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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Bill Clinton, John Boehner, Republican Party, U.S. Congress
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Column: Some questions for Hagel
Senate hearings on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary will be a distinctive Washington entertainment, a donnybrook without drama. He should be confirmed: Presidents are due substantial deference in selecting Cabinet members because they...Tags: Chuck Hagel, Iraq, European Union, Cuba, NATO
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House Speaker John Boehner curses Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Pop2itSpeaker of the House John Boehner apparently was stressed enough over fiscal cliff negotiations to curse Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid when the two politicians met. According to reports, Boehner told Reid to go f--- himself.... -
Editorial: Obama Throws Down Gauntlet On Guns
It's "game on" between President Barack Obama and the gun lobby. With parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim in his audience Wednesday, Mr. Obama embraced a cause — making the nation less vulnerable to gun violence —...
Tags: Periodicals, Ronald Reagan, Mental Health, U.S. Congress, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Americans and their guns
The 58% of Americans who favor a ban on assault weapons got a sad lesson in Washington politics this week when a major bill to end their sale, and to eliminate the high-capacity magazines that allow mass killers to do their awful work without pausing to...
Tags: U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Assault, Interior Policy, Dianne Feinstein
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Obama unveiling gun violence measures (WSBT airing)
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's broad effort to reduce gun violence will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as more than a dozen executive orders aimed at circumventing...Tags: Mitch McConnell, Jay Carney, Mental Health, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements
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Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure
To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Rob Portman, The Happiest News!, Interior Policy, Harvey Milk
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Obama, sequestered
During the epic deficits-and-debt donnybrook of mid-2011, two top aides to President Barack Obama proposed an ultimatum so onerous that Congress and the White House surely wouldn't let it happen. In his book "The Price of Politics," Bob Woodward of...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, State of the Union Address, Bill Clinton, Congressional Budget Office, Republican Party
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Letters: Failure of Feinstein's assault weapons ban
Re "Feinstein assault weapons ban fails," March 20 We all owe Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) great thanks for her pursuit of a federal assault weapons ban, but it is quite clear that if the horrific massacre in Connecticut in December didn't...Tags: Elections, Weaponry, Interior Policy, Assault, Politics
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No assault weapons ban: Not in Democrat's Senate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival now are all but hopeless. The ban is the most controversial...
Tags: Periodicals, Firearms, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Interior Policy
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Progress slows on Budget Bill to avoid shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to...
Tags: Government Debt, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry, John Boehner, Republican Party
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Assault weapons ban loses round
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive. She...Tags: Hunting, Bill Clinton, U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Lobbying
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