Mar. 11th, 2008
Republicans Uphold Bush Veto Of Anti - Torture Bill
By REUTERS
Filed at 8:14 p.m. ET
By REUTERS
Filed at 8:14 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's fellow Republicans in Congress on Tuesday upheld his veto of a bill to ban the CIA from subjecting enemy detainees to interrogation methods denounced by critics as torture.
A largely party-line vote of 225-188 in the Democratic-led House of Representatives fell short of the needed two-thirds majority to override the president. More