Top Democrat vows to block possible Bush nominee
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Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid vowed on Wednesday to block former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson from becoming attorney general if President George W. Bush nominates him to replace Alberto Gonzales.
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In a sign of assertiveness, Democrats plan hours on the floor Tuesday for opponents of a key Bush nominee.
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Idaho's U.S. senators are blocking President Bush's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, saying the agency has become overly aggressive in enforcing gun laws.
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Senate Democrats signaled on Wednesday that they might oppose President Bush's nominee to the Federal Election Commission over his views on voting rights and criticism that he politicized his office at the Justice Department.
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Senate Democrats demanded Thursday that President Bush order a halt to personal attacks on the party's leader, Sen. Harry Reid, and expressed regret that they had failed to mount a stronger defense for his defeated predecessor.
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Washington -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urged Democrats on Thursday to stop blocking President Bush&#39;s federal court nominees and hinted that he may try to change Senate rules to thwart their delaying tactics.
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President Bush, urging the Senate to pass the line-item veto, on Tuesday criticized House Democrats who didn&#039;t back the measure even though they&#039;ve called for federal spending restraint.
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The Senate majority leader said yesterday that Democrats would block former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson from becoming attorney general, kicking off a spirited nomination debate even before the White House has named a candidate.
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The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights.
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year.
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Some Democrats seemed ready to fight to keep one of President Bush's judicial nominees off the bench
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The top two Democrats in the U.S. Congress vowed on Wednesday to work with President Bush when possible, but ripped into him on two central issues -- Iraq and his bid to revamp the Social Security retirement program.
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday morning to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, is not expected to prompt the confirmation battle that Senate Democrats threatened to wage if a more partisan nominee was chosen.
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The Republican congressman chosen by  President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday his Democratic  Party critics were wrong to say he was too partisan to take the  job.
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In the face of growing controversy, CBS anchor Dan Rather Wednesday stood by a story suggesting George W. Bush dodged his Texas National Guard commitment.
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A Pennsylvania senator vowed Tuesday to block re-nomination of a government energy board chief until the Bush administration scales back its push for new high-voltage power lines in his state.
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President Bush will resubmit to the Senate a group of judicial nominees blocked by Democrats as too conservative, the White House said on Thursday as it signaled the start