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Bipartisan gun bill ready in House should Senate act

By on April 16, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Rep. Mike Thompson, a gun-owning Vietnam veteran hand-picked by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to forge a bipartisan agreement on gun legislation in the House, unveiled a companion background check bill Tuesday that has bipartisan support. That puts pressure on House Republican leaders to bring up gun legislation if it can pass the Senate.The Thompson   …

Cuomo: Senate gun bill ‘only better than nothing’

By on April 10, 2013 at 12:50 PM
ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted a compromise that will move a gun control bill through the U.S. Senate, saying Congress will “fundamentally fail to act on a societal scourge” by expanding background checks without reinstating an expired ban on semi-automatic “assault weapons.” “This is a Congress that is captive of the extremists,   …

Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban dies in Senate

By on March 19, 2013 at 3:25 PM
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Sen. Dianne Feinstein Monday night that he would drop her assault weapons ban from the package of gun control legislation he intends to bring to the Senate floor. From the outset of her quest to re-enact a version of her 1994 assault weapons ban in the wake of   …

Dianne Feinstein clashes hotly with Ted Cruz: “I am not a sixth-grader”

By on March 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a 20-year veteran Democrat, clashed fiercely with Tea Party-backed newcomer Ted Cruz of Texas, when the freshman began lecturing the Californian about the Constitution during a debate over Feinstein’s assault weapons ban. The ban passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party line vote. The clash was reminiscent of an exchange Feinstein   …

The NRA, unvarnished

By on March 1, 2013 at 3:44 PM
The National Rifle Association has more in common with the White House and Congress than you think. Its switchboard has been overwhelmed since the Dec. 14 massacre at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. So much so that the organization’s lobbying arm recorded this very telling greeting for its callers: “Your call is very important to   …

Dianne Feinstein: “We can’t have a totally armed society”

By on January 30, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Sen. Dianne Feinstein was more than cordial to National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre at Wednesday’s big gun hearing, noting they had done battle 18 years ago when the California Democrat passed her 1995 assault weapons ban, expired since 2004. “You look pretty good, actually,” the California Democrat told LaPierre. No fireworks there.Her new assault […] …

Senate Judiciary chair rejects Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban

By on January 30, 2013 at 10:26 AM
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee did not endorse colleague Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban at a packed Capitol Hill hearing on guns Wednesday in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called for “common sense reform,” that closes loopholes in current gun laws and enforces background checks. Buthe […] …

CA Rep. Garamendi: Time to “stop talking” and move quickly on gun proposals

By on January 17, 2013 at 4:44 PM
California Democratic Rep. John Garamendi — who represents a key Northern California swing district near Sacramento — said today that Congress should “stop talking and take action” on President Obama’s gun proposals. In the 113th Congress, “we have the debt ceiling and sequestration and God knows what else. We have a lot of things to […] …

Bay Area Dems meet with Joe Biden on guns

By on January 14, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, said Vice President Joe Biden, head of the White House task force on gun violence, told a group of Democrats in a meeting Monday that the administration has identified 19 actions it can take independently of Congress to restrict guns. But Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, who heads a separate task […] …

Dianne Feinstein: father attended Taft

By on January 10, 2013 at 4:23 PM
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, author of the nation’s first assault weapon ban, which expired during the Bush administration, expressed her condolences for victims of the Kern County shooting at Taft Union High School Thursday. Feinstein plans to introduce a new assault weapons ban in the new Congress. Her statement: “Today comes word of another tragic shooting […] …
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