House votes to outlaw CIA waterboarding
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The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.
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The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Wednesday defied a White House veto threat and voted to protect millions of Americans by outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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In the latest ripple of an ethics spat gripping Congress, the House yesterday passed a bipartisan bill that bans lawmakers from paying their spouses for campaign work.
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WASHINGTON : The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation to revamp America&#39;s intelligence network -- a bill nearly derailed by squabbles over Pentagon control over some key espionage resources.
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In a vote charged with election-year   politics, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a   symbolic resolution that wrapped the Iraq conflict into the war   on terrorism and rejected a deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal.
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The House approved legislation yesterday that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, drawing an immediate veto threat from the White House and setting up another political showdown over what constitutes torture.
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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
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A resolution that urges the United States Congress to take action to help stop children and employees from accessing Internet pornography passed the House with unanimous approval Tuesday.  Sponsoring Rep.
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In a victory for President George W. Bush, the House of Representatives on Wednesday defeated a Democratic bid to temporarily extend an expiring spy law instead of replacing it with a new measure that also would immunize telephone companies from lawsuits.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  defied President Bush on Thursday and voted to block his  administration's controversial new overtime regulations for  white-collar workers. The vote was 223-193.
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The US House of Representatives backs a bill which would ban the use of harsh interrogation techniques by the CIA.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Defying their leadership and direct appeals from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, two powerful House Republicans on Saturday blocked intelligence reform legislation that would put a single director in charge of the nation's spy agencies.
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The House of Representatives passed  a bill on Thursday that would provide congressional  authorization for President George W. Bush's warrantless  domestic spying program but subject it to new rules.
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U.S. President George W. Bush authorized the CIA to give its most detailed public account of its use of a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, the White House said on Wednesday.
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The Democratic-led House of  Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and  recessed without replacing an expiring spy law with one that  would shield telephone companies from lawsuits.
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At the urging of the White House,  congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure last month  that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme  interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, The  New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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House Republican leaders yesterday backed off a controversial proposal to allow deportation of foreign terrorism suspects to countries that practice torture, as lawmakers struggled to complete