Congress

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  • How to kill HMO reform

    The lawyers who brought down Big Tobacco have now set their sights on HMOs, but what's wrong with this picture?
    By David McGuire November 30, 1999

  • The bald facts

    An informal survey of toupees, transplants, weaves and dye-jobs reveals that 10 percent to 22 percent of United States senators are engaged in a coverup.
    By John F. Murphy November 22, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Readers debate: Is Oprah good for books? Plus: Stop dissing "chick flicks"; why did A.M. Rosenthal save his scorn for black hatemongers?
    Letters to the Editor November 19, 1999

  • Patients' Bill of Rights goes to committee

    The health-care reform legislation goes to a committee that Democrats (and some Republicans) say is unbalanced.
    By Dena Bunis November 5, 1999

  • Live through this Saturday night

    Courtney Love's directorial debut -- in glorious plaid! Patenstein? Count Patula? The Wolfpat? Pollsters say Buchanan's more trick than treat.
    By Amy Reiter October 29, 1999

  • Jack the vote

    At a DC Vote shindig, Kemp mingles like he means it; Patricia Arquette reinvents her breasts. And lady of the Senate? Jesse Helms, once, twice, three times a doofus. Plus: Barbara Bush thinks Pat deserves a spanking.
    By Amy Reiter October 28, 1999

  • White Reps. can't jump

    Members of Congress and the "third house" hoop it up for charity.
    By Jake Tapper October 18, 1999

  • The treaty that ended in war

    Experts discuss the Senate's vote against the global nuclear test ban treaty, Clinton's biggest foreign policy failure yet.
    By Alicia Montgomery October 14, 1999

  • The conversion of Asa Hutchinson

    The "false prophet" of campaign finance offers unexpected support for a tough bipartisan reform bill.
    By Jake Tapper October 12, 1999

  • Political football

    The right to sue may be tossed around for the next year.
    By David McGuire October 11, 1999

  • Away down South in Dixie

    In accent and manner, George W. knows how to play the part when he sweeps through Mississippi, including taking a swipe at Hillary.
    By Suzi Parker October 11, 1999

  • House passes HMO reform bill

    The Patients' Bill of Rights would expand consumer protection.
    By David McGuire October 8, 1999

  • Triangulation, or strangulation?

    As Rush Limbaugh blasts away, George W. Bush insists he's not running against the GOP Congress.
    By Jake Tapper October 6, 1999

  • Throw the bums out

    Al Gore's corporate team has struck out, so it's time for the vice president to bring some true believers on board.
    By Joe Conason October 5, 1999

  • He vs. she, part 1

    Even new resident Monica can't handle this one, as Rudy and Hillary prepare to take their fearsome domestic quarrel to upstate New York.
    By Jake Tapper September 24, 1999

  • Murky future for tax cuts

    Republicans regroup and plot strategy after President Clinton's veto of their $792 billion tax-cut package.
    By Sarah Keech September 23, 1999

  • Republican tax cut, R.I.P.

    President Clinton plans to announce his veto of the $792 billion GOP plan Thursday.
    By Daryl Lindsey September 21, 1999

  • Shays' rebellion takes the House

    One determined Republican overcomes his own leadership's opposition to pass a bipartisan campaign finance reform bill -- again.
    By Jake Tapper September 15, 1999

  • The Manchurian presidency

    The worst national security disaster in history came about because President Clinton had loyalties not to foreign communists, but to the Chinese funders who got him elected.
    By David Horowitz June 21, 1999

  • Debate begins on e-commerce taxes

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS June 21, 1999

  • Microsoft wants you -- to fight antitrust suit

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS June 17, 1999

  • Do e-mail petitions work?

    Chain letters and spam rarely impress politicians -- but they might listen to a more personal breed of Web activism.
    By Katherine Hobson May 10, 1999

  • Send the House home

    These days lawmakers could live in their districts and convene online. Why won't they give up the Beltway?
    By David Fine May 10, 1999

  • Stop using our children

    Don't tell me the president's sexual liaisons are the most important national issue we have to discuss with our children.
    By Sherrilyn A. Ifill February 4, 1999

  • What might have been

    It's hard to watch this president perform so well, knowing that he has already undermined his -- and our -- hopes for any real legislative success
    By Joan Walsh January 21, 1999
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