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No assault weapons ban: Not in Democrat's Senate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival now are all but hopeless. The ban is the most controversial...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Denis R. McDonough, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Chuck Schumer
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Progress slows on Budget Bill to avoid shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Budget Control Act of 2011, Washington, DC, Politics, Paul Ryan
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Assault weapons ban loses round
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — To advance a cause that has defined her political career, Sen. Dianne Feinstein brought the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Capitol Hill, where he talked about the last time he saw his first-grader alive. She...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hunting, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Civil Rights
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Progress slows on federal budget bill
WASHINGTON -- A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to permit...Tags: Career and Workplace, Parties and Movements, Washington, DC, Politics, Paul Ryan
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Assault weapons ban to be dropped from Senate gun bill
WASHINGTON – An assault weapons ban will not be included in a package of gun safety legislation that will come to the Senate floor, the measure’s champion, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said Tuesday. The California Democrat said her party’s...
Tags: John Cornyn, Parties and Movements, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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Mortar explosion blamed for 7 Marine deaths at Nevada training site
A live ammunition training exercise erupted in an explosion that killed seven Marines and injured at least seven others at a storied Nevada military munitions depot, officials said Tuesday. The explosion, which occurred about 10 p.m. Monday night at the...
Tags: George Wright, Camp Lejeune (military base), World War II (1939-1945), Politics, U.S. Army
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Senators protest sequester cuts, shutdown threat looms
WASHINGTON — It was bound to happen: As the sequester budget cuts are felt around the country, lawmakers are having second thoughts — and trying to tinker with them in a way that could lead to a full-scale government shutdown. Senators...Tags: James Inhofe, Patrick J. Toomey, Budget Control Act of 2011, Washington, DC, Politics
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Congress works on budget for both 2013 and future
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is finally cleaning up its unfinished budget business for the long-underway 2013 budget year with a bipartisan government-wide funding bill, even as the combatants in the House and Senate gear up for votes this week on...
Tags: Parties and Movements, FBI, Budget Control Act of 2011, Washington, DC, Politics
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Backers of American Latino national museum push bill in Congress
Congressional backers of a proposed Smithsonian-affiliated museum devoted to the history and culture of American Latinos didn't succeed the first time around, so they're trying again. The bipartisan bills resubmitted Friday in the U.S. House and...
Tags: National Government, U.S. Department of Energy, Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez, Politics
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Obama's economic policies will destroy the country
Only among The Sun's editors and the Democratic Party is the 3.5 percent annual growth in the federal budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan considered "egregious" ("Unbalanced budgeting," March 14). Representative Ryan's plan to spend "only"...Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Paul Ryan, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Piling on more debt
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats in the US Senate have broken the law for four years by not passing a budget. This is the height of criminal gross negligence as US debt passes $16.5 trillion and approaches $17 trillion, as 46 cents of...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Patty Murray, Politics, Elections
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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: Politics, U.S. Senate, White House, Republican Party, Nancy Pelosi
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