Joining me to discuss the way the, the way forward and how we're going to do it is someone who works at the White House, the Senate, State Department and the former Director of Intelligence at National Security Council, Philip Bobbitt, good morning Philip, as everybody said it's not that Bobbitt, you are Philip Bobbitt.
The proposal approved by the Senate would allow the Transportation Department to adjust funding to "prevent reduced operations and staffing" for the remainder of the current federal budget year, which expires on September 30.
As White House liaison for the Justice Department, she'd be able to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee whether top Justice Department officials knew they were giving false testimony when they said that the White House was minimally involved in the removal of the U.S. attorneys.
Whatever happens to the House Ethics Committee, Jack Abramoff faces investigations by a Senate committee and the Justice Department.
Perez was easily confirmed by the Senate for his Justice Department post, but since then, some GOP lawmakers have criticized his role in persuading the city of St.
Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said he recommended the Justice Department establish an independent commission to decide if prosecution was warranted.
Waxman said Chung had given similar off-the-record, unsworn briefings to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and to investigators from the Department of Justice.
Mr Abramoff's dealings with Indian tribes and Washington politicians are being investigated by both the Justice Department and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and prosecutors are said to have their sights on several Republicans.
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In addition to several House and Senate subcommittees, the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating Enron's swift collapse and its decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection December 2, 2001 -- the largest such filing in U.S. history.
And second, during his time in the United States Senate (which preceded his present tour at the Justice Department), Senator Ashcroft was among that chamber's staunchest advocates of privacy rights and civil liberties.
Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the State Department should immediately suspend the visas of all foreigners on the nation's broadest terrorist database, pending further review.
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Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department indicted the longest-serving Republican in Senate history, on seven counts of making false statements on mandatory financial disclosure forms.
It's just that the Democratic Senate's version offers civil-service protection to the department's 170, 000 employees.
The Capitol Hill faceoff takes place exactly one week after the Justice Department refused to allow Gallagher to testify voluntarily at a Senate hearing on the same subject.
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The House and Senate passed bills (HR1270, S104) in 1997 requiring the Energy Department to build a temporary storage site for spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.
Obama directed the Justice Department to provide access to the secret document to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, an administration official said Wednesday.
He said the Senate bill wouldn't allow the department secretary to transfer limited funds among government accounts in response to terrorist threats, without a time-consuming approval process.
There is also stalemate in the Senate over the establishment of the proposed new Department of Homeland Security.
There are 23 slots at the department that need confirmation by the Senate, and only two have been filled.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, said the case showed how far the defence department still had to go in addressing the problem of sexual crimes in the military.
The TARP is being overseen by no fewer than three separate bodies, and at times it seems they have more employees than the Treasury Department has administering TARP (Mr Geithner still remains the Treasury's only Senate-confirmed official).
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The following is the complete text of a statement by Robert K. Steel, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, as released by the Treasury Department on Thursday, April 3.
The House appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes FEMA, will come up in the Senate Appropriations Committee on September 6, according to the Senate aide.
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Of the 320 Cabinet-level department positions subject to Senate confirmation, a staggering 60 (19%) are currently being filled in violation of the act.
The Senate's Democratic leaders are using a Defense Department authorization bill as a vehicle to consider several amendments designed to force Bush to change course in the war.
Also, potential Bush appointees to the Justice Department would have to be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Meanwhile, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the CIA obstructed justice by destroying the videotapes that documented the harsh 2002 interrogations of the alleged terrorists.
The hearing, called by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Homeland Security, heard expert testimony from the FBI, the Treasury Department, and two independent experts including Alex Alexiev of the Center for Security Policy.
"I hope that the governor himself comes to the conclusion that he can no longer effectively serve and that he does resign, " Obama said, speaking before announcing his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
The son of a Rockefeller Republican who represented New York in Congress and the Senate from 1959 to 1971, Mr. Goodell joined the NFL in 1982 as an intern in the public affairs department.
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