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Albert Hunt: Senate friendship born of tragedy beats partisanship
These days, most dispatches from Washington focus on petty partisanship, posturing, impasses and a political culture that rewards confrontation. Here's a respite: a story of kindness, comity, generosity reaching across the political divide. It's about...Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Marco Rubio, Coma
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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. Although there is widespread...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Elections, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio
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Casey on Morning Joe: Background checks 'not nearly enough'
Call Washington BureauHad 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: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), The Washington Post, Assault, Elections, U.S. Senate
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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: National Rifle Association of America, Elections, Susan Collins, U.S. Senate, John McCain
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Carl Hiaasen: Rubio comes up short on gun control
Miami HeraldMarco Rubio showed his true yellow colors last week, joining 45 other cowards to defeat Senate legislation designed to stop criminals from buying firearms online and at gun shows. The vote was nauseating. So is Rubio. A few days earlier, he had...Tags: U.S. Senate, Mitt Romney, The Miami Herald, Interior Policy, White House
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Reorienting the GOP on immigration
The Dallas Morning NewsAmid 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: Elections, Ted Cruz, Gun Control, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney
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The weak in review --Timid Senate falters on equally timid gun control measure
Change of SubjectFriday'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...... -
Manchin won't resign from NRA, but displeased with how bill portrayed
The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., says he will not resign from the National Rifle Association as others have done in the wake of failed gun control amendments in the U.S. Senate. Instead, he prefers changing the NRA "from within." Manchin,...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Senate, Susan Collins, John McCain, Gun Control
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EDITORIAL: King Coal Highway -- Fight for funding must continue
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va.Supporters of the King Coal Highway are once again asking area lawmakers for $66.9 million in federal funds to help create a useable segment of the future four-lane corridor in Mercer County. That's the latest estimated cost of extending the local...Tags: John D. Rockefeller IV, Highway Transportation, Justice System, Transportation, Coal
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The Santa Fe New Mexican Roundhouse Roundup column
The Santa Fe New MexicanI guess my job just got more important last week. As one of my colleagues in the Capitol newsroom pointed out, I get to cover one of the 100 most important people in the world. That person, of course, is Gov. Susana Martinez, who was included in Time...Tags: Vladimir Putin, U.S. Senate, Joe Biden, Karl Rove, Interior Policy
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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: Mental Health, National Rifle Association of America, Elections, Harry Reid, Gun Control
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Memphis gun control advocates vow to continue efforts after Senate rejects bill
Commercial AppealA sampling of Memphis gun control advocates including Mayor A C Wharton have vowed to continue their efforts following the Senate's rejection of a federal plan to expand background checks for gun buyers. The bill, authored by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Elections, U.S. Senate, Harry Reid, Gun Control
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