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Baucus' exit drains hope for tax reform
This post has been updated, as indicated below. Six-term Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, announced Tuesday that he won't run for reelection in 2014. You may now kiss any hope of a sweeping tax reform bill...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Christopher Dodd, Barack Obama, Justice System, Republican Party
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A Measure Of Courage In Senate On Guns
The U.S. Senate minority's squelching of debate and votes last week on any meaningful legislation to reduce gun violence has unfortunately become the rule, not the exception. Not much can get done in the Senate under the tyranny of the minority, when it...Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Joe Manchin III, National Rifle Association of America, Susan Collins, John McCain
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Shouted protests punctuate Senate immigration hearing
WASHINGTON -- A Republican senator shouted in protest Monday as a top Democrat complained at a Senate hearing that opponents of immigration reform were improperly using the Boston bombing as a reason to delay changes to immigration law. Sen. Charles...
Tags: Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Crime, Law and Justice, Chuck Schumer, Parties and Movements
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Immigration bill debate sidetracked by Boston terror issues
Reuters* House speaker says bill will boost national security * Rand Paul wants legislation held up * Tempers flare at Senate Judiciary hearing By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Congressional advocates of comprehensive U.S. immigration...Tags: National Security, Parties and Movements, Justice System, Republican Party, U.S. Senate
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Senate sets aside gun bill, for now
WASHINGTON -- The Senate formally shelved further consideration of gun legislation Thursday even as supporters of a plan to expand background-check requirements vowed to keep pushing the issue. The decision to set the bill aside came after a showdown...
Tags: Interior Policy, Gun Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Patrick J. Toomey, Joe Manchin III
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Background check 'win-win' amendment gets a 'no, thanks' from Senate minority
Change of SubjectSenate deals setback to gun bill in vote on background checks tells the story of how the filibuster wins again: The final vote was, 54 (yes) to 46 (no), after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) switched his vote to...... -
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: Interior Policy, Gun Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Parties and Movements, National Rifle Association of America
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Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat
WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...
Tags: Interior Policy, Chris Murphy, Gun Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Parties and Movements
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Old school for old boys
While Max Baucus and Jon Tester are both Democrats, both U.S. senators and both Montana country boys, last month's hurried vote to fund nearly $1 trillion of current federal spending shows just how different these Big Sky legislators really are. Baucus,...Tags: Jon Tester, Barack Obama, Easter, Genetic Engineering, George W. Bush
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Dick Durbin, National Security, Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Michael F. Bennet
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Gun control: Wait till next year -- or the year after
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) formally suspended the Democrats’ drive for new gun control legislation Thursday, shelving his party’s bill after Wednesday’s defeat of its centerpiece, a measure for expanded background...
Tags: Interior Policy, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Patrick J. Toomey
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Bill could lead largely to end of Internet sales tax loophole
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan support, the Senate is poised to pass a bill this week that could lead largely to the end of the nation's long online sales tax holiday. The measure would allow states to require that large online retailers...Tags: Dick Durbin, Amazon.com Inc., Computer Networking and Internet, Kelly Ayotte, U.S. Senate
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