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Apr 11 2013
News
Senate Begins Debate On Gun Bill, Overcomes GOP Filibuster Effort
WASHINGTON -- The Senate cleared a major procedural hurdle on Thursday as it voted to overcome a Republican filibuster effort and begin debate on a gun control package. Senators voted 68 to 31 take up the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that would expand background checks to more gun buyers form a national commission on mass violence create a federal gun
HuffPostMay 18 2015
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Hillary Strategically Positioned to the Left in 2016 Bid
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is running as the most liberal Democratic front-runner in decades in a bid to capture the young and diverse coalition that led to President Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012, The Washington Post reported.
Clinton has positioned herself to the left on a number of issues, from gay marriage to immigration, which in the past would have put
Newsmax (News)Aug 23 2019
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Trump to square off in court with House Democrats over financial records
President Donald Trump is expected to ask a federal judge on Friday to block Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) and Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) from handing the financial records of the Trump family and Trump Organization to Democratic lawmakers.
The case, before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is one of several legal battles between the Democrats, who took control of the U.S.
ReutersOct 22 2019
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G7 Moved From Doral
“U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned plans late on Saturday to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort.” (Reuters)
The left is highly critical of the initial plan, and believes it would have violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
“This is the season of the Trump administration’s flip-flops… He allowed an invasion, then fumed when it
The Flip SideDec 21 2020
Analysis
‘Our last, best chance’ to heal Senate, says key Biden ally
The last president to enter the Oval Office with the congressional credentials of Joe Biden was Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson – though Mr. Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, has him beat by more than a decade on the Hill. The two men did not overlap, but they experienced the same kind of Senate, one built on personal relationships, with wheeling and dealing across the aisle.
Christian Science MonitorSep 26 2015
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John Boehner Successor Is Likely to Face Similar Problems
Hours after Republicans swept to victory in November 2010, catapulting John A. Boehner to the speaker’s chair, he was asked how he could possibly persuade House conservatives to do some of the tough jobs of governing like raising the federal debt limit.
“We will be working that out over the next couple of months,” a confident Mr. Boehner, of Ohio, said with a shrug.
A canny
New York Times (News)May 12 2015
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Reporters got a lot wrong covering Ebola. We should do better next time.
We journalists often rush from one story to the next with whiplash-inducing speed — and sometimes without time to reflect. On Monday, however, a few of us paused. Just as Liberia was finally declared Ebola-free, I appeared on a panel organized by the One Campaign alongside colleagues from NPR, the Washington Post, Ebola Deeply, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Together, we
VoxAug 22 2019
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McConnell offers fresh defense of Senate filibuster, warns Democrats could pass ‘socialist policies’ if they take control
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) offered a fresh defense of the filibuster on Thursday, writing in an op-ed that Democrats could pass a “laundry list of socialist policies” if they took control of the chamber and the long-standing tradition was dropped.
“Our country doesn’t need a second House of Representatives with fewer members and longer terms,” McConnell wrote in a
Washington PostJun 11 2019
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Mike Pence says banning pride flags at US embassies is 'the right decision'
In a Monday evening television interview, Vice President Mike Pence confirmed reports that American embassies had been banned from flying the pride flag on their embassy flagpoles.
In an interview with NBC News, Pence said, “I’m aware that the State Department indicated that on the flagpole of our American embassies that one flag should fly, and that’s the American flag, and I support
USA TODAYJun 11 2019
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Pence confirms Trump administration denied US embassy requests to fly Pride flag
Vice President Mike Pence on Monday confirmed that the Trump administration denied requests from U.S. embassies around the world to display a rainbow flag to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month.
"I'm aware that the State Department indicated that on the flag pole of our American embassies that one flag should fly, and that's the American flag, and I support that," Pence told NBC News in an
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