thehill.com - 2/27/2009
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will join Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in opposing any effort to revive the 1994 assault weapons ban, putting them on the opposite side of the Obama administration. Reid spokesman Jim Manley said the Nevada Democrat will preserve his traditional pro-gun ...
thehill.com - 2/26/2009
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tossed cold water on
the prospect of reinstating the assault weapons ban, highlighting...
Democrats’ reluctance to take on gun issues. Attorney General Eric Holder raised the prospect Wednesday that the administration would ...
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Pelosi tosses cold water on assault-weapon ban
cbsnews.com - 3/7/2009
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After an angry, swearing late night meeting among
top Democrats, Congress voted Friday to give itself another...
five days to try to complete a long-overdue omnibus spending bill, Politico reports.
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Reid, Pelosi Swearing Match Over Omnibus
thehill.com - 2/23/2009
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on
Monday that the banking industry is “very close” to...
being stabilized and the nation's economy is starting to rebound. “We tend to talk about the negative. ... Things are beginning to turn and I think ...
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Harry Reid: Economy starting to turn around
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... And if that vote wasn't clear enough for Holder that the Democrats are too scared to tackle gun control, Harry Reid left no room for doubt last night that he's as scared of the Republican front groups as Pelosi is. ...
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... and Harry Reid have no interest in renewing the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 * I'll never understand what Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose ...
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Lock and load: The kerfuffle over reviving the assault weapons ban continues, with Harry Reid joining Nancy Pelosi in pooh-poohing the idea and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) potentially being caught between them and the Obama ...
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Her dig at George W. Bush notwithstanding, it is clear that Nancy Pelosi’s veto of any prospect of reviving the assault weapons ban that Eric Holder and the Obama Administration want, demonstrates that despite the election, Second Amendment rights are still very much on the march. This ...
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NEW YORK: "Attorney General Eric Holder’s push for the renewal of the assault weapon ban has put Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) between a rock and a hard place," The Hill reports. But "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will join Speaker ...