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Organizing for Action targets GOP lawmakers in first ad buy
WASHINGTON -- Four California Republican House members are among 13 GOP legislators being targeted by a pro-Obama advocacy group in a new online ad campaign urging them to back a more robust background check system for gun sales. Reps. Jeff Denham,...
Tags: Online Media Industry, Jeff Denham, Gun Control, Online Advertising, Jim Gerlach
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Countering cyber threats
In what has become a depressingly familiar ritual, computer security experts revealed this week that hackers with apparent ties to a foreign government — in this case, the Chinese military — had "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes...
Tags: Joe Lieberman, U.S. Congress, Security, Politics, Standards
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Obama: 'Shame on us' if Congress forgets Newtown
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and "get squishy" on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough...
Tags: Mary L. Landrieu, Polls, Gun Control, Parties and Movements, Mark Kirk
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Maryland should say yes to single-sex schools
Anyone hearing the ACLU's position on single-sex education would think something troubling is afoot in almost every town in America. The ACLU claims that single-sex education is an unlawful form of discrimination and that its supposed benefits are based...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Hillary Clinton, Roman Catholicism, University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Research
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Obama wraps up his three-day Capitol Hill tour
WASHINGTON -- After a rough-and-tumble meeting with House Republicans earlier in the week, President Obama wrapped up his Capitol Hill tour Thursday with friendlier crowds in the House and Senate, even as lawmakers signaled opposition to his budget...
Tags: Keith Ellison, Justice System, Politics, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Democrats face challenging Senate landscape
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a surprising string of victories last fall, Democrats now face a challenging terrain as they look to hold onto their Senate majority in 2014 and prevent Republicans from gaining full control of Congress during President...Tags: Mary L. Landrieu, Gary Peters, Parties and Movements, Mike Johanns, Bruce Braley
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Proposed law would 'make you pay' for buying guns for others
Tribune reporterIt’s been nearly three years since Chicago police Officer Thomas Wortham IV was shot and killed with a gun purchased in Mississippi by a straw purchaser -- a person who buys guns for those who aren't allowed to. But on Friday, his sister Sandra...Tags: Prisons, Chicago Police Department, Hadiya Pendleton, Justice System, Politics
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Senate Judiciary Committee approves gun trafficking bill
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday to combat gun trafficking, the first firearms measure since the Newtown, Conn., shooting to move to consideration by the full Senate. The proposal, steered by committee...Tags: Gun Control, John Cornyn, Justice System, Patrick Leahy, Politics
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'No budget, no pay' advances despite reservations
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an earlier era, a move like the one engineered by House GOP leaders to pass a "no budget, no pay" measure probably would have been stopped in its tracks. But with Congress' approval ratings in the gutter, House lawmakers...
Tags: Justice System, Patrick Leahy, Politics, Parties and Movements, Government Debt
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Johnny Isakson, Mary L. Landrieu, Jack Reed, Immigration, Jon Tester
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...Tags: Al Gore, U.S. Supreme Court, Executive Branch, Political Candidates, Politics
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Since when does it take a political campaign to become secretary of state?
There was a time when a president and the opposition party in Congress could agree on certain basics, such as the right of the chief executive to select members of his cabinet with no fuss or bother. The president's most important choice in this...Tags: Susan Rice, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Politics
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