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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: Bobby Scott, Lobbying, Carolyn McCarthy, Republican Party, Harry Reid
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Biden meets with gun safety, victims groups
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday heard personal stories of gun violence from representatives of victims groups and gun-safety organizations as he drafts the Obama administration's response to the shooting at a Connecticut...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, White House, Vice (movie)
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Finally, a breakthrough
CBS NewsMost of the world is counting down to a midnight New Year's celebration while Congress continues to watch the clock and count down to another deadline, despite the efforts of lawmakers to avert the "fiscal cliff." Those efforts are inching closer to the...Tags: Democratic Party, Unemployment Benefits, Fiscal Cliff, Joe Biden, Republican Party
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Talk of GOP primaries follows 'fiscal cliff' vote
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Congress who took the politically risky step of voting to raise taxes now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry conservatives. These lawmakers wasted little time...
Tags: Dan Benishek, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Steve Womack, Politics
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'Cliff' talks: Geithner invites GOP counteroffer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ready to entertain Republican proposals for spending cuts, but GOP lawmakers must first commit to higher tax rates on the rich and specify what additional spending cuts they want in a deal to avoid the...
Tags: CNN (tv network), This Week (tv program), Republican Party, Fox News Channel (tv network), Parties and Movements
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Obama wants tax cuts extended to all but top 2%
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a challenge to Republicans, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to extend expiring tax cuts immediately for all but the nation's highest income earners as a way to eliminate half of the so-called "fiscal cliff"...
Tags: Democratic Party, Government Health Care, John Boehner, Republican Party, MSNBC (tv network)
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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: George Allen, Republican Party, Scott P. Brown, Joe Donnelly, Politics
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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: Government, Executive Branch, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Harry Reid
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Mourdock criticized over rape, pregnancy comments
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office. Though he eventually won their support — and money — Mourdock...
Tags: Democratic Party, Kelly Ayotte, Mitt Romney, Abortion, Republican Party
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GOP candidates in close races disavow rape remark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats' advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate's awkward remark — that if rape leads to pregnancy it's "something God intended" —...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Kelly Ayotte, Jeff Flake, Republican Party, Scott P. Brown
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McCain sets Indiana trip to campaign for Mourdock
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain is coming to Indianapolis this week to campaign for Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. The visit by the 2008 GOP presidential nominee is among campaign events by high-profile Republicans being planned...
Tags: Chris Christie, Political Fundraising, Republican Party, John McCain, Bill Clinton
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Q&A: What does the health care law mean for you?
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Free vaccines for kids, cheaper drugs for the elderly and many other benefits of President Barack Obama's health care law are already out there. More are coming, like a guaranteed right to buy health insurance even for patients...Tags: Government, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Elena Kagan, Fines
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Oct 24, 2012
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Jun 29, 2012
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