Republican senators seek Iraq withdrawal plan
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Two of President George W. Bush's fellow Republicans in the Senate who seek a change of course in the war in Iraq urged him on Friday to draft plans to begin a possible troop withdrawal by the end of the year.
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An influential Republican senator calls for some 5,000 US troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by the year's end.
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A leading Senate Republican on defense issues, Sen. John Warner, will call on President Bush to solicit privately the opinions of Democrats before forging a new strategy on Iraq.
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Unable to garner enough Republican support, Senate Democratic leaders said yesterday that they are abandoning a bipartisan effort to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq by next spring.
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President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy continued to hemorrhage support in the U.S. Senate as another senior Republican called on Thursday for a new strategy that would start to bring troops home.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee unveiled a radical proposal Sunday to remove most of the nation&#39;s major intelligence gathering operations
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Nervous Senate Republicans beseeched the White House without apparent success Wednesday for a quick change in course on Iraq as congressional Democrats insisted on high-profile votes calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by spring.
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An influential bipartisan panel is expected to recommend on Wednesday that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year and focus on training Iraqis, offering President George W. Bush the outlines of an exit strategy from the unpopular war.
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A US senator belonging to President George W. Bush&#39;s Republican Party said Sunday he and other members of Congress expect the number of US troops in Iraq to be reduced after September.
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Senate Republicans scuttled a Democratic proposal ordering troop withdrawals from Iraq in a showdown Wednesday that capped an all-night debate on the war
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WASHINGTON - Republican senators proposed removing the largest intelligence bodies from the Central Intelligence Agency, in a move that would essentially dismantle the beleaguered agency.
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Senate Republicans yesterday rejected a bipartisan proposal to lengthen the home leaves of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, derailing a measure that war opponents viewed as one of the best chances to force President Bush to accelerate a redeployment of forces.
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Republican misgivings over President Bush's new war strategy are increasingly dividing the GOP as the Senate moves toward a showdown over the deployment of 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.
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The United States should start to  withdraw militarily and politically from Iraq and aim to pull  out all troops as early as possible next year, Sen. Edward  Kennedy said on Thursday.
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Senate Democrats hope to lure more Republican votes for a policy shift in Iraq by giving emphasis to a change of mission for U.S. troops there.
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With the U.S. Senate gridlocked over pulling troops out of Iraq, a more modest House of Representatives proposal gained momentum on Thursday as the chamber's Republican leader said he would likely vote for it.
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Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana has become one of the highest-ranking Republicans in Congress to call for a troop drawdown in Iraq.