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CT Delegation Springs To Defend Bases
There won't be a new round of military base closures in 2015 if members of Connecticut's congressional delegation have anything to say about it. And, true to form, they have plenty to say about it. In his new defense budget, released April 10, President...Tags: Barack Obama, Military Equipment, U.S. Navy, Joe Courtney, New London (New London, Connecticut)
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An Angry Obama Lashes Out At Senate's Rejection Of Gun Measures
The Hartford CourantAngered by a resounding defeat Wednesday of proposed gun control legislation that grew out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, President Barack Obama stood outside the White House with parents of murdered Newtown first-graders and vowed: "This...Tags: Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Joe Biden, Elections, Gabrielle Giffords
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U.S. Senators Blumenthal, Murphy Say CT Will Give Them Momentum in Washington, D.C.
The Hartford CourantSaying that Connecticut can help the national effort on gun control, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy came to the state Capitol in Hartford to congratulate Democratic senators for passing one of the strongest gun control bills in the...Tags: Gun Control, National Rifle Association of America, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Parties and Movements
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Activists Accuse Congresswoman DeLauro of Taking Too Long to Weigh in on Deportations
Josemaria Islas and Rosa DeLauro would seem to make an unlikely political couple. He's an undocumented factory worker from Mexico now scheduled for deportation; while she's one of the richest and most powerful people in Congress. The connection is the...
Tags: International Law, Illegal Immigrants, Deportation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Internet Sales Tax Bill – Backed By Obama – Expected To Pass Senate This Week
A measure to empower U.S. states to require out-of-state retailers to collect online sales tax is expected to pass the Senate this week, after winning official backing from President Barack Obama Monday. Seventy-four senators voted Monday to limit debate...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
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Just a Bad, Sad Week
The Hartford CourantIt was not a good week: At the Boston Marathon, where bombs killed and maimed. In West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant exploded, taking lives and leveling the community. For the media, which seemed to get it first more than it got it right. And in...Tags: Barack Obama, Voting, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Senate, Jonathan Papelbon
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Senate showdown set on gun control
WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...
Tags: Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Chuck Schumer, Elections
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Gun-control plan several votes short in Senate
This post has been corrected and updated as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- A Senate plan to expand the background-check requirement for gun purchases faced a narrowing path to success Tuesday, as advocates for stricter laws sought to scrape together the last few votes they need from among a dwindling number of...Tags: Bill Nelson, Richard Burr, Parties and Movements, Chuck Schumer, Elections
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Stirred by a message from the heart
WASHINGTON -- In a city where David's righteousness almost never beats Goliath's might, what Nicole Hockley and the other Sandy Hook families did to the gun lobby last week was nigh unto miraculous. Gun-control legislation had appeared to be a lost...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Lobbying, Autism, Chris Murphy
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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: Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Robin Kelly, Chuck Schumer, Mark Pryor
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Gun Debate Shouldn't Stall Coltsville Park Effort
That Connecticut's congressional delegation is battling for gun safety legislation while trying to have a historic gun manufactory designated a National Historic Park is a perhaps unfortunate coincidence — but nothing more than that. The factory...
Tags: Gun Control, John B. Larson, Safety of Citizens, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Personal Weapon Control
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Newtown Families Make Their Case In Washington
The Hartford CourantWASHINGTON — At the end of an emotional day of deeply personal meetings with senators Wednesday, families of victims of the Newtown school massacre sat down for a public conversation with Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who had just...Tags: Gun Control, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Elections
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