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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: Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Harry Reid
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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: Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at School, Wayne LaPierre, 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: Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at School, Civil Rights, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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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: Interior Policy, Carly Fiorina, Gavin Newsom, Mark Kelly, Lawrence Summers
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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: Richard Shelby, Bob Menendez, Richard Burr, Harry Reid, Saxby Chambliss
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Bipartisan group sees change in politics on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — Declaring that the politics of immigration “have been turned upside down,” a bipartisan group of senators Monday outlined common principles for comprehensive immigration reform and expressed optimism that legislation...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Immigration, Labor Legislation, Illegal Immigrants
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Obama to outline immigration plans in Nevada speech
President Obama plans to travel to Nevada next week for the public launch of his effort to pass a comprehensive immigration reform measure this year. Obama kicked off the effort to pass immigration reform Friday by meeting with Latino members of...
Tags: Bob Menendez, Barack Obama, Jay Carney, Michael F. Bennet, Marco Rubio
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Mary Jo White won't be intimidated as SEC chief, Obama says
WASHINGTON -- President Obama nominated Mary Jo White to be the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying her track record as a hard-nosed prosecutor means she won't be easily intimidated as Wall Street's new top watchdog. "You don't...
Tags: Richard Shelby, Crime, Law and Justice, Consumers, Barack Obama, Elisse Walter
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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: Bob Menendez, Barack Obama, Head Start, Labor Markets, Unions
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Hagel defends record, spars with critics in Senate hearing
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON -- Making his first public comments after his nomination to lead the Pentagon, former Sen. Chuck Hagel said Thursday he stood by his record but also urged senators to look beyond controversial votes and statements he has made, which critics...Tags: Thad Cochran, Afghanistan, Nuclear Weapons, Iraq, Carl Levin
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Inauguration officials try to shut down online ticket sales
Want to buy tickets to the presidential inauguration ceremony taking place in Washington on Monday? Don't go to eBay or Craigslist -- they've agreed not to list the tickets, according to Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Joint...
Tags: Barack Obama, Craigslist, Inc., Politics, Elections, eBay Inc.
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McManus: Immigration reform's new fans
Can Republicans find a way out of the political dead end they marched into during the 2012 campaign? Can President Obama make his second term more productive than the final gridlocked years of his first? Can Democrats and Republicans in Congress relearn...
Tags: Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, Immigration, Tea Party Movement
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