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Boehner: Congress can do immigration this year
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Senate ready to cast the first floor votes on a landmark immigration bill, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he thinks there's a good chance the legislation can be signed into law "by the end of the year." Ahead of...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, ABC (tv network), U.S. Senate, Labor Legislation, Patrick Leahy
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Gun control advocates mark 6 months since shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to...
Tags: Elections, Hurricane Sandy (2012), U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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Ex-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop dies
C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96. An assistant at Koop's Dartmouth institute,...
Tags: University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Senate, Religion and Belief, Dartmouth College, HIV
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Obama unveils $500 million gun violence package
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style...Tags: U.S. Senate, Weaponry, Assault, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Video Games
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Obama unveiling gun violence measures (WSBT airing)
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's broad effort to reduce gun violence will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as more than a dozen executive orders aimed at circumventing...Tags: U.S. Senate, Weaponry, Assault, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy
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Boehner to House GOP: Don't make Christmas plans
CBS NewsDespite some tentative signs of progress on a deal to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boehner continues to insist that Republicans and Democrats are as far apart as ever in the negotiating process -- and is sending out warning...Tags: ABC (tv network), Barbara Walters, Democratic Party, U.S. Senate, Fiscal Cliff
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Democrats expand Senate grip but fail to win House
Democrats strengthened their hold on the Senate but failed Tuesday to recapture the majority in the House of Representatives they lost two years ago. President Barack Obama, in his freshly authorized second term, will face the same divided Congress in...
Tags: Public Finance, Tom Latham, Scott P. Brown, Television Industry, Joe Donnelly
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Obama? Romney? Nation decides after long campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney dueled for the White House on Tuesday in a tight-to-the-finish election shadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment that crimped middle class dreams for...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Meat Loaf, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Voting
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GOP pursues last chances to upend Senate Dems
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans vigorously pursued their last, longshot chances for taking control of the Senate — Pennsylvania topped their list — as Democrats remained cautiously optimistic that they'd retain their narrow majority...Tags: Karl Rove, Scott P. Brown, Tea Party Movement, Martin T. Heinrich, Kent Conrad
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UPDATE: Donnelly, Mourdock needle each other on weaknesses
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Richard Mourdock and Democrat Joe Donnelly faced off Monday for the first time in a debate that saw them repeating many of the hard-edged charges that have marked their contentious campaign to be Indiana's next U.S....
Tags: Elections, Richard Mourdock, Richard Lugar, Tea Party Movement, Mitt Romney
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Donnelly and Mourdock try to label one another during debate
Democrat Joe Donnelly is trying to portray his opponent in the race for Indiana’s U.S. Senate seat, Republican Richard Mourdock, as “an unapologetic leader of the tea party movement,” who doesn't want to work with others. Mourdock...
Tags: Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Elections, U.S. Senate, Richard Mourdock
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Outside money fills airwaves in tight Senate races
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Campaign cash from outside political groups is flooding into conservative states with close Senate races like Indiana, Arizona and Montana, where residents are more accustomed to local news promos between football games than...Tags: Labor Legislation, CSI (tv program), Tea Party Movement, Brookings Institution, Joe Donnelly
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Feb 25, 2013
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Jan 16, 2013
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Dec 12, 2012
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Nov 7, 2012
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Nov 6, 2012
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Nov 4, 2012
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Oct 16, 2012
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Oct 15, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012
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