Here we are just over 10 years after the GOP seized control of Congress, and the House Republicans have become accustomed to power. That’s why it was especially shameless when the Republican leadership set out to kill a rule that would have required GOP leader Tom DeLay to step down if indicted – as appeared possible because of an investigation back home in Texas.
A day after backing off a rules change that would have allowed an indicted congressional leader to retain his post, the House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a separate change that will make it harder to pursue ethics probes of members of Congress.
Secretary of State Colin Powell faced the unimaginable destruction of Asia’s tsunami horror on Wednesday as his helicopter swooped low over a razed coast now a graveyard for thousands.
A former human rights official under President Clinton and two other critics of the Bush administration’s treatment of terrorism detainees will testify at confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales, Senate Republicans said Tuesday.
A U.S.-funded study on an AIDS drug was so poorly conducted that it potentially put the lives of hundreds of mothers and babies in Uganda at risk, a government whistleblower said Tuesday.
President Bush is expected to unveil his plan for a Social Security overhaul in late February, with administration officials eyeing investment accounts that would hold two-thirds of workers’ annual payroll taxes.
President Bush is expected to unveil his plan for a Social Security overhaul in late February, with administration officials eyeing investment accounts that would hold two-thirds of workers’ annual payroll taxes.
In a show of strength at the dawn of a new Congress, majority Republicans passed new ethics standards opposed by House Democrats on Tuesday and threatened to change Senate rules if necessary to confirm President Bush’s court appointees.
A former Navy SEAL testifying under a grant of immunity said he first witnessed prisoner abuse a week after his arrival in Iraq in October 2003.
A former Navy SEAL testifying under a grant of immunity said he first witnessed prisoner abuse a week after his arrival in Iraq in October 2003.