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Letters to the Editor: Death penalty, gun bill, Bill Clinton
Death penalty's meaning Terrorist operatives want the accused Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarvaev, to receive the death penalty. Why? It plays into their hands. History has proved repeatedly that, if anything, the death penalty encourages terrorists....
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Posey, Winter Springs, Death Penalty, National Rifle Association of America
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Internet sales tax bill advances, but final Senate passage delayed
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday failed to pass bipartisan legislation that would allow states to collect sales taxes from larger Internet retailers, but the bill cleared a key procedural hurdle and is on track for approval after lawmakers return...
Tags: Max Baucus, E-Commerce Industry, Anti Trust Crime, Local Government, Amazon.com Inc.
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Resolute, but with an asterisk
WASHINGTON -- The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists -- and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's deadly rampage through...
Tags: Barack Obama, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Islam, September 11, 2001 Attacks, FBI
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Baucus' exit drains hope for tax reform
This post has been updated, as indicated below. Six-term Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, announced Tuesday that he won't run for reelection in 2014. You may now kiss any hope of a sweeping tax reform bill...Tags: Barack Obama, Finance, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Health Care Reform (2009), Justice System
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A Measure Of Courage In Senate On Guns
The U.S. Senate minority's squelching of debate and votes last week on any meaningful legislation to reduce gun violence has unfortunately become the rule, not the exception. Not much can get done in the Senate under the tyranny of the minority, when it...Tags: U.S. Senate, Joe Manchin III, John McCain, Susan Collins, National Rifle Association of America
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Shouted protests punctuate Senate immigration hearing
WASHINGTON -- A Republican senator shouted in protest Monday as a top Democrat complained at a Senate hearing that opponents of immigration reform were improperly using the Boston bombing as a reason to delay changes to immigration law. Sen. Charles...
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Migration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Parties and Movements
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Senate sets aside gun bill, for now
WASHINGTON -- The Senate formally shelved further consideration of gun legislation Thursday even as supporters of a plan to expand background-check requirements vowed to keep pushing the issue. The decision to set the bill aside came after a showdown...Tags: Gun Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), National Rifle Association of America, Elections, Interior Policy
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Background check 'win-win' amendment gets a 'no, thanks' from Senate minority
Change of SubjectSenate deals setback to gun bill in vote on background checks tells the story of how the filibuster wins again: The final vote was, 54 (yes) to 46 (no), after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) switched his vote to...... -
Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Justice System, Parties and Movements, Chuck Grassley, Republican Party
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Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat
WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...
Tags: Organizing for Action, Barack Obama, National Rifle Association of America, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Old school for old boys
While Max Baucus and Jon Tester are both Democrats, both U.S. senators and both Montana country boys, last month's hurried vote to fund nearly $1 trillion of current federal spending shows just how different these Big Sky legislators really are. Baucus,...Tags: Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Finance, The New York Times, Elections
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Marco Rubio, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), News Corp.
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 22, 2013
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Apr 22, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
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Apr 19, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 18, 2013
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Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 17, 2013
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