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GOP Agenda: Just Stall

By | 12.07.09 | 12:12 am

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) ruffled feathers this month when he drafted a detailed strategy for stalling the health reform bill moving through the upper chamber. Yet Gregg is hardly alone, and health-care legislation is hardly the only target of the GOP’s delay tactics.

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Oversight Committee Blasts Blue Dog Gun Bill

By | 09.12.08 | 2:49 pm

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opened fire on a bill Tuesday that would repeal still-standing Washington gun restrictions. The bill shoots to lift the ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, as well as ending required background checks and registration of firearms– all provisions that the Supreme More…