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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, CBS Corp., Dianne Feinstein, Joe Manchin III, Television Industry
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In the Senate, a gun rights ally's choice to compromise
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin III owns two 12-gauge Beretta shotguns, a semiautomatic Remington 58 Sportsman and a deer rifle. Since he was elected to the Senate two years ago, he has easily maintained an A rating from the National Rifle Assn....Tags: Republican Party, Mark Kirk, Personal Weapon Control, CBS Corp., Joe Manchin III
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Prospects for U.S. background checks remain unclear
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of a bipartisan Senate effort to subject more firearms buyers to background checks remains uncertain as seven Republicans amenable to a gun control debate are still likely to resist such an expansion. On an initial...
Tags: Republican Party, Mark Pryor, Personal Weapon Control, Civil Rights, CNN (tv network)
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McManus: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we're on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said, it...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Libyan Civil War (2011), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda
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Kass: A Senate battle between a libertarian whippersnapper, crotchety establishment
Republican Sen. John McCain is pushing 80 now, but he still has those jaws and the Teddy Roosevelt teeth that look as if they could chomp through a baseball bat. Yet no matter how vital his bite, the Arizona Republican is getting up in years. So he can'...
Tags: Republican Party, Potatoes, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Photography Supplies and Services
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U.S. gov't fiscal outlook improving - but only for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite constant budget wrangling and finger-pointing by the nation's policy-makers, the government's short-term fiscal outlook isn't all that bad. It's actually getting better — at least for now. Washington is borrowing...Tags: Republican Party, Budget Control Act of 2011, Health Insurance, Brookings Institution, Federal Reserve
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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: Republican Party, Lindsey O. Graham, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton, Ron Johnson
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Optical illusions
WASHINGTON -- The media love optics and no one understands this better than President Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank (and legendary) Jefferson Hotel, one of the city's more discreet (and expensive)...
Tags: Head Start, Republican Party, Landforms, John Boehner, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Senators hush-hush as they craft immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The eight senators meet in private several times a week, alternating between Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Charles Schumer's offices. They sit in arm chairs arranged in a circle and sip water or soft drinks as they debate temporary...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Marco Rubio, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Politics
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Jeb Bush backs away from citizenship for illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON _ As Republican Jeb Bush appeared to back away from supporting citizenship for illegal immigrants on Monday, top Republican senators working on the issue distanced themselves from his comments. Bush, speaking on NBC's “Today”...Tags: Labor Legislation, Jeb Bush, Career and Workplace, Lindsey O. Graham, Migration
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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: Republican Party, Lindsey O. Graham, Justice System, Ron Johnson, Immigration
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Rand Paul filibuster splits GOP, Graham now supports CIA nominee
WASHINGTON – The political fallout from Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster has begun as fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham switched Thursday to support John Brennan as CIA director, saying the vote has become a “referendum” on the...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Republican Party, Lindsey O. Graham, Rand Paul, Elections
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