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Bill to expand gun background checks faces likely defeat in Senate
Associated PressA bipartisan effort to expand background checks faced almost certain defeat Wednesday as the Senate approached a long-awaited vote on the linchpin of the drive to curb gun violence. As the showdown drew near, an Associated Press-GfK poll showed ebbing...Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Max Baucus
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Gun control loses: No expanded background checks
Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades Wednesday, rejecting tighter background checks for buyers and a ban on assault weapons as they spurned pleas from...
Tags: Mark Kirk, Laws, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress
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Maryland General Assembly ends with legislators working to ensure passage of bills
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comThe 2013 session of the Maryland General Assembly ends Monday, and local legislators were working last week to ensure final passage of some measures they had introduced. Bills introduced by local lawmakers that were on their way to becoming law...Tags: Health, Career and Workplace, George C. Edwards, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Washington County delegation electioneering bill withdrawn
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comA Washington County delegation bill proposed by Del. Neil C. Parrott that would alter electioneering boundaries to 50 feet from the entrance and exit of a polling station from the current 100 feet has been withdrawn after opposition from the Washington...Tags: Voting, Montgomery County (Maryland), Elections, Local Elections, Politics
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Md. lawmakers take up natural gas issues, jobs, early voting
Md. lawmakers approve natural gas surcharge bill ANNAPOLIS (AP) — Natural gas companies would be able to seek a surcharge of up to $2 on monthly gas bills to help recover costs for replacing aging infrastructure, in a measure approved by state...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Business, Employment, George C. Edwards, Justice System
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House votes to defuse debt limit crisis
Associated PressRetreating with a purpose, Republicans sped legislation through the House on Wednesday to avert the imminent threat of a government default but pointing the way to a springtime budget struggle with President Barack Obama over Medicare, farm subsidies...Tags: Dave Camp, Medicaid, Paul Ryan, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate
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Berkeley County voter turnout tops state average
matthewu@herald-mail.comBerkeley County’s 55.7 percent voter turnout in the 2012 general election came in slightly above the statewide average, according to Secretary of State Natalie Tennant’s office. Chief Deputy County Clerk Bonnie Woodfall said Thursday that...Tags: Elections, Local Elections, Primaries, Politics
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George Michael: What sunk the Romney ship?
The results of last week’s election indicate that the American electorate is more divided than ever. Red states vs. blue states. Rural vs. urban. Hardened battle lines are now in place for the next four years. Maryland voted for President Obama...Tags: Mitt Romney, Business, Paul Ryan, Mormonism, John McCain
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Silver's model proves science of election
This was a problematic election for people of my ilk, because the art of punditry might just have experienced a John Henry moment. Worse, many pundits doubled down, proclaiming that machine could never beat man in the art of tea-leaf reading, taking...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Periodicals, Elections, Parties and Movements, Science and Technology
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Letters to the Editor - Nov. 9
Prescription turn-in event targets youth drug abuse To the editor: An alarming number of Washington County youth are intentionally abusing prescription medications to get high. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has labeled...Tags: West Virginia Legislature, Career and Workplace, Health, Labor Legislation, Barack Obama
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Residents give advice to the president
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comWith President Obama re-elected Tuesday, the Republicans maintaining control of the House of Representatives, and the Democrats maintaining control of the Senate, Washington appears as if it will be as divided as it was before the elections. Hagerstown...Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Social Security, Democratic Party, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Elections
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Given 2nd term, Obama, with divided Congress, must deal with impending financial crisis
Associated PressPresident Barack Obama faces a new urgent task now that he has a second term, working with a status-quo Congress to address an impending financial crisis that economists say could send the country back into recession. “You made your voice heard,&...Tags: Migration, Public Finance, Timothy M. Kaine, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush
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