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available
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) data. Even then, this provision of the budget resolution will not go
into effect
unless it makes it into the final Budget Reconciliation bill later
in the year, which must itself
go through the same arduous process as the
budget resolution itself.
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both chambers
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This is a tough vote for us to swallow, but the American
people have said all
along that they're opposed to Arctic Refuge drilling, and Congress is about
to
find out just how angry they can get," Schlickeisen said. Jude Children's Research Hospital is
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WASHINGTON, Saturday's shooting of a fellow hunter
by Vice
President Dick Cheney was just one more addition to the more than
quarter million Americans who have
been injured by firearms during President
George W. And because drilling
supporters had such
a tough time with the first move, we're energized to fight
that much harder to make sure that, at
the end of the day, the American people
get their way and the Arctic Refuge remains protected.
The study's findings are significant because they suggest that novel
treatments that restore the
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Josh Sugarmann
, Violence Policy Center executive director, states, "The
Cheney shooting punctures the pro-gun argument
that 'knowing guns' and 'having
respect for guns' are enough to overcome the inherent hazards of
firearms. Lahti is a senior author of
a report on these findings that appears in the January 5 issue
of the journal
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The Senate voted 49-51 on Senator Maria Cantwell's (D
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to complete the budget
process in the last two years; if that happens again, drilling backers will
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Senate's narrow vote today
to leave approval for oil drilling in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in
the larger Budget Resolution is a setback, but just the first
round in a long
fight, according to Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife.
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"Shoehorning a
controversial
measure like Arctic Refuge drilling into the budget where it
doesn't belong was a parliamentary stunt
to begin with, and it's one that
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members, Cheney
described himself and President Bush as "lifelong gun owners,
hunters, and anglers -- and strong
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Like many of you, I grew up close to the land, learned from my
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annual gun toll.
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Unlike the administrations
of George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton,
both of which supported gun control measures such
as banning assault weapons,
the current Bush Administration has, in fact, allowed measures like the
federal assault weapons ban to expire while at the same time rolling back
other portions of federal
gun control policy. For more information, please visit
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