Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
NEW ALBANY, Ind., Nov. 13 -- A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday as President Bush vetoed the Democrats' top-priority domestic spending bill and the party's Senate leader threatened to withhold war funding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq.
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
They mock her proposals, utter her name with a sneer and win standing ovations by ridiculing her ideas as un-American, even socialistic. She has become the one thing the Republican candidates for president can agree on.
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
Senior Republicans on Congress's Joint Economic Committee called yesterday for the withdrawal of a report by the committee's Democratic staff that argues that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than $1.5 trillion.
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
The Justice Department said yesterday that it has reopened an internal investigation of the role played by its lawyers in the administration's warrantless surveillance program, marking a notable policy shift just days into the tenure of new Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey.
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
A report produced by the Republican staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee concludes that while State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard has "an extraordinarily abusive management style," charges that Krongard thwarted investigations into Iraq and was motivated ...
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
Health-care providers who fail to pay their federal taxes continue to receive millions of dollars of payments from Medicaid, the government health-care program for the poor, according to a report by congressional investigators.
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
The Agriculture Department in 2004 gave the green light to using carbon monoxide gas to keep older cuts of meat looking red and fresh, even though scientists at the two companies promoting the technology had questioned the validity of their own safety tests, congressional investigators revealed...
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
Who put a million dollars for an "Extended Cold Weather Clothing System" into the 2008 defense spending bill President Bush signed yesterday?
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
RICHMOND, Nov. 13 -- The Virginia Crime Commission called on the General Assembly on Tuesday to ask Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) to require state troopers to help federal authorities detain and deport illegal immigrants.
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
Democratic leaders in the Senate have selected a corporate lawyer from Atlanta and a longtime financial industry regulator to fill their party's two vacancies at the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people briefed on the nominations.