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  • Kicking off new push on guns, Biden predicts opponents will face voters’ wrath

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/18/13 04:35 PM

    Vice President Joe Biden, angrily denouncing opponents of gun control, predicted Tuesday that senators who helped block an expansion of background checks for gun sales two months ago would pay a political price for their votes. “I would say to my friends in the House and Senate, the country...

  • VIDEO: Joe Biden pushing gun control action once again

    06/18/13 03:10 PM

    Vice President Joe Biden is once again pushing Congress to consider new gun control legislation.

  • With gun-control bills stalled, Joe Biden to tout administration's go-it-alone approach

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/18/13 07:05 AM

    Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday will try to revive interest in firearms restrictions and tout actions the Obama administration has taken on its own to reduce gun violence, six months after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., and two months after a bill to expand background checks on gun...

  • A libertarian turn on social issues

    By Michael Barone | 06/17/13 11:25 AM

    Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues — marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights. Start with pot. Last November voters in the states of Colorado and Washington...

  • Teachers union head: We must have new gun regulations

    By Sean Higgins | 06/14/13 03:40 PM

    American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten co-authored an op-ed today with Tom Kuroski, president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers in the News-Times of Danbury, Conn., to plead for new gun control regulations. The column marks the 6-month anniversary of the...

  • Newtown family member sends out email plea for gun control on behalf of Obama lobbying group

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/14/13 02:35 PM

    Six months after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut, the daughter of the school’s principal sent out a plea on behalf of President Obama’s legislative lobbying group to keep pushing for gun control. Erica Lafferty, whose mother Dawn Hochsprung, died trying...

  • Bill Clinton: There’s no ‘big, conspiratorial federal government’ push for gun confiscation

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/14/13 01:05 PM

    Former President Bill Clinton, while suggesting that another push for gun control legislation might succeed, faulted the National Rifle Association for convincing “country” people that “there’s this big, conspiratorial federal government” plan to confiscate firearms. “What’s...

  • Obama, Biden meeting with Newtown families Thursday

    By Brian Hughes | 06/13/13 01:00 PM

    The White House announced that President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden would meet with Newtown, Conn. families on Thursday, nearly six months since the deadly massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the president and Biden would host the families at the...

  • Gun control advocates mark 6 months since shooting

    06/10/13 10:47 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to do more without any new prospects of...

  • Amid scandals, Joe Biden doubles down on gun control

    By Paul Bedard | 06/07/13 02:35 PM

    Vice President Joe Biden is pushing aside the scandals plaguing his boss to renew his war on guns, an unusual doubling down on a key fight the administration was humiliated on just two months ago. In an email to supporters, Biden said, "Look, I've been in politics a long time now. And I've...


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