Senate panel won't confirm Bush broadcast chief
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A White House nominee may lose his  job overseeing U.S.-backed international TV and radio services  after a Senate committee said on Wednesday it would not vote  this year on another term for Kenneth Tomlinson, following a  government report that said he used the office for personal  gain.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators  threatened on Monday to override the Federal Communications  Commission if the agency votes to loosen media ownership  restrictions at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
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President Bush's support proved insufficient to push a bill authorizing his warrantless wiretapping program through the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.
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Two New Jersey senators said Thursday they would block President Bush's choice to head the Federal Aviation Administration, saying they are unhappy with the government's handling of widespread flight delays that often begin in their East Coast airspace.
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A Republican senator who has  questioned whether an abortion opponent could win approval to  the U.S. Supreme Court must agree to back President Bush's  nominees if he is to head the committee acting on those  nominations, the Senate's Republican leader said.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer's former communications director refused Monday to obey a subpoena for testimony and documents sought by a state Senate committee investigating allegations of a plot to smear the state's top Republican.
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By BEN EVANS  WASHINGTON - 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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Congress is unlikely to approve a bill giving President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program legal status and new restrictions before the November midterm elections, dealing a significant blow to one of the White House's top wartime priorities.
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Despite a grilling from a Senate committee yesterday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin said he would not postpone a Dec. 18 vote on a controversial media-ownership rule.
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WASHINGTON - Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are mum or undecided about whether they will support President Bush's nominee to head the CIA, saying they're still concerned about his independence and objectivity.    During a 4 1/2-hour confirmation hearing for former House Intelligence Chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla., the panel's Democrats appeared most concerned about his Republican background and recent politically charged comments...
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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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A Senate committee's decision to defy President Bush on terrorist tribunals is expected to dominate a presidential news conference this morning. The briefing comes a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 15-9 to recommend a bill -- over the objections of the Bush administration -- that would authorize tribunals for terror suspects in a way that it says would protect the defendants' rights.
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Some experts believe that Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss won&#39;t be named to the job of director of national intelligence, even though his name is on the list of those being considered by President Bush.
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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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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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In a new challenge to President Bush's use of executive power, Senate Democrats want to make the government produce evidence to a judge for review when it claims that disclosing that evidence endangers national security.
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CBS News said Monday it cannot vouch for the authenticity of documents it broadcast on &quot;60 Minutes&quot; casting doubt on the National Guard service of President Bush during the Vietnam era.