Top Democrat vows to block possible Bush nominee
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed on Wednesday to block former Solicitor General Theodore Olson from becoming attorney general if President George W. Bush nominates him to replace Alberto Gonzales.
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A top Democrat said Thursday he is preparing legislation that would give President Bush the war funding he wants this year, but on the condition that troops leave Iraq by the end of the year.
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President Bush, breaking his rule not to talk about presidential politics, says he believes Hillary Rodham Clinton will defeat Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries.
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President Bush plans to resubmit a group of controversial judicial nominees blocked during his first term, challenging Senate Democrats who
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The top two Democrats in the  Congress vowed on Wednesday to work with President Bush, but  also slammed him on key issues like Iraq and his bid to revamp  the Social Security retirement program.
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Anti-war Democrats in the US Senate are vowing to force Republicans to stage an all-night vigil to defend President George W. Bush&#39;s policy on Iraq.
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Up to two-thirds of the 44 Democrats  in the Republican-led U.S. Senate prepared on Tuesday to oppose  Alberto Gonzales as the next U.S. attorney general because of  his role in helping craft policies they blame for contributing  to the abuse of foreign detainees.
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Bucking opposition in the Senate, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people for the U.S. Court of Appeals, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.
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The incoming Democratic chairman of  the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to  combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time  trampling of American rights.
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The Democratic presidential nominee accused the president on Tuesday of hiding embarrassments in Iraq, and Bush chastised Kerry for grasping at passing headlines instead of building a coherent proposal.
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Democrats who want to fight Alberto Gonzales&#39; nomination for attorney general will do so for the wrong reason. They&#39;ll focus on his memos arguing that President Bush isn&#39;t covered by inconvenient
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Top U.S. Democrats vowed on Sunday to raise pressure on President George W. Bush to shift strategy in Iraq by trying to revise the 2002 congressional resolution that authorized him to wage war.
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year.
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Democrats stepped up pressure on Thursday for President George W. Bush to halt his Iraq troop buildup, and the president warned Congress against undercutting his military strategy.
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Freshman Sen. John Thune, the Republican hero two years ago for ousting the Senate Democratic leader, said Wednesday that if he were running this year, he'd distance himself from President Bush and his agenda.
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The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights and laws.
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In opposing Bush's hard-line policy, the Democratic candidate has challenged a golden rule of Florida politics. But he may have outmaneuvered his opponents