Senate reverses Bush's budget cuts
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Senate Democrats on Tuesday reversed President Bush's cuts to education, health research and grants to local communities as they gird for Bush's first-ever veto of a regular appropriations bill.
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The Senate approved a measure Thursday to help shield businesses from major class action lawsuits like the ones that have been brought against tobacco companies, giving President Bush the first legislative victory of his second term.
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The US Senate votes to revive discussion of immigration legislation backed by President Bush.
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President Bush vetoes a bill that would have eased curbs on federal funds for research on stem cells.
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A sharply divided Senate on Thursday threw into doubt the fate of the plan backed by President George W. Bush to revamp U.S. immigration laws.
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President Bush on Tuesday called on  Congress to back the "difficult choices" included in his 2006  budget that contains deep domestic cuts and already has some  lawmakers uneasy about the political fallout.
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The Senate on Tuesday approved sweeping legislation to keep the government operating through September 2008 and handed President George W. Bush a victory by including additional Iraq war funds without conditions for ending the combat.
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President Bush will resubmit to the  Senate many of the judicial nominees blocked by Democrats as  too conservative, setting off a second-term battle over the  make up of the federal courts, officials said on Thursday.
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US President George W. Bush signed into law a bill replacing an export tax subsidy that violated international trade rules with a $145 billion package of new corporate tax cuts and a buyout for tobacco farmers.
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The House last night approved a $515.7 billion domestic spending measure that shaves billions from spending levels desired by Democrats and uses emergency spending and other tactics to challenge President Bush on his budget demands.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s administration Wednesday thwarted the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit the numbers of troops ready for deployment.
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President Bushâs effort to overhaul the nationâs immigration policy collapsed in the Senate.
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Congress overwhelmingly approved a 146-billion-dollar tax cut endorsed by both President George W. Bush and his rival John Kerry but criticized by some economists.
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The House and the Senate overwhelmingly approved the $146 billion measure, sending President Bush what would be his fourth tax cut in four years.
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The Senate last night approved a $555 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year, shortly after bowing to President Bush's demand for $70 billion in unrestricted funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The US Senate bows to President Bush's demands for more funds for Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The Senate cleared a path for a bill to hand out about $140 billion in corporate tax breaks, but it was blocked from a final vote by a fight over a provision aimed at helping reserve soldiers on active duty in Iraq.