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Manchin's plan for explaining gun proposal: 'The longer the better'
WASHINGTON – One of the senators behind the compromise proposal to expand background checks on gun purchases will mount a Senate floor sales pitch Monday, part of a lobbying effort to ensure passage for the key piece of a larger guns bill when it...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Joe Manchin III, CBS Corp., Susan Collins, John McCain
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Senators reach deal on farm workers
WASHINGTON – Senators writing a landmark immigration bill broke a logjam between farmworker unions and growers Thursday, reaching a tentative agreement on future agricultural visas and pay scales for foreign farmworkers, according to people familiar...
Tags: Employees, Labor Legislation, Immigration, Career and Workplace
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Obama: Unclear who is responsible for explosions
WASHINGTON (AP) — A stony-faced President Barack Obama declared that those responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon "will feel the full weight of justice," but he urged a nervous nation not to jump to conclusions. Top lawmakers declared...
Tags: Democratic Party, Boston Marathon, White House, Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama
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Immigration bill clears hurdle on farmworkers
WASHINGTON — Senators writing a landmark immigration bill broke a logjam between farmworker unions and growers Thursday, reaching a tentative agreement on the number of future agricultural visas and pay scales for foreign farmworkers. Labor unions...
Tags: Migration, Labor Legislation, Agriculture, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Accord reached on farmworkers for immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Agreement was reached late Friday between farm labor unions and growers on one of the last major components of a sweeping immigration bill being drafted in the Senate — a deal that would set the terms of wages, visas and working...Tags: Immigration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Orrin Hatch, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Data Collection
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California Democrats gather in Sacramento to celebrate victories
California Democrats, gathered for their annual convention in Sacramento this weekend, are expected to celebrate their victories -- holding every statewide elected office, winning super majorities in both houses of the Legislature in November and...Tags: Jerry Brown, Personal Weapon Control, John Burton, Government, Barack Obama
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Nonprofit group names key strategist for Greuel, Feuer in lawsuit
L.A. NOWThe legacy of the infamous Kinde Durkee, the convicted campaign treasurer who mishandled funds for many prominent California Democratic candidates and causes, continues to reverberate in Los Angeles political circles. A group that lost $1.5 million in the... -
Sen. Barbara Boxer backs Mike Feuer in city attorney race
L.A. NOWFormer lawmaker Mike Feuer, running in a contentious race for Los Angeles city attorney, has added Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to his list of endorsements by elected officials.... -
Michelle Obama on the Oscars: The behind-the-scenes story
On Feb. 14, a Hollywood delegation showed up at the White House. Motion Picture Academy President Hawk Koch, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and film mogul Harvey Weinstein had come to explore a rather important matter (for them): They wanted...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Laura Bush, White House, Jack Nicholson, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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As a rising GOP star, Rubio treads a fine line on immigration
WASHINGTON — When Marco Rubio was the No. 3 Republican in the Florida House of Representatives, he worked with Democrats in 2003 to protect farmworkers from unscrupulous contractors and harmful pesticides. "My heart goes out to the workers in this...
Tags: Jeb Bush, Florida Legislature, Labor Legislation, Immigration, John McCain
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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: Harry Reid, Crime, Law and Justice, Parties and Movements, Politics, Kay Hagan
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Commentary: Feds, city came together on dredging project
Re. "Newport completes lower-bay dredging," Feb. 15: An article by reporter Jill Cowan in the Daily Pilot highlights the completion of the Lower Bay (Newport Harbor) dredging. As I stated in the article, it was a "long, hard road to complete the big...Tags: National Government, Finance, Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Pacific Ocean
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