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San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon and Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff have consistently opposed new gun control legislation. So does Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens.
Standing beneath the forest-green peaks of the Sierra Nevada, President Barack Obama drew a connection Wednesday between conservation efforts and stopping global warming, describing the two environmental challenges as inseparably linked. Obama used the first stop on a two-day conservation tour to try to showcase how federal and local governments can effectively team up to address a local environmental concern like iconic Lake Tahoe, which straddles California and Nevada.
Sen. John McCain's primary opponent emphatically declared Thursday that the soon-to-be 80-year-old Arizona Republican is too old to be re-elected. "John McCain has fallen down on the job.
Sen. John McCain's primary opponent emphatically declared Thursday that the soon-to-be 80-year-old Arizona Republican is too old to be re-elected. "John McCain has fallen down on the job.
Saudi officials are hoping that the release of a top secret chapter of an early congressional inquiry into 9/11 will end accusations of Saudi complicity in the attacks - allegations that have never been substantiated. Those who pushed for its release say it's only the beginning.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday formally opposed an initiative on California's fall ballot to legalize recreational marijuana for adults. Feinstein said the measure, Proposition 64, lacked protections for children and motorists and would clash with medical marijuana guidelines signed last fall by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The bedrock of Kamala Harris's U.S. Senate campaign has been her record as California attorney general and as San Francisco district attorney. She has said her experience in those posts provides ample proof that she is the best and most qualified candidate to represent California in Washington.
A deadlocked Supreme Court decision that blocks President Barack Obama from granting amnesty to the parents of legal U.S. residents who are in the country illegally will deprive many of those people of the right to sign up for health insurance in California, analysts of the decision said Thursday. Most immigrants who are in the country illegally already are barred from signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care law widely known as Obamacare.
LITTLE ROCK - Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Conner Eldridge is criticizing Republican Sen. John Boozman for opposing an effort to prevent terrorists from buying guns, saying an alternative measure backed by the Arkansas lawmaker doesn't go far enough.
When you consider the Oklahoma office worker whose head was hacked off with a knife, the New York cops attacked with an axe , and the Paris assault with a knife, it begins to dawn on one that assault is a behavior and not a weapon. Ever since Cain slew Able, it has been possible to kill people without using an AR15.
On May 24, the House Appropriations Committee took up a proposal "to deny transfers of firearms to persons known or suspected to be engaged in conduct related to terrorism." In a party-line vote, Republicans defeated the plan 29 to 17. Nineteen days later, a man whom the FBI had investigated as a possible terrorist went into an Orlando nightclub and, claiming solidarity with the Islamic State, shot 49 people to death with weapons he bought legally.
Four gun policy measures failed to pass the 60-vote threshold to move forward in the Senate on Monday, following impassioned debate from both sides of the aisle. The votes came just over a week after a deadly shooting spree in a gay nightclub in Orlando - the nation's worst mass shooting in modern history - and a subsequent 15-hour filibuster by Senate Democrats who demanded action on gun control.
The Senate voted down four gun control measures Monday evening, with Republicans and Democrats largely divided along party lines over how best to respond to the Orlando nightclub shooting more than one week ago. The last time a mass shooting spurred senators to action was in December 2015, after the San Bernardino, California, shooting, when they voted on two measures intended to prevent terrorists from being able to buy guns.
Gun measures failed in the U.S. Senate on Monday. less AR-15, semi-automatic, magazine-fed rifle: The AR-15 has become the preferred instruments of mass killing in the United States, notably at San Barnardino, California, last December, and Orlando, Florida, ... more The Republican-run U.S. Senate on Monday rejected a pair of gun violence proposals, refusing to bar sales of firearms to persons who have been on a terrorist watch list, or tightening criminal background checks.
While the Senate is not expected to pass any of the four gun safety measures coming to the floor for votes Monday evening, lawmakers continue to work on a more narrow proposal that could receive enough bipartisan support to advance. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is working on a measure that would block people on the Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list from buying firearms.
The Senate, divided over how to respond to the nation's latest mass shooting, will vote Monday on four measures supporters say would keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. All of them have failed in political show votes after previous massacres.
CBS' "Face the Nation" brings you the latest debate and analysis following the tragedy in Orlando with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, and Senator Dianne Feinstein. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump weighs in from the campaign trail.
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is working with a bipartisan group of senators on an alternative bill that she hopes will break the partisan gridlock in Congress over gun control. Her proposal, coming in the wake of the horrific massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a gunman pledging allegiance to ISIS, would bar gun sales to those on the government's no-fly list.
After more than 14 hours, Conn. Sen. Christopher Murphy ended a filibuster and said he had secured a chance to end the frustrating lack of action on gun violence with a vote.