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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: John D. Rockefeller IV, Prescription Drugs, Laws, Iraq, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Interior Policy, Jeff Flake, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Gun Control, Lisa Murkowski
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Supreme Court gay marriage debate prompts lawmakers to state support
WASHINGTON -- Six Democratic senators have announced their support for same-sex marriage in nearly as many days, policy reversals that reflect the changing politics of the issue as the Supreme Court hears arguments in potential landmark cases. Since...
Tags: John D. Rockefeller IV, Social Issues, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Kay Hagan
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barbara Boxer, Parties and Movements, Benjamin L. Cardin, Immigration
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Democrats retain narrow majority in Senate
WASHINGTON — Democrats retained a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, but Republicans kept their grip on the House, delivering another divided, and highly polarized, Congress. The balance of power was likely to shift by no more than a seat...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Parties and Movements, Mitt Romney, Government, Democratic Party
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McManus: A Rove 'money bomb'?
Here's a short list of Democrats who secretly hope Mitt Romney gets his presidential campaign turned around fast and gives President Obama a run for his money: Heidi Heitkamp, the Democratic Senate candidate in North Dakota; Jon Tester, the Democratic...
Tags: Barack Obama, Todd Akin, Charity, White House, Television Industry
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Western lawmakers set their sights on gray wolves
L.A. UnleashedBILLINGS, Mont. â Two decades after the federal government spent a half-million dollars to study the reintroduction of gray wolves to the Northern Rockies, lawmakers say it's time for Congress to step in again -- this time to clamp down...... -
Senate to vote on food safety bill
Money & CompanyThe food safety bill is back. Again? Yes. Congress gets a last bite at much-delayed though broadly supported food safety legislation in its lame-duck session this week. The Senate Wednesday is slated to vote on cloture -- heading off a...... -
Feinstein pushes BPA restrictions in food safety bill
GreenspaceDeliberations on the food safety bill the Senate is expected to take up Wednesday may include a vote on an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would limit the use of bisphenol A, or BPA, the widely used but controversial...... -
Budget rider would lift wolf protections in northern Rockies
GreenspaceWhen Congress passes the federal budget, it’s increasingly likely lawmakers will also be sealing the fate of wolves in the northern Rockies. An unrelated rider quietly attached by legislators from Montana and Idaho to the crucial spending compromise... -
Negotiations over gray wolves' endangered status continue, but with no consensus
L.A. UnleashedBILLINGS, Mont. â Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and governors from three Northern Rockies states resumed negotiations last week to remove the region's wolves from the endangered list but reached no conclusions. Western lawmakers are pushing bills in... -
Wolf attacks on Montana livestock spike, stirring backlash
L.A. UnleashedGray wolves killed livestock in Montana at the rate of an animal per day in 2009, stirring a backlash against the predators in rural areas and depleting a program that compensates ranchers for their losses. The sharp increase over 2008......
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