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Archive: News / U.S. / Presidency (15 Stories)

How the AP-GfK poll on gun control was conducted

01/16/2013 1:04am
The Associated Press-GfK poll on gun control was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Jan. 10-14. It is based on landline telephone and cellphone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,004 adults. Interviews were conducted with 604 respondents on landline telephones and 400 on cellular telephones.

Obama seeks to enhance gun background checks

01/16/2013 9:58am
President Barack Obama is asking Congress to expand background checks on gun buyers to include private sales and is using his executive authority to increase the information available in data banks in the background check system. The White House calls background checks the most efficient and effective way to keep guns away from dangerous individuals.

Obama taking 23 actions aimed at gun violence

01/16/2013 10:06am
President Barack Obama is taking 23 executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence that don't require congressional action, including measures to encourage schools to hire police officers, increase research on gun violence and improve efforts to prosecute gun crime.

In letters, children ask Obama to change gun laws

01/16/2013 11:06am
Three days after six teachers and 20 students were killed by a rampaging gunman at a Connecticut elementary school, an 8-year-old Maryland boy pulled out a sheet of paper and wrote President Barack Obama, asking for "some changes in the laws with guns."

White House calls NRA video repugnant, cowardly

01/16/2013 12:14pm
The White House says a National Rifle Association video that makes reference to President Barack Obama's daughters is "repugnant and cowardly."

Tight security, protests expected at inauguration

01/16/2013 12:46pm
Tea party fervor has surged and waned in the past four years, Occupy encampments are long gone from parks in the nation's capital, and the crowd for President Barack Obama's second inauguration figures to be significantly smaller than the record-breaking turnout of 2009.

Reaction to Obama's gun control proposals

01/16/2013 1:11pm
President Barack Obama unveiled sweeping proposals to curb gun violence, including calls for Congress to pass universal background checks and an assault-weapons ban, plus 23 executive actions that don't require congressional approval. Quotes about the proposals:

Second presidential terms loaded with setbacks

01/16/2013 1:40pm
Second presidential terms are never easy _ even for George Washington.

Episcopal priest chosen for inaugural benediction

01/16/2013 2:22pm
The pastor of the Episcopal parish known as "the church of the presidents" will give the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration.

Obama is flexing his leverage on debt, immigration

01/16/2013 3:48pm
President Barack Obama is assembling an ambitious second-term agenda, pushing aggressively where he thinks he has political leverage but moving more cautiously on issues where he has less control.

AP-GfK poll: Rage over Conn. tragedy tops 9/11

01/16/2013 5:12pm
Americans were angrier about last month's horrific school shooting in Connecticut than they were about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

A closer look at the inauguration schedule

01/16/2013 6:57pm
The schedule for the second Inaugural of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden:

Banderas, Dawson join Latino inaugural in DC

01/16/2013 7:11pm
Antonio Banderas, Rosario Dawson and Marc Anthony are joining an A-list lineup of entertainers who will gather to celebrate Latino culture in Washington on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration.

NRA begins pushback with Web ad criticizing Obama

01/16/2013 9:12pm
In a sharp pushback against any new gun regulations, the National Rifle Association posted a Web video that labels President Barack Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for allowing his daughters to be protected by armed guards while not embracing a proposal for armed guards at all schools.

Obama unveils gun plan, concedes tough fight ahead

01/16/2013 9:28pm
Conceding "this will be difficult," President Barack Obama urged a reluctant Congress on Wednesday to require background checks for all gun sales and ban both military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines in an emotion-laden plea to curb gun violence in America.
 
   
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