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Obama nominates top civil rights lawyer to lead Labor Department
WASHINGTON -- President Obama has nominated civil rights lawyer Thomas E. Perez to lead the Department of Labor, calling the former state labor official a defender of middle class workers and a consensus builder. Announcing his choice in the East Room on...
Tags: Justice System, Labor Legislation, Illegal Immigrants, Hilda Solis, Career and Workplace
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Senate committee OKs bill expanding background checks for gun sales
WASHINGTON — A bill to expand background check requirements for gun sales cleared its first Senate hurdle Tuesday, even though a compromise measure that would attract sufficient bipartisan support in the full chamber remains elusive. The Senate...
Tags: Gun Control, Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, Mark Kirk
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Senate Judiciary Committee approves gun trafficking bill
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday to combat gun trafficking, the first firearms measure since the Newtown, Conn., shooting to move to consideration by the full Senate. The proposal, steered by committee...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Gun Control, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Kirsten Gillibrand, Justice System
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New Senate gun measure unveiled, and this one's bipartisan
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators unveiled a new measure Monday to combat illegal gun trafficking, a sign of momentum for one element of President Obama’s initiative to reduce gun violence. The primary focus of the bill is to combat...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Gun Control, Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Kirsten Gillibrand
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IRS will pay whistle-blowers less because of federal budget cuts
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's automatic budget cuts mean there will be less financial incentive to turn in tax cheats. In a notice on its website, the Internal Revenue Service said it would pay 8.7% less to informants who blow the whistle on...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Fiscal Cliff, Budgets and Budgeting, Taxation, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Senate confirms Jacob Lew as Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jacob J. Lew as Treasury secretary, allowing the longtime budget expert to take office as President Obama deals with looming automatic federal spending cuts. Lew, 57, was approved by a 71-26 vote. He...
Tags: Jack Lew, Elections, Citigroup Incorporated, Jeff Sessions, Timothy Geithner
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Senate committee OKs Jacob Lew nomination for Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee voted Tuesday to confirm Jacob J. Lew as Treasury Secretary despite Republican concerns about his support for higher taxes to reduce the nation's debt as well as his tenure as a Citigroup Inc. executive before joining...
Tags: Jack Lew, Citigroup Incorporated, U.S. Senate, White House, Harry Reid
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Senate panel set to vote Tuesday on Treasury nominee Jacob Lew
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee is expected to vote to confirm Jacob J. Lew's nomination to be Treasury secretary on Tuesday, setting the stage for his confirmation by the full Senate in the coming days. Lew, the former White House chief of staff,...
Tags: Jack Lew, Elections, Citigroup Incorporated, Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senate
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Treasury nominee Jacob Lew faces tough questions on Citigroup job
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary nominee Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday faced tough questions from Republican senators about his tenure as a top executive at Citigroup Inc. in the years leading up to the financial crisis. Lew was criticized for not knowing...
Tags: Max Baucus, Jack Lew, Investments, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Citigroup Incorporated
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Should U.S. citizens in Al Qaeda be tried for treason?
In my Sunday column, I wrote that it’s past time for the Obama administration to subject its nomination of suspected terrorists for the “kill list” -- secret death warrants, to put it bluntly -- to some form of independent review, at...
Tags: Punishment, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, American Civil Liberties Union, Al-Qaeda
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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: Saxby Chambliss, Jack Reed, Amy Klobuchar, Mark Pryor, Lisa Murkowski
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