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Obama, lawmakers denounce IRS for targeting conservative groups
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Monday condemned the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and vowed to punish anyone who may have taken part in it, as senators called for top IRS officials to resign and congressional...
Tags: Max Baucus, Politics, White House, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Patrick J. Toomey, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat
WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...
Tags: Max Baucus, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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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: Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Patrick J. Toomey, Interior Policy, Elections
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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: Max Baucus, National Rifle Association of America, Laws, White House, U.S. Congress
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...
Tags: News Corp., Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Rupert Murdoch
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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: FBI, White House, U.S. Postal Service, Jeff Flake, Chuck Hagel
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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: Lisa Murkowski, Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Parties and Movements, Jon Tester
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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: Max Baucus, Lisa Murkowski, National Rifle Association of America, Dick Durbin, Chris Murphy
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Background checks measure faces defeat, sponsor says
WASHINGTON -- The lead author of a compromise plan to expand background checks, seen as the centerpiece of larger gun legislation before the Senate, all but conceded Wednesday that there won't be the votes needed to adopt it. During an appearance on...
Tags: Lisa Murkowski, Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Mark Kirk, Patrick J. Toomey
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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: Max Baucus, Lisa Murkowski, National Rifle Association of America, Dick Durbin, Chris Murphy
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Manchin's plan for explaining gun proposal: 'The longer the better'
WASHINGTON – One of the senators behind the compromise proposal to expand background checks on gun purchases will mount a Senate floor sales pitch Monday, part of a lobbying effort to ensure passage for the key piece of a larger guns bill when it...
Tags: Politics, Television Industry, Patrick J. Toomey, Susan Collins, Interior Policy
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