<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Bush Administration</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><description>Bush Administration</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Delay in Bolton Vote Concerns White House]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10449-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10449-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has set a vote over John R. Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the United Nations for May 12  --  a delay that Bush administration officials acknowledged yesterday is  increasing their anxieties about Bolton's prospects.]]></description><author> John F. Harris  and Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Volunteer Probed on Role at President's Speech]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10420-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10420-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Secret Service is investigating whether a Republican volunteer committed the crime of impersonating a federal agent while forcibly removing three people from one of President Bush's public Social Security events, according to people familiar with the probe.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors Are Warned on Fetus Care]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10411-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10411-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration issues guidelines advising physicians and hospitals that they are obligated to care for fetuses "born alive" naturally or in the process of an abortion.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheney Enters Fray on Judicial Nominees]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The White House intervened in Congress's bitterly partisan debate over federal judges, as Vice President Cheney vowed to break a tie vote if necessary to change Senate rules and ban filibusters of judicial nominees.]]></description><author> Charles Babington  and Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thundery Earth Day Keeps Bush Out of Park]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 22  --  President Bush was to have celebrated Earth Day in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Friday, pitching in on a trail restoration project and giving a speech touting his environmental record with the park's majestic peaks serving as a compelling backdrop. But Mother Nature did not cooperate.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powell Playing Quiet Role in Bolton Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7420-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7420-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former  secretary of  state Colin L. Powell is emerging as a behind-the-scenes player in the battle over John R. Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the United Nations.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei  and Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Encourages Belarus Opposition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6481-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6481-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 21  --  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a boost Thursday to stalled efforts to oust the government of Belarus, holding a high-profile meeting with key opposition figures from the former Soviet republic. Russian and Belarusan officials criticized her actions and statements as interference.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Urges Action 'Now' On Energy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush called on Congress to pass his national energy policy by August to begin weaning the nation from imported oil and transitioning to alternative sources of power and fuel.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei  and Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Honors President Lincoln]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2518-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2518-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Speaking to an audience assembled for dedication of the $90 million museum here memorializing the president often called "the savior of the nation," Bush said, "to understand the life and the sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln is to understand the meaning and promise of America."]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Stumps for Social Security Proposal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64014-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64014-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush said that Americans will prosper if they are allowed to invest their Social Security taxes in the stock market  --  and will suffer if Congress denies them the chance.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annual Terror Report Won't Include Numbers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63182-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63182-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The State Department announced that it will no longer publish statistics for international terrorism, a year after it was forced to correct its assertion that terrorist acts had declined in 2003 when in fact they were at their highest level in years.]]></description><author> Susan B. Glasser</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outreach to Islamic World Gets Slow Start]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61213-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61213-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the U.S. and is expected to become the second-largest religious bloc here in the next few years, but the government has not tapped into its own community as part of the global outreach, officials say.]]></description><author> Robin Wright and Al Kamen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Rice's Deputy, a Leading Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59535-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59535-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Robert B. Zoellick has a deep background in both economics and politics, but cutting trade deals in President Bush's first term appears to have molded him into a pragmatic diplomatic troubleshooter.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Lauds Ohio's Non-Social Security Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57530-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57530-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush continued his campaign to restructure Social Security on Friday, participating in an event showcasing public retirement plans in Ohio that have operated outside the federal system.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hiring of Commentator Is Called Poor Judgment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57561-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57561-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senior education officials showed poor judgment but did nothing illegal or unethical when they hired commentator Armstrong Williams to promote the administration's education policies, according to a government report.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bushes Paid $207,307 In Federal Income Tax]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56534-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56534-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush and first lady Laura Bush paid $207,307 in federal income taxes on taxable income of $672, 788 in 2004, according to tax returns released Friday by the White House.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI, CIA Proposals To Retool Called 'Business as Usual']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54800-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54800-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The president's commission on intelligence criticized separate modernization plans sent to President Bush in February by the FBI and the CIA, saying they reflected a "business as usual approach to intelligence gathering" that falls short.]]></description><author> Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bolton Faces Allegations That He Tried to Fire Analysts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54774-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54774-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 2003, John R. Bolton, President Bush's choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, ordered a young official working closely with then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell removed from duties in the State Department's nonproliferation bureau in what U.S. officials described as a third attempt by Bolton to purge career officials he perceived as impeding his policy goals.]]></description><author> Dafna Linzer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Questions New Passport Rules]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54690-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54690-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush said Thursday that he was surprised by his administration's plans to require U.S. citizens to show a passport when reentering the country from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Papers Show Negroponte's Contra Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44944-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44944-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_politics/administration</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As John D. Negroponte prepares for his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday for the new intelligence director post, previously secret documents shed light on the most controversial episode in his career.]]></description><author> Michael Dobbs</author></item></channel></rss>