Frank Lautenberg News
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus won’t seek re-election in 2014, ending a 36-year tenure capped by his co-authorship of the 2010 health-care law.
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Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s name on a U.S. government travel-watch list should have kept him from boarding an airplane without some scrutiny, yet he could purchase semi-automatic handguns with none.
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The Texas plant that was the scene of a deadly explosion this week was last inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1985. The risk plan it filed with regulators listed no flammable chemicals. And it was cleared to hold many times the ammonium nitrate that was used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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A wide-open U.S. Senate race with no incumbent kicked off today after New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, the chamber’s oldest member and last veteran of World War II, opted not to run again.
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U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, a five-term Democrat from New Jersey who, at 89, is the chamber’s oldest member, said he won’t seek re-election in 2014.
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Just one Senate Democrat opposed the party’s majority on the estate tax, a medical-device tax, a possible carbon tax, online sales taxes and the revenue-raising budget plan. He’s the senator in charge of tax policy: Max Baucus of Montana.
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U.S. Senator Tim Johnson’s decision to retire after the 2014 election makes the Democrats’ job of holding their Senate majority tougher.
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U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson is expected to announce today that he will become the fifth Democrat in the chamber to retire after the 2014 election, a Senate Democratic aide said.
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U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg’s charitable foundation can’t continue a $9 million lawsuit against Bernard Madoff’s brother Peter, an appeals court ruled.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie paced the Princetonian Diner on U.S. Route 1 in mid-October, imploring patrons to pick his Republican ally and friend Joe Kyrillos over incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Robert Menendez.
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