bush presses mayors on faith-based plan

DETROIT -- With his plan to expand government financing of religious groups charitable work in trouble Congress, President Bush sought yesterday to reassure critics that the money will be spent on social services, not worship services... ... Bush asked mayors to lobby..

obama wants tax cut for 98% of america (cc)

And over the next few weeks, we're going to have chance to work together in the brief upcoming session of Congress.. Early in the last decade, President Bush and Congress enacted series of tax cuts that were designed to expire at the end of this year.. ..

public opinion six months later

So are ratings for Congress and even President Bush. But the president is still rated positively by nearly eight-in-ten Americans and gets an extraordinary 63% approval mark among Democrats in Pew’s February survey. ..

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