay Rights Bill Gain Passage in Senate Committee, But Considerable Opposition Remains

April 27 - House Committee Approves Bill That Would Halt Preferential Treatment For Prisons in Federal Purchases

May 4 - Fast-Track Legislation Could Be Another Weapon in War on Terror

May 4 - Senate Changes to Fast-Track Bill Could Hurt Long-Term Prospects

May 11 - Amtrak Chugs Into Another Fiscal Year With a Less-Than-Certain Future

May 11 - Democrats Use Trade Measure To Expand Help for Displaced Workers

May 11 - One Senate Deal on Fast Track Leaves Other Avenues for Debate

May 18 - Clean Water Bill Latest Example Of Jeffords' Difficulty in Gathering Bipartisan Support on Environment

May 18 - Concessions on Both Sides Leave No One Entirely Satisfied With Trade Bill

May 18 - Depression-Era Wage Law Threatens Water Pollution Bill

May 18 - Transportation Security Bills Bogged Down by Turf Battles

May 25 - Democrats Keep One Eye on Trade, Other on Future Presidential Runs

May 25 - GOP Hopes for Fast-Track Fixes As Trade Bill Goes to Conference

May 25 - House May Circumvent Administration And Advance Measure to Allow Pilots To Carry Firearms on Airplanes

June 8 - Early Friction For Conference On Fast Track

June 8 - Tying Minimum Wage to Tax Breaks

June 15 - Labor, HHS, Education: New Focus Includes Bio-Terror Readiness

June 15 - New Focus Includes Bio-Terror Readiness

June 15 - Security Plan Gets Solid Backing But No Rubber Stamps on Hill

June 22 - Plan to Arm Pilots Moves To Committee

June 22 - Tax Relief Bills: House 6, Senate 0

June 22 - Thomas' Fast-Track Strategy Proves Tough Sell to GOP, Critical Democratic Supporters

June 29 - Congress Making Very Public Play To Invoke 'Corporate Responsibility'

June 29 - Rank and File Barely on Board As House Details Its Positions For Trade Bill Conference

July 6 - For Feinstein, Anti-Discrimination In Hiring Begins With the Senate

July 13 - Democrats Baucus and Kennedy Vie for Pension Plan Bill Support

July 20 - House Homeland Security Bill Bends Strongly Bush's Way

July 20 - Key Issues of Security Debate

July 20 - Labor-HHS Spending Bill Glides Through Senate Panel, But Conflict Looms

July 27 - Homeland Security's Big Hurdle: Ceding Power to White House

August 3 - Work Rules Throw Wrench In Homeland Security Bill

August 10 - Graham's Influence Felt

August 10 - Provisions of Port Security Bill

August 10 - Provisions of the Trade Bill

August 31 - Congress Changing Tone Of Homeland Security Debate

August 31 - White House Hopes to Take Hard Line On Labor, Health and Education Spending

September 7 - Workers' Rights Issues Looming Over Homeland Security Debate

September 14 - Baucus, Grassley Take New Approach To Small-Business Tax Breaks

September 14 - EU Threat of Punitive Tariffs Forces Congress to Act on Taxes

September 14 - Other Disputed Issues

September 14 - Senators Band Together to Reconcile Labor Rules and Homeland Security

September 14 - Union Priorities Get Short Shrift In Press to Move Senate Pension Bill

September 21 - Chafee Holds Key to Decision on Union Rights for Homeland Staff

September 21 - Stall of Key Tax, Economic Measures May Have Cost Senate Democrats One of Their Best Campaign Weapons

September 28 - Loan Incentive for Teachers Set for House Floor Action

September 28 - Personnel Differences for Homeland Security Plan

September 28 - Personnel Issues Have Senate Stumbling on Homeland Security

October 5 - Moderates Vow to Keep Working On Homeland Security Deal

October 5 - Punitive Damages Issue Leaves Terrorism Insurance Bill Teetering

October 12 - Armed-Pilots Bill Bogged Down

October 12 - Homeland Security Department Adrift in Appropriations Doldrums

October 12 - Senate Aviation Security Bill Offers Minimal Aid to Airlines

October 19 - Senate's Failure to Resolve Personnel Management Issue Stalls Homeland Security Bill

November 9 - Tax Cut Becomes Top Priority

November 16 - Homeland Security Department Another Victory for Administration

November 16 - Nuances Run Deep in Homeland Bill

November 16 - Stimulus Proposal: Extend Unemployment Benefits

November 16 - Unemployment Benefits Still Unreconciled

November 23 - Decision on Whether to Extend Unemployment Benefits Awaits New Congress in January

November 23 - Department's Blueprint Approved, Final Plan Far From Complete

November 23 - Welfare Rewrite Waits for 108th

November 30 - Brief Kennedy-Nickles Partnership One for the Senate Record Books

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Aviation Security

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Faith-Based Initiatives

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Homeland Security Department

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Pension Plan Regulation

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Port Security

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Unemployment Insurance Benefits

December 7 - 2002 Legislative Summary: Welfare Law Authorization

December 14 - Party Unity Vote Study: Bracing for Battles Postponed