The National Rifle Association is out with a new television ad criticizing West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for “working with” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama to push for stricter gun controls. “Concerned? You should be,” a...
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Convention on May 4, 2013 in Houston, Texas.
NRA Targets Manchin, A-Rated Once, Gun Debate Grows Personal
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People walk by a Verizon advertisement on June 7, 2013 in New York City.
Manchin Challenges Obama on Surveillance
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is breaking with a fellow Democrat, President Barack Obama, over the administration’s broad surveillance of telephone calls and Internet usage. “It bothers me, and I think it bothers you and every other American,” Manchin...
Read more »Senate Aging: Will You Still Re-Elect Us When We’re 64?
Frank Lautenberg’s passing spotlights some obvious generational changes that have been occurring in the Senate for several years. Yet dig a little deeper, and something counter-intuitive emerges. As Bloomberg’s Greg Giroux noted yesterday upon word of Lautenberg’s death at age 89, the New Jersey Democrat...
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Sen. Heidi Heitkamp
Heitkamp Gun-Control Vote Puts National Polls in Perspective
As they vow to continue their fight, backers of the expanded firearm background-check measure derailed in the Senate today — beginning with President Barack Obama — are pounding away at poll results showing that 90 percent of American voters support the...
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Shooting victim and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and her husband Mark Kelly at the U.S. Capitol April 16, 2013.
Giffords: Six Years After Virginia Tech, Presses for Newtown Action
Updated at 2:50 pm EDT Six years ago today, 32 people were gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech, notes former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously wounded in a 2011 outdoor shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that also killed...
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Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, D-W.Va., left, and Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., arrive at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 10, 2013, to announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers.
Toomey, Manchin: Read Second Amendment Rights Protection Act
Read it, say Sens. Pat Toomney and Joe Manchin: The Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act. In the art of bill title as political statement, this one’s a classic. They put their bill online last night. Manchin even...
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A man looks at a shotgun during the 8th Annual East Coast Fine Arms Show in Stamford, Connecticut.
Manchin, Toomey: ‘Common Sense’
Updated at 1:15 pm EDT Credit Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey for doing what too few lawmakers of opposing parties do these days. Talking. The Democrat from West Virginia and Republican from Pennsylvania have just announced their agreement on...
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A customer purchases an AK-47 style rifle for about $1200 at a sporting goods store on Dec. 17, 2012 in Tinley Park, Illinois.
Obama: `Weapon of War’ Has No Place in American Communities
A “weapon of war” — President Barack Obama’s term today for the semi-automatic assault rifle used in the slaying of schoolchildren and educators in Newtown, Connecticut, a weapon that he is urging Congress to ban. The president, vowing that he...
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Manchin’s Hair Cut: `He’s Cheap’
In case anyone was wondering what political campaign ads look like in places where there is no contest, outside the world of swing-state 90 percent negativity, take a moment to drop in on the Manchins of West Virginia. Democrat Joe...
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A coal scraper in New Haven, West Virginia.
`War on Coal:’ Hold on, Earl Ray
War on women? Not in West Virginia. It’s the war on coal. It takes a political map to follow the course that the Republican Governors Association is taking in its attack on Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, handing the credit...
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