Senate backs Gates for Pentagon
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly confirmed Robert Gates as the next defense secretary, replacing Donald Rumsfeld, an architect of the increasingly unpopular Iraq war.
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The U.S. Senate on Friday overwhelmingly agreed to authorize construction of a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, sending to President George W. Bush before the November 7 elections a bill that Republicans hope will showcase their efforts to stop illegal immigration.
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There is substantial support among   U.S. Senate Democrats for a resolution demanding the   resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a senior   Democrat said on Sunday.
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The Senate, eager to stanch the flow of illegal immigrants, signaled overwhelming support Monday for President Bush&#039;s plan to dispatch National Guard troops to states along the Mexican border.
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Condoleezza Rice won strong but not unanimous endorsement as secretary of state from a Senate panel Wednesday, assuring skeptical Democrats she welcomed debate about the nation's foreign policy course and wouldn't sugarcoat advice to President Bush.
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The U.S. Senate confirmed  Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state on Wednesday, sweeping  aside objections from some Democrats that she should be held  accountable for mistakes of the Iraq war.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Gates, whose last Senate confirmation hearings turned into a partisan confrontation, is likely to face an easier time this week when the Armed Services Committee takes up his nomination to succeed Donald Rumsfeld as U.S. secretary of defense.
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It didn't take long, at his confirmation hearings for Defense Secretary, for Robert Gates to give Senate Democrats some answers they've been desperate for
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In a bid to advance the stalled intelligence reform bill in Congress, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally endorsed the measure.
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A U.S. Senate committee approved a bipartisan bill to tighten rules on government eavesdropping on terrorism suspects, but a Democratic presidential candidate said on Thursday he would try to block it.
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Congress buried some interesting provisions on Pakistan and, separately, U.S. Army recruitment in the 1,513-page fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill that President Bush signed Jan. 28. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates was given authority, "with the concurrence of the Secretary of State," t...
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When Robert Gates testifies before a Senate panel in two weeks, Democrats will voice their opposition to administration war policies and gauge Gates' willingness to change them. But they probably won't stand in his way to becoming the next defense secretary.
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Lawmakers of both parties said today that the Pentagon played a clear role in the defeat of compromise legislation aimed at remaking U.S. intelligence.
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Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candor on the Iraq war.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a senior U.S. commander  said yesterday that they favor a protracted U.S. troop presence in Iraq along the lines of the military stabilization force in South Korea.
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In what senators from both parties called a potential turning point for American intelligence agencies, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to confirm the nomination
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President Bush's nomination of Robert Gates as defense secretary headed to the full Senate Wednesday for approval, a day after it sailed through the Armed Services Committee.