Senate panel won't confirm Bush broadcast chief
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A Senate committee said on Wednesday  it would not vote this year on another term for Kenneth  Tomlinson to oversee U.S.-backed international TV and radio  services, following a government report that said he used the  office for personal gain.
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CBS News will face difficulty  expanding its audience until questions are resolved about a  now-retracted Sept. 8 report challenging President Bush's  military service, Viacom Inc. Co-President Les Moonves told  investors on Wednesday.
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President Bush's former counsel Harriet E. Miers yesterday rebuffed a subpoena demanding her congressional testimony, as former White House political director Sara M. Taylor told the Senate Judiciary Committee she did not speak with President Bush about the administration's plans to fire a group of...
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Three congressional Democrats asked President Bush on Wednesday to dismiss the head of the agency that oversees government broadcasts, who is accused of misusing government money, overbilling for his time and hiring a friend as a consultant.
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Democrats running Congress will likely not be able to pass climate legislation with mandatory limits on "greenhouse" gases without help from President Bush, the Senate energy panel chair said.
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A Republican senator who has  questioned whether an abortion opponent could win approval to  the U.S. Supreme Court must agree to back President Bush's  nominees if he is to head the committee acting on those  nominations, the Senate's Republican leader said.
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With no resolution in sight to a partisan stalemate over one of President Bush's nominees to the Federal Election Commission, campaign finance experts said yesterday that there is a real prospect the commission could start the 2008 election year without enough members to take any official action.
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An external review of how CBS News came to use disputed documents in a report on President Bush's military record will probably not be concluded until after the November election so as not to interfere with the presidential race, a top executive said on Tuesday.
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In what could be a significant blow against an intelligence overhaul bill stalled in Congress, the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee expressed new doubts Friday about the legislation.
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Members of a Senate panel today told Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker that they had doubts about the progress they had reported in testimony yesterday.
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The Bush administration has yet to name a new national intelligence director, and the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat says he wants an explanation. The position, created in last year's intelligence reorganization bill, has been open for more than eight weeks.
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U.S. President George W. Bush's fellow Republicans in the Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic proposal to force him to withdraw American combat troops from Iraq after a rare round-the-clock debate.
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At the urging of the White House, a key Senate panel will put off consideration of the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be secretary of state, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Sunday.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators threatened on Monday to override the Federal Communications Commission if the agency votes to loosen media ownership restrictions at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
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The Bush administration said on Friday it would not renominate Gen. Peter Pace as the top U.S. military officer, avoiding a contentious debate with the Democratic-led Congress over unpopular Iraq war.
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The top Democrat on the Senate  Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President  Bush's choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to  restore credibility to U.S. intelligence services.
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CBS News said Monday it cannot vouch for the authenticity of documents it broadcast on &quot;60 Minutes&quot; casting doubt on the National Guard service of President Bush during the Vietnam era.