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President Obama's sequester
No matter how artfully President Obama attempts to stick blame on those mean House Republicans, the sequestration of $85 billion in this year's spending authority was his administration's idea. At the daily noon White House briefing on Feb. 19, Press...Tags: Jay Carney, Budget Control Act of 2011, White House, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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U.S. Senators Blumenthal, Murphy Say CT Will Give Them Momentum in Washington, D.C.
The Hartford CourantSaying that Connecticut can help the national effort on gun control, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy came to the state Capitol in Hartford to congratulate Democratic senators for passing one of the strongest gun control bills in the...Tags: Interior Policy, New Britain, Republican Party, Lawyers, Richard Blumenthal
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: Television Stations, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Coburn, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Ashley Judd, George Clooney, Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Entertainment Events
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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: Jay Carney, Interior Policy, White House, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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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: Barbara A. Mikulski, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Libraries, Barack Obama, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Sexual Assault, Lobbying, Marriage
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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: Mike Thompson, Interior Policy, U.S. Supreme Court, Viniculture, Newspaper and Magazine
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Boehner says Obama using military as 'props' in sequester fight
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said President Obama was using the nation’s armed forces as a “campaign prop” when he should be working with his party’s leaders in the Senate to avoid across-the-board spending cuts set to take...
Tags: Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Politics
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Say yes to sequestration
Sen. Ben Cardin's fear-mongering article about the threat of budget sequestration was appalling ("No to sequestration," Feb. 20). He of all people should know that the sequester was proposed by President Obama himself to Senate Majority Leader Harry...
Tags: Mount Airy, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Politics, Public Finance
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Sequestration: How we got here
Sequestration is an extremely crude way to cut approximately 2 percent of federal spending. It is analogous to forcing a grossly obese person to lose a few pounds by not feeding him for a few days. On this issue, at least, it appears that Republicans...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, White House, U.S. Senate, Politics
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Obama, sequestered
During the epic deficits-and-debt donnybrook of mid-2011, two top aides to President Barack Obama proposed an ultimatum so onerous that Congress and the White House surely wouldn't let it happen. In his book "The Price of Politics," Bob Woodward of...
Tags: Bill Clinton, White House, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Congressional Budget Office
Feb 26, 2013
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Apr 1, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013
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