A majority of Americans favor giving undocumented immigrants legal status without first securing the borders, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll out today. As the Senate prepares to take up legislation that passed the Judiciary Committee earlier this week,...
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Pedestrians wait in line to cross the border into the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico.
Majority Supports Legal Status for Immigrants Before Securing Border
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President Barack Obama talks with Supercommittee Co-Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from left, and Supercommittee member, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., center, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, on Nov., 21, 2011.
Obama’s Baucus Farewell: No Levin, Lautenberg or Harkin Homages Here
If you’re planning on retiring from the U.S. Senate, and you want a nice send-off from the White House, you might want to consider supporting the president’s agenda — or more recently, voting for the gun bill. “I want to...
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., left, meets in his office with families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., including Nelba Marquez-Greene, mother of victim Ana Marquez-Greene and Mark Barden, father of victim Daniel Barden, on the day he announced that he reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, at the Capitol in Washington, on April 10, 2013.
Majorities Favor Stronger Gun Laws Republicans Vowing to Block
A majority of Americans favor stronger gun laws and believe undocumented immigrants should get a path to citizenship, according to a poll released today. As the Senate prepares to vote on whether to allow gun legislation to be debated, amended...
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Senators Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman hold a press conference on Capitol Hill.
Maine’s Susan Collins Hones Formula for Political Survival
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is part of an endangered species: A New England Republican serving in Congress. There’s just two of them among the 33 Senate and House members representing the region’s six states — Collins and Sen. Kelly Ayotte...
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Staff members sit behind a chart of guns during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on January 30, 2013 in Washington, DC.
NRA Training Your School Guards?
The National Rifle Association today released a plan calling for more armed personnel in schools — and pitching itself as a school safety trainer. The gun-rights lobby, which claims five million members, is spending $1 million on what it calls the National School Shield,...
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A man holds a semi-automatic assault rifle for sale at the Rocky Mountain Gun Show in Sandy, Utah.
Biden on Gun-Rules: ‘Will of the People’
Vice President Joe Biden, who has suggested that anyone interested in assault weapons for home protection should go buy a shotgun instead, also sees no value in mega-clips for hunters. “If you can’t get the deer in three shots, you...
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Attorney General Eric Holder during a news conference at the Justice Department in this file photo.
Holder to Congress: No Respect
Attorney General Eric Holder has a message for the Republicans and Democrats who voted to hold him in contempt in 2012: You get no respect. Holder, who has never made a secret of his displeasure with the 255 lawmakers who...
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Students are viewed through a target at a class taught by King 33 Training at a shooting range on Feb. 24, 2013 in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Obama’s Gun-Control Campaign, #wedemandavote: Astroturfing?
Twitter is all atwitter over a social media campaign on gun-control legislation that’s being promoted by President Barack Obama’s new policy group. In the past week, Twitter users have sent some 36,000 messages with the hashtag #wedemandavote, according to social...
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Second Amendment supporter and gun enthusiast, Derek Ringley, displays an unloaded pistol that was being sold in an impromptu auction across the street from a gun buy back program at the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas on Jan. 19, 2013 in Texas.
Guns Like Light Bulbs: Texan Lawmaker
A Texas lawmaker wants to help the Lone Star State get around federal regulations of guns and other weapons made and used within the state. The state’s 132 weapons manufacturers could sell to Texans without interference from federal regulation under...
Read more »New Orleans Mayor Sees One Area of Agreement in Gun Debate
With both President Barack Obama and the National Rifle Association calling for more police, providing federal funds for more law enforcement officers should be an easy lift for Congress, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said. “If you all both agree...
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