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Mayors Against Illegal Guns targets first Democrat
The Michael Bloomberg-backed group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is following up on its promise to hound Senate Democrats who voted against gun control legislation in April. In an ad that launched Friday, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is implored by a...
Tags: Mental Health, Chuck Grassley, Democratic Party, Mark Pryor, Personal Weapon Control
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Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay members, but not leaders, ending century-long ban
The Boy Scouts of America approved a historic policy shift Thursday, allowing gay youths as members for the first time in the organization's 100-year history. But the highly anticipated vote by 1,400 members of the Scouts' executive committee stopped...
Tags: Jesus Christ, DeSales University, Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rick Perry
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Boy Scouts set to vote on lifting gay youth ban
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Thursday’s vote on whether to lift the ban on gay youths in the Boy Scouts of America could symbolize a cultural shift. Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday,...
Tags: Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rick Perry, Lobbying, Elections
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Anthony Foxx coasts through hearing to take wheel at Transportation Department
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Anthony Foxx avoided the controversy of other Capitol Hill hearings Wednesday, receiving a mostly warm reception from senators who considered his nomination to become transportation secretary. Foxx probably will get easy confirmation by the...Tags: Tim Scott, Federal Aviation Administration, Charlotte, Richard Burr, Kay Hagan
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Party, Mitch McConnell, Elections
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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Harry Reid, Personal Data Collection, Mitch McConnell, Elections
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Immigration reform: Closer to reality or destined for failure?
Oh, how much things have changed in just a few months. Last May, Republicans and Democrats couldn't agree on any aspect of immigration reform. But on Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a far-reaching immigration bill, clearing the way for a...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Immigration, Migration, Elections, Patrick Leahy
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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Harry Reid, Personal Data Collection, Mitch McConnell, Lobbying
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Senate panel approves immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Elections, Patrick Leahy, Justice and Rights, U.S. Congress
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Chuck Grassley, Republican Party, Immigration, Migration, Elections
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Republican Party, Immigration, Elections, Public Finance
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Matthew Rozsa: Why won't 'birthers' question citizenship of Sen. Ted Cruz?
From a strictly political standpoint, the past month has been pretty good for Sen. Ted Cruz. First the tea party darling further endeared himself to grass-roots rightists by claiming he had privately told Republican senators who supported the gun-buyer...Tags: Harry Reid, Lehigh University, Polls, Grover Cleveland, Politics
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