Bush in bid to twist Republican arms on security
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President George W. Bush went to the   U.S. Capitol on Thursday to prod fellow Republicans to back his   plans to track and try terrorism suspects, but some pushed   ahead with a competing measure the White House opposes.
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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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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, embroiled in a fierce campaign battle over national security, on Friday expanded the power of the CIA director to include some of the broad authority that the Sept.
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US President George W. Bush set the stage for one of the Republican convention's central messages, telling cheering supporters here they must court opposition Democrats on his behalf.
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President Bush dispatched the vice president and top aides to the Capitol on Tuesday to try to break an election-season deadlock with Republicans over the surveillance and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
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To Republicans defending their House majority, a bill to validate President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program is as much about luring Democrats into voting against it as it is about enacting a law.
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President Bush stepped up pressure  on Congress on Saturday to approve an overhaul of the nation's  intelligence operations, just two days before lawmakers return  to try again to approve the reforms.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 13  - US presidential challenger John Kerry went on the warpath Monday seeking to shake perceptions that President George W. Bush can do a better job of keeping Americans safe.
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With midterm elections around the corner, President Bush on Thursday will launch a series of speeches aimed at bolstering support for what the White House calls the "single ideological struggle" against terrorism, including the increasingly unpopular Iraq war.
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It will take pressure by President Bush on the Republican-controlled Congress to ensure passage of bottled-up legislation to overhaul intelligence agencies, the chairman of the Sept. 11 commission said Sunday.
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House Republicans want to barnstorm the country to pick apart the  moderate Senate plan that Bush supports.
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US presidential challenger John Kerry went on the warpath seeking to shake perceptions that President George W. Bush can do a better job of keeping Americans safe.
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President Bush on Saturday stepped  up pressure on Congress to approve an overhaul of the nation's  intelligence operations, just two days before lawmakers return  to try again to pass the reforms.
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NEW YORK--Republicans marshaled their forces to bolster US President George W. Bush&#39;s image as a strong leader in treacherous times as they open their national convention in the city that felt the brunt of the worst terrorist attacks in US history.
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NEW YORK - Republicans marshaled their forces to bolster President Bush's image as a strong leader in treacherous times as they open their national convention in the city that felt the brunt of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history...
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Nervous Republicans are urging President Bush to unveil a robust second-term agenda at his convention next week to shift voters&#39; focus from the unpopular war in Iraq and other issues that are a distraction to his re-election drive.