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Bloomberg group airs TV ad thanking Toomey
Call Washington BureauA gun control advocacy group backed by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg began airing a television ad Thursday that thanks Sen. Pat Toomey for his work on background checks. The Mayors Against Illegal Guns 30-second spot shows the Capitol building ...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Elections, Interior Policy
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U.S. House passes Pat Toomey's debt limit idea; Dent votes against bill
WASHINGTON — Lehigh Valley Congressman Charlie Dent was one of eight Republicans who bucked their party and voted against a debt ceiling contingency plan that was the brainchild of Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey. Toomey proposed the idea of...Tags: Charlie Dent, Public Finance, Credit and Debt, Fiscal Cliff, The Wall Street Journal
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Senate rejects firearms on more federal lands
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rejected an effort Wednesday to expand the use of firearms on some of the nation's most frequently visited federal lands, handing gun control advocates a modest success. The measure, backed by the National Rifle...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Washington, DC, Parties and Movements, Gun Control, Wildlife
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Metzgar joins call for Pennsylvania commissioning of USS Somerset
staff writer, @damichellegThe Pennsylvania House of Representatives is asking the Navy to have the USS Somerset commissioned in the state. The House unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday written by state Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar, R-Allegheny Township. The goal of the...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Robert P. Casey, Jr., Carl Walker Metzgar
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Read between the lines of Toomey's gun control bill
Am I the only one who sees the facts of Sen. Pat Toomey's gun control contribution? •The GOP needed a hero. Step up Pat Toomey. •He proposes something he knows will not pass. •He becomes that hero, just for trying. •Erg, the...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Politics
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Letters: Narrowing the NRA
Re "Both sides of debate at NRA convention," May 4 When the National Rifle Assn. backed improved background checks on gun buyers in the 1990s, the organization truly was nonpartisan. Time and money have changed that. Witness the lineup of speakers...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Government
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Chan Lowe: The Senate background check vote
It was Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania who indicated that there was another, less savory Senate motive for defeating universal background checks for gun purchases last week. All this time, many of us had assumed that the dogged preservation of the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Elections, U.S. Senate, Wayne LaPierre, Barack Obama
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How could 31 Senators vote against debating expanded background checks?
How could it be that even a single U.S. senator — no matter how opposed to gun control — could vote to hold up consideration of a proposal to require background checks for gun purchases? This is an idea not only embraced by something in the...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, U.S. Congress, Elections
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Stands against the majority opinion
A statewide poll shows that Joe Donnelly and Dan Coats, Indiana's U.S. senators, took stands opposed by a majority of their Hoosier constituents -- one on gay marriage, the other on background checks for gun purchases. The poll was conducted for Howey...
Tags: Dan Coats, Marriage, Parties and Movements, Gays and Lesbians, Republican Party
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Casey: U.S. should intervene in Syrian crisis
Sen. Bob Casey added his name Friday to a growing list of lawmakers urging the White House to take some form of military action against Syria in the wake of new evidence that President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. Casey,...Tags: Libya, Turkey, White House, Government, Weaponry
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Voters credit Pat Toomey on gun control try
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania voters are unhappy the U.S. Senate shot down Pat Toomey's bid to expand gun background checks, but are pleased he tried. Slightly more than 50 percent of Pennsylvania's voters have a more favorable view of the senator...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Personal Weapon Control, Voting, Lehigh County, Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Who's to blame for air travel delays?
Is the White House or Congress to blame for delays in air travel attributed to the budget sequester? Washington correspondent Colby Itkowitz put that question to the Lehigh Valley’s two federal lawmakers. The White House is to blame: U.S. Rep....Tags: Charlie Dent, Career and Workplace, Air Transportation Delays, White House, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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