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Senate to take up farm bill in May
WASHINGTON - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said April 25 that she plans to hold a markup of a new farm bill in May, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., signaled that he intends to bring it to the Senate floor...Tags: Harry Reid, Amy Klobuchar, Politics, Immigration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Pro-Obama group will go after Democrats on guns
WASHINGTON — The nonprofit advocacy group backing President Obama’s second-term agenda plans to mobilize constituents against the U.S. senators who helped defeat a measure to expand background checks Wednesday – including four members of...Tags: Interior Policy, Gun Control, Politics, Online Advertising, Lobbying
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Background check 'win-win' amendment gets a 'no, thanks' from Senate minority
Change of SubjectSenate deals setback to gun bill in vote on background checks tells the story of how the filibuster wins again: The final vote was, 54 (yes) to 46 (no), after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) switched his vote to...... -
Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...Tags: Susan Collins, Max Baucus, Richard Shelby, Chuck Grassley, Mike Crapo
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Interior Policy, Harry Reid, Frank Lautenberg, Richard Burr, Richard Shelby
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Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat
WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...
Tags: Interior Policy, Harry Reid, Susan Collins, Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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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: Interior Policy, Susan Collins, Harry Reid, Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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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: Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Harry Reid, Susan Collins, Michael Bloomberg
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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: Interior Policy, Polls, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Barack Obama
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Gun background-check supporters struggle for votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate gun control supporters struggled Tuesday to salvage their drive to expand background checks to more buyers, buoyed by a visit from wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords but facing enough potential opponents to derail...
Tags: Interior Policy, Dick Durbin, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Mary L. Landrieu
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Bloomberg at center of gun control debate
WASHINGTON — The fate of gun control proposals in Congress this year may depend on who is more potent: Michael R. Bloomberg the billionaire or Michael R. Bloomberg the boogeyman. With signs that momentum for stiffer gun laws has begun to flag on...
Tags: Interior Policy, Michael Bloomberg, Barack Obama, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Earl Pomeroy
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Obama: 'Shame on us' if Congress forgets Newtown
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and "get squishy" on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough...
Tags: Interior Policy, Polls, Susan Collins, Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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