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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: U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Joe Manchin III, Susan Collins, Interior Policy
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Biden, NRA clash over new gun control proposals
Despite fresh opposition from the National Rifle Association, the Obama administration is assembling proposals to curb gun violence that would include a ban on sales of assault weapons, limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines and universal background...
Tags: U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Entertainment, Interior Policy, Politics
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Obama's gun control measures face tough road in Congress
Associated PressPresident Barack Obama’s sweeping gun-control package faces an uncertain future on Capitol Hill, where majority House Republicans are rejecting his proposals while the president’s allies in the Democratic-controlled Senate are stopping well...Tags: U.S. Congress, Tim Huelskamp, Interior Policy, Politics, Health and Safety at School
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Obama weighing executive action on gun control, expects tough fight ahead
The Associated PressFacing powerful opposition to sweeping gun regulations, President Barack Obama is weighing 19 steps that could be taken through executive action alone, congressional officials said. Those steps could include ordering stricter action against people who...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, Politics, Health and Safety at School
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Mail Call - Dec. 27
“I would like to thank the organizers of the Maugansville Ruritan Christmas evening. The Santa goes above and beyond, by reading a story and making contact with each and every child. The volunteers, young and old, are very thoughtful, and the...Tags: U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Abusive Behavior, Interior Policy, Politics
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Sheriff: Calif. teen planned attack on classmates
A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into a rural California high school on Thursday, shot one student and fired at others and missed before a teacher and another staff member talked him into surrendering, officials said. The teen victim...
Tags: Barack Obama, Health and Safety at School, Television Industry, Students, Shootings
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Biden pledges urgent Obama action on gun control
Vice President Joe Biden vowed urgent action against gun violence in America Wednesday, pledging steps by the Obama administration that he said could “take thousands of people out of harm’s way” and improve the safety of millions more....
Tags: U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Newspaper and Magazine, Interior Policy, Politics
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Allan Powell: The inside story of divided government
In the early 1970s, two rookie investigative reporters at the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, burst onto the public stage with daily revelations about a peculiar burglary at the Watergate Hotel. In time, their discoveries brought down...Tags: U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Debt Market, Politics
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Cliff avoided; Congress staves off income tax hikes for middle class
Associated PressPast its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation
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Senate OKs deal to avert 'fiscal cliff'; measure faces opposition from House conservatives
Legislation to negate a fiscal cliff of across-the-board tax increases and sweeping spending cuts to the Pentagon and other government agencies is headed to the GOP-dominated House after bipartisan, middle-of-the-night approval in the Senate capped a...
Tags: Orrin Hatch, Politics, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Fiscal Cliff
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Mail Call - Dec. 24
“If they’re going to tear down the municipal electric light plant, they need to do away with the dam. The dam is very dangerous. I’m a Hagerstown firefighter.” — Hagerstown “In reference to the article in the paper...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Taliban, Washington Nationals, Holidays, Religious Festivals
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W.Va. veteran's dream of WWI memorial in jeopardy
A bill that U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller twice introduced to create a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C., no longer bears the name of the late Frank Buckles, the West Virginia veteran who pushed for it. Nor does the version the Senate was considering...
Tags: U.S. Congress, World War II (1939-1945), Politics, Washington, DC, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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