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Guinta visits Washington as he weighs 2014 options
The New Hampshire Union Leader, ManchesterFRANK GOES TO WASHINGTON, AGAIN. Former U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta was back in Washington last week, looking into his political options for 2014. Guinta visited the National Republican Senatorial and Congressional Committees, which help candidates. We'...Tags: Laws, Justice System, U.S. Senate, Phil Gramm, Pete Domenici
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect: enemy combatant or common criminal?
Miami HeraldThe capture of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber has uncorked a long simmering national political debate about the way forward in this, the second decade of the war on terror: Treat the American prisoner as an enemy of the state, like a Guantanamo...Tags: CNN (tv network), Afghanistan, Laws, Central Intelligence Agency, Law Enforcement
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Legal questions surround Boston bombing suspect
WASHINGTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has become the focus of a heated debate over whether he should receive the Miranda warning or be treated as an enemy combatant. U.S. Atty. Carmen Ortiz indicated in a news conference Friday night that investigators...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Criminals, Civil Rights, John McCain, American Civil Liberties Union
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History, culture, mistrust combined to defeat gun control effort
McClatchy and Tribune NewspapersWASHINGTON _ Why is it so hard for even the most modest gun control effort to succeed? The easy answer is the power of the gun lobby, but the obstacles are far more complex. Growing numbers of people distrust Washington. A deeply rooted gun culture sees...Tags: Laws, NBC (tv network), Board of Directors, Mark Begich, U.S. House of Representatives
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Richard Burr, Justice System, Jeff Flake, Republican Party, Joe Manchin III
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A vote for violence
A Washington Post/ABC News poll this week says 70 percent of Americans think the Republican Party is out of touch. The same poll found that 86 percent of Americans — and 84 percent of those who call themselves Republicans — support...
Tags: Gun Control, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate, National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Congress
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Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades on Wednesday, rejecting calls to tighten background checks on firearms buyers as they...
Tags: Laws, Jay Carney, Mark Begich, U.S. Senate, Mark Pryor
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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: Gun Control, Parties and Movements, Politics, U.S. Congress, Tom Coburn
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Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week 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: CNN (tv network), Parties and Movements, Ronald Reagan, Dan Coats, John McCain
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Dan Coats, Justice System, Richard Burr, U.S. Senate, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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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: Public Finance, John McCain, Medicaid, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
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Mitt Romney on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Bob Woodward on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe guest list will be more star-studded than usual this Sunday morning. It should be especially fascinating to hear the discussion about whether the White House is threatening reporters. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post has said he was made...
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