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Slamming Republicans who now control the Congress, Obama warned of another potential “manufactured crisis” just two weeks before Christmas and said he would not signed another “shortsighted spending bill”.

The only way to satisfy those who lament the availability of guns is not to nibble away at the margins as the president and other liberal politicians say is their goal.

“Given that reality, uniting behind a candidate that can get to the 218 votes necessary to win the Speakership is critically important”. “That doesn’t signal change”. Chaffetz said many Republican lawmakers wanted a change in leadership.

An official says the gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon community college left a “manifesto” that was a couple pages long.

The president and Democrats want to increase spending beyond the agreed-upon caps of the 2011 budget sequester, while most Republicans want to lift only military spending while making further cuts on the domestic side.

Conservative Republicans are very much against the spending bill’s inclusion of federal dollars for Planned Parenthood, and News 3’s Noelle Bellow has reaction form one local health group.

Because of Alison, I have had access to governors and senators, congressmen and activists. Right now, if a check is not done within 72 hours, then the gun sale can proceed. “I will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act”....

“The deplorable practices at Planned Parenthood have been exposed to Americans, and I have chose to stop any association with the organization in Alabama”, Bentley said at the time.

“Unless we change that political dynamic, we’re not going to be able to make a big dent in this problem”, he said asking gun-control advocates to act as “single-issue voters”, punishing and rewarding politicians at the polls on the topic.

The shooting at Umpqua Community College left 10 dead, including the shooter, and at least 10 others were injured. It was on that Boston campus Friday afternoon that Democratic Sen.

Despite speculation that Democrats would boycott the committee’s future proceedings, Rep. Elijah Cummings (R-MD), the top Democrat, said he will be there to defend Clinton from Republicans’ “political attacks”.

“When it comes to the debt ceiling, we’re not going back there”, Obama said at a press conference Friday, referring to past negotiations with Republicans in 2011. “Every single day. Kids are just running for their lives, trying to get to school”.

In the Senate, Hatch voted for the spending bill, while Sen.

McCarthy was elected to Congress in 2006, and was quickly put into the job of chief deputy whip and majority whip.

But another budget battle will likely ensue then, as Congress remains divided over federal funding for women’s health organization Planned Parenthood.