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Mayors Against Illegal Guns targets first Democrat
The Michael Bloomberg-backed group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is following up on its promise to hound Senate Democrats who voted against gun control legislation in April. In an ad that launched Friday, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is implored by a...
Tags: Gun Control, Jeff Flake, Ted Cruz, Interior Policy, Michael Bloomberg
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Penny Pritzker sails through nomination hearing for Commerce secretary
— There are many reasons why Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker seems bound for the top job at the Commerce Department, after dodging potential conflict during a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. Pritzker, 54, a Democratic mega-donor who...
Tags: John Thune, Claire McCaskill, Mark Begich, Work Relations, Career and Workplace
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IRS puts head of problem office on leave
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has replaced the head of the office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, a day after she invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to answer questions before a congressional committee. Lois...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Carl Levin, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Internal Revenue Service, Darrell E Issa
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Obama judicial nominee wins easy confirmation
WASHINGTON — Deputy Solicitor Gen. Sri Srinivasan, a rising star in legal circles, won an easy and unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, giving President Obama his first appointee...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics, Judges
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Senate confirms Obama's first D.C. Circuit Court nominee
WASHINGTON -- Deputy Solicitor General Sri Srinivasan, a rising star in legal circles, won an easy and unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, giving President Obama his first appointee to a...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics, Judges
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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Internal Revenue Service, Jack Lew, Parties and Movements
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GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were...
Tags: Abortion, Career and Workplace, Family Planning, Politics, Employees
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With Obama in the dark, administration planned how to stage-manage news of IRS scandal
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Weeks before the world and apparently President Barack Obama himself heard about the details of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, top people in his administration started planning how to stage-manage the release of the information....Tags: Mike Crapo, Jay Carney, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Internal Revenue Service, Darrell E Issa
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Senate panel approves immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly...
Tags: Republican Party, Immigration, Lindsey O. Graham, Chuck Schumer, Justice and Rights
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Crime, Law and Justice, Republican Party, Migration, Ted Cruz
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Immigration bill: Gang label amendment goes down
The Senate Judiciary Committee continued its markup of a bipartisan immigration reform bill Monday, rejecting an amendment by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that would have barred undocumented immigrants who are merely suspected of belonging to a gang,...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage, Migration, Politics
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Despite setback, U.S. Rep. Tim Walz continues push for transparency
Star TribuneWhen President Obama signed the STOCK Act into law last spring, the legislation co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tim Walz that explicitly banned insider trading by congressional members and government employees was hailed by watchdog groups as one of the most...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Tim Walz, George W. Bush, Government
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