Bush denies Congress access to aides
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President Bush directed former aides to defy congressional subpoenas on Monday, claiming executive privilege and prodding lawmakers closer to their first contempt citations against administration officials since Ronald Reagan was president.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday asserted executive privilege over documents sought by the Democratic-led Congress on the firings of federal prosecutors, likely setting up a court battle.
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The White House said today that it was invoking executive privilege to reject subpoenas for documents.
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President Bushâs nominee for attorney general declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture or to be illegal when used against terrorist suspects.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Bush lacks the authority to invade Iran without specific approval from Congress, a fresh challenge to the commander in chief on the eve of a symbolic vote critical of his troop buildup in Iraq
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President Bush has failed to nominate candidates for a congressionally empowered privacy board intended to police anti-terrorism programs. Privacy groups charge that the administration fears the board's independence.
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President Bush's former counsel Harriet E. Miers yesterday rebuffed a subpoena demanding her congressional testimony, as former White House political director Sara M. Taylor told the Senate Judiciary Committee she did not speak with President Bush about the administration's plans to fire a group of...
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky  - President George W. Bush kept up the pressure on the Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress on Friday to set aside misgivings about his troop buildup and fully fund U.S. forces in Iraq.
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The U.S. Congress on Friday moved to block the Bush administration from building permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or controlling the country's oil sector, as it approved $70 billion for funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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House Democrats on Monday targeted two of President Bush's longtime aides for criminal contempt against Congress, escalating a legal fight over executive privilege and access to White House deliberations on the firings of federal prosecutors.
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U.S. lawmakers escalated their battle with the White House on Wednesday by recommending contempt citations against an aide and a former aide of President George W. Bush who refused to cooperate in a probe of the firing of federal prosecutors.
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President Bush will veto the defense authorization bill because of Iraq's concerns that the legislation could hinder redevelopment efforts by freezing the country's assets while courts deal with claims from victims of Saddam Hussein suing Iraq under U.S. law, the White House announced today.
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President Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to indicate he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972
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The White House chief of staff faced possible contempt charges after a congressional panel on Thursday rejected President George W. Bush's attempt to limit the probe of the firing of federal prosecutors.
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President Bushâs nominee to be the second-ranking official at the Justice Department refused to say whether he considered the interrogation technique to be âtorture.â
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President Bush, who had promised to  give a new national intelligence director "full budgetary  authority," submitted a plan to the U.S. Congress on Thursday  that stopped short of giving the director all of the powers  sought by the Sept. 11 commission, documents show.
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The White House must release its visitor logs and cannot hide behind a shield of privilege, a federal judge ruled Monday. The Bush administration has resisted public disclosure while it fights a lawsuit over alleged political influence by conservative Christian leaders.