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Letters: The GOP's fresh faces
Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, Regional Authority, Government
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Newtown Families Make Their Case In Washington
The Hartford CourantWASHINGTON — At the end of an emotional day of deeply personal meetings with senators Wednesday, families of victims of the Newtown school massacre sat down for a public conversation with Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who had just...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Promise, Shootings, Joe Manchin III, Patrick J. Toomey
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In Connecticut, Obama makes emotional appeal for gun legislation
HARTFORD, Conn. – President Obama drew the families of the Newtown school shooting victims into an emotional call to pass gun control measures on Monday, urging that the displays of solidarity and grief in the aftermath not be the end of the...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Human Interest, White House, Barack Obama, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Malloy Signs Gun Control Bill, One Of Strictest In Nation
The Hartford CourantHARTFORD — Flanked by family members of Newtown massacre victims and the legislative leaders who spent months trying to respond to their tragedy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a sweeping gun-control bill Thursday whose big provisions — such...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Connecticut Gun Control Law (2013), Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Sandy Hook families push for votes on gun control
WASHINGTON -- Family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims are bewildered that Congress is still struggling to pass stricter gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday afternoon. Speaking to a room full of police in uniform at a White House event,...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Promise, Shootings, White House, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Senate moves to begin debate on gun measures
WASHINGTON -- The Senate may begin voting as soon as Thursday on legislation intended to reduce gun violence, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) decided Tuesday to initiate the procedural steps required to overcome a threatened filibuster by...
Tags: Tom Coburn, Personal Weapon Control, Ted Cruz, Shootings, Patrick J. Toomey
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Can Hagel reshape the Pentagon?
Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who survived a stormy confirmation hearing to become the new secretary of defense, had a coming-out party of sorts last week before the National Defense University, the government's graduate...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan, Chuck Hagel, Parties and Movements, U.S. Military
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Romney inadvertently shows why he lost
Defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who helped do himself in with his closed-door characterization of nearly half of all Americans as content to live off federal handouts, wasted no time doubling down on the theory. He did so in a conference call...Tags: Bill Clinton, Regional Authority, Government, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Executive Branch
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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Christine O'Donnell, Primaries, John Boehner, Parties and Movements
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The demise of moderate Republicanism
Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism. Mr. Romney first failed to win the GOP...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Government, Executive Branch, Parties and Movements
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Facing the fiscal cliff, Obama can't back down again
As official Washington nervously ponders the approaching fiscal cliff and the potential economic chaos it entails, President Barack Obama faces a precipice of his own in the challenge of making use of his re-election victory. Unless he emerges from...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, John Boehner, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama, Elections
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The year that was in politics
It would be nice to feel, after one of the most costly and abrasive presidential campaigns in our nation's history, that the fog has cleared from the miasma of the year 2012, revealing bright prospects for a better 2013. It would also be nice to know that...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Television Industry, Parties and Movements, Advertising, Barack Obama
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