The National Rifle Association is meeting in Houston. Which can only mean one thing. It’s showtime: Colorado’s Magpul brought an intriguing vehicle to Houston. Note the hula girl dashboard accessory. #NRA twitter.com/bykowicz/statu… — Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) May 3, 2013 ...
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Attendees look at a display of tactical shotguns during the 2013 NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center on May 3, 2013 in Houston, Texas.
NRA Convention: Roof-Mounted Microbus Cannon and More
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Boxes of ammunition sit on the shelf at Sportsmans Arms in Petaluma, California.
Public Reaction to Senate Gun Vote: 47% Negative, 39% Positive
If proponents of gun safety legislation were counting on a public backlash over the Senate’s vote against expansion of background checks for gun-buyers, they won’t find it here: Among Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center on a subject which...
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Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) is hugged by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) while walking with his wife Melodee Hanes, right, at the Capitol on April 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. It was announced earlier that Baucus, after 36 years in the Senate, will not seek reelection in 2014.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 53.7%
That’s the share of Max Baucus’s life that the Montana Democrat has spent in Congress. Baucus, who announced his retirement yesterday, was elected to the House in 1974 as a member of a big class of House Democrats, known as...
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) hold a news conference to propose new campaign finance legislation at the Capitol on April 23, 2013.
Murkowski, Wyden Team Up: Bipartisan Disclosure Bill
For the first time since Sens. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, teamed up to push through a 2002 law that banned corporate, union and unlimited individual donations to the political parties, a new campaign finance bill has...
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Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, speaks to the media while leaving the Blair House after a bipartisan meeting on deficit reduction with congressional leaders in Washington, D.C.
Baucus’s 2014 Retirement: Sixth Senate Democrat to Go
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus won’t seek re-election in 2014, ending a 36-year tenure capped by his authorship of the 2010 health care law. Baucus, 71, has been the top Democrat on the Finance Committee since 2001, often frustrating...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Capitol Hill.
Reid Ramrods Online Sales Tax Bill
The online sales tax bill headed to the Senate floor this week took a very direct path there — right past the Finance Committee. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, maneuvered the bill past Committee Chairman Max Baucus,...
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Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ speaks onstage at the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
Booker’s Backers: Jason Kidd, Victor Cruz, Rob Reiner, Ron Howard
Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, raised $1.9 million for his 2014 Senate campaign in this year’s first quarter, including donations from well-known figures in sports, entertainment, lobbying and finance. Jason Kidd, point guard for the New...
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Sen. Jeff Flake meets with the public on March 28, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona.
Kelly to Flake: Had Your Chance
Now it gets personal. The failure of gun-control legislation in the Senate will come with as many political repercussions as the passage of a bill would have generated. Mark Kelly, the retired astronaut married to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the...
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Bloomberg by the Numbers: 54
That’s how many votes a proposal to expand gun background checks received as it was rejected by the Senate yesterday. The proposal, by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, fell short of the 60 needed...
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Biden: Iowa, Yes, Know it Well
There goes Joe being Joe. With the Senate set to begin a series of contentious votes on amendments to a gun control bill, including a plan for background checks that was all that was left of the White House’s gun-safety...
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