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Senate panel backs crackdown on clandestine gun sales

May 23, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday backed President Barack Obama's call to crack down on the clandestine trafficking of firearms, marking the first votes in Congress on...

Key Republican says he may back two gun-control bills

August 24, 2021 at 12:25 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Democrat-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday that he may back at least two of the four gun-control bills that the...

Key Republican says he may back two gun-control bills

May 23, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Democrat-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday that he may back at least two of the four gun-control bills that the...

Big cuts spur calls to Congress from irate constituents

August 24, 2021 at 12:17 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress is getting an earful about the big spending cuts beginning to hit government services from worried and irate constituents, including one senator's own spouse. Democratic Senator...

Big cuts spur calls to Congress from irate constituents

May 23, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress is getting an earful about the big spending cuts beginning to hit government services from worried and irate constituents, including one senator's own spouse. Democratic Senator...

Victim’s father makes case for U.S. assault weapons ban

August 24, 2021 at 12:07 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The father of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the shooting massacre at a Connecticut school made a dramatic appeal on Wednesday for President Barack Obama's...

In separating gun-control bills, Democrats reveal strategy

August 24, 2021 at 12:03 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate have spread his gun-control proposals across four bills in an effort to get at least some of the less...

Senate votes to renew, expand Violence Against Women Act

August 23, 2021 at 11:08 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With strong bipartisan support, the Democratic-led Senate on Tuesday passed a White House-backed bill to expand and renew a landmark 1994 law to combat domestic violence. On...

Senate votes to renew, expand Violence Against Women Act

August 22, 2019 at 8:47 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With strong bipartisan support, the Democratic-led Senate on Tuesday passed a White House-backed bill to expand and renew a landmark 1994 law to combat domestic violence. On...

Gun-violence victims will attend Obama’s speech to Congress

August 23, 2021 at 11:04 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in Congress are bringing victims of gun violence to his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, providing faces and voices...

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