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Lawmakers ask who knew what about bomb suspect
BOSTON (AP) — Lawmakers are asking tough questions about how the government tracked suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he traveled to Russia last year, renewing criticism from after the Sept. 11 attacks that failure to share...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Susan Collins, Joe Biden, Family, Separation of Church and State
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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as evidence mounted that the older Tsarnaev brother had embraced a radical, anti-American strain of Islam and was the driving...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Separation of Church and State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Religion and Belief
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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: Joe Biden, Personal Weapon Control, Jeff Flake, Frank Lautenberg, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Democratic Party, Susan Collins, Joe Biden, Personal Weapon Control, Jeff Flake
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Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Tom Coburn, Ron Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Mike Johanns, Bob Corker
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Public Finance, Joe Biden, U.S. Senate, Bob Corker
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: John D. Rockefeller IV, Iraq, Wars and Interventions, White House, Human Rights
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Thad Cochran, George W. Bush, Susan Collins, Frank Lautenberg, John Cornyn
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Congress: VA official should be sacked for wasteful Orlando conferences that featured ‘Patton’ video
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelWASHINGTON — Two top Republicans in Congress want the Obama administration to fire a high-ranking official with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for not doing more to prevent wasteful spending at two training conferences in Orlando that... -
U.S. senators renew push against China currency 'manipulation' despite yuan's rise
ReutersBy Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday introduced legislation to give the United States new tools to fight currency manipulation, an effort aimed mainly at China, just days before President Barack...Tags: Trade Balance, People's Bank, Susan Collins, John Boehner, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Penn State scandal: Senators demand stronger child abuse laws
Nation NowAs Jerry Sandusky waived his right to a preliminary hearing in a Pennsylvania courtroom, Washington lawmakers on Tuesday called for stronger child-abuse reporting laws. They were appearing at the first Capitol Hill hearing growing out of the Penn State... -
Restore the plan
On May 5, President Barack Obama signed into law the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act that calls for compensation for family members who provide care to their sons, daughters or siblings who were severely wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan....Tags: Health, Injuries and Wounds, Veterans Affairs, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice System
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