Ohio’s Rob Portman is the latest Republican senator caught trying to cloud his opposition to significantly expanding background checks for gun sales.
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Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation aimed at combating a threat to gun rights that even the National Rifle Association has described as pure fiction.
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Senate Democrats want to finalize and pass legislation to require expanded background checks for gun purchases, but they are having a hard time finding Republican support despite earlier momentum following the elementary school shooting in Newtown,...
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If you, like myself and most Americans, believe that we need background checks to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable, those with violent histories, and criminals, keep this absence of Republican support in mind. Remember it each time you vote. It is time for social responsibility in politics instead of taking care of business as usual. Delete the scoop?
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INDIANOLA, Iowa — Republicans have offered a number of reasons why they oppose the Violence Against Women Act. Some think it’s unconstitutional. Others argue that it’s just a meaningless bill with a patriotic title.
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‘Obama’s Sequester’? A July 2011 PowerPoint obtained by John Avlon shows that’s not quite the case.
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Last week, two-term Representative Steven Palazzo (R-MS) sparked controversy nationwide when he voted against relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, despite representing coastal Mississippi, one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina and ...
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If we fail to summon the courage necessary to identify racial animus where it exists, and to in turn adjust our approach to policy-making accordingly, all Americans will pay a price, not just those who are the typical targets of racial animus.
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Claudio Osorio is facing federal charges for allegedly perpetrating a multimillion dollar fraud in which, authorities say, he lured investors in part by touting his political connections.
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) defended her vote against a background check amendment in an op-ed published Monday in the Seacoast Online, just before her vote came under fire in a new television ad put out by Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
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Kelly Ayotte ignored the will of the people of her state. Now she'd trying to say she really didn't mean to. Poor Kelly, so misunderstood. At least Jeff Flake, one of my senators, knows that we think he's beneath pond scum because he voted against better background checks. Delete the scoop?
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A host of conservative legal luminaries are showering praise on President Obama’s nominee to a coveted seat on the second highest court in the land. The conservatives are vouching for Principal U.S.
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The measure now moves to the House, where abortion rights advocates fear it will pass
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The Senate is poised to pass the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization early this week, with a final vote expected Monday afternoon or Tuesday.
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By targeting legislature races in 2010, Republicans say they were able to keep control of the House
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Crossroads GPS, which has spent tens of millions from secret donors on elections, told the IRS in its 2010 application that its efforts would focus on education, policy-making and research.
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Republicans need to dramatically improve their standing with Latino voters or risk becoming a “regional party” of disaffected whites, according to a new study by a GOP pollster.
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Portman joins Flake in my list of previously respected senators, the ones I thought were honest even if they disagreed with me, but for whom now I have a distain. You don't try to mislead your constituents when we so clearly want gun control.