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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: Heidi Heitkamp, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mark Begich, Michael Bloomberg, Democratic 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: U.S. Congress, Finance, Elections, Genetic Engineering, George W. Bush
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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: Janet Napolitano, National Retail Federation, Personal Data Collection, Michael Bloomberg, Corporate Officers
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Gun control: Wait till next year -- or the year after
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) formally suspended the Democrats’ drive for new gun control legislation Thursday, shelving his party’s bill after Wednesday’s defeat of its centerpiece, a measure for expanded background...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Susan Collins, Elections, Mark Begich, Mark Kirk
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Column: Signs of grown-ups in charge
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision. President Barack Obama used a recess...Tags: Elections, Ron Wyden, Automotive Equipment, White House, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Heidi Heitkamp, Elections, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mark Begich, Michael Bloomberg
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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: Local Government, Amazon.com Inc., E-Commerce Industry, Ron Wyden, Anti Trust Crime
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Getting to yes on immigration reform
The sweeping immigration bill outlined by a bipartisan group of eight senators this week represents the most comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in more than a quarter-century. It's also probably Congress' best chance this year to...Tags: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Rand Paul, Tea Party Movement
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Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, turned away legislation Wednesday to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms, rejecting repeated appeals from President Barack Obama and personal pleas by...Tags: Heidi Heitkamp, Elections, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mark Begich, Michael Bloomberg
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Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON — In a final appeal to her colleagues to reinstate an assault weapons ban, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) displayed on the Senate floor Wednesday a New York Daily News front page from the day after her ban was pulled from a broader...
Tags: Mike Johanns, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Mark Kirk
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Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator
This post has been updated and corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...Tags: Janet Napolitano, Crime, Law and Justice, Law Enforcement, Angus King, FBI
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How a bill becomes slaw -- an autopsy of gun-control legislation in Washington
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it’s dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let’s take a close look at just how something as popular as......
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