WASHINGTON — Just how badly has the relationship between President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Reid soured?
Reid says he is again planning to hold the Senate in pro-forma session over the holiday break to stop Bush from making recess appointments while senators are away.
Democrats are worried Bush may appoint objectionable nominees, while leaving their own […]

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WASHINGTON — Congress is expected back in session today for the final legislative push of the year, and already the punches were flying this morning between President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid even before the gavels banged open the chambers.
Bush scolded Congress for its “unfinished business” at a morning Rose Garden press conference. […]

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WASHINGTON — President Bush’s veto this morning of the Labor/Health and Human Services/Education bill sidelines for now the $500,000 earmark for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a campus that serves some of the poorer parts of Las Vegas.
Bad news for the school, but a welcome victory for the anti-pork czars at Citizens Against Government […]

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