Bush digs in heels over detainee bill
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President Bush is standing firm in his battle to get Congress to approve the White House plan for detaining, interrogating and prosecuting suspected terrorists. The Senate, though, isn't backing away from its plan either.
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President Bush bowed to pressure   from leading senators in his Republican party on Thursday,   revising a bill for interrogating terrorism suspects that   critics had said would allow abusive treatment.
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President Bush pushed Wednesday to resuscitate his plan to subject Guantanamo Bay detainees to special trials, a key policy in his anti-terror strategy that was struck down by the Supreme Court.
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President Bush's stalled anti-terrorism agenda edged forward Tuesday, with a rebellious House member rewriting her bill on wiretaps more to his liking and maverick Senate Republicans reopening talks over how to handle detainees.
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President Bush pressed Congress on   Thursday to approve new military tribunals to try terrorism   suspects, a day after he admitted the CIA ran secret prisons   overseas where accused militants were detained.
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President Bush and Senate   Republicans hammered out a deal on Thursday for interrogating   and trying foreign terrorism suspects, and Bush hailed it for   preserving his program for CIA questioning of detainees.
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President George W. Bush plans to   unveil proposed legislation on Wednesday to set a structure for   conducting trials of foreign terrorism suspects held at   Guantanamo Bay, White House officials said.
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President Bush yesterday seized on Sen. John Kerry&#39;s remark that terrorism should be reduced to a &quot;nuisance&quot; like prostitution that doesn&#39;t define Americans&#39; lives, saying it showed
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President Bush signed a bill Friday to pay for military operations in Iraq after a bitter struggle with Democrats in Congress who sought unsuccessfully to tie the money to U.S. troop withdrawals.
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The US president and rebel senators reach a deal on a controversial bill on interrogating terror suspects.
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President Bush and Senate   Republicans reached an agreement on Thursday on a bill spelling   out rules to interrogate and try foreign terrorism suspects,   likely clearing the way for Congress to vote on the measure   next week.
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Senior advisers to President Bush are exploring legislation that would permit the long-term detention of foreign terrorism suspects on American soil.
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A controversial bill setting out the rules for the detention and prosecution of &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects headed for passage in the Senate, giving President George W. Bush's Republicans a boost six weeks ahead of legislative elections.
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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
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White House loyalists struggled on Wednesday to save President Bush's wartime legislative plans from collapsing under Republican squabbles. In cliffhanger votes, a House committee rejected, then endorsed Bush's proposal to continue tough interrogations of suspected terrorists.
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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.
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President Bush on Saturday defended   his proposals to allow tough questioning of suspected   terrorists as necessary to keep Americans safe, despite a   revolt in his own Republican Party over the issue.