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Obama tries to push stalled immigration talks forward
WASHINGTON — President Obama prodded congressional negotiators to reach agreement on a plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, saying despite delays and disputes he still wants a bill to emerge soon and debate in the Senate to begin...
Tags: Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Immigration, U.S. Senate
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An assault weapons ban was doomed. Focus on background checks.
WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote that the Senate was making quiet progress toward passing a gun control bill that would make background checks mandatory on buyers in almost all gun purchases, including most sales between individuals. And that,...
Tags: Mark Kirk, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wayne LaPierre, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...Tags: Joe Biden, Democratic Party, Fiscal Cliff, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama
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Column: Some questions for Hagel
Senate hearings on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary will be a distinctive Washington entertainment, a donnybrook without drama. He should be confirmed: Presidents are due substantial deference in selecting Cabinet members because they...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Israel, Lyndon B. Johnson, Aircraft Carriers
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House Speaker John Boehner curses Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Pop2itSpeaker of the House John Boehner apparently was stressed enough over fiscal cliff negotiations to curse Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid when the two politicians met. According to reports, Boehner told Reid to go f--- himself.... -
Editorial: Obama Throws Down Gauntlet On Guns
It's "game on" between President Barack Obama and the gun lobby. With parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim in his audience Wednesday, Mr. Obama embraced a cause — making the nation less vulnerable to gun violence —...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Gun Control
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Obama unveiling gun violence measures (WSBT airing)
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's broad effort to reduce gun violence will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as more than a dozen executive orders aimed at circumventing...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, U.S. Department of Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Interior Policy
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Obama, sequestered
During the epic deficits-and-debt donnybrook of mid-2011, two top aides to President Barack Obama proposed an ultimatum so onerous that Congress and the White House surely wouldn't let it happen. In his book "The Price of Politics," Bob Woodward of...
Tags: The Washington Post, Jack Lew, Fiscal Cliff, Barack Obama, State of the Union Address
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No assault weapons ban: Not in Democrat's Senate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival now are all but hopeless. The ban is the most controversial...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Lobbying
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Progress slows on Budget Bill to avoid shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to...
Tags: Government Debt, Budget Control Act of 2011, John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Assault weapons ban loses round
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive. She...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Harvey Milk, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Milk (movie)
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Progress slows on federal budget bill
WASHINGTON -- A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to permit...Tags: Government Debt, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Food and Drug Administration, Budgets and Budgeting
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