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McManus: Do-nothing Congress does something
OK, so Congress hasn't managed to pass a budget, fix the tax code or avert the automatic spending cuts of the dreaded "sequester." Are they getting anything done on Capitol Hill? Yes, and you'll probably be surprised to hear where progress is being...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929), Assault, Martin Luther King Jr., Judges
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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: Jeff Denham, John Kline, Mike Coffman, Online Media Industry, Jim Gerlach
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Parties and Movements, Dianne Feinstein, Gun Control, U.S. Congress
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NRA-backed panel offers school safety gun measures
WASHINGTON— A National Rifle Assn.-backed task force unveiled a sweeping set of proposed school safety measures Tuesday, a counter to gun control bills introduced after the Connecticut mass shooting. The most attention-getting recommendation: to...
Tags: Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association of America, American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Senate, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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NRA-backed task force unveils sweeping school safety proposal
WASHINGTON — A National Rifle Assn.-backed task force unveiled a sweeping set of proposed school safety measures Tuesday, the gun rights group’s counterproposal to the spate of gun control bills introduced in the wake of the mass shooting in...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, American Civil Liberties Union, Justice and Rights, U.S. Senate, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Labor, business leaders reach wage plan for immigrant workers
WASHINGTON — Labor and business leaders have agreed to a plan for setting wages for a new category of low-skilled immigrant workers, possibly ending a scuffle that delayed negotiations in the Senate over a sweeping plan to overhaul the country's...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Migration, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Jeff Sessions, U.S. Congress
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Hope Springs' on Starz
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 31 - April 5, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Doctor Who The Doctor (Matt...
Tags: U.S. Navy, Entertainment, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Sean Bean
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An assault weapons ban was doomed. Focus on background checks.
WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote that the Senate was making quiet progress toward passing a gun control bill that would make background checks mandatory on buyers in almost all gun purchases, including most sales between individuals. And that,...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association of America, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Harry Reid
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Obama's advocacy group ramps up plan for national network
WASHINGTON -- Organizing for Action, the nonprofit advocacy group pushing President Obama’s legislative agenda, plans to hold state conferences as part of an effort to roll out chapters across the country in May, trying to knit together the...
Tags: Social Media, Patrick Leahy, State of the Union Address, Elections, Justice System
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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: National Rifle Association of America, Patrick Leahy, Criminal Laws, Barbara Boxer, Mark R. Warner
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Weekend TV Talk: Charles Schumer; Denis McDonough; Maggie Smith
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY The Chris Matthews Show...
Tags: Jack Reed, Lawrence Summers, Mike J. Rogers, Unions, Gun Control
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Obama's State of the Union: Topic by topic
Climate change: By Neela Banerjee WASHINGTON -- In his State of the Union address, President Obama articulated a subtle but noticeable shift away from his longstanding discussion of climate change in almost entirely economic terms to making a moral...
Tags: Alan Krueger, Business, Bob Menendez, Justice System, Global Change
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