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by Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: July 26, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. This week, a joint congressional committee released its final report about the terrorist
By Paula Wolfson White House 26 July 2007 Congressional Democrats are stepping up pressure on the White House as they investigate charges the Bush administration has been using the Justice Department as a political tool. VOA White House correspondent
Economics Report - US Congressional Committee Fails to Identify Budget Cuts This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. An American congressional committee reported failure earlier this week. The committee failed in its effort to cut the federa
模仿文本: Political rules in America dictate that anyone hoping to get rather top jobs in the administration must first face what's called a confirmation hearing. Basically that involves being grilled by the relevant congressional committee. T
Rice to Face Tough Questions in Congressional Testimony Scott Stearns Ms. Rice has already met in private with the commission for about four hours. But that was before allegations by a former counter-
Asserting executive privilege, President Bush has refused to comply with a congressional request for documents relating to the leak of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Wilson. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, a House committee delayed a vote
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 26 October 2006 As members of Congress campaign for the upcoming legislative election, back in the U.S. Capitol a congressional ethics committee completed the third week of an investigation that could yet have a major im
AS IT IS 2015-10-22 Benghazi: Witch Hunt or Valid Investigation? 班加西案件调查政治工具还是还原真相 This will not be the first time that Congress asks about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. This is the eighth time Con
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 July 2007 The legal confrontation between President Bush and Congress over documents and other information sought by lawmakers could soon escalate. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, the House Judiciary Committee meets later
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 July 2007 The House Judiciary Committee has voted to recommend to the full House of Representatives that President Bush's chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, and his former legal counsel, Harriet Miers, be cited for contemp
By David McAlary Washington 23 August 2006 A U.S. biotechnology company has developed a way to create human embryonic stem cells for disease research and treatment without destroying the fetus they come from. The researchers say their technique solv
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 28 June 2007 President Bush and majority Democrats in Congress are heading toward a constitutional showdown involving the controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, Democrats accuse th
US Congressional 'Supercommittee' Faces Deadline on Budget Deal The battle over how to reduce the United States' $15 trillion debt is now being debated by a bipartisan congressional supercommittee. With a deadline for agreement just days away, the sa
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today the story on Capitol Hill was supposed to be about the new era of total Republican control in Washington, but before the new Congress began, there was fresh drama in the House, where party leaders were overruled. Lawmakers
Washington 10 October 2007 The House of Representatives foreign affairs committee has approved a non-binding resolution calling the massacre of Armenians nearly a century ago a genocide. The vote was 27 to 21. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol
By Dan Robinson Washington 08 March 2006 A key committee of the U.S. Congress has approved legislation aimed at stepping up pressure on the government of Sudan because the situation in Darfur. A measu
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 15 November 2006 U.S. congressional Democrats, who will control the House of Representatives and Senate beginning in January, are calling on the Bush administration to hold direct talks with Iran about its nuclear progra
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 04 October 2006 An ethics committee in the House of Representatives meets Thursday amid the continuing scandal involving a former U.S. congressman, Mark Foley, and sexually explicit e-mails he allegedly sent to congressi
Concluding a three-day bus tour of key midwestern states, President Barack Obama said he will propose that a bipartisan congressional committee find more than $1.5 trillion in additional spending cuts, a level set in the recent debt and deficit compr
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. secretary of defense, faced his Congressional critics on Thursday at the Senate confirmation hearing, trying to gain their support. We will not hesitate to use the