Dick Cheney

August 09, 2007 -- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Waxman releases a GAO report analyzing the Defense Department’s decision to pay KBR nearly all of the $221 million in costs that the Defense Contract Audit Agency questioned during its audits of the Restore Iraqi Oil contract for reconstruction work on Iraq’s oil infrastructure. The report finds multiple violations of federal acquisition regulations and procedures, placing millions of taxpayer dollars at risk and leaving questions unanswered.

Report Introduction:

DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT    » read more »

WASHINGTON (Wednesday, August 8) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday set a final date for an extension given to the Administration to respond to subpoena relating to warrantless wiretapping issues. The August 20 deadline sets a final date of an extension that offered the White House and the Vice President’s office nearly an additional month to respond to committee subpoenas.    » read more »

Renews call for a rethinking of American foreign policy

Aug 1, 2007 -- Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Following Vice President Dick Cheney's comments last night affirming his support for the proposed $20 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Senator John Edwards today called on Congress to speak out and oppose the deal. Edwards believes the proposed deal with Saudi Arabia could have negative consequences for the future of the region, and does nothing to shut down terrorism and get to its roots.    » read more »

Resolutions Condemn President and Administration Officials for Misconduct Leading Up to and During Military Involvement in Iraq, and for Undermining the Rule of Law

August 6, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) have introduced two censure resolutions in their respective chambers condemning the president, vice president and the attorney general for misconduct regarding our military involvement in Iraq and for their repeated assaults on the rule of law at home.    » read more »

29 July 2007 (By VOA News) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney left a hospital in Washington Saturday following a scheduled operation to replace a battery in a device that monitors his heart.

Mr. Cheney has a history of heart trouble. He has suffered four heart attacks, the most recent in 2000.

An internal defibrillator was implanted in his chest in 2001. The device monitors his heartbeat and administers an electric shock to the heart muscle to correct irregular beats.    » read more »

07/12/2007 -- WASHINGTON D.C. – Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) wrote a letter to David Addington, Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff, asking for answers about reports that the Vice President’s office demanded control of the visitors logs of the Office of the Vice President from the Secret Service.    » read more »

July 10, 2007 -- [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, today included language in the his subcommittee’s appropriation bill to suspend funds for the Office of the Vice President in FY2008 until the Office of the Vice President complies with Executive Order 12958.    » read more »

07/09/2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. John Kerry issued the following statement today, in response to the White House announcement that the President's lawyers will block Congress from hearing testimony from two aides suspected of playing a role in the US Attorney's purge.

"I hope President Bush will rethink his refusal to cooperate with Congress and have his aides come clean on the firings of U.S. Attorneys," Kerry said.    » read more »

7/5/2007 -- CHICAGO - The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., founder and President of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, issued the following statement on President Bush's action to commute the sentence of Lewis Libby:

While no surprise, President Bush’s move to commute the 2 ½ year prison sentence of White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby is an affront to justice and fairness.    » read more »

Other Democratic Presidential candidates oppose it

July 06, 2007 -- CLEVELAND, OH – More than half of all Americans support bringing Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll released today. Articles of Impeachment were filed in April by Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, and it has 14 co-sponsors.    » read more »

Take Next Steps To Enforce Congressional Subpoenas

WASHINGTON (Friday, June 29) -- Today, Senate and House Judiciary Chairmen Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, responding to the President's executive privilege assertion over documents relating to the US Attorney investigation. Leahy and Conyers reiterated their concern that the President's sweeping assertion was unprecedented.    » read more »

June 29, 2007 -- Today, House and Senate Judiciary Chairmen John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, responding to the president's executive privilege assertion over documents relating to the US Attorney investigation. The two reiterated their concern that the president's assertion was unprecedented and over-reaching.    » read more »

June 28, 2007 -- MR. FRATTO: This is Tony Fratto, Deputy Press Secretary at the White House. This is, as the operator said, a senior administration official call. So that's your sourcing. I'll turn the phone over to my colleague. He'll make some opening remarks, and then we will open it up to questions.    » read more »

June 27, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC — Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and Oversight and Government Reform Information Policy Subcommittee Chairman Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) today called upon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to explain his role in the Vice President’s extraordinary attempt to remove his office from executive branch oversight and the subsequent refusal to comply with procedures to protect classified information in the Office of the Vice President (OVP).    » read more »

Sentence is for Obstructing U.S. Senate Investigation into Abramoff Corruption Scandal

June 26, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – James Steven Griles, the former Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for obstructing the U.S. Senate’s investigation into the corruption allegations surrounding former Washington lobbyist Jack A. Abramoff, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.    » read more »