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Obama settles for half measures on gun control
For all the clamor from the White House and many in Congress to address the American scourge of gun violence, signs continue to point to a half-measure solution at best. President Barack Obama's State of the Union plea to the nation's lawmakers that the...
Tags: Assault, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, Republican Party, Personal Weapon Control
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Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair
Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...Tags: National Security Agency, Intel Corp., Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Republican Party
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Mikulski to lead Senate Appropriations Committee
In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The Baltimore native and Maryland Democrat, who had...
Tags: Local Elections, Benjamin L. Cardin, Montgomery County (Maryland), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System
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Cardin, Mikulski urge Obama to speed withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Baltimore SunSens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The Maryland Democrats joined a group of 24 senators in declaring the mission in Afghanistan...Tags: Taliban, Al-Qaeda, International Military Interventions, Bernard Sanders, Benjamin L. Cardin
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FBI director approves new definition of rape
The definition of rape that dictates how local police departments report crimes to federal record keepers is expected to change — for the first time in more than 80 years — in early 2012. The final step of changing the Uniform Crime Report...Tags: Conservation, Assault, FBI, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System
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Judicial filibuster: Not so 'extraordinary' after all
Remember the "Gang of 14"? That was the bipartisan group of senators who six years ago agreed not to filibuster judicial nominees except under "extraordinary circumstances."
Well, looks like some people have decided to redefine "extraordinary" to...Tags: Democratic Party, Olympia J. Snowe, Justice System, Republican Party, Personal Weapon Control
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Bloodsworth, prosecutor move on to new things
Kirk Bloodsworth, the first American death row inmate to be exonerated by DNA evidence, has lived to see something he never could have imagined -- an award named after him, and its first recipient a Democratic senator from Vermont.
Tuesday night, at a...Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Judges, Martin O'Malley, Government
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Broad anti-terror measures sought
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Warning that cohorts of last week's suicide hijackers may be a continuing domestic threat, Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday that he is asking Congress to pass by week's end an emergency package of anti-terrorism legislation to...Tags: Justice System, Pikesville, Government, John Ashcroft, Lawyers
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A Carefully Crafted Deception
Sun StaffA dangerous truth confronted John Dimitri Negroponte as he prepared to take over as U.S. ambassador to Honduras late in 1981. The military in Honduras -- the country from which the Reagan administration had decided to run the battle for democracy in...Tags: Mexico, Prisons, Newspapers, Colleges and Universities, Human Rights
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U.S. panel votes to speed up airport fingerprinting of immigrants
Reuters* Major U.S. airports would be first to install equipment * Negotiations continue over high-tech visas By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Personal Data Collection, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, AFL-CIO
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U.S. Senate passes flood-protection bill vital to Cedar Rapids
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaThis city has been working for the five years since its $7-billion flood disaster to convince Congress to provide help for the city to build a flood protection system. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate, on a vote of 83-14, approved the Water Resources...Tags: Floods, U.S. House of Representatives, Chuck Grassley, U.S. Army, U.S. Congress
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