Bush, Congress Approval Still Low
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Only a third of the public is satisfied with the job President Bush is doing and even fewer are pleased with Congress, according to a poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos
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President Bushâs $3 trillion budget has little chance of surviving in a Democratic Congress. But the problems it lays out will survive and grow.
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President Bush, who didn't veto a bill for nearly six years, is now embracing the power to constrain the Democratic-controlled Congress even as his popularity remains low
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With many lawmakers eager to help their own regions, Congress is unlikely to act as quickly on President Bush's latest request for hurricane aid as they did on his first package.
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The U.S. Congress intends to approve money on Thursday that President George W. Bush sought to continue the war in Iraq, marking a failure by Democrats to impose a timetable for withdrawing troops from an increasingly expensive and unpopular conflict.
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Public approval of the job President Bush is doing now matches its all-time low, an AP-Ipsos poll says. The survey, released Thursday, reflects widespread discontent over how Bush is handling the war in Iraq, efforts against terrorism and domestic issues. It also underscores challenges Republican presidential and congressional candidates will confront next year when they face voters who seem to be clamoring for change.
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A cross-party committee of the US Congress has criticised the Bush administration for the slow progress of reconstruction in Iraq.
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With the congressional election less   than two months away, an overwhelming majority of Americans   expressed a negative opinion of the Republican-led Congress in   a poll by The New York Times and CBS News released on   Wednesday.
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Three US opinion surveys show President George W. Bush pulling slightly ahead of John Kerry, his Democratic contender in the November 2 election, but by a small enough margin that both men are still locked in a statistical dead heat.
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President George W. Bush enjoyed a   modest rise in public approval after his recent political   offensive on Iraq and security, but voters still favor   Democrats in the November 7 congressional election, according   to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
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President Bush may be pushing hard for Congress to give him line-item veto power to remove wasteful spending from the bills it passes, but the idea seems to be sinking on Capitol Hill.
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New polling says US President George W Bush is barely ahead in the overall race for the White House while Democrat challenger John Kerry is gaining support in some key states with just over two weeks before the November 2 ballot.
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Less than one in four Americans approves of President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday that mirrored other recent surveys.
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Public approval of the job President Bush is doing now matches its all-time low, an AP-Ipsos poll says.
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President George W. Bush says it stands for &quot;weak,&quot; as in Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry&#39;s weak stance on the war against terrorism.
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George Bush yesterday encountered the weakest of welcomes for his call for an international peace conference on the Middle East.
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Bush's speech on Iraq and Petraeus's progress report on the 'surge' swayed few Americans, polls show.