Senators compromising on FEMA expansion
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Senators have agreed on a compromise to restructure and expand the Federal Emergency Management Agency, restoring some of its responsibilities. The FEMA director, currently David Paulison, would have direct access to the president in a crisis, but the agency would remain a part of the Homeland Security Department. The compromise will be included in a budget bill Congress is scheduled to vote on this month.
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Republican and Democratic senators working to save President Bush's stalled immigration bill are focusing on toughening border security and workplace enforcement to attract more bipartisan support.
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Top Senate Democrats joined with Republican Sen. John Warner on Wednesday to support a nonbinding resolution opposing President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy, increasing prospects that Bush will face an embarrassing repudiation.
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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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Democrats risked losing their control of the US senate to President George W. Bush's Republican Party after a senator was rushed to a hospital to undergo emergency surgery.
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Defying President Bush, Reps. Duncan Hunter and James Sensenbrenner &#151; who led opposition dooming legislation based on the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations &#151; said they won't change their minds without Senate concessions.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate shipped President Bush a wide-ranging $136 billion corporate tax-cut bill and a disaster aid package on Monday, letting lawmakers head home for the finale of the presidential and congressional campaigns.    Florida, a vote-rich prize that both parties covet, will be chief beneficiary of the $14.5 billion disaster measure as the state rebuilds from a battering by four recent hurricanes...
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The Senate, with an overwhelming bipartisan vote today, broke a filibuster and prepared to send President Bush a $35 billion measure that would revamp and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, setting up the biggest domestic confrontation between the president and Congress since B...
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A Senate famous for its "deliberative pace" is hoping to rush out bills this week bolstering pensions, raising the minimum wage and cutting taxes before departing the Capitol and shifting their re-election campaigns into high gear.
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Facing crumbling support for the war among their own members, Senate Republican leaders yesterday sought to block bipartisan efforts to force a change in the American military mission in Iraq.
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The U.S. Senate agreed on Wednesday to a compromise to provide additional communications airwaves to police, fire and rescue organizations by forcing some television broadcasters to switch airwaves by early 2008.
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As Senate prepares to consider a Net access ban extension, Democrat behind original ban warns changes to current law approved by the House of Representatives could make that so.
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A U.S. senator ripped into Sun Microsystems and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) during a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, but both the company and the agency disputed the senator&#39;s information.
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Senator Barack ObamaÂs move has created complications for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats.
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By Tom Searls, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 23--Senators could decide by Monday whether to force chemical companies to take further security measures under an amendment offered by U.S. Sens. Robert C. Byrd and Jay Rockefeller, both D-W.Va.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, backed by leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, announced legislation Tuesday that would enact
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One top Democrat in Congress is calling for an exit strategy in Iraq as another vows lasting opposition to Social Security benefit cuts &#151; elements of a pre-emptive strike against President Bush before his midweek State of the Union address.