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Tail-gunner Ted
WASHINGTON -- Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up? The young senator from Texas has been on the job for about 100 days, but he has already turned upside down the Senate's ancient seniority system and is dominating his senior Republican...
Tags: Chuck Grassley, Immigration, Marco Rubio, Primaries, Mitch McConnell
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect is charged
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — a crime that carries a possible death sentence. Tsarnaev, 19, was accused by federal...
Tags: Shootings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Trials, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Boston bombings to dominate Sunday morning shows
Staff writerTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Discussion about the Boston Marathon bombings and the suspects will fill the Sunday morning talk shows. A look at the guest list, which has been very fluid this weekend: ABC's "This Week" features Mayor Thomas Menino, D-...Tags: Brad Garrett, Dianne Feinstein, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), September 11, 2001 Attacks, The Wall Street Journal
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Gun control advocates rally in South Bend
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — About 60 people gathered in the cold, damp air Saturday in front of the Morris Performing Arts Center, urging U.S. senators to move ahead with a bill that would expand background checks for gun sales. Dale Gibson of South Bend held a...Tags: Laws, Jackie Walorski, Barack Obama, Sandy Hook Elementary School, John Broden
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Group pressures Donnelly, Coats on universal background checks on gun buys
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND – A progressive public policy and research organization on Wednesday called on the state's two U.S. senators, Democrat Joe Donnelly and Republican Dan Coats, to support "common sense" reforms aimed at curbing gun violence in America,...Tags: Laws, Shootings, Tom Perriello, Joe Donnelly, Criminal Laws
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Donnelly supports background checks for gun buyers
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly, facing pressure to back comprehensive background checks for gun buyers, says he supports extending them to gun shows. Donnelly told The Journal Gazette on Tuesday (http://bit.ly/10dG8Xd...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Marlin Stutzman, Joe Donnelly, Local Government, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Kelly Ayotte, Mike Johanns, Washington, DC, Barack Obama
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At new phase in budget fight, Obama reaches out to GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON -- President Obama appears to be trying to thaw chilly relations with lawmakers as he pushed through the latest budget battle while moving on to other parts of his second-term agenda. Obama will head to Capitol Hill next week to visit...
Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Corker, Immigration, Republican Party, Jay Carney
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Saxby Chambliss, Ron Johnson, Joe Biden
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A filibuster fit for Joe McCarthy
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense ended as it began -- with a smear. "Senator Hagel has accused Israel of quote 'playing games' and committing, quote, 'sickening slaughter,'" Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said before...
Tags: Barack Obama, Iran, Thomas R. Carper, John Boehner, Politics
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Lawmakers pessimistic about budget deal
South Bend TribuneThough not set to take effect until Friday, the automatic cuts to defense and domestic spending known as the sequester, negotiated back in 2011 as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling, already are having an effect on the economy and national security,...Tags: Career and Workplace, The Wall Street Journal, Joe Donnelly, Unemployment, University of Notre Dame
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Walorski and Coats respond to President's State of the Union address
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (IN-02) and U.S. Senator Dan Coats released the following responses to the President’s State of the Union address: Rep. Walorski's statement: “House Republicans are ready to get to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, Politics, Budget Control Act of 2011, Unions
Apr 22, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
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