Senator Ted Kennedy, battling brain cancer, surprised Senate colleagues Wednesday when he returned to the chamber to cast a decisive vote on government health care legislation for the elderly and disabled, known as Medicare. His vote was key to pass...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 10 June 2008 A former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation says U.S. interrogators' use of coercive techniques against suspected terrorists has not produced reliable intelligence and may have helped recruit a n...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 05 June 2008 The Democratic-led U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has released a report that finds the Bush administration ignored disagreements about intelligence information in making its case for war in Iraq. Key Rep...
By Deborah Tate Washington 27 February 2008 Abill to cut off funding for the Iraq war survived a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The action came as Army officials told lawmakers they hope combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan can be shorte...
By Deborah Tate Washington 13 February 2008 The U.S. Senate has defied a veto threat from President Bush and approved legislation that would prohibit intelligence agencies from using extreme interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. The meas...
By Scott Stearns White House 02 February 2008 U.S. senators vote in the coming week on an economic stimulus plan that is more than $10 billion bigger than a deal backed by President Bush and the House of Representatives. VOA White House Correspondent...
By Scott Stearns White House 01 February 2008 President Bush says U.S. Senators must move quickly to approve a $146 billion economic stimulus plan already passed by the House of Representatives. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, th...
By Deborah Tate Washington 13 December 2007 A U.S. Senate panel has voted to hold White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and President Bush's former top aide, Karl Rove in contempt for refusing to cooperate in its probe of the Bush administration's f...
By Deborah Tate Washington 04 December 2007 The U.S. Senate has followed the lead of the House of Representatives and approved a free trade agreement with Peru, giving President Bush his first legislative victory on trade since Democrats took control...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 16 November 2007 The U.S. Senate has failed to approve additional funding that the Bush administration wants for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill. White House spokesman Ton...