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House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is bemoaning the lack of action by congressional Republicans to address gun violence such as the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Pelosi said Wednesday that "the Republicans in Congress are wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America," another gun rights group.
Family, friends share stories of those slain in Las VegasWASHINGTON -- Republican leaders made clear Tuesday that Congress will take no action on gun legislation in the wake of the massacre in Las Vegas. They refused to entertain Democratic demands to expand background checks for gun purchases and tighten restrictions on semi-automatic weapons, but also shelved their own House bill that would have loosened access to gun silencers.
So here we are again , after Newtown, after San Bernadino and Orlando. This time the rampage is in Las Vegas, with more dead, more people hospitalized, more deep trauma inflicted, but with the same shitty debate over prayer-vs-action and same despair over the potential for action being recycled.
House Republican leaders called for unity and prayer Tuesday after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, but offered no new legislation to tighten gun laws and said a bill to ease regulations on gun silencers would be shelved indefinitely. "We are all reeling from this horror in Las Vegas," Speaker Paul Ryan said at a news conference.
As is its custom, the National Rifle Association has gone silent since a gunman massacred 59 people and injured hundreds more in Las Vegas on Sunday. No tweets, no Facebook posts, no press releases, no interviews.
As she expressed her condolences to the victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton also sharply criticized the National Rifle Association and a bill working its way through Congress that would make it easier to buy gun silencers. At least 58 people were killed and 515 were injured late Sunday night after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country music concert from a window on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
President Donald Trump is facing renewed calls to tighten gun control laws after the US was inflicted with its deadliest mass shooting in recent history. Politicians and entertainers from Hillary Clinton to Lady Gaga were among those to demand tightening of regulations after 59 people were killed and 527 wounded at a music concert on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday.
The deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas renewed Democrats' calls Monday for gun safety legislation, but their pleas fell on deaf ears in the Republican-controlled Congress. At the same time GOP legislation aimed at loosening gun rules stood in limbo, facing an uncertain future.
"The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots," Hillary Clinton added after tweeting her support for victims and first responders. "Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get."
A couple of friends recently said it was terrible that some in Congress and the White House could even consider reducing National Endowment for the Arts funding. It's a critical program, they feel, essential for the very survival of many community and even big-time theaters, orchestras and other arts programs.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has closely followed his boss' playbook, encouraging mining and drilling on public lands and reducing the size of national monuments that President Donald Trump called a "massive land grab" by his Democratic predecessors. higher political ambitions is recommending Trump create a new national monument out of the forests bordering Glacier National Park, to the disappointment of a company that wants to drill for natural gas there.
Clovis Community Medical Center held its 5th reunion party for former patients and staff of the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Designed as fun day for the unit's staff, including doctors and nurses, to reconnect with their former patients and families who they cared for in trying, early stages of their lives, to see them healed and happy.
Popular Camping Spot May Require Permits Due To Overcrowding A plan to solve overcrowding at a popular camping spot isn't sitting well with some people. Gardner Hasn't Made Up Mind On GOP Health Care Proposal Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican representing Colorado, says he hasn't made up his mind on the latest proposal by Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to shrink four sprawling national monuments in the U.S. West jeopardizes protections for ancient cliff dwellings, scenic canyons and habitat for endangered fish and threatened Mojave desert tortoises. The recommendations, revealed in a leaked memo submitted to the White House, would scale back two huge Utah monuments - Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante - along with Nevada's Gold Butte and Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke looks at the sign for the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument with Lucas St. Clair and superintendent of Katahdin Woods Tim Hudson during a tour of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, June 14, 2017. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Donald Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Washington Post.
If you're the Red Sox, do you want to play the Indians or Astros in the divisional round of the playoffs? TORONTO - When it comes to the Toronto International Film Festival, there are certain reliabilities. During the 11 days of TIFF, we'll probably be treated to the year's eventual Oscar winner for best picture.
Back in 2011, Naruto was just an anonymous macaque in the jungles of Indonesia. On one particular day, however, the photogenic primate happened upon a wildlife photographer's camera and snapped a "monkey selfie."
Donald Trump campaigned on the claim that he would be a "law and order" president, and the 2016 Republican platform called for more "gratitude and support" for law enforcement and expressed concern over "the murder rate soaring in our great cities." Despite that high-minded rhetoric, congressional Republicans are pushing forward with a stealth bill that will make life easier for contract killers, and make it more dangerous for police to protect themselves from gun violence.