Congress Unlikely to Embrace Bush Wish List
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With his 2006 budget, President Bush delivered Congress a tall order, asking for at least six significant governmental reorganizations and an unprecedented five-year freeze in domestic spending to get control of the federal budget deficit.
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Lawmakers are unconvinced by Administration claims that the glass is half full in America's 'forgotten war'
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He may have won re-election and a majority in both houses of Congress, but George W. Bush shouldn&#39;t expect a free ride on Capitol Hill.
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Government fails to meet vast majority of political and military goals laid out by congress
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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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Of the 2008 Democratic presidential contenders who voted to give President Bush authority to wage war in Iraq, only one will have no chance to make a very public U-turn when resolutions opposing the president's new war plan come before Congress in the coming days.
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BLUE BELL, Pa.  - President Bush, determined to  build support for overhauling Social Security, sought on  Thursday to assure members of Congress that they would not be  hurt politically for supporting his plan.
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Congress seemed eager yesterday to embrace the new Baker-Hamilton report as a possible way out of the morass in Iraq, while the White House is increasingly insistent that the document is but one of several suggestions President Bush will review as he ponders changes to a policy widely seen as not working in Iraq....
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When Senate Democrats move next month to narrow President Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq, at least one of their own won't be there to help. The same goes for trying to pass a spending bill for the war or a budget for the government.
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President Bush's decision to resume U.S. aid to the Palestinian government has left some lawmakers uneasy, including at least one Republican who wants to pass a law that would reverse it.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration urged skeptical members of Congress on Tuesday to support the president's new $2.9 trillion spending plan, arguing that the budget can be balanced without raising taxes.
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President Bushâs $3 trillion budget has little chance of surviving in a Democratic Congress. But the problems it lays out will survive and grow.
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In a rebuke of President George W.  Bush, a U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday  rejected his plan for interrogating foreign terrorist suspects.  The bill, however, will still go to the full House for  consideration.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Despite a clear-cut reelection and the prospect of lasting GOP dominance in Congress, President Bush prepares to start his second term with the lowest approval ratings of any just-elected sitting president in half a century, according to new surveys.
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President Bush, unpopular nationally but still a fundraising force, is ready to put the power of the White House behind the Republican nominee for president. Exactly what his role will be is a trickier matter.
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President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to approve $700 billion in new military spending -- much of it for the Iraq war -- and to curb many domestic programs.
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Democrats are using President Bush's request for &#36;77 billion for conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to criticize his war policies and soaring federal deficits, but congressional approval of something very much like the request seems inevitable.