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Senators predict another vote on gun-control legislation
WASHINGTON -- Two top senators predicted Thursday that gun legislation will come up again for a Senate vote – possibly before the end of the year – as public attitudes shift toward stricter controls. Their assessment comes after the defeat...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Napolitano: Immigration bill would boost security
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweeping immigration legislation would improve U.S. security by helping authorities to know who is in the country, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday, as supporters of an immigration overhaul marshaled...
Tags: Republican Party, Human Mishaps, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Parties and Movements, Immigration
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Grassley taking active role in immigration debate
The Hawk Eye, Burlington, IowaAs the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, planned to take an active role in the immigration debate even before his comments on the issue attracted national attention last week. During a conference...Tags: Immigration, Justice System, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice and Rights, U.S. Senate
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Senators predict another vote on gun control legislation
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON _ Two top senators predicted Thursday that gun legislation will come up again for a Senate vote _ possibly before the end of the year _ as public attitudes shift toward stricter controls. Their assessment comes after the defeat last week of a...Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Key U.S. lawmakers hopeful bipartisan immigration bill will pass
ReutersWASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Two key authors of a bipartisan bill to revamp U.S. immigration laws said on Thursday that they are hopeful most Senate Democrats and Republicans will end up supporting their White House-backed measure. "It is very...Tags: Republican Party, Immigration, U.S. Senate, White House, Politics
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Senators call for review of TSA knife policy
NewsdayTwo U.S. senators called on Wednesday for an audit of the Transportation Security Administration's plan to allow passengers to carry small knives on planes for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Lisa Murkowski, Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Congress tackles gun violence, immigration
WASHINGTON -- After a two-week spring recess, Congress returns to work on Tuesday for a make-or-break legislative sprint on two White House priorities – gun violence and immigration reform – in a session that could help define President Obama&...
Tags: Gun Control, Immigration, Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, Harry Reid
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Washington draws the wrong lessons from Boston
Ordinary people, elected and unelected, behaved heroically last week. Unfortunately, it all happened hundreds of miles from Washington. In Boston, strangers gave clothes and shelter to shivering runners. They comforted injured spectators. They saved...Tags: Gun Control, Republican Party, Interior Policy, Dan Coats, Marco Rubio
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Editorial: Welcome, immigrants
Immigration reform has taken an important step forward; now it's up to Congress to get past their usual gridlock and deliver legislation that is critical to our nation's economic future. Last week, the "Gang of Eight," a bipartisan group of four...Tags: Employees, Paul Ryan, Interior Policy, Michael F. Bennet, Marco Rubio
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Republican lawmakers show their division on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — The divide within the Republican Party over immigration reform was on full view Monday, as top party leaders made a case for overhauling the laws even as conservative senators argued that the Boston bombings showed the need to go slow....
Tags: Republican Party, Justice System, Paul Ryan, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Parties and Movements
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Immigration hearing sparks clash of conservatives
On Monday the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first public hearing on the sweeping immigration bill unveiled last week that seeks to overhaul the current system. The hearings produced a sharp exchange between Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-New York),...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Immigration, Justice System, Illegal Immigrants, Politics
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U.S. sources: Canada terror plot targets train that travels through Falls and Buffalo
The Buffalo NewsCanadian authorities Monday arrested two men on terrorism-related charges in connection with an al Qaeda-linked plot that, according to U.S. officials, would have involved blowing up a train that travels between Toronto to New York via Niagara Falls and...Tags: Amtrak, FBI, Canada, Brian Higgins, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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