Senate postpones consideration of spy bill
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday abruptly postponed until next month consideration of a measure to give immunity to telephone companies that participated in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program.
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Intelligence agencies came under sharp attack Sunday from lawmakers, as did Congress, where a bill to put in place recommendations from the Sept. 11 commission has stalled heading into this week's postelection session.
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Congress is unlikely to approve a bill giving President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program legal status and new restrictions before the November midterm elections, dealing a significant blow to one of the White House's top wartime priorities.
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Congress to try for SPY ACT law by year's end.
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The Justice Department moved yesterday to delay congressional inquiries into the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, saying the administration could not provide witnesses or documents sought by lawmakers without jeopardizing its own investigation of the CIA's actions.
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The Senate late yesterday resolved a dispute delaying passage of a sweeping corporate tax bill and two spending bills for disaster relief and homeland security, clearing
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Congress may try before the end of the year to revive a bill to overhaul the nation&#39;s intelligence services that was stalled by objections from Republicans in the US House.
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A sweeping corporate tax bill that would dole out nearly $140 billion in business breaks over the next decade was unexpectedly delayed in the Senate on Sunday over its failure
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A growing number of senators are questioning whether the Senate should abandon pledges to make far-reaching changes to the nation's intelligence bureaucracy before Election Day, doubts that could dampen the bill's momentum.
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A procedural hurdle that would have stopped debate on a controversial amendment to the FISA law failed in the US Senate early this afternoon.
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Key legislators on opposite sides of the deadlocked effort to reorganize the nation's intelligence community said Monday they will not compromise their positions to give Congress a chance to pass the measure at a special two-day session early next month.
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The Senate intelligence committee yesterday produced a new bipartisan bill governing foreign intelligence surveillance conducted inside the United States, but objections by several Democratic lawmakers to some of its provisions raised questions about how quickly it might gain passage.
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A U.S. Senate committee approved a  bipartisan bill to tighten rules on government eavesdropping on  terrorism suspects, but a Democratic presidential candidate  said on Thursday he would try to block it.
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Sweeping proposal by several in GOP would do away with CIA, strip some spy duties from Pentagon. US Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. said he will submit legislation that would do the following: The position would
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No decision made at special Sunday meeting held to discuss spying scandal.
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Congressional action on legislation  to pressure China into raising the value of its currency could  be delayed until October because of other pending issues,  congressional aides said on Tuesday.
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President Bush's support proved insufficient to push a bill authorizing his warrantless wiretapping program through the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.