Frist Urges Democrats to Stop Filibusters
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday urged Democrats to stop blocking President Bush's federal court nominees and hinted that he may try to change Senate rules to thwart their delaying tactics.
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A bill to ban Internet gambling  faces opposition in the U.S. Senate, but backers still hope to  win passage of it within a few weeks, a top aide to U.S. Senate  Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Thursday.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Sunday said he wants a Senate vote soon on an immigration bill focusing primarily on border security, but acknowledged that quick passage is doubtful.
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday urged President Bush to stop the Republican National Committee from calling him an obstructionist and criticizing his Senate record, a tactic the GOP used to help defeat Reid's predecessor.
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Issuing a blunt warning to Democrats, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said Thursday that the newly strengthened Republican majority would not allow filibusters to
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A public admonishment of Majority Leader Tom DeLay by the House ethics committee spurred Democrats to call for further investigations and liberal interest groups to question how much longer he can hold onto power.
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The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights and laws.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Saturday he has to do more to get Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in line with other Republicans and the White House on how terrorist suspects should be prosecuted.
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Text of speech by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., as prepared for delivery Tuesday at the Republican National Convention:
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate on Sunday against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year.
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US Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., echoed President Bushâs condemnation of independent political advertisements during a stop at the Bush-Cheney â04 campaign office on Monday.
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House Democratic leaders on Thursday sought removal of two recently appointed Republicans from the ethics committee, questioning whether their judgment would be influenced by contributions to Majority Leader Tom DeLay's legal defense fund.
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A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet.
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State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will call today for banning lobbyists&#39; gifts to lawmakers and an end to lobbying for government contracts in a platform aimed at the heart of power politics in Albany.
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Democrats are ratcheting up their efforts to oust Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, in the wake of the congressional page scandal that has raised pointed questions about how Reynolds handled the issue when he first learned of it.
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Republican and Democratic members of   the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday   demanded Republican leaders allow a floor vote on legislation   that would ban the use of deceptive means to obtain private   telephone records.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is aligning himself with Democrats in hopes of enhancing his political legacy through an effort to improve minority health care.