Joe Manchin III

Obama, lawmakers denounce IRS for targeting conservative groups

2013-05-13 10:29:00

WASHINGTON – President Obama on Monday condemned the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and vowed to punish anyone who may have taken part in it, as senators called for top IRS officials to resign and congressional...

Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators

2013-05-13 03:00:00

WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Smash' on NBC

2013-04-27 13:49:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Fix This Yard The season premiere...

Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat

2013-04-18 20:11:00

WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...

Senate sets aside gun bill, for now

2013-04-18 14:07:00

WASHINGTON -- The Senate formally shelved further consideration of gun legislation Thursday even as supporters of a plan to expand background-check requirements vowed to keep pushing the issue. The decision to set the bill aside came after a showdown...

Senate rejects gun background check measure

2013-04-17 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...

Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control

2013-04-17 12:08:00

On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...

Mississippi man arrested, accused in ricin letters case

2013-04-17 17:36:00

OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings....

Proposed gun amendment faces uphill battle in Senate

2013-04-15 20:30:00

WASHINGTON — A single conversation on the Senate floor Monday illustrated the challenges senators face in pushing a bipartisan measure to extend background checks to most gun sales. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), the chief author of the proposal,...

Senate showdown set on gun control

2013-04-16 20:15:00

WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...

Background checks measure faces defeat, sponsor says

2013-04-17 05:35:00

WASHINGTON -- The lead author of a compromise plan to expand background checks, seen as the centerpiece of larger gun legislation before the Senate, all but conceded Wednesday that there won't be the votes needed to adopt it. During an appearance on...

Gun-control plan several votes short in Senate

2013-04-16 15:03:00

WASHINGTON -- A Senate plan to expand the background-check requirement for gun purchases faced a narrowing path to success Tuesday, as advocates for stricter laws sought to scrape together the last few votes they need from among a dwindling number of...

U.S. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks to members of the media after a vote on the Senate floor April 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Senate has defeated a bipartisan proposal by Manchin and Sen.

2013-04-19 15:58:00

Sen. Mark Kirk, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) celebrates his climb up steps of the U.S. Capitol as he returns to work, a year after suffering a stroke.

2013-01-03 00:00:00

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill center, Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va right, were seen on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before the 113th Congress convened Thursday.

2013-01-03 00:00:00