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Bush Prods GOP to Pass New Detainee Rules

In an address to the House Republican Conference on Thursday, President Bush urged GOP lawmakers to approve his proposed detainee interrogation policies, saying the new guidelines will help his administration fight terrorism.

Don Gonyea talks with Alex Chadwick about how President Bush's latest proposals are faring in Congress, and whether they run counter to a recent Supreme Court ruling.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.
Alex Chadwick
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica.