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EPA confirmation delay raises questions about U.S. carbon rules
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency still in limbo, speculation is rising about the fate of a proposed emissions rule for new power plants that was scheduled to have...Tags: Gina McCarthy, Barack Obama, Environmental Issues, Mining, Politics
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Newtown victim's sister turns gun control 'accidental activist'
ReutersBy Edith Honan June 14 (Reuters) - Jillian Soto was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a New England highway when she learned over Facebook that her older sister Vicky, a first-grade teacher in Newtown, Connecticut, had died in a shooting. In the...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Virginia Tech, Gun Control, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made the promise after...Tags: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, National Security Agency, ABC (tv network), Carl Levin, Politics
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Lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a national debate on guns....Tags: Shootings, Elizabeth Esty, John Boehner, Richard Blumenthal, Eric Cantor
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U.S. lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersBy Paige Gance WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a...Tags: Elizabeth Esty, Shootings, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Gun Control
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Amendments to immigration overhaul bill stall in Senate
WASHINGTON — Enthusiasm in the Senate for the debate over immigration gave way to reality Wednesday as party leaders quarreled to a stalemate over how to consider dozens of proposed amendments. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's move to...Tags: Chuck Grassley, Chuck Schumer, Haley Barbour, Labor Legislation, Republican Party
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Newtown families push for gun control, go back to Congress
WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school shooting returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to show they are not giving up. Advocacy groups on both sides of the...
Tags: Joe Biden, Gun Control, Politics, Rand Paul, Lobbying
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NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Fort Hood (military base), Television Industry, ABC (tv network), Republican Party
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House members voice skepticism about surveillance programs after briefing
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Members of Congress on Tuesday expressed growing doubts about the way the country's top-secret surveillance programs are managed, even as the top legislators from each party voiced confidence in the programs and showed little interest in a...Tags: Google Inc., U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Judges, Henry C. Johnson Jr., ABC (tv network)
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Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Politics, John Cornyn, Justice and Rights, Washington, DC
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National Journal on immigration: 'The Two Faces of Marco Rubio'
Takiing NamesLast week, I penned a piece that said Marco Rubio finally has a chance to prove his critics wrong and show that he's more than a lightweight when it comes to serious policy and meaningful legislation ("On immigration, Rubio has chance to prove his mettle"...Tags: Elections, Orrin Hatch, Crime, Law and Justice, Marco Rubio, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Editorial: Where's Sen. Kirk on immigration reform?
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte stuck her neck out over the weekend, declaring her support for the immigration reform bill that will hit the floor this week. That makes her the first Republican, outside of the bipartisan Gang of Eight that drafted the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Susan Collins, Marco Rubio, Mexico, Republican Party
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