Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) will link his home state of Vermont’s low crime rate to the restraint the state has shown towards gun control legislation, but claims that may not work for all areas of the country.
When speaking in Washington about the status of re-building Haiti one year after its devastating earthquake, Academy award-winning actor Sean Penn said “a re-born Haiti will spark a new generation” of “American might through dignity.” Penn argues that America has an “opportunity” in Haiti to help “return” its “dignity not only internally but globally.”
A daily digest of stories on CNSNews.com for 1/11/2011.
Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who on Saturday suggested radio and television talk shows were somehow responsible for inciting a man who may be mentally disturbed to kill six people and wound 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), once blamed policymakers for violence in his county because they had stopped institutionalizing mentally ill people.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would prohibit abortion providers from receiving federal funds through Title X of the Public Health Service Act, including Planned Parenthood, which received more than $360 million in government grants and contracts in Fiscal Year 2008-2009.
"We need to be closing down this rhetoric," Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) told CNN on Sunday. He wants words and images that can be construed as threats against lawmakers to be treated the same way they would be if they were used against the president.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said Republicans should use an increase in the debt ceiling as leverage over the Obama administration to win spending cuts.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said that Defense Department budget cuts were on the agenda for House Republicans committed to cutting federal spending over the next two years.
A daily digest of stories on CNSNews.com for 1/10/2011.
Because of the mass shooting in Arizona, House Republicans have postponed all legislation to be considered on the House floor in the coming week, including a vote to repeal the Democrats' health care legislation.
