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WASHINGTON, March 9, 2006 – In a rare joint appearance before Congress, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to quickly pass a $91 billion supplemental spending bill. The bill proposes $65.3 billion to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as about $20 billion needed for Hurricane Katrina reconstruction. The two cabinet members appeared with Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command. Rumsfeld said the supplemental includes $34.7 billion for on-going deployments and operations...

  For Immediate ReleaseApril 23, 2005 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. My most solemn responsibility as Commander-in-Chief is to protect the American people. At this moment, our courageous men and women in uniform are serving in distant lands, risking their lives to ensure our security. We must give them all the resources they need to protect us from the threats of determined enemies and to prevail in the war on terror. I applaud the House and Senate for their strong support of my supplemental funding request for our troops serving on the front lines. This funding...

Democrat Backs Supplemental Social Security Accounts (Update1) Check out - Bloomberg Omaha On Bush AgendaBush To Make 6th Visit President plans sixth stop in metro Details are slowly emerging about the president's trip to Nebraska next week. He's expected to be in downtown Omaha, at a location yet to be announced. This will be President Bush's sixth visit to the metro since taking office. The president was here three times in 2001. First, to push his tax cut, next to throw out the first pitch of the College World Series, and he was then briefly at Offutt Air Force Base...

President Bush met this afternoon with African-American business and community leaders and pastors in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, to discuss their efforts to serve their communities throughout the United States. He also issued a statement regarding his supplemental budget request for Iraq, most of which will be used to supply and protect our troops there. ENJOY your trip to Sanity Island, and the Daily Dose!!

Whatever happened to family values? President Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security and promote an ownership society contradicts his campaign rhetoric. He is deliberately concealing the fact that today 4 million children are Social Security beneficiaries and that only 63 percent of all beneficiaries are retired workers. Of the $40 million in Social Security checks sent out in September -- the last month for which statistics are available -- only some $27 million went to retirees.

ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) made the following remarks during a Bush-Cheney '04 conference call: "[W]e compared the record of another respected Democratic senator, Senator Bingaman from New Mexico, with Senator Kerry’s votes on going to war in Iraq and then the later vote of supporting the troops in Iraq -- the $87 billion supplemental. And it’s interesting that unlike John Kerry, Senator Bingaman’s votes were exactly the opposite. He had a principled position; he felt it was wrong to give the President authority to go into Iraq, and so he actually voted against that resolution. But...

Statement by Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Gov. Marc Racicot Regarding John Kerry skipping yesterday's vote on $25 billion for our troops(title edited for length) ARLINGTON, VA— Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Gov. Marc Racicot issued the following statement on John Kerry skipping yesterday's vote on $25 billion for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan: "John Kerry is giving a speech today on modernizing our military less than 24 hours after he skipped a vote on $25 billion in funding for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. John Kerry's decision to spend yesterday delivering an attack speech rather than returning to the...

<p>DALLAS -- When the week began, American Airlines' rank-and-file held the power to keep the world's largest carrier out of bankruptcy.</p> <p>By week's end, however, the pressure had shifted toward the company's executives as plans to give them bonuses and protect their pensions threatened to undermine employees' willingness to sacrifice their own wages and benefits.</p>

Think CEO pay is out of control? Wait till you see what these guys get when they retire. For a brief, shining moment, it looked as if outrage had finally triumphed over excess. Earlier this month, soon after Delta Air Lines disclosed that CEO Leo Mullin had hauled in a bonus of $1.4 million plus $2 million in free stock in 2002, howls of protest from shareholders and employees prompted a dramatic turnabout. After all, in 2002 the airline had lost $1.3 billion, slashed thousands of jobs, and seen its stock price collapse by 58%. Mullin announced that he was...