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Manchin: We are “absolutely” going to try for another gun-control vote

Erika Johnsen — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:01:09 +0000

"We're going to work this bill with all of our hearts."

The Senate’s proposed gun-control bill crashed and burned earlier this month, and Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled that he was going to put the issue on the political shelf where it would presumably start to gather dust — but that might not be the case after all. Senator Manchin and Toomey revealed last week that [...]

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Manchin, Toomey close to deal on “expanded” background checks; Update: Deal reached

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:41:37 +0000

No filibuster?

“Expanded” in this case is … a term of art, as you’ll see shortly. As Harry Reid tries to find the votes to have a vote on his gun-control package in the Senate this week or next, two key players say they are close to an agreement on the central piece of the bill. Joe [...]

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Inhofe, Toomey: Hey, why don’t we give Obama some flexibility on sequestration?

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:41:35 +0000

He'd like that, right?

Among the complaints about sequestration coming from the White House in recent weeks has been that the sequestration is much too indiscriminate, and that its rules pretty much legally require them to implement the cuts via budgetary hack job. Well, be careful what you ask for, Mr. President, ’cause you just might get it. From [...]

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Toomey: GOP should be willing to risk shutdown to get cuts in debt ceiling deal

Mary Katharine Ham — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:31:35 +0000

Sen. Pat Toomey is one of the great accomplishments of the Tea Party Movement, and after supporting him in ’04 back when Bush was backing Specter, it does my heart good to see him in our dysfunctional deliberate body. For that same reason, some are very angry at him for his vote on the fiscal [...]

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For some Super Committee members, an added incentive to avoid “doomsday” defense cuts

Tina Korbe — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:25:53 +0000

Cuts would hit close to home.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has called it the “doomsday” scenario: The Super Committee deadlocks and defense funding faces substantial cuts. That’s why, the day after the president signed the debt ceiling into law, I wrote that the Super Committee would need deficit and defense hawks. A few weeks and 12 picks later, the first [...]

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Pat Toomey introduces budget that would balance the books in 10 years — but wouldn’t touch entitlements

Allahpundit — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:02:04 +0000

Lost opportunity?

There’s already a nifty nine-page synopsis circulating. It looks fab on paper: No tax hikes, a modest surplus by 2021, and far less political risk for the GOP than Ryan’s budget insofar as Toomey’s plan would leave Medicare and Social Security unreformed. In fact, per page seven of the synopsis, his budget’s softer on Medicare [...]

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