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New Republican senator could be key vote on guns
WASHINGTON – Even before New Jersey’s new U.S. senator took the oath of office, Democrats seemed to be lobbying the Republican for his vote on a key legislative priority: expanded background checks on gun buyers. Jeffrey Chiesa, appointed...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Government, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Elections, Joe Manchin III
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Obama, Congress reenact battle over student loan rates
WASHINGTON -- President Obama complained about the looming interest rate hike on student loans in a Rose Garden event Friday morning and urged Americans to call, write and tweet their Republican members of Congress to do something about it. But on...Tags: Barack Obama, Loans, Money and Monetary Policy, U.S. Senate, Elections
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Rights advocates urge caution on lifting sanctions after violence in Myanmar
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Human rights groups are growing increasingly concerned over escalating violence in Myanmar after Buddhist mobs, including monks, took to the streets this week, burning mosques and schools and killing a Muslim man before finally being...Tags: Human Rights, Justice and Rights, Human Rights Watch, Civil Rights, Buddhism
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Ehrlich distorts the facts about Obamacare
As is often his wont, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column on Obamacare provided a very one-sided narrative using gross generalizations and failing to provide context for his arguments ("Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home," May 26). Mr....Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Budgets and Budgeting, American Enterprise Institute, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Heritage Foundation
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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...Tags: Parties and Movements, Government, Human Interest, U.S. Senate, Internal Revenue Service
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For Obama, 2014 is his number
WASHINGTON -- Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Sociology, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Senate Republicans stonewall Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday morning on President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, prompting accusations of obstructionism from Democrats and calls to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Gina McCarthy, Environmental Pollution, Republican Party, Politics
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Scandal creates questions about IRS' role in enforcing health care law
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The blossoming IRS scandal over the targeting of conservative groups is provoking new scrutiny and terse questions about the agency's role in shaping and implementing the controversial national health care law, with the biggest changes set to...Tags: Health Insurance, Taxation, Employment Opportunities, Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service
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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Parties and Movements, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Elections, Patrick Leahy
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Parties and Movements, Demographics, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Elections
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Manhattan Beach (Brooklyn, New York), American Red Cross, Employees, Politics
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