Articles filed under US Senate
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Kirk meets with families of Sandy Hook victimsApr 17, 2013 12:07 pm - WASHINGTON — Both Illinois senators voted yes on a series of gun control measures in the U.S. Senate Wednesday after meeting with the families of children killed in the ...
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Durbin's growing war chest points toward another bidApr 13, 2013 1:00 pm - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is expected to make an official announcement about running for a fourth term in the coming weeks, and a look at the war chest of the Senate's No. 2...
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Oberweis still pushing for Brady’s removalApr 12, 2013 10:41 am - A suburban state senator isn’t backing down from efforts to oust the beleaguered Illinois GOP chair, who supports gay marriage, at Saturday’s state central committee mee...
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Obama calls spotlight Kirk's role in gun debateApr 10, 2013 6:00 pm - Work on a bipartisan Senate deal on background checks, as well as a second conversation with the president this week on gun control, are further illustrating U.S. Sen. M...
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Kirk: My long walk back to the SenateFeb 02, 2013 5:00 pm - “Am I going to die today?” I asked Jay as we rode together in an ambulance through the streets of Chicago. Jay Alexander was my doctor but also my friend, and I knew he ...
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Kirk, Giffords see lives intersect, again, over gun controlJan 30, 2013 10:00 am - On Wednesday morning, as U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk was introducing bipartisan gun trafficking legislation, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was testifying before the Sen...
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Kirk’s stroke draws former Porter staff togetherJan 03, 2013 11:54 am - “We should really get together,” the onetime staffers in former North suburban U.S. Rep. John Porter’s office would say, year after year. But life interceded, until news...
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Experts: Stroke could make Kirk a tougher opponent in 2016Jan 02, 2013 4:30 am - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk hasn’t said whether he’ll seek re-election in 2016, but experts say if he does, his recovery and return to Congress could make a campaign challenge b...
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Senator Kirk speaks for the first time about his strokeJan 02, 2013 4:00 am - For Mark Kirk, there was no white light, no tunnel. What Illinois' junior U.S. senator experienced was three angels standing at the foot of his bed. "You want to come...
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Kirk: Experimental therapy helped him relearn to walkJan 02, 2013 4:00 am - Mark Kirk literally rose to this occasion. A beaming Kirk emerged from a Willis Tower stairwell on Nov. 4 after climbing more than three dozen flights of stairs on his ...