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Wyden calls for new federal agency for nuclear waste
Tri-City HeraldA discussion draft of legislation to address the storage and disposal of used nuclear fuel and waste -- including Hanford waste -- has been released by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., working with three other Democratic and Republican senators. It would...Tags: U.S. Congress, Environmental Issues, Doc Hastings, U.S. Army, Lamar Alexander
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Stephen Goldstein: Think NRA was winner? Not so fast
The NRA has won the battle but lost the war. The best thing that happened to gun control is its defeat in Congress. Today's losers (Obama, Democrats, the 90 percent of Americans who support sane legislation) will be tomorrow's winners. Today's winners...Tags: U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Elections, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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White House suspects Syria used chemical weapons, seeks inquiry
WASHINGTON — The White House said for the first time that there was evidence Syria had used chemical weapons in its civil war, but administration officials called for a broader United Nations investigation and edged away from declaring Damascus...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Biological and Chemical Weapons, Wars and Interventions
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Udall pushes for LANL assurance
Albuquerque JournalSen. Tom Udall sought but did not receive assurances about the future of plutonium work at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Wednesday while a Senate appropriations leader assailed the W hite House budget for nuclear weapons. The develop m e nt s came...Tags: U.S. Congress, Nuclear Policy, Defense Equipment, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Weaponry
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Lawmakers cite Boston bombings in questions on immigration bill
WASHINGTON — On the third day of hearings on a bill to overhaul the immigration system, senators took a break from partisan sniping and grilled Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on whether the Boston bombings had exposed shortcomings in...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice and Rights, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Janet Napolitano
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Sens. Feinstein and Boxer keep racking up seniority
WASHINGTON — Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have served longer together than any other pair of California senators — 20 years — and will soon replace Iowa's team as the current longest-serving tandem. In a chamber where the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Environmental Issues, Illegal Immigrants, Daniel Inouye, Immigration
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Boston bombings to dominate Sunday morning shows
Staff writerTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Discussion about the Boston Marathon bombings and the suspects will fill the Sunday morning talk shows. A look at the guest list, which has been very fluid this weekend: ABC's "This Week" features Mayor Thomas Menino, D-...Tags: Jane Harman, Bennie G. Thompson, Chuck Schumer, Central Intelligence Agency, Thomas Menino
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Life With La Toya' on OWN
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 21 -27, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Smash It's opening night in this new...
Tags: Octavia Spencer, Jason Ritter, Gun Control, Tom Coburn, Jane Harman
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Congress members urge NASA to spare planetary science funding
Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday. In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Science and Technology, Eryn Brown, NASA, Politics
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Tentative farm workers deal in immigration talks
WASHINGTON (AP) - A tentative deal has been reached between agriculture workers and growers, a key senator said on April 9, smoothing the way for a landmark immigration bill to be released within soon. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who's taken the...Tags: Justice and Rights, Patrick Leahy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration
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Ag stakeholders reach crucial deal on immigration reform
A bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Eight seems to have finally figured out how to fix our country's broken immigration system and provide a workable system for workers to legally perform important tasks on farms and ranches year round....Tags: Corporate Officers, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Lindsey O. Graham, John McCain
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Joe Biden, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Elections, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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Apr 28, 2013
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