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Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators
WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Joe Manchin III, Chris Murphy, Politics
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Immigration reform divides Republicans
WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Migration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...
Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Mexico, Chuck Grassley, Justice System
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Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...
Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Gays and Lesbians, Mexico, Chuck Grassley
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Senate sets aside gun bill, for now
WASHINGTON -- The Senate formally shelved further consideration of gun legislation Thursday even as supporters of a plan to expand background-check requirements vowed to keep pushing the issue. The decision to set the bill aside came after a showdown...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Patrick J. Toomey
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Media Industry, Employees, Illegal Immigrants, Interior Policy
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Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator
This post has been updated and corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...Tags: Roger F. Wicker, Politics, Janet Napolitano, Robert Mueller, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mississippi man arrested, accused in ricin letters case
OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings....
Tags: Roger F. Wicker, John Cornyn, U.S. Postal Service, Barack Obama, Carl Levin
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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: National Rifle Association of America, Joe Manchin III, Politics, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party
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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: Mark Begich, Patrick J. Toomey, Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein
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Bipartisan group introduces immigration reform bill
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill to overhaul immigration laws and provide a path to legal status for an estimated 11 million people who overstayed their visas or illegally entered the United States, Senate aides said....
Tags: National Security, Politics, Janet Napolitano, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Gun-control plan several votes short in Senate
This post has been corrected and updated as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- A Senate plan to expand the background-check requirement for gun purchases faced a narrowing path to success Tuesday, as advocates for stricter laws sought to scrape together the last few votes they need from among a dwindling number of...Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Mark Begich, Interior Policy, Max Baucus, Chuck Schumer
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