“Censure is about holding the administration accountable,” Feingold said. “Congress needs to formally condemn the President and members of the administration for misconduct before and during the Iraq war, and for undermining the rule of law at home.”

Feingold plans to introduce two measures, one focusing on the administration’s actions leading up to and during the Iraq war and the other on domestic issues. Feingold cited overstating the need to go to war as one reason for censure, as well as not giving the American people an honest view of the situation in Iraq.

On the domestic front, Feingold said putting in place a warrantless wiretapping program, “extreme policies on torture, the Geneva Conventions, and detainees at Guantanamo,” and stonewalling a congressional investigation into the firing of several U.S. attorneys all are actions that warrant censure.

Feingold said censuring the president and others would be a “relatively modest response” to “flagrant” abuses of the law.

However, Reid indicated on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he is reluctant to schedule a vote on the measures.

While agreeing that Feingold “shows the frustration of the American people” and that Bush has “done a lot of things that have been very, very negative,” Reid pointed out that “have so many other things to do.”

“The president already has the mark of the American people that he’s the worst president we’ve ever had,” Reid added, “and I don’t think we need a censure resolution in the Senate to prove that.”