Failure to renew the program before the chamber adjourns would take away jobs and threaten funding for major construction projects.
He's gauging if he's got what it takes for a White House run: money (yes), staff (yes), the right policies (maybe).
North Korea's ambassador to the U.N. also said the "so-called 'human rights issue'" in his country is "politically fabricated."
Jeb Bush visited South Carolina Monday, his second visit in three months to the important early primary state.
Jeb Bush has seen some GOP opposition to his possible presidential run, but that could be a good thing.
What happens when a government agency lies to a reporter?
"Torture programs right after 9/11 have made the matter of terrorism worse," said Juan Mendez, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on torture.
The U.S. Senate's massive report on CIA torture contains not so much as one syllable of recommended reforms to the spy agency.
The former vice president criticized the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee as being politically motivated and an affront to the CIA.
The CIA operated "black site" detention facilities in nations around the world, where it held and interrogted terror suspects in the aftermath of 9/11.
Newspapers around the United States used harsh headlines to describe the brutal CIA torture report released Tuesday.
Embassies in Egypt, Sweden, the Netherlands and three other countries have issued warnings about possible anti-American attacks.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pointed out what he said was hypocrisy in the U.S. pushing for human rights but inhumanely treating terror detainees.
Ex-President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney were misled about the CIA's interrogation program, a Senate committee found.
Overall American opposition to torture has declined since 2004. It remains to be seen if the Senate's report changes that.
The release of the Senate's long-awaited report on brutal CIA interrogation techniques is unlikely to lead to the prosecution or punishment of individuals involved in the program.
A report will be released Tuesday outlining torture tactics used by the CIA. But, America isn't the only country to have used torture.
Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency's anti-terror tactics, sources said.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush weighs in on the decision not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo.
The report is expected to contain evidence of how the CIA misrepresented intelligence gained via techniques some call "torture."
Protesters in more than 50 U.S. cities Wednesday will advocate for peace and ask Congress to stop providing military aid in Mexico's drug war.
"I kind of know how a Republican can win," the former Florida governor said.