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Senate votes to overcome filibuster of gun bill
WASHINGTON – The Senate crossed the first of many hurdles Thursday in the drive to pass new gun legislation, with a bipartisan vote to begin what could be weeks of debate on the issue. By a 68-31 margin, senators moved to open formal consideration...
Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Richard Blumenthal, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Health and Safety at School, Elections
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Senate poised to debate gun control measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control efforts in Congress cleared a significant hurdle Wednesday as the Senate prepared to open what could be a weeks-long debate, even as opponents plotted a shift in strategy aimed at undermining a comprehensive package of...Tags: Democratic Party, Personal Weapon Control, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Tom Coburn, Chuck Schumer
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Bipartisan On Background Checks?
Let a cheer, however muffled, arise for the bipartisan deal on expanded background checks announced Wednesday by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. The agreement does not close all the loopholes in current law on background checks for...Tags: Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Interior Policy
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Deal on background checks is close, Senate roll call expected Thursday
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan deal seems imminent on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's drive to curb firearms violence. Meanwhile, the Senate is ready for an opening...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Saxby Chambliss, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Tom Coburn, John McCain
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Gun control deserves a vote
Four months after 20 children were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., families of the dead are pleading with members of Congress to make it harder for criminals and the mentally disturbed to obtain firearms. That will happen only if a sufficient number of...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Mitch McConnell, FBI, Barack Obama
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Senators report deal on gun control legislation
WASHINGTON — The Senate moved Tuesday to begin long-anticipated deliberations this week over new gun laws as Republicans appeared to lack the strength to block the debate and bipartisan talks over expanding background checks on gun buyers appeared...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, White House, Patrick J. Toomey, U.S. Senate, Joe Biden
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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: Democratic Party, Personal Weapon Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, New York City
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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: Personal Weapon Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Mike Johanns, Tom Coburn, Chris Murphy
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Newtown families help Obama press for gun reform
HARTFORD, Conn. — President Obama sought Monday to use the emotional pull of the Newtown school massacre to galvanize public support for his drive to pass stricter gun control measures, even as more than a dozen Republican senators promised to...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, White House, University of Hartford, Tom Coburn, U.S. Senate
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Manchin: 167th Airlift Wing would be hard hit by budget cuts
matthewu@herald-mail.comAutomatic federal budget cuts set to take effect Friday would mean thousands of temporary layoffs for National Guard and civilian defense workers in West Virginia, including those at the 167th Airlift Wing near Martinsburg, along with reduced funding...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Gil Kerlikowske, Government Debt, Defense, Finance
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Is Toomey the key to gun legislation?
Call Washington BureauCould Sen. Pat Toomey be the Democrats chance to get gun control legislation passed? Reports circulated Friday afternoon that the Pennsylvania Republican is in talks with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on a bill to expand background checks on...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, White House, Patrick J. Toomey, U.S. Senate, New York City
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Organizing for Action targets GOP lawmakers in first ad buy
WASHINGTON -- Four California Republican House members are among 13 GOP legislators being targeted by a pro-Obama advocacy group in a new online ad campaign urging them to back a more robust background check system for gun sales. Reps. Jeff Denham,...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Organizing for Action, Jeff Denham, Jim Gerlach, Mark Kirk
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