Patrick J. Toomey

IRS officials still don't have full explanation of targeting

2013-05-21 11:32:00

WASHINGTON – The outgoing head of the IRS said the agency still doesn’t know which staff members were responsible for using politically loaded language to screen out nonprofit groups, as senators pressed them to explain how certain...

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,...

Letters: Narrowing the NRA

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Re "Both sides of debate at NRA convention," May 4 When the National Rifle Assn. backed improved background checks on gun buyers in the 1990s, the organization truly was nonpartisan. Time and money have changed that. Witness the lineup of speakers...

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...

Pro-Obama group will go after Democrats on guns

2013-04-18 12:17:00

WASHINGTON — The nonprofit advocacy group backing President Obama’s second-term agenda plans to mobilize constituents against the U.S. senators who on Wednesday helped defeat a measure to expand background checks – including four members...

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...

Gun control: Wait till next year -- or the year after

2013-04-18 14:13:00

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) formally suspended the Democrats’ drive for new�gun control�legislation Thursday, shelving his party’s bill after Wednesday’s defeat of its centerpiece, a measure for expanded background...

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,...

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...

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. Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) led the opposition to extending a temporary supplement to the federal bank deposit insurance program.

2012-12-13 13:31:27

(Top, left to right) Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas ; Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan ; Rep. Fred Upton , also from Michigan; Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona ; Rob Portman of Ohio ; Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania . (Bottom, left to right) Sen. Patty Murray of Washington ; Sen. Max Baucus of Montana ; Sen. John

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