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Senate Republicans stonewall Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday morning on President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, prompting accusations of obstructionism from Democrats and calls to...
Tags: Republican Party, Barbara Boxer, David Vitter, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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COLUMN: For Obama, 2014 is his number
WASHINGTON — Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Immigration, Arts and Culture, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Vote on Obama's choice to lead Labor Department delayed
WASHINGTON -- A vote on President Obama’s nominee to lead the Labor Department was delayed for an additional week, the latest roadblock for the controversial choice. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions was scheduled to...
Tags: Elections, Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama
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Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official. ...Tags: Justice System, Montgomery County (Maryland), Lamar Alexander, Jay Carney, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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The filibuster kills gun legislation and democracy
President Obama called it a shameful day for the Senate. A survivor of the Tucson shooting that wounded Gabby Giffords shouted from the gallery, "Shame on you." This was the response to the rejection of gun control. I was tempted to write the "voting...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Political Systems, Judaism, Government
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Justice System, Human Interest, John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate
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Republican senators boycott vote on EPA nominee
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday on President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, drawing accusations of obstructionism from Democrats. Republicans on the Senate...
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Jay Carney, George W. Bush, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy
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Obama's 2nd-term blues?
Was President Barack Obama really joking at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Or was he showing, as I suspect, early signs of the second-term blues? It's fashionable for critics — especially if they didn't get invited...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, The Washington Post, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, George W. Bush
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How a bill becomes slaw -- an autopsy of gun-control legislation in Washington
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it’s dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let’s take a close look at just how something as popular as...... -
Obama cracks on Rubio's limited experience
Friends and fans of Marco Rubio are quick to point out that by 2016 he will have served in the U.S. Senate longer than Barack Obama did before becoming president. It’s an obvious way to counter the rap that the freshman senator lacks enough...Tags: Entertainment, Music, Kim Jong Un, MSNBC (tv network), U.S. Senate
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How a bill becomes slaw
Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it's dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let's take a close look at just how something as popular as expanded background checks failed to pass the U.S. Senate...
Tags: Justice System, Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Mark Kirk, Chuck Grassley
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Tail-gunner Ted
WASHINGTON -- Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up? The young senator from Texas has been on the job for about 100 days, but he has already turned upside down the Senate's ancient seniority system and is dominating his senior Republican...
Tags: Elections, Chuck Grassley, Interior Policy, Chuck Hagel, Rand Paul
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