Pelosi Picks Reyes to Head Panel on Intelligence
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Nancy Pelosi passed over the panelÂs top Democrat, Jane Harman, for Silvestre Reyes, who has a much lower profile.
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The US Senate confirmed Representative Porter Goss, who led efforts in Congress to reform intelligence-gathering, as head of the Central Intelligence Agency for which he once worked as a spy.
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WASHINGTON - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., to head the CIA, overcoming Democrats' objections that Goss was too political for the job...
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House leaders are creating a bipartisan task force on whether to establish an independent ethics panel to police the House, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who stripped embattled Rep. William Jefferson of his seat on a powerful tax committee last year, has decided to put him on the Homeland Security panel, infuriating some Republicans who charge he may be a security risk.
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The appointment of Silvestre Reyes sent a strong new signal that Democrats intend to confront the White House.
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The incoming Democratic chairman of the House intelligence committee could not describe Hezbollah and incorrectly described al-Qaeda's Islamic roots in a recent interview.
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Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will create a new congressional panel to examine the administration's intelligence budget and to make sure the money is being spent properly.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner said Tuesday he will summon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller before his panel to explain their decision to raid a lawmaker&#039;s office for the first time in history.
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The House chairman who had opposed the bill overhauling intelligence said his concerns were answered with new language.
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Representative Nancy J. Pelosi said the formation of the panel was in response to the 9/11 panelâs recommendations and is part of an effort to make spending on intelligence more transparent.
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WASHINGTON-- US Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., member of the Senate Select Committee on intelligence, delivered a statement to the Senate regarding the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fl.
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WASHINGTON - Senate leaders want to create a strong national intelligence director with budgetary authority but would leave the Pentagon in charge of some military spy agencies, The Associated Press learned Tuesday.    Sen...
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The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee unveiled a radical proposal to place most of the nation's major intelligence-gathering operations directly under the control of a new national intelligence director.
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Representative Alcee L. Hastings was a leading contender for chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee.
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By PETER HARDIN  SCOTT PICKED - A task force announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will look at setting up an outside panel to investigate ethics problems involving members of Congress. Virginia's Robert C. Scott was picked for the task force.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But after a 4 1/2-hour confirmation hearing, some Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee were not convinced...