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Michael Mukasey refuses to acknowledge that "waterboarding" – a simulated drowning technique that dates back to the Inquisition – constitutes torture. Nevertheless, the Democratic-controlled Senate appears on course to confirm Mukasey's nomination to be U.S.
Michael Mukasey's nomination as attorney general is in trouble in the Senate Judiciary Committee because he has refused to say whether waterboarding is a form of torture.
The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance from Democrats on Friday.
The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance from Democrats today.
The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance on Friday, with Democratic senators suggesting for the first time that they might oppose Mr.
Arlen Specter joined Democrats in questioning the basis for the assertion by Michael B. Mukasey that the president "can act outside the law" on national security issues.
President Bush appeared Wednesday at the National Security Agency's (NSA) headquarters to call on Congress to make permanent and expand provisions of the "Protect America Act of 2007." The bill—passed with bipartisan support in August just prior to the Congressional reces …
Now this is big news. Good on Sen. Specter. What with all the recent GOP gay scandals we need some good old fashioned red-blooded hosting of hot former porn stars here. "I don't recognize that name. Who? General Jameson?" Specter asked.
He must have been too busy in a bathroom stall to notice he dialed the wrong number.
Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) is reconsidering his announced intention to resign, if he can clear his name of criminal and ethics charges before the end of the month, a spokesman said last night.
The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001.
A Republican Senator is going to investigate whether Roberts and Alito lied to get confirmed. They have already made decisions that counterdict what they said they would do during their hearings. Can they be recalled?
"I do not find your testimony credible." Neither do I. I think it all started when you couldn't recollect any recollection of recalling that date.
Lawmakers voiced incredulity and disdain at Gonzales's answers to questions about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and the description of a visit he made as White House counsel to a hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2004.
Ultimately, we are reflections of our culture, and can no more be untainted by its contaminants than a fish living in a mercury-polluted lake can avoid heavy metal poisoning by virtue of prudent swimming.
WASHINGTON -- In unusually harsh personal criticism on the Senate floor, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., on Wednesday accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of being "rude," "dictatorial" and "ineffective."
WASHINGTON, July 19 — Arlen Specter is a senior United States senator who expects to be allowed his say on the Senate floor. So he bristled when Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, brusquely cut him off at the end of the Iraq debate.
Social conservatives are mobilizing for a new showdown with Democrats over judicial appointments, answering a call to action from an unlikely source: Pennsylvania Sen.
Influential senators from both parties will unveil a new global warming proposal that could form the basis of a climate change compromise that has eluded Congress.
Frustrated by the Bush administration's continued use of presidential signing statements to challenge or ignore provisions of Congressionally approved legislation, Senate Judiciary ranking member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has reintroduced legislation to rein in President Bush's a …
Right now, the Senate Rules Committee is holding a hearing on S. 1285, the Fair Elections Now Act, a bipartisan bill to create a voluntary public financing option for Senate campaigns.
Your goal was to show America just how freaking nice you were, and to change the tone in Washington from bellicose to genteel. What you failed to realize is that America doesn't need you to be nice. America needs you to be strong. You've succeeded at being nice.
The Republicans stopped the no-confidence vote under Senate rules that allow a minority to block consideration of a measure.
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.
We have over 20,000 gun laws on the books now that were put there by "pro-gun" legislators.
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