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The president's feeble gesture
"President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention to the financial sacrifice of more than 1 million federal employees who will be furloughed." -- The Washington Post, April 4 "Here's the plan. We get the warhead and...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Easter, U.S. Senate
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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: Rand Paul, Television Stations, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Tom Coburn
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: Heavy Engineering, Weaponry, Firearms, Health and Safety at School, Dannel P. Malloy
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U.S. Senators Blumenthal, Murphy Say CT Will Give Them Momentum in Washington, D.C.
The Hartford CourantSaying that Connecticut can help the national effort on gun control, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy came to the state Capitol in Hartford to congratulate Democratic senators for passing one of the strongest gun control bills in the...Tags: Laws, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Justice System, U.S. Senate
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...Tags: Rand Paul, Television Stations, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Tom Coburn
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Celebrities, Bill Clinton, Ashley Judd, Alec Baldwin, Republican Party
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On guns: Too little, too late
WASHINGTON -- "Don't get squishy because time has passed," President Obama told members of Congress. But they already have. "Now is the time," the president said. But the time was actually three months ago. Obama made an impassioned bid last...
Tags: Jay Carney, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Lobbying, U.S. Senate
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Group wants background checks for firearm buyers
holly.shok@herald-mail.comOne hundred days after the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, community members gathered at the Boonsboro Free Library on Thursday to sign a petition advocating universal background checks for firearm sales. Hosted by public...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Arts and Culture, Barack Obama, Organizing for Action, Benjamin L. Cardin
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Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons
Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...
Tags: Marriage, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Weaponry, Justice System, Firearms
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Congressman brings common sense to gun control debate
SACRAMENTO — As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a Northern California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller. Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate "blue dog" Democrat who represents...
Tags: Laws, Rentals, Weaponry, Dianne Feinstein, Firearms
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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: Government Debt, Republican Party, Barack Obama, John Boehner, U.S. Senate
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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: Belief and Faith, Tobacco Addiction, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Health and Safety at School, U.S. Senate
Apr 8, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 4, 2013
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Apr 3, 2013
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Apr 3, 2013
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Apr 2, 2013
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Apr 1, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 28, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Feb 27, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
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