Senate probe accuses UK, French politicians of taking oil-for-food kickbacks
The investigations subcommittee of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reported Thursday that British Member of Parliament George Galloway and French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ...
Senate Judiciary Committee wants sickest asbestos victims compensated fastest
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday approved an amendment to the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 (FAIR) which would guarantee that the sickest asbestos victims will be compensated the fastest. The FAIR...
No criminal charges for pilots who breached White House airspace
No criminal charges are to be filed against the pilots of a Cessna 150 aircraft that flew into White House airspace Wednesday, prompting evacuations of the White House, the Capitol, and nearby...
Senators and others critical of the sweeping powers granted to law enforcement autorities under the USA Patriot Act testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of a proposed SAFE Act to limit those...
The Real ID Act passed the US Senate 100-0 late Tuesday as a rider on an $82B emergency supplemental appropriations bill funding military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. The controversial act...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday that he hoped the Senate could take up the contentious issue of judicial nominations by next week. During a meeting with the press, Frist said the Senate could finish debate...
States, rights groups concerned about burdens of Real ID Act
State officials and rights groups have voiced financial and privacy concerns over the Real ID Act , the controversial identity legislation passed last Thursday in the US House of Representatives as a rider on...
The US Department of State said Monday that it will not release internal documents requested by Senate Democrats serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , set to vote Thursday on the nomination of John Bolton...
In a statement issued Monday while visiting Europe for World War II commemorations, President Bush once again urged the Senate to put his judicial nominees to an up-or-down vote . Two of the nominees highlighted in...
Senate committee chair predicts approval of Bolton nomination
Senator Richard Lugar , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , said Sunday that he expects a party-line vote this week to approve the controversial nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the...
