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    Jan 8, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Bush signs bill geared to toughen screening of gun buyers

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON -- A rare piece of gun legislation finds the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence on the same side, and President Bush signed such a bill Tuesday. The measure, Congress' response to last year's Virginia...

    Tags: Death, Assault, Criminals, Long Island, Laws

    2. Feb 16, 2009 |Story| WPIX-LTV

  2. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: I Keep 2 Guns Under My Bed

    WASHINGTON -- New York Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, who argues her pro-gun stance aims to protect hunters' rights and the Second Amendment, last week said she and her husband, Jonathan, keep two rifles under their bed to protect their upstate home....

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Family, Long Island, Kirsten Gillibrand, Hillary Clinton

    3. Jan 23, 2009 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  3. Aide: Paterson Picks Gillibrand as Next NY Senator

    ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. David Paterson has picked Democratic U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill New York's vacant U.S. Senate seat, an aide to the governor said early Friday, a day after Caroline Kennedy abruptly withdrew from consideration. Gillibrand,...

    Tags: Executive Branch, Lawyers, General Electric Company, Kirsten Gillibrand, Hillary Clinton

    4. Jun 17, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Small steps on gun control

    WHO SAYS gun control is dead in the United States? As Wednesday's passage in the House of what could be the first major federal gun-control law in a decade proves, it is still possible to limit weapons sales in this country — as long as the National...

    Tags: Columbine High School, Democratic Party, Death, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals

    5. Apr 23, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Close the gun control loophole

    ONE OF THE FEW gun control issues most Americans can agree on is that it is insanity to allow the mentally disturbed to bear arms. But that's just what happened in Virginia, where, despite a judge's 2005 finding that Seung-hui Cho posed an "imminent...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Criminals, Laws, Social Issues

    6. Jul 23, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  6. McCarthy: Can live with it

    Spin Cycle
    Guns have always been Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy's signature issue. She issues a long statement saying, essentially, that she thinks the gun control movement can live with the Supreme Court ruling: ???Although I am disappointed in today???s decision...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Court Administration, Washington (U.S. state), Laws, Interior Policy

    7. Jul 23, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  7. Video: Martins v. McCarthy, starring Dean Skelos

    Spin Cycle
    Here's video of the new ad Jack Martins is running in his Congressional race against Carolyn McCarthy, with a cameo by Dean Skelos, that Rick Brand wrote about yesterday: And -- bonus coverage!!! -- a second version, featuring cameos from......
    8. Jul 23, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  8. Skelos first campaign ad goes federal

    Spin Cycle
    New Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos will be making his first appearance Wednesday in a campaign ad since taking over the Senate's top post. He won???t be touting one of his senate majority, but GOP local congressional contender Jack......

    Tags: Upper House, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Political Candidates, Parliament

    9. Sep 2, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  9. McCarthy foe takes campaign to Israel

    Spin Cycle
    Mineola Mayor Jack Martins may be running for Congress in Long Island's fourth district against Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, but the Jerusalem Post reports his campaign has taken him all the way to to Israel.......

    Tags: Local Elections, Long Island, Elections

    10. Sep 29, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  10. Monday's Ten: Bailout goes to the floor

    Spin Cycle
    The bailout package, completed over the weekend, now faces a tough vote in the House, where critics on the right and left could desert. Beyond the politics: USA Today asks, 'Will it work?' In their responses to the financial......

    Tags: Bill Clinton, Alaska

    11. Nov 16, 2008 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  11. Obama puts vet Rouse in top post

    The Swamp
    by Christi Parsons Pete Rouse, who helped Barack Obama craft the early plans for his White House bid, will take on a key role in the new administration as a senior advisor to the president. A Capitol Hill veteran and......

    Tags: Byron Dorgan, Upper House, Barack Obama, Montana, Heads of State

    12. Dec 3, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  12. Pelosi: Ethics? What ethics? I'm the speaker

    Spin Cycle
    Out to prove that Congressional Democrats in the Age of Obama will display the same ethical decreptitude that stalwarts like Tom DeLay brought to the table, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has apparently decided she doesn't need to hear from......

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Ethics, Tim Bishop, East Harlem, Tom DeLay

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