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EPA confirmation delay raises questions about U.S. carbon rules
ReutersBy Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - With a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency still in limbo, speculation is rising about the fate of a proposed emissions rule for new power plants...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, Mining, Metal and Mineral
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Newtown Families Returning to Washington
The Hartford CourantNewtown gun control advocates will travel to Washington this week to lobby lawmakers and to raise awareness for their cause as they approach the six-month anniversary of the school shootings. Family members of Daniel Barden, Lauren Rousseau, Jesse Lewis,...Tags: Eric Cantor, John Boehner, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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Newtown victim's sister turns gun control 'accidental activist'
ReutersBy Edith Honan June 14 (Reuters) - Jillian Soto was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a New England highway when she learned over Facebook that her older sister Vicky, a first-grade teacher in Newtown, Connecticut, had died in a shooting. In the...Tags: Elections, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, U.S. Senate, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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Six months after Sandy Hook, gun control advocates continue to push for changes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Elections, Richard Blumenthal
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U.S. lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersBy Paige Gance WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a...Tags: Elizabeth Esty, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Elections, Personal Weapon Control
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Lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a national debate on guns....Tags: Elizabeth Esty, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Elections, Richard Blumenthal
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Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made the promise after...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Republican Party, Patrick Leahy, Jeff Merkley, Computer Networking and Internet
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Penny Pritzker nomination moves forward
Tribune newspapersWASHINGTON — Penny Pritzker moved a step closer to becoming Commerce secretary Monday after a unanimous vote by a Senate panel to advance her nomination. The Chicago billionaire, whose family founded the Hyatt Hotel chain, could win final approval...Tags: Penny Pritzker, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Environmental Politics
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Newtown families push for gun control, go back to Congress
WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school shooting returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to show they are not giving up. Advocacy groups on both sides of the...
Tags: Jeffrey Chiesa, Personal Weapon Control, Chris Christie, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Lobbying
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NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...
Tags: Terrorism, Internal Revenue Service, MSNBC (tv network), ABC (tv network), Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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House members voice skepticism about surveillance programs after briefing
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Members of Congress on Tuesday expressed growing doubts about the way the country's top-secret surveillance programs are managed, even as the top legislators from each party voiced confidence in the programs and showed little interest in a...Tags: ABC (tv network), Al-Qaeda, U.S. House of Representatives, Patrick Leahy, Jeff Merkley
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Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship...
Tags: Washington, DC, John Cornyn, ABC (tv network), Marco Rubio, White House
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