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VA to process vets' claims faster
Taking a cue from the Bible, the Department of Veterans Affairs has decided the last shall be first. The agency announced last week it will expedite claims for disability benefits that have been pending for a year or longer. Those veterans will receive...Tags: Robert P. Casey, Jr., Employees, Career and Workplace, Allentown, Pittsburgh
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An Angry Obama Lashes Out At Senate's Rejection Of Gun Measures
The Hartford CourantAngered by a resounding defeat Wednesday of proposed gun control legislation that grew out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, President Barack Obama stood outside the White House with parents of murdered Newtown first-graders and vowed: "This...Tags: Parties and Movements, Adam Lanza, Richard Blumenthal, Republican Party, Interior Policy
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46 senators cast votes against common sense
I support common-sense steps to reduce gun violence. I cannot believe as a lifelong Democrat I line up behind Sen. Pat Toomey and his basic common-sense bill to reduce gun violence. I cannot believe that 46 senators voted against a bill that about 90...Tags: Politics, Elections
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Post gunfight, Pat Toomey getting back to basics
WASHINGTON — After a dizzying two weeks at the epicenter of an emotionally charged political moment, Sen. Pat Toomey returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday eager to resume his role as a vocal fiscal conservative critical of the Obama White House. It...Tags: Parties and Movements, Arlen Specter, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Federal Aviation Administration
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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: Harry Reid, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Republican Party
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Gun vote reveals new GOP divide
It pains me to congratulate the National Rifle Association, but the organization's aid to the U.S. Senate's defeat of background checks for gun purchasers was an impressive victory — against common sense. Although there is widespread...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Marco Rubio, Parties and Movements, Culture, Sociology
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Casey on Morning Joe: Background checks 'not nearly enough'
Call Washington BureauHad Sen. Pat Toomey's amendment to expand background checks passed, Pennsylvania's other U.S. senator said Monday that it would not have been enough to curb gun violence. Bob Casey spoke about gun control, an issue he "evolved" (Washington speak for...Tags: U.S. Senate, The Washington Post, Politics, Joe Manchin III, Interior Policy
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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: Parties and Movements, Chuck Grassley, Republican Party, Interior Policy, Rand Paul
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One to watch from Michigan
WASHINGTON -- America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism....
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Marco Rubio, Barack Obama, Violence Against Women Act, Republican Party
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A Measure Of Courage In Senate On Guns
The U.S. Senate minority's squelching of debate and votes last week on any meaningful legislation to reduce gun violence has unfortunately become the rule, not the exception. Not much can get done in the Senate under the tyranny of the minority, when it...Tags: Harry Reid, Mark Kirk, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Politics
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Reorienting the GOP on immigration
The Dallas Morning NewsAmid continuing evidence of the Republican Party's internal tensions, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has taken the year's most significant step in reorienting the GOP toward a more open and inclusive stance on the crucial issue of immigration. Rubio's...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements, Marco Rubio, Barack Obama, Immigration
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The weak in review --Timid Senate falters on equally timid gun control measure
Change of SubjectFriday's print column It was dismaying. Not that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a major gun-control proposal that would have required universal background checks prior to all firearm sales. But that such a proposal, popular though it is in......
Apr 24, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
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|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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|Column| Chicago Tribune
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|Column| Chicago Tribune
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|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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|Story| Hartford Courant
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|Story| South Bend Tribune
Apr 18, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
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