Jamie Dupree Washington Insider

As more commercial airline flights were delayed on Wednesday, members of both parties in the Congress urged an end to the furloughs of air traffic controllers, as Senate Democrats and the Obama Administration indicated support for some kind of fix at the FAA.

“If Congress wants to address specifically the …

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Desepite all the warnings about hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and red flags galore from the Obama Administration about the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts, Life With the Sequester went along fairly quietly until this week, as furloughs for air traffic controllers have brought the fight over automatic budget …

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Republicans and Democrats traded charges on Monday over sequester cuts to air traffic controllers at the FAA, as after weeks of political skirmishes over automatic budget cuts, this fight over air travel threatened to quickly develop into a full blown political storm.

“Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight?” …

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Federal officials on Monday filed the first formal charges against the surviving Boston Marthon bombing suspect, charging 19 year old Dzhokar Tsarnaev with conspiring to use weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting death.

The thirteen page document also includes a number of details that indicate what …

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The political aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings is just beginning, as both parties wait to see how it may impact a number of different issues, ranging from the conduct of anti-terrorism work by the U.S. Government to immigration, gun laws and more.

In the wake of terrorist attacks, it …

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Vowing to find the answers for why two brothers bombed the Boston Marathon and terrorized residents of that city, President Obama had high praise for the work of police in Boston and a variety of law enforcement agencies, as officials tried to make sense of what he described as a …

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A day after the U.S. Senate rejected a series of gun control plans backed by President Obama, Democratic leaders decided to put that work on hold and move on to other legislation, unable to muster enough votes to push gun plans past Republican opposition.

“This debate is not over,” said …

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As the Senate on Wednesday rejected a series of gun control plans by President Obama, the votes took place 163 years to the day that a real gun was pulled out during a debate related to slavery, throwing the floor of the Senate into disarray and making headlines around the …

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While Congressional Democrats talked Wednesday about how they would keep trying to push gun control legislation through the U.S. Congress, work on a Senate gun bill could soon be abandoned, after the Senate rejected a series of plans from President Obama to combat gun violence.

“This was a pretty shameful …

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After months of negotiation, a bipartisan group of eight Senators has formally introduced immigration reform legislation in the Senate, titled the ”Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.”  It weighs in at 844 pages.

The full text of the bill was posted early this morning by the office of Sen. …

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