Bush Faces Challenges with New Republican Congress
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The 109th Congress convenes on  Tuesday with Republicans flexing more political muscle. Yet it  is unclear how far they can, or in some cases want to, push  President Bush's ambitious second-term agenda.
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President Bush's new budget director faces long, difficult budget negotiations with congressional Democrats, even as he settles into his new job.
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With many lawmakers eager to help their own regions, Congress is unlikely to act as quickly on President Bush's latest request for hurricane aid as they did on his first package.
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Republicans controlling Congress will focus on traditional strong suits of national defense and battling terrorism in a brief pre-election session that's a prelude to the battle for control of Capitol Hill.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 - A more Republican and more conservative Congress convenes on Tuesday, with Republicans intending to use their greater strength in the House and Senate to help President Bush pursue a second-term agenda of major changes in bedrock programs like Social Security and income taxes.
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Republicans got ready on Wednesday to flex their muscles as an expanded majority in the US Congress and help push President Bush&#39;s largely stalled conservative agenda in his second term.
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President Bush vowed Sunday to work with Congress to revive a bill to enact major recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, as Republican lawmakers struggled to explain why
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As Congress's chief opponent to a bill that would revamp the intelligence community, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Ca.) has evoked concerns about President Bush's clout among Republican lawmakers.
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President Bush said Thursday that when the new Congress convenes next month he will renominate 12 candidates to the federal appeals courts who had been denied confirmation in his first term.
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President Bush has a long list of promises to keep, and even with an expanded Republican majority in Congress, it's unlikely he can have them all.
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In a rare visit to Capitol Hill, President Bush pressed Republican senators yesterday to resurrect the compromise overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, but many of the senators instead demanded that his administration first show a more determined commitment to border security.
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WASHINGTON - The 108th Congress soon will be history, a tumultuous two years that, depending on party affiliation, was the best of times or the worst of times.    Of course Republicans, who control both the House and the Senate, expressed pride in a Congress that passed a major Medicare prescription drug bill, gave President Bush the money he needed for Iraq and substantially increased spending for defense and homeland security...
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President Bush faces a daunting array of challenges -- complicated by Asia's tsunami disaster -- that will be pivotal in determining how much momentum he can generate for the intensely ambitious agenda of his second term.
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Successful in persuading voters not to change leaders in wartime, President Bush faces a second term packed with problems bred in his first, from the need for an exit strategy in Iraq to the prospect of staggering budget deficits at home.
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Division between President Bush and Congress over the Iraq war hardens.
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With a dash of pomp and a dose of controversy over ethics rules, the new Congress convened Tuesday, more Republican than the old and intent on tackling Social Security and the rest of President Bush's ambitious agenda.
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If President Bush gets a second-term honeymoon, it may not last long. Or it may already be over. A failure in the coming days to win congressional passage of the intelligence reorganization bill he supports &#151; fretting House Republicans are standing in the way &#151; would not bode well for political bliss when the new Congress convenes next month.