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Obama announces sweeping proposals to curb gun violence
This post has been corrected. See below for details.WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday unveiled a broad array of executive actions and legislative proposals to curb gun violence, including a new push to ban assault weapons, impose a 10-round limit on ammunition magazines, and expand background...Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics
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Obama's gun control push: Big, broad and brassy
President Obama’s announcement Wednesday of his all-fronts campaign for new gun control measures was big, broad and, in political terms, brassy -- a “bring it on” challenge to his opponents and his supporters as well. But that was in...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy
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California Senate leader proposes $10-billion U.S. mental health plan
PolitiCalPresident Obama's proposal to expand mental health programs in response to the Newtown, Conn., massacre is a good start but much more should be done, according to California state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg.... -
California Senate leader pushes national mental health plan
PolitiCalCome for the party, stay for the lobbying. Or is that vice-versa? State Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) is in Washington, D.C., this week to attend the inaugural festivities. But he’s mixing a little business with pleasure, looking to... -
Staten Island panel recommends armed officers in schools
NEW YORK -- A school panel in Staten Island has passed a controversial resolution recommending that armed, retired NYPD officers patrol local schools in the interest of security in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. Though the panel has...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Michael Bloomberg, Staten Island (New York City), Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy
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Grief unending for Sandy Hook -- 'There is no answer to this'
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- People in this idyllic New England town returned on Thursday morning to the church that has served as the centerpiece of its grief and mourned another of the town’s young victims killed last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School....
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Clarence Thomas, Human Interest, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
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Catholics see big gains in Congress: What does it mean?
Most postmortems of the 2012 elections have focused on its implications for the future of the Republican Party, the rise of the Latino vote or the continued polarization of the country by party and region. But here’s a takeaway you probably haven&...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Elections
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Sandy Hook: Firefighters salute Daniel, 7; teacher has hero's honor
NEWTOWN, Conn -- Daniel Barden wanted to be a fireman like his father’s cousins in New York City, whom he idolized. So it was only fitting that at Wednesday's funeral for Barden, one of the young victims in the Sandy Hook massacre, dozens of...
Tags: Barack Obama, FBI, Adam Lanza, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Entertainment industry groups pledge 'dialogue' on gun violence
Film and television industry groups that met with the White House on Thursday evening vowed to engage in a "dialogue" over the issue of gun violence in America. "The entertainment community...Tags: Lobbying, Vice (movie), Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Gun Control
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Obama's second-term agenda just added a new priority: gun control
President Obama’s pledge on Wednesday to press for new gun control measures was an important commitment -- even if, despite his protests, it might look like just another Washington commission. Only one week ago, gun control wasn’t on Obama&...
Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy
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Biden says White House exploring executive actions on guns
WASHINGTON -- As he began a final series of meetings with stakeholder groups to develop recommendations on gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden signaled Wednesday that one focus may be on measures the Obama administration can take independently of...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Personal Weapon Control, Regional Authority, Substance Abuse, U.S. Conference of Mayors
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Congress' shameful failure to renew the Violence Against Women Act
Congress avoided the fiscal cliff last week, but Republican lawmakers in the House still blew another crucial deadline. For the first time since the Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, was passed in 1994, Congress failed to renew the law that is...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Labor Legislation, U.S. Congress, Immigration, Justice System
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