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Superstorm Sandy aid takes moves forward in Senate
(CNN) - Senators showed broad support Friday for $60.4 billion in emergency funding for victims of Superstorm Sandy, voting overwhelmingly to bring it up for final passage next week. The motion passed...
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Giffords to visit Newtown
(CNN) – Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has a "planned but not confirmed visit" to Newtown, Connecticut scheduled for Friday, Steve Jensen with Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman's office told CNN. Her visit comes...
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Gabrielle Giffords visits Newtown
(CNN) - The former Arizona congresswoman who survived a mass shooting in her district roughly two years ago paid a visit Friday to Newtown, Connecticut, where last month a gunman killed 27 people and...
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Emotional Connecticut Gov. rejects more guns in schools
(CNN) - Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy choked up Wednesday when addressing the Newtown elementary school shooting that left 20 students dead, and bluntly rejected the notion of putting more guns in...
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Obama to honor Sandy Hook teachers and staff posthumously
Washington (CNN) - President Obama will honor the six teachers and staff killed in the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre last December with the second highest civilian honor, the Citizens Medal in a...
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Dodd: Media isn't to blame for gun violence
(CNN) - Chris Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America and a former U.S. senator, dismissed as "predictable" on Friday the idea that movies play a role in spurring gun violence and...
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Forget about 'political survival' in gun debate, Biden says
(CNN) - Political risk shouldn't matter one bit when it comes to combating gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden argued Thursday at a conference in Danbury, Connecticut–a city just west of Newtown,...
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Mississippi politician urges gunmakers in Connecticut, elsewhere to relocate
(CNN) - Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn has invited gunmakers such as Colt to relocate to his state from others including Connecticut, where firearms have been a controversial issue since a...
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Senators blast NRA for robocalls in Newtown
(CNN) - The National Rifle Association has "stooped to a new low" in making robocalls to residents in Newtown, the two U.S. senators from Connecticut argued in a letter to the NRA on Monday. "We call...
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Connecticut Senate OKs gun law overhaul
(CNN) - The Connecticut Senate voted 26-10 on Wednesday to approve a major overhaul of gun laws in the wake of the December massacre at an elementary school in Newtown. The compromise measure moved to...
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Malloy: NRA’s LaPierre acts like a circus clown
(CNN) - Responding to criticism from the National Rifle Association over Connecticut's new gun laws, Gov. Dan Malloy argued the pro-gun group's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, is simply...
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Obama to make case for gun control in speech near Newtown
(CNN) - President Barack Obama is poised to make another impassioned pitch for gun control Monday as he travels to Hartford, Connecticut, not far from the site of the massacre that left 20 children and...
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Sandy Hook families to ride AF-1 to DC, lobby Senate
Washington (CNN) - Eleven family members of children killed at Sandy Hook elementary school will fly to Washington with President Barack Obama on board Air Force One Monday, according to White House...
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Biden ties Boston and Texas heartbreak to Newtown
(CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden spoke Saturday about the loss of life this week at the Boston Marathon and the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion, passionately explaining that news of one loss...
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Rick Perry tries to lure gun makers to Texas
(CNN) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been courting gun manufacturers in states that have enacted tougher gun laws, and next week, he's taking his message on the road. Perry will travel to Connecticut and...
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Boehner meets with Newtown families
Washington (CNN) – House Speaker John Boehner told CNN his meeting with the family members of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shootings was "very good." Several relatives of those who died in the...
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Obama frames minimum wage fight in global terms
New Britain, Connecticut (CNN) – In the midst of managing the nation's response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, President Barack Obama enlisted the help of some fellow executives on Wednesday to...
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Jeb Bush defends immigration remarks
(CNN) - Jeb Bush is standing by recent comments on immigration reform that sparked a controversy among some conservatives. At a speech Thursday night the former two-term Florida governor and possible...
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Hillary Clinton: Today's media is more entertainment, less facts
Storrs, Connecticut (CNN) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lamented the state of journalism on Wednesday, telling an audience at the University of Connecticut that journalism is now driven...
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After Calif. shooting, senator calls for Congress to revisit gun control...
(CNN) - A day and a half after a shooting rampage in California left six victims dead, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Sunday the tragedy serves as a reminder of the legislative efforts to stem gun...
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