White House Opposes Sections of 9/11 Bill
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WASHINGTON - The White House came out Tuesday against parts of a Senate intelligence reorganization bill, saying they would create "a cumbersome new bureaucracy" for coordinating the activities of 15 spy agencies under a national intelligence director.    Meanwhile, one of the leaders of the Sept...
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The new effort is aimed at blocking two nonbinding resolutions directly critical of the White House.
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The 213-203 roll call Friday by which the House rejected Senate legislation addressing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations.
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President Bush plans to veto a sweeping defense policy bill on grounds that it would derail Iraq's efforts to rebuild its country, the White House said Friday
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A US Senate panel rejected President George W. Bush's plan to relax standards on the treatment of &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects, instead backing a substitute bill offering greater rights protections to foreign detainees.
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President Bush plans to veto a defense spending bill that Congress passed this month, the White House said Friday.
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Washington: The White House on Saturday rejected Russian President Vladimir Putinâs charge that a US &quot;dictatorship&quot; in world affairs was making problems like terrorism and drug trafficking worse.
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WASHINGTON - House Republicans on Saturday blocked passage of legislation addressing the Sept. 11 Commissionâs terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush, but GOP leaders said they would con-tinue to press the effort this year.
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WASHINGTON - Senate passage of a bill to enact the Sept. 11 commission's terror-fighting recommendations now puts the focus on the House, where getting Republicans and Democrats to agree on the legislation may be more difficult...
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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has taken a position at odds with the White House in urging Congress this week to restrict the powers of a new national intelligence
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Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell came out in opposition today to White House-sponsored legislation to create special military commissions that would try terrorist suspects, saying he rejects efforts to "redefine" a key provision of the Geneva Conventions.
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President Bush and GOP lawmakers will have to settle for less than a full loaf of the anti-terror measures they had hoped to enact before the Nov. 7 elections, putting off legislation that would endorse the president's wiretapping program.
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The White House said it does not want Congress to micromanage U.S. commanders in Iraq by limiting the 2002 resolution that authorized President Bush to invade that country, as Democratic senators have proposed.
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US lawmakers have failed to pass a White House-backed bill that would have made major changes to the country&#39;s intelligence agencies.
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Hours after House and Senate negotiators reached final agreement yesterday on a bill to implement recommendations of the September 11 commission, the House Republican Conference rejected it
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With House-Senate negotiators scheduled to start resolving major differences in two bills to restructure the nation's intelligence community, the White House has criticized key portions of each plan.
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The Bush administration backed away Monday from a proposal that critics said would have forced many of the 2 million poor, elderly or disabled families who use government housing vouchers to foot more of the rent on their own or find substandard apartments.