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Let the Senate vote-a-rama begin
WASHINGTON – Step aside, stately Senate. Say hello to vote-a-rama. On Friday, the usually lonely floor of the U.S. Senate was thrown open for that most rare of occurrences – a free-for-all frenzy of amendment-making, which is required for...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Patty Murray, Politics, Barack Obama, Arts and Culture
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Senators keep White House closed to tours
WASHINGTON – A Republican-led attempt to reopen the White House to tours was defeated largely along party lines Wednesday in the Senate. Senators voted 45 to 54 on the measure from Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who was seeking to...
Tags: Travel, Politics, Tourism and Leisure, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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Senate OKs legislation to keep government open; House votes next
WASHINGTON — All but ensuring there will be no federal shutdown, the Senate on Wednesday approved a measure to keep the government running — but not before tweaking the automatic budget cuts that threaten some of the lawmakers’...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Politics, Immigration, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Senators protest sequester cuts, shutdown threat looms
WASHINGTON — It was bound to happen: As the sequester budget cuts are felt around the country, lawmakers are having second thoughts — and trying to tinker with them in a way that could lead to a full-scale government shutdown. Senators...
Tags: White House, Defense, Air Transportation Industry, Politics, Barack Obama
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McManus: Sadder but wiser pols
President Obama took a posse of Republican senators to dinner last week, and this week he's giving Congress the unusual courtesy of no fewer than four presidential visits to Capitol Hill. Can a flurry of presidential schmoozing change Washington from...
Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Elections
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Senate committee OKs bill expanding background checks for gun sales
WASHINGTON — A bill to expand background check requirements for gun sales cleared its first Senate hurdle Tuesday, even though a compromise measure that would attract sufficient bipartisan support in the full chamber remains elusive. The Senate...
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control
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At new phase in budget fight, Obama reaches out to GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON -- President Obama appears to be trying to thaw chilly relations with lawmakers as he pushed through the latest budget battle while moving on to other parts of his second-term agenda. Obama will head to Capitol Hill next week to visit...
Tags: White House, Politics, Gun Control, Immigration, Barack Obama
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Saturday Night Live' on NBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 11 - 16, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES "The Graham Norton Show" Jude Law, Mila...
Tags: The Doctors (tv program), Joe Scarborough, Vanessa Marano, Politics, Timothy M. Kaine
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Hoping to break the stalemate, Obama takes GOP senators to dinner
President Obama had a dinner date Wednesday night with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Richard Burr, Mike Johanns, Politics, Saxby Chambliss, Barack Obama
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McManus: Fiscal crisis? What crisis?
Here's what is most maddening about the "Perils of Pauline" fiscal crises that President Obama and Congress have led us into during the last year: Both sides have known from the beginning what the final deals would look like, but neither side has been...
Tags: White House, Politics, Social Security, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace
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New Senate gun measure unveiled, and this one's bipartisan
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators unveiled a new measure Monday to combat illegal gun trafficking, a sign of momentum for one element of President Obama’s initiative to reduce gun violence. The primary focus of the bill is to combat...
Tags: Susan Collins, Los Angeles Times Journalists, Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control
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Can bipartisanship break out over gun control?
In my Sunday column, I wrote that Congress has made little-noticed progress on two kinds of gun-control legislation: a stronger system of background checks on gun buyers and tougher federal laws against gun trafficking. But the column was too brief to...
Tags: Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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