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Obama summons congressional leaders to White House
WASHINGTON – President Obama plans to convene a meeting with the top leaders in Congress on Friday at the White House, congressional aides confirmed. The president’s confab with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Congress, Government Debt
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C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general. Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, National Institutes of Health, Bob Dole, Healthcare Provider, Euthanasia
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Senate committee OKs Jacob Lew nomination for Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee voted Tuesday to confirm Jacob J. Lew as Treasury Secretary despite Republican concerns about his support for higher taxes to reduce the nation's debt as well as his tenure as a Citigroup Inc. executive before joining...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Citigroup Incorporated, Jack Lew, Government Debt
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Do-nothing House Republicans
WASHINGTON -- A meat cleaver hangs over the federal government, but the unflappable men and women of the House majority remain cool and poised. With just a few days to stop automatic spending cuts from affecting everything from air travel to food...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, NASA, Henry Waxman, Donna F. Edwards
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It's the 'Obama sequester'
I guess many of The Sun's readers are of the "low information" type who are not exposed to counter-points that would rebut the mantra of the left ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Let me explain. Never in the history of this great nation have we gone four...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, White House, George W. Bush, Budgets and Budgeting
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Arizona gun shop won't sell assault weapon to Mark Kelly
A gun shop in Tucson, Ariz., has canceled an effort by retired astronaut Mark Kelly, an outspoken gun-control advocate, to buy a semiautomatic rifle as a way of demonstrating how easy it is to buy powerful weapons. Kelly, the husband of former Rep....
Tags: Shootings, FBI, Politics, Mark Kelly, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Janet Napolitano, Justice and Rights, Politics, Labor Legislation, Patrick Leahy
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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: Dianne Feinstein, Politics, NBC (tv network), Chuck Schumer, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Americans and their guns
The 58% of Americans who favor a ban on assault weapons got a sad lesson in Washington politics this week when a major bill to end their sale, and to eliminate the high-capacity magazines that allow mass killers to do their awful work without pausing to...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress
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Denying victims a vote
WASHINGTON -- Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn't make it right. In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke with fiery eloquence about the cost of gun...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Gaming, Politics, State of the Union Address, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Reid: Background checks will be in Senate gun bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are taking an aggressive stance in their drive to curb firearms, announcing that the gun control legislation the Senate debates next month will include expanded federal background checks for gun purchasers. Senate...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Chuck Schumer, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Justice System, Interior Policy
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Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure
To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Human Interest, The Happiest News!, Politics, Rob Portman
Feb 27, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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