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Weekly remarks: GOP's Orrin Hatch says U.S. can't afford new spending; Obama calls it investing
Top of the TicketThe Republican says the national debt is crushing the country. The Democrat says spending on more education and other needs is essential.... -
A flicker of life on the Hill
SOME PRIVACY ADVOCATES ARE troubled by reports in The Times and in other newspapers Friday that the U.S. government has been trying to detect terrorist plots by sifting through an international database of financial transactions. But whatever one thinks...Tags: Laws, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security
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Toomey is open to reviving background-check bill
The Philadelphia InquirerSen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) hasn't given up on his bill to expand background checks for gun purchases, he said Thursday, signaling more willingness to return to the plan than he had publicly shown before. "If we could find a way to bring some more folks...Tags: Politics, Laws, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice
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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Personal Weapon Control, Harry Reid, Glenn Beck
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OPINION: Republicans continue to lose minority voters
Tulsa WorldIf anyone was unsure before, the report last week from the U.S. Census Bureau ought to send a clear signal: Minorities are gaining muscle in elections. According to the Census Bureau, in the 2012 presidential election, for the first time on record,...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Justice System, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...Tags: Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control, Lobbying
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NRA Celebrates Gun Control Defeat as Tension Builds for Senators (Houston)
BloombergHOUSTON — Weeks after the Senate defeated a proposed expansion of background checks on gun purchases, the annual conference of the National Rifle Association here has a celebratory atmosphere. "I was so proud of the American public, and the NRA,...Tags: Rick Santorum, Barack Obama, Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Michael Bloomberg
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Immigration deformed
There's the story of a woman with five kids who was asked: If she had to do it all over again, would she have five children? "Yes," she said, "just not these five." That's the way I feel about the immigration "reform" bill introduced by the Senate's...
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'This is earned citizenship'
The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.Undocumented immigrants will have to earn their way to legal residence in the U.S., according to a new bipartisan immigration plan unveiled by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and seven other senators Thursday. Replying to critics who call the bill an...Tags: Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Ricin is indicated in letters to Obama, Levin, multiple senators
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a capital city on edge, letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks, and authorities chased a stream of reports Wednesday of other suspicious-looking...
Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Heidi Heitkamp, Chuck Grassley
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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: Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, Dianne Feinstein, Bob Menendez, Chuck Schumer
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