WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate on Wednesday passed a bill expanding legal authority for electronic wiretaps by spy agencies, handing victory to President George W. Bush after a standoff over anti-terror strategy. The measure includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications firms which aided warrantless government surveillance operations following the...
WASHINGTON AFP — In a late-term triumph for US President George W. Bush, the US House of Representatives on Friday approved spy-powers legislation that has drawn heavy fire on civil liberties grounds. Lawmakers voted 293-129 for a bill that may shield telecommunications firms facing massive lawsuits over their work...
WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday approved an extra three months of jobless benefits for all unemployed Americans, knowing the plan's chances are slight in the Senate and almost nonexistent at the White House. After failing to get a veto-proof two-thirds margin by three votes on Wednesday, Democrats...
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...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday began what is expected to be a weeklong, contentious debate over legislation to combat global warming by mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Senators voted 74-14 to proceed to the bill, but immediately it became clear Republican opponents were...
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...
WASHINGTON -- In a stunning vote that illustrated President Bush's diminished standing, the Senate on Thursday ignored his veto threat and added tens of billions of dollars for veterans and the unemployed to his Iraq war spending bill. A majority of Republicans broke ranks with Bush on a...
What is it about them that exerts such a powerful hold over America's psyche? The news of Edward's fatal illness marks the final chapter in the remarkable saga of those Fabulous Kennedy Boys. Yet while the hopes and dreams of millions died with his brothers, the Massachusetts senator will leave...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate on Thursday passed a mammoth 290 billion dollar farm bill with a veto-proof majority, which includes subsidies for farmers and help with food bills for the needy as prices rise. Lawmakers passed the bill by 81 votes to 15, after it passed by...
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Presidential contenders Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) have joined 11 of their Senate colleagues and 46 Members in the House in signing onto legislation that calls for re-establishing the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Addressing the critical needs of...
Legislation that would provide a measure of relief to homeowners struggling to avoid foreclosure, and help cities and states mitigate the effects of home foreclosures on hard-hit communities, dominated the agenda in the Senate last week. Similar bills in the House gained consideration in...
While senators generally have unlimited time for debate, members of the U.S. House of Representatives often have only five minutes to make their point heard before a final vote on important legislation. After the U.S. Senate passed the latest amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on February 12, I...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a wiretap surveillance bill which President George W. Bush has vowed to veto, deepening a standoff over anti-terror espionage powers. The Democratic-led House voted 213 to 197 to adopt the measure, which fails to provide retroactive legal immunity...
WASHINGTON -- Two top Bush administration officials said Friday that some telecommunications companies are resisting wiretapping orders for terrorists because a surveillance law expired nearly a week ago. National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and Attorney General Michael Mukasey made the assertion in a letter to Congress, the latest...
WASHINGTON AP -- In a day of political brinkmanship, President Bush pressured the House on Thursday to finish a bill giving the government more leeway to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists. House Democrats didn't budge, and angry Republicans staged a walkout down the Capitol steps. ...
WASHINGTON MCT -- Setting up a showdown with the White House, the Senate on Wednesday passed an intelligence bill that would forbid the use of the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding. President Bush promised to veto legislation that included such language after the House incorporated a...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, his spokeswoman said Thursday. "The president will veto that bill," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The United States needs the...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush and Democratic lawmakers dug in their heels in a high-stakes showdown over a controversial wiretap law that is set to expire on Friday. Bush warned the Democratic-led House of Representatives on Thursday that he was ready to delay his trip to...
WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2008 AFP — US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, his spokeswoman said Thursday. "The president will veto that bill," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The United...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Tuesday approved new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in the snooping after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Protection for the...
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