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Shouted protests punctuate Senate immigration hearing
WASHINGTON -- A Republican senator shouted in protest Monday as a top Democrat complained at a Senate hearing that opponents of immigration reform were improperly using the Boston bombing as a reason to delay changes to immigration law. Sen. Charles...
Tags: Immigration, Migration, Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System
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Amid new security threats, some in U.S. Congress look to update 9/11 law
Reuters* Some say law stretched beyond original intent * Questions about Obama drone policy fuel talk of change * Backing from Democrats and Republicans By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - A few dozen words rushed into law days after the Sept....Tags: U.S. Congress, September 11, 2001 Attacks, White House, George W. Bush, Pakistan
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Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all. He...Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Voting, Minority Groups, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Howard University
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COLUMN: Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that’s how he remembers it. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn’t go so bad...Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Voting, Minority Groups, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Howard University
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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: Personal Weapon Control, Social Security, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Howard University, Joe Manchin III
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House passes CISPA, sets up showdown with White House and Senate
The House of Representatives passed a controversial cybersecurity bill as expected on Thursday, moving toward a possible confrontation with the Senate and White House. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013, or CISPA, passed by a vote...Tags: U.S. Congress, Computer Crime, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, Adam Schiff, White House
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COLUMN: 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....Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Social Security, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Immigration, Mitch McConnell
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Federal education cuts via 'sequester' will hurt Lincoln County's students
ben@theinteriorjournal.comIt's a television scene familiar to most of us over 20 years old: Wile E. Coyote buys himself an ACME catapult and assembles it, aiming a huge, red rock to land on a black "X" where he anticipates the elusive Roadrunner will pass by. As Coyote lies in...Tags: U.S. Congress, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Mitch McConnell, Lobbying
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Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, turned away legislation Wednesday to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms, rejecting repeated appeals from President Barack Obama and personal pleas by...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Laws, U.S. Congress, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Mark Kirk
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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Michael Steele, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, Howard University
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Senate votes to consider gun control laws
WASHINGTON — In a lopsided vote, the Senate launched a debate Thursday over the most significant gun legislation in more than a decade, setting up a contest that could last weeks between reinvigorated advocates for stricter laws and conservatives...
Tags: Laws, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Congress, Michael Bloomberg, Joe Manchin III
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Letters: The GOP's fresh faces
Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky...Tags: Government, Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, Regional Authority, Scott Walker
Apr 22, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
Apr 20, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 18, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
May 1, 2013
|Story| Interior Journal
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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