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Booker pulling in the cash from outside N.J.
The Philadelphia InquirerHow do you raise $1.9 million in three months? If you're Newark Mayor Cory Booker, you tap into a network of admirers that includes some of Hollywood's biggest producers, media moguls, and name-brand developers. Then you bring in Wolfgang Puck to...Tags: Golden State Warriors, Celebrities, Ron Howard, Parties and Movements, Steven Spielberg
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Give 'bomb control' a chance
He thought his wife was in love with another man, police say, so James L. McFillin of Baltimore decided to blow up the other man. It was 1979. McFillin wired two sticks of an explosive called Tovex 220 into the electrical system of a truck belonging...Tags: Gun Control, Bill Clinton, Firearms, U.S. Supreme Court, Barack Obama
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Officials: Democratic Sen. Baucus to retire
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but recently broke with his party on gun control legislation, has decided to retire, Democratic...Tags: Brian Schweitzer, Gun Control, Jon Tester, Bill Clinton, Career and Workplace
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EPA probes flame retardants but lacks power to ban
As the Obama administration launches a broad investigation of flame retardants used in furniture and other household goods, the nation's top environmental regulators are running into the limitations of a federal law that makes it practically impossible to...
Tags: National Government, Judges, Barack Obama, Gina McCarthy, Dick Durbin
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Johnny Isakson, Gun Control, Parties and Movements, Heidi Heitkamp, Richard Burr
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Senate showdown set on gun control
WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...
Tags: Susan Collins, Gun Control, Richard Blumenthal, Mark Begich, Parties and Movements
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Proposed gun amendment faces uphill battle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A single conversation on the Senate floor Monday illustrated the challenges senators face in pushing a bipartisan measure to extend background checks to most gun sales. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), the chief author of the proposal,...
Tags: Gun Control, Jon Tester, Mark Begich, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements
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Johnson to retire in 2014
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Democrats’ efforts to maintain a majority in the U.S. Senate after next year’s midterm elections were thrown into further doubt Tuesday when Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., became the fifth senior member of the party to announce his...Tags: Arlen Specter, Carl Levin, Mike Johanns, Mike Rounds, Parties and Movements
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SD Sen. Tim Johnson retirement opens door for GOP
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson was expected to announce his retirement Tuesday, making the state the fifth where Democrats will have to defend a seat without an incumbent seeking re-election. The decision opens up a 2014 race...
Tags: Carl Levin, Mike Rounds, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Parties and Movements, Heidi Heitkamp
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Democrats face challenging Senate landscape
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a surprising string of victories last fall, Democrats now face a challenging terrain as they look to hold onto their Senate majority in 2014 and prevent Republicans from gaining full control of Congress during President...Tags: Susan Collins, Mike Rounds, Tea Party Movement, Steve Scalise, Mark Begich
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Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan won't run for reelection in 2014
WASHINGTON -- Michigan Democrat Carl Levin announced Thursday that he would not run for reelection in 2014, adding to an exodus of experience in the chamber. Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the sixth sitting senator to decide...
Tags: Rick Snyder, Carl Levin, Mike Johanns, Political Fundraising, Parties and Movements
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg, last of WWII vets, to retire
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, the last of the World War II veterans in the Senate, is retiring at the end of this term, he said Thursday. Lautenberg, who turned 89 last month, had been planning to run for reelection in...Tags: U.S. Congress, Career and Workplace, World War II (1939-1945), Elections, Labor Legislation
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Feb 14, 2013
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