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    Apr 24, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  1. How a bill becomes slaw

    Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it's dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let's take a close look at just how something as popular as expanded background checks failed to pass the U.S. Senate last week.
    Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it's dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let's take a close look at just how something as popular as expanded background checks failed to pass the U.S. Senate...

    Tags: Republican Party, Patrick J. Toomey, Elections, Parties and Movements, Mitch McConnell

  2. Apr 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  3. Gun vote reveals new GOP divide

    It pains me to congratulate the National Rifle Association, but the organization's aid to the U.S. Senate's defeat of background checks for gun purchasers was an impressive victory — against common sense.
    It pains me to congratulate the National Rifle Association, but the organization's aid to the U.S. Senate's defeat of background checks for gun purchasers was an impressive victory — against common sense. Although there is widespread...

    Tags: Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Patrick J. Toomey, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration

  4. Apr 22, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call
  5. Casey on Morning Joe: Background checks 'not nearly enough'

    Had Sen. Pat Toomey's amendment to expand background checks passed, Pennsylvania's other U.S. senator said Monday that it would not have been enough to curb gun violence.
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    Had Sen. Pat Toomey's amendment to expand background checks passed, Pennsylvania's other U.S. senator said Monday that it would not have been enough to curb gun violence. Bob Casey spoke about gun control, an issue he "evolved" (Washington speak for...

    Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Politics, Elections, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control

  6. Apr 22, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant
  7. 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: Republican Party, Patrick J. Toomey, Harry Reid, Politics, Elections

  8. Apr 18, 2013 | Chicago Tribune
  9. The weak in review --Timid Senate falters on equally timid gun control measure

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    Friday's print column It was dismaying. Not that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a major gun-control proposal that would have required universal background checks prior to all firearm sales. But that such a proposal, popular though it is in......
  10. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. 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.
    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: Patrick J. Toomey, Jeff Flake, Elections, Mental Health, Politics

  12. Apr 20, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call
  13. Second Amendment is not the only problem with the Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights is full of mischief. Bad guys often beat the rap, religious zealots can run amok, and citizens can deny entry to authorities who are only trying to find out what's being hidden. Worst of all, people are allowed to be self-reliant...

    Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Civil Rights, Religion and Belief, September 11, 2001 Attacks, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

  14. Apr 19, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel
  15. 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.
    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: Republican Party, Johnny Isakson, Jeff Flake, Parties and Movements, Elections

  16. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. 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.
    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: Republican Party, Chris Murphy, Parties and Movements, Susan Collins, Chuck Schumer

  18. Apr 19, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News
  19. Marco Rubio's powerful lead in reorienting GOP on immigration

    Amid continuing evidence of the Republican Party's internal tensions, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has taken the year's most significant step in reorienting the GOP toward a more open and inclusive stance on the crucial issue of immigration. Rubio's...

    Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Elections, Immigration, CNN (tv network)

  20. Apr 17, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press
  21. Schiff slams Congressional colleagues for not passing agreement on background checks

    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) wants his colleagues in Congress to know that he is appalled by the failure of the Senate to pass a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would have mandated background checks for firearms buyers. “What happened this...

    Tags: Government, Safety of Citizens, Patrick J. Toomey, Adam Schiff, U.S. Congress

  22. Apr 19, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  23. The weak in review

    It was dismaying. Not that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a major gun control proposal that would have required universal background checks prior to all firearm sales. But that such a proposal, popular though it is in opinion polling, wasn't...

    Tags: Republican Party, Patrick J. Toomey, Parties and Movements, Elections, USA Today

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