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UPDATED: Status report on Toomey-Manchin gun talks expected around 5 p.m.
Call Washington BureauUPDATED: Sen. Pat Toomey kept his head down as he quickly walked past a gaggle of reporters. Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who Toomey is working with on a background check compromise, sprinted past several huddled reporters, arms pumping,...Tags: Republican Party, Michael Bloomberg, Joe Manchin III, Gun Control, New York City
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Shootings, White House, Mark Kirk, Susan Collins
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Getting to yes on immigration reform
The sweeping immigration bill outlined by a bipartisan group of eight senators this week represents the most comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in more than a quarter-century. It's also probably Congress' best chance this year to...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Migration, Immigration, Elections
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Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, turned away legislation Wednesday to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms, rejecting repeated appeals from President Barack Obama and personal pleas by...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, White House, Mark Kirk, Susan Collins, Crime, Law and Justice
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Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON — In a final appeal to her colleagues to reinstate an assault weapons ban, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) displayed on the Senate floor Wednesday a New York Daily News front page from the day after her ban was pulled from a broader...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Shootings, Mark Kirk, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Gun Control
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Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator
This post has been updated and corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...Tags: Sports, Robert Mueller, Janet Napolitano, FBI, Roger F. Wicker
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A faint echo of 9/11
WASHINGTON -- The morning after the Boston Marathon bombings, Ben Cardin, the first speaker on the Senate floor after leaders opened the day's session, marked the national crisis with some heartfelt thoughts on … school libraries. "Across the...
Tags: Sports, White House, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Drugs and Medicines, Crime, Law and Justice
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Proposed gun amendment faces uphill battle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A single conversation on the Senate floor Monday illustrated the challenges senators face in pushing a bipartisan measure to extend background checks to most gun sales. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), the chief author of the proposal,...
Tags: Republican Party, National Rifle Association of America, Kay Hagan, Joe Manchin III, Frank Lautenberg
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Senate showdown set on gun control
WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...
Tags: White House, Mark Kirk, Frank Lautenberg, Susan Collins, Arts and Culture
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Senate vote nears, background check bill in peril
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan effort to expand background checks is in deep trouble as the Senate approaches a long-awaited vote on the linchpin of the drive to curb gun violence. As the showdown draws near, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chuck Schumer, Mary L. Landrieu, Gabrielle Giffords, Laws
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Congress reacts to Boston Marathon bombings
WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders reflected with grief on the tragic loss of life in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, but had few immediate answers as to the nature of the attack. The flag over the U.S. Capitol was at half staff and...
Tags: Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), U.S. Congress, September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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Gun-control plan several votes short in Senate
This post has been corrected and updated as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- A Senate plan to expand the background-check requirement for gun purchases faced a narrowing path to success Tuesday, as advocates for stricter laws sought to scrape together the last few votes they need from among a dwindling number of...Tags: Mark Kirk, Susan Collins, Bill Nelson, Chuck Schumer, Lisa Murkowski
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