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Obama visits with U.S. Senate Democrats in Annapolis
President Barack Obama slipped into Annapolis Wednesday for a private meeting with U.S. Senate Democrats focused on the nation’s latest fiscal crisis — a visit that temporarily closed roads and a handful of businesses a mile from the...
Tags: Justice System, Interior Policy, Gun Control, U.S. Congress, Elections
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Md. congressional leadership demands answers from VA
Calling the failures at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore "inexcusable," Maryland's congressional leadership on Monday demanded the beleaguered agency develop an immediate plan to fix the local problems in processing disability claims....
Tags: Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Jeff Miller, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, U.S. Congress, Leukemia
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Md. will receive $8.6 million more in Sandy aid
Maryland communities affected by Super Storm Sandy will receive $8.6 million in federal funding under an emergency spending measure approved by Congress last month. The money, which is in addition to the roughly $1.5 million in assistance the federal...
Tags: Justice System, U.S. Congress, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Politics, FEMA
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Obama begins new term with calls for unity, equality
President Barack Obama began his second term Monday by calling for an end to the rigid ideologies of modern politics but laying out a broad policy agenda more likely to stoke partisan confrontation than avoid it.
Looking out over hundreds of thousands of...Tags: Justice System, Gun Control, Tea Party Movement, Politics, Justice and Rights
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Still recovering from Sandy, Crisfield braces for next storm
— Hazel Cropper, for years the fastest crab picker in this city built on its seafood industry, worries about the storm drain a few feet from her living room. As volunteers assessed the damage Superstorm Sandy caused to her home, the 74-year-old...
Tags: Justice System, Seafood, U.S. Congress, Aquaculture, Politics
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Use offshore oil and gas revenue for conservation
We wish to recognize the leadership of U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin on behalf of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. LWCF is the program that ensures Maryland has the resources our parks, forests, and wildlife areas need to provide...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Conservation Fund, Antietam National Battlefield, Benjamin L. Cardin, Wildlife
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Governor predicts assault weapons ban will pass
Gov. Martin O'Malley predicted that Maryland will ban assault weapons during the General Assembly session that began Wednesday. "Their sole purpose is not for sport; it is to kill human beings — as quickly and as many as possible, as effectively...
Tags: Interior Policy, Gun Control, Justice System, Elections, Politics
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Push to ban more assault weapons expected in Annapolis
Legislation to ban assault weapons like the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle used in the Newtown school massacre will be revived in Annapolis when the General Assembly convenes next month, according to leading lawmakers pushing to make the change. The...
Tags: Justice System, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics
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Maryland leaders call for tighter gun controls in wake of Conn. school shooting
Maryland's senior lawmaker, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, said Monday the National Rifle Association must come to the table to discuss the tighter gun controls, as she works with President Barack Obama and her colleagues in Congress in the wake of the deadly...
Tags: Gun Control, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress, Dianne Feinstein
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Sparrows Point's steel mill to be razed, Kamenetz says
The owners of the Sparrows Point steel mill plan to raze the closed plant, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said Thursday, as political leaders from Towson to Washington mourned the loss of a landmark that once employed tens of thousands. The...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Port of Baltimore, Unemployment, Kevin Kamenetz, Towson
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Special deposit insurance to end after extension stalls in Senate
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday failed to extend a special unlimited deposit insurance program largely used by businesses that was created during the financial crisis to help stabilize the banking system. With the crisis long past, opponents of the...
Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, Business, Politics, Financial Markets
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Plan to move 450 federal jobs from P.G. delayed
The plan to move 450 jobs from the Financial Management Services facility in Hyattsville to West Virginia has been postponed for five years. The move — proposed by the Obama administration to save $96 million over five years — was set to...Tags: Hyattsville (Prince George's County, Maryland), Prince George's County, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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