Senators: Intel Chief Needs Budget Power
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Two senators working on legislation that would overhaul U.S. intelligence agencies said Thursday a new intelligence chief should have significant and clear power over the budget.
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Intel's general counsel calls for patent reform to move forward in Congress.
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New powers for the CIA director and creation of a national counterterrorism center stop short of the type of intelligence reorganization urged by the 9/11 Commission and lawmakers.
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President Bush is pushing Congress to give him more authority to slice and dice the budget, an idea that&#039;s popular with conservatives who think the White House needs more muscle to restrict federal spending.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 18, 2004  Two influential Senate Republicans are putting forward competing proposals to change the intelligence community&#39;s leadership structure, despite words of caution from top Pentagon officials.
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Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will create a new congressional panel to examine the administration's intelligence budget and to make sure the money is being spent properly.
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WASHINGTON - Some lawmakers are opposing a new intelligence bill prompted by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, complaining that Republicans refused to work with their Democratic colleagues to craft a balanced bill that would represent both viewpoints...
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In what could be a significant blow against an intelligence overhaul bill stalled in Congress, the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee expressed new doubts Friday about the legislation.
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Kansas Senator Pat Roberts isn&#39;t optimistic about passage of a major intelligence overhaul plan before the year is out. The Republican chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and helped broker the compromise bill.
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Senators on Monday gave in to several House demands on compromise legislation dealing with the Sept. 11 commission's anti-terrorism recommendations, including keeping the intelligence budget secret, increasing border security forces and banning aliens who have been trained by terrorist groups.
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The United States must build a research capacity which dwarfs the secretive project behind the atomic bomb if it is to counter an inevitable bio-terror attack, US Senate majority leader Bill Frist warned.
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A leading Senate Republican on defense issues, Sen. John Warner, will call on President Bush to solicit privately the opinions of Democrats before forging a new strategy on Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - The committee writing the Senate's intelligence reorganization plan is recommending creation of a strong national intelligence director with spending power, while leaving the Pentagon in charge of some military spy agencies.    Sen...
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The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Sunday blamed the White House and Pentagon for resisting intelligence reform and gave the U.S. Congress a failing grade for not passing legislation.
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The new proposal by eight Republican senators to break up the CIA and the Pentagon&#39;s virtual lock on intelligence met with sharp opposition yesterday
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President Bush presented Congress on Thursday with legislation to create a strong national intelligence director with authority to control the nonmilitary portions of the nation's intelligence budget.
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A growing number of senators are questioning whether the Senate should abandon pledges to make far-reaching changes to the nation's intelligence bureaucracy before Election Day, doubts that could dampen the bill's momentum.