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No assault weapons ban: Not in Democrat's Senate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival now are all but hopeless. The ban is the most controversial...
Tags: Weaponry, Newspaper and Magazine, Barack Obama, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, U.S. Congress
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Progress slows on Budget Bill to avoid shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, Politics, U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting
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Assault weapons ban loses round
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive. She...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Weaponry, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Progress slows on federal budget bill
WASHINGTON -- A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to permit...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Politics, U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting, Food and Drug Administration
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Assault weapons ban to be dropped from Senate gun bill
WASHINGTON – An assault weapons ban will not be included in a package of gun safety legislation that will come to the Senate floor, the measure’s champion, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said Tuesday. The California Democrat said her party’s...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Weaponry, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Mortar explosion blamed for 7 Marine deaths at Nevada training site
A live ammunition training exercise erupted in an explosion that killed seven Marines and injured at least seven others at a storied Nevada military munitions depot, officials said Tuesday. The explosion, which occurred about 10 p.m. Monday night at the...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Camp Lejeune (military base), Brian Sandoval, Armed Forces, Explosions
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Boehner says Obama using military as 'props' in sequester fight
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said President Obama was using the nation’s armed forces as a “campaign prop” when he should be working with his party’s leaders in the Senate to avoid across-the-board spending cuts set to take...
Tags: Washington, DC, Elections, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Politics
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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: John McCain, Patrick J. Toomey, White House, Roy Blunt, U.S. Senate
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Congress works on budget for both 2013 and future
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is finally cleaning up its unfinished budget business for the long-underway 2013 budget year with a bipartisan government-wide funding bill, even as the combatants in the House and Senate gear up for votes this week on...
Tags: White House, U.S. Senate, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Crime, Law and Justice, European Debt Crisis
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Backers of American Latino national museum push bill in Congress
Congressional backers of a proposed Smithsonian-affiliated museum devoted to the history and culture of American Latinos didn't succeed the first time around, so they're trying again. The bipartisan bills resubmitted Friday in the U.S. House and...
Tags: Bob Menendez, Museums, Marco Rubio, Politics, Government
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Obama's economic policies will destroy the country
Only among The Sun's editors and the Democratic Party is the 3.5 percent annual growth in the federal budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan considered "egregious" ("Unbalanced budgeting," March 14). Representative Ryan's plan to spend "only"...
Tags: Paul Ryan, Public Finance, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Piling on more debt
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats in the US Senate have broken the law for four years by not passing a budget. This is the height of criminal gross negligence as US debt passes $16.5 trillion and approaches $17 trillion, as 46 cents of...Tags: Patty Murray, Elections, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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