618 days ago- Eager to show newly empowered Democrats that he is open to fresh ideas about Iraq, President Bush and his top advisers met Monday with the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.
618 days ago- A defiant Rep. Steny Hoyer on Monday guaranteed victory in his race for House majority leader — one day after presumptive House speaker Nancy Pelosi backed Hoyer’s rival.
621 days ago- President Bush’s political honeymoon with newly empowered Democrats continued Friday as he and Vice President Dick Cheney met with Senate leaders at the White House.
622 days ago- One day after being sacked by President Bush in the wake of the Democratic takeover of Congress, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded Thursday he had a mixed record on Iraq.
622 days ago- In a second day of overtures to Democrats, President Bush lunched with presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday and instructed his Cabinet to cooperate with the newly empowered opposition party.
622 days ago- U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., promised Thursday that he wouldn’t let a D.C. voting rights bill get lost in the Democratic reshuffle of Congress.
623 days ago- Presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the podium Wednesday to outline her party’s plans for the future and to reassure voters that she won’t lead a liberal inquisition against President Bush.
623 days ago- Conceding that his party took “a thumpin’ ” in Tuesday’s election, President Bush on Wednesday pledged to work with Democrats to increase the minimum wage and grant legal status to illegal immigrants.
623 days ago- The man who’ll replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld opposed invading Iraq in 2003 and had once rejected President Bush’s offer to be the nation’s first national intelligence director.
623 days ago- One day after Democrats won control of the House, President Bush announced Wednesday that embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be replaced by former CIA Director Robert Gates.
624 days ago- Recriminations among Republicans began even before most votes were cast on Tuesday as the GOP braced for a Democratic takeover of the House while hoping to retain the Senate.