WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 11:14 A.M. EDT MS. PERINO: Hello. You just heard from the President on the financial markets. Obviously that's priority number one here. But let me give you one other announcement for next week, a scheduling update, that President Bush looks...
House Democrats were correct to go to court to compel White House officials to appear before Congress. A federal judge late last week validated the decision by Democrats to file suit, ruling that White House aides aren't above the law. U.S. District Court Judge John Bates said that chief of...
* NO DRILLING, AS PELOSI AND REID SEND CONGRESS HOME: That's precisely what happened last week, as Republicans failed to get any legislation dealing with domestic oil and gas production voted on before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid closed down Congress until September.The political gridlock...
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Bush's contention that senior White House advisers are immune from subpoenas, siding with Congress' power to investigate the executive branch and handing a victory to Democrats probing the dismissal of nine federal prosecutors. The unprecedented ruling undercut three presidential...
WASHINGTON -- A House panel voted Wednesday to cite Karl Rove, formerly President Bush's top aide, for contempt of Congress as its Senate counterpart explored punishment for alleged misdeeds by other administration officials. But it was not clear that the Democrats controlling a lame-duck Congress will push their...
WASHINGTON AFP — A US judge Thursday said presidential advisors must testify in Congress when subpoenaed, rejecting White House efforts to confer immunity to current and former officials who have been asked to take the stand. Federal Judge John Bates said former White House legal counsel Harriet Miers and...
WASHINGTON -- The White House has increased its estimate for next year's deficit to nearly $490 billion, a record figure that will saddle the next president with deepening budget problems in his first year in office, a report due out today shows. The projected deficit for...
WASHINGTON -- Aboard Air Force One En route Peoria, Illinois 11:40 A.M. EDT MS. PERINO: Okay, we're on our way to Peoria, Illinois. The President taped his radio address this morning before his briefings, and in it he will thank Congress for passing PEPFAR, which is the...
WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:43 P.M. EDT MS. PERINO: A special welcome to the Frattos. A couple of announcements, so bear with me here. In his speech on the freedom agenda earlier this morning you heard the President discuss PEPFAR, which is the...
June 18, 2008 Thank you very much. Thank you for the warm welcome. Good evening. I appreciate that kind introduction, Jeb, and I thank you for bringing Melissa too. It's my honor to be with you. I can't thank you enough for coming to support our candidates running...
WASHINGTON AFP — The House of Representatives prepared Thursday to vote on legislation that would free up some 162 billion dollars for US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next several months. The bill, hammered out by congressional Democrats and Republicans after weeks of partisan haggling, was...
WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush was to call Wednesday on Congress to end a decades-old ban on offshore oil drilling, as a way to tap new energy sources to combat soaring gasoline prices. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said in a statement late Tuesday that, with gasoline...
WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush will call on US lawmakers Wednesday to pass legislation lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling, the White House said. "With gasoline now over four dollars a gallon, tomorrow he will explicitly call on Congress to also pass legislation lifting the congressional...
WASHINGTON -- Congress on Thursday sent a $290 billion farm bill to President Bush for a second time, in an effort to fix a printing error that has threatened the delivery of U.S. food aid abroad. To ensure that the aid continues amid a global hunger crisis, Congress...
President George W. Bush's 2009 education budget proposal has many black educators concerned about the effect of federal cuts on historically black colleges and universities. Lezli Baskerville, president and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, says Bush's budget proposal essentially nullifies an increase in funding...
INSTABILITY IN THE FINANCIAL markets that has rocked the national economy in recent months will have no impact on federal student loans if action by Congress and words from the Bush administration this spring are any indication. In April, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation to ensure that families...
Weve known for quite a while that the President is way, way out there, circling around in his own happy little orbit far beyond the gravitational pull of reality. But, good grief, his recent declamation of success for his Iraq War took the meaning of delusional to new heights. ...
WASHINGTON -- Congress and the White House this week head toward a collision over a five-year, $300 billion farm bill that the Bush administration says is stuffed with wasteful handouts to wealthy growers, but that supporters defend as a needed rural safety net that also expands nutrition aid for the...
WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush said Tuesday he would do his best to get Congress to approve a pending free trade agreement with Panama, after meeting with its President Martin Torrijos in the White House. "The Panamanian free trade vote is a priority of this government. It...
WASHINGTON -- Democrats in Congress are seeking to attach tens of billions of dollars in domestic spending to President Bush's latest $108 billion war funding request, setting up a political battle that could put U.S. troops and their families in the middle. Plans to add money...
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