Milestones

Ten years ago: Bowing to public outrage, both houses of Congress voted to kill their scheduled 51 percent pay increase.

Five years ago: President Clinton sent Congress his $1.5 trillion budget plan, declaring cuts in hundreds of programs would achieve a deficit-reduction record unequaled since President Truman’s administration.

One year ago: The Winter Olympic Games opened in Nagano, Japan. It was announced that Carl Wilson, a founding member of The Beach Boys, had died in Los Angeles from complications of lung cancer; he was 51.