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Sequester is proof of Obama's incompetence
Regarding your recent editorial on the impending across-the-board cuts in federal spending, since the "sequester" plan originally was introduced by the White House, to call it a "GOP sequester" is a misnomer ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). If we had any...
Tags: White House, U.S. Congress, Elections, Republican Party, Politics
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Obama summons congressional leaders to White House
WASHINGTON – President Obama plans to convene a meeting with the top leaders in Congress on Friday at the White House, congressional aides confirmed. The president’s confab with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority...
Tags: White House, Nancy Pelosi, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Senate
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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: Television Stations, New York City, Personal Weapon Control, Chuck Schumer, Television Industry
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: Sandy Hook Promise, Executive Branch, Colleges and Universities, Manufacturing and Engineering, Personal Weapon Control
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U.S. Senators Blumenthal, Murphy Say CT Will Give Them Momentum in Washington, D.C.
The Hartford CourantSaying that Connecticut can help the national effort on gun control, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy came to the state Capitol in Hartford to congratulate Democratic senators for passing one of the strongest gun control bills in the...Tags: New Britain, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Washington, DC, Republican Party
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: Television Stations, Personal Weapon Control, Chuck Schumer, Television Industry, U.S. Senate
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Alec Baldwin, Ashley Judd, Marilyn Monroe, Republican Party
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On guns: Too little, too late
WASHINGTON -- "Don't get squishy because time has passed," President Obama told members of Congress. But they already have. "Now is the time," the president said. But the time was actually three months ago. Obama made an impassioned bid last...
Tags: White House, Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control, Chuck Grassley, Washington, DC
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Obama's limited war on guns
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As a consensus has slowly built that Congress will at best settle for half a loaf on tough new gun-control legislation, President Obama continues to do a version of a Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope dance on the issue. At the White House on...Tags: White House, Michael Bloomberg, Wayne LaPierre, Gun Control, Washington, DC
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Group wants background checks for firearm buyers
holly.shok@herald-mail.comOne hundred days after the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, community members gathered at the Boonsboro Free Library on Thursday to sign a petition advocating universal background checks for firearm sales. Hosted by public...Tags: Barbara A. Mikulski, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Benjamin L. Cardin, National Rifle Association of America, Barack Obama
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Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons
Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), The Washington Post, Personal Weapon Control, Anthony Kennedy
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Congressman brings common sense to gun control debate
SACRAMENTO — As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a Northern California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller. Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate "blue dog" Democrat who represents...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Darrell Steinberg, Substance Abuse, Gun Control, Newspaper and Magazine
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