Charles Babington, AP President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was filled with unnecessary projects. The 79-14 vote included 34 Republicans who defied the president. Enactment was a foregone conclusion, but it still marked a…
By Eric Haas, Rockridge Nation Last April, President Bush told members of American Legion Post 177 that “we owe the families and the soldiers the best health care possible.” That debt is still unpaid. According to a new report by Harvard Medical School researchers, published last week in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Public Health,…
Two Democrats Move to Outlaw Waterboarding By Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers The practice of waterboarding would be outlawed specifically, along with other extreme interrogation techniques, under legislation pushed by two Democratic senators. The measures would repudiate the Bush administration’s policy on torture. The CIA reportedly has used waterboarding – or simulated drowning – when questioning…
