Some of Bush Fund-Raisers Got Appointments
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One-third of President Bush's top 2000 fund-raisers or their spouses were appointed to positions in his first administration, from ambassadorships in Europe to seats on policy-setting boards, an Associated Press review found.
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The team that raised money to finance President Bush's inaugural festivities collected &#36;35 million to &#36;40 million, officials said Wednesday.
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After more than three years of battles over appointments, President Bush's ambitions for the courts are clear, but his record is mixed.
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The chairman of President Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Committee and Democratic challenger John Kerry's fund-raising chief are among 27 top campaign cash-raisers who are current or former managers of companies punished for trading with Iran or Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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President Bush on Tuesday nominated two individuals to replace retiring jurists on federal courts in the Washington area.
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President Bush yesterday selected Indiana businessman Allan B. Hubbard to head his National Economic Council, bringing an old friend and fundraiser to the White House to help guide the administration's economic agenda.
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The energy industry and some of its executives have contributed over a million dollars to President Bush's inauguration fund, the committee handling the festivities reported Friday.
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President Bush did not violate the law when,  using his power to make recess appointments,  he named Sam Fox, a GOP fundraiser who helped bankroll a controversial ad campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) during the 2004 presidential campaign, as  ambassador to Belgium, government auditors...
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WASHINGTON -- As President Bush puts together his second-term Cabinet, the financial world's attention is on a job vacancy 14 months away. The question is who will succeed Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, now in his 18th year in the job.
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President George W. Bush put his father, George Bush, and his predecessor, Bill Clinton, in charge of efforts to raise private US donations for countries devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunamis.
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Even as President Bush last week named four candidates to fill long-standing vacancies on federal appeals courts, conservative legal activists were spoiling for a fight over what they call the unfair treatment of the president's judicial nominees.
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One of the best appointments made by President Bush came last summer, when he selected former Missouri Sen. John Danforth to serve as this country&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations.
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&quot;I don&#39;t think we ought to have 527s,&quot; President Bush said the other day, referring to the political fund-raising and advocacy organizations that have sprouted in the wake of his signing the anti-free speech McCain-Feingold campaign-finance &quot;reform&quot; law
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President Bush says polls don't matter to him, but his slumping popularity appears to be influencing fellow Republicans in a way that hurts &#151; money. Bush's yearly fundraising dinner for Republican congressional candidates on Wednesday generated $15.4 million &#151; no small amount, but almost half as much as the $27 million the event brought in last year. Bush raised $23 million at the same dinners in 2005 and 2004.
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Some Republicans are upset that the White House has nominated only 25 people to fill the 47 vacancies now on the federal judiciary. Not to worry. If history is any guide, President Bush can nominate as many people as he wants, but most of them will not don the black robes anytime soon.
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The president enlisted former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to lead a nationwide charity drive.
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Michael O. Leavitt, the former governor of Utah, would fill one of the last vacancies in President Bush's second-term Cabinet.