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December 20, 2015

Senate rejects more gun background checks after Calif. attack

The Senate has voted anew against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest U.S. mass shooting left 14 people dead in California.

December 20, 2015

Bipartisan immigration bill reportedly may exclude thousands from citizenship

An aide says requirements in the bill could end up excluding hundreds of thousands of the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally from the path to citizenship envisioned by the bill.聽

December 20, 2015

Senate kills Dem-backed constitutional amendment on election spending

Senate Republicans have killed a Democratic-written constitutional amendment aimed at big spending in election campaigns by corporations, wealthy individuals and candidates themselves.

December 20, 2015

Hill Republicans attack Dems鈥� plan to limit election spending, use proposal against them

A proposal by Senate Democrats to limit campaign spending was supposed to die a quick death. But Capitol Hill Republicans are rallying to keep the issue alive in an apparent campaign season strategy, arguing it would put wide-ranging limitations on political free speech by amending the Constitution.

December 20, 2015

Republicans sound alarm as White House prepares go-it-alone immigration measures

Lawmakers are sounding the alarm, as they prepare to return from the August recess, over the possibility that President Obama will take sweeping executive actions on immigration in a matter of days 鈥� with some Republicans warning of a renewed budget brawl if he takes that step.

December 20, 2015

Dem politician: Grant illegal immigrants path to citizenship or they'll become terrorists

Democratic State Representative and candidate for U.S. representative Pat Murphy said Tuesday聽that if the underage migrants who have come to the U.S. from Central America aren鈥檛 given a 鈥減athway for citizenship鈥� they could become terrorists.

December 20, 2015

The Vicious Circle: 50 years ago, the 鈥楤eltway鈥� was born

A half-century ago this week, a major infrastructure project awarded the American electorate one of its favorite political scapegoats: The Beltway.

December 20, 2015

850 days of 鈥榯he grossest incompetence:鈥� How the IRS botched a case of identity theft

Jason Dinesen smiled politely and shook his head when asked about a new bill in the U.S. Senate that aims to improve how the IRS handles cases of identity theft by assigning one agent to deal with each individual case.

December 20, 2015

Obama signs veterans' health care overhaul

Veterans may soon have easier access to government-paid health care under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday, the government's most sweeping response to date to a public uproar over systemwide problems that have rocked the Veterans Affairs Department.

December 20, 2015

Congress passes $10.8B highway bill

Congress has approved a bill to prevent a 28 percent cut in federal highway and mass transit aid at the height of the summer construction season.