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Senate Budget Amendment Would Support Public Lands, BHA Applauds Measure

A proposed amendment to the draft Senate budget for Fiscal Year 2016 would prohibit the sale of federal public lands to reduce the deficit and is drawing both bipartisan support within the Senate.....

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House, Senate Budgets Leave No Room for Conservation Investment

This week, the House and Senate will each likely pass its own version of a Fiscal 2016 Federal Budget, and both will fail to appropriately invest in critical conservation programs.

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Senate to Vote Next Week on Concealed Carry Reciprocity and Other Gun Amendments

Next week, there will be more gun votes on the floor of the United States Senate than there will be for the rest of the year put together.

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TRCP Testifies Before Senate in Support of Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act

TRCP President and CEO Whit Fosburgh testified at a hearing of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in support of the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015, championed by Sens. Lisa...

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Physician and attorney lobby groups call for more background checks, gun restrictions

Seven major medical organizations as well as the American Bar Association Monday made a call to address gun violence as a public health issue to which they proposing a number of gun control recommendations as a cure.

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Sen. Barbara Boxer says she won’t seek a sixth term in 2016 (VIDEO)

California Sen. Barbara Boxer, the Democrat known for her liberal stance on policy issues ranging from environmental protection to gun control, announced on Thursday that she would not run for office once her current term ends in 2016.

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Breaking: Gun control groups rejoice at surgeon general confirmation

Gun control groups rejoiced Monday after the U.S. Senate confirmed President Obama’s nomination for surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, by a vote of 51-43.

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Giffords’ Gun Control Group Targets Another Female Military Member

Gabby Giffords' gun control group, Americans for Responsible Solutions, plans to spend the last week before the midterm elections targeting Republican candidate & Patriot Joni Ernst...

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Pryor Accuses Iraq War Vet Tom Cotton of Feeling ‘Entitled’ to Arkansas Senate Seat

Responded Cotton, I learned leadership in the streets of Baghdad and the mountains of Afghanistan. And let me tell you, you can learn a little more there than you can in the halls of Congress...

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Senate approves Obama’s plan to destroy terrorist group in Iraq (VIDEO)

In the battle to regain lost ground in Iraq, the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved President Obama’s plan to arm Syrian rebels to help “degrade and destroy” the extremist group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

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