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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: Republican Party, Elections, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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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: Organizing for Action, National Rifle Association of America, Libraries, Barbara A. Mikulski, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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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: Annapolis, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Marriage, Interior Policy, Elections
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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: University of California, Davis, Mike Thompson, Periodicals, Interior Policy, Dianne Feinstein
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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: Republican Party, Government Debt, Elections, Budget Control Act of 2011, Nancy Pelosi
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C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general. Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Elections, Tobacco Products, Science and Technology, AIDS
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Senate committee OKs Jacob Lew nomination for Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee voted Tuesday to confirm Jacob J. Lew as Treasury Secretary despite Republican concerns about his support for higher taxes to reduce the nation's debt as well as his tenure as a Citigroup Inc. executive before joining...
Tags: Republican Party, Government Debt, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate
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Do-nothing House Republicans
WASHINGTON -- A meat cleaver hangs over the federal government, but the unflappable men and women of the House majority remain cool and poised. With just a few days to stop automatic spending cuts from affecting everything from air travel to food...
Tags: Michael Burgess, The Washington Post, Politics, NASA, Virginia Foxx
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It's the 'Obama sequester'
I guess many of The Sun's readers are of the "low information" type who are not exposed to counter-points that would rebut the mantra of the left ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Let me explain. Never in the history of this great nation have we gone four...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Elections, Barack Obama
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Arizona gun shop won't sell assault weapon to Mark Kelly
A gun shop in Tucson, Ariz., has canceled an effort by retired astronaut Mark Kelly, an outspoken gun-control advocate, to buy a semiautomatic rifle as a way of demonstrating how easy it is to buy powerful weapons. Kelly, the husband of former Rep....
Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wolf Blitzer
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Obama tries to push stalled immigration talks forward
WASHINGTON — President Obama prodded congressional negotiators to reach agreement on a plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, saying despite delays and disputes he still wants a bill to emerge soon and debate in the Senate to begin...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Illegal Immigrants, Janet Napolitano, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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An assault weapons ban was doomed. Focus on background checks.
WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote that the Senate was making quiet progress toward passing a gun control bill that would make background checks mandatory on buyers in almost all gun purchases, including most sales between individuals. And that,...
Tags: Wayne LaPierre, Tom Coburn, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Dianne Feinstein
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