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In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that mental health reform is crucial to ensuring that mass shootings are prevented in the future.Following a closed-door meeting with the House GOP Conference, the Wisconsin Republican, said, One of the things we ve learned from these shootings is often underneath this is a diagnosis of mental illness. Republicans, Ryan noted, spent years working on mental health reform, passing a bill proposed by Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pennsylvania, last year that was signed into law by President Obama. That s why the House of Representatives passed landmark mental health reform just a year ago. That law is now being implemented, Ryan said. It s important that as we see the dust settle and we see what was behind some of these tragedies, stanley cup that mental health reform is a critical ingredient to making sure that we can try and prevent some of these things from happening in the past. Rep. Steve Scalise on why he supports gun rights 02:30 Ryan said nothing about proposals to tighten gun laws as Democrats have been demanding such as closing the gun show loophole, barring people on the terrorist watchlists from purchasing firearms and limiting the size o stanley thermos mug f magazines. Asked by CBS Ne stanley mugs ws Nancy Cordes if it was Duvz Obama to unveil jobs plan in major Sept. speech
Wall Street and Washington, which have jostled for position and power since the nationrsquo founding, are girding for another historic showdown.As the Bush administration lurches toward a close, and with Democrats newly resurgent in the capital, the captains of the financial services industry are on the defensive. And they know it.In the first six mo stanley nz nths of this year, the financial, insurance and real estate sector donated more money to political accounts than any other industry group, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Its half-year outlay: $112 million. To put that sum in context, it is nearly double the second-place total of $65 million from lawyers and lobbyists mdash; for whom handing out political checks is a virtual job requirement. Articles Wall Street, Hill clash Sarbanes-Oxley unlikely to change Professor s proposal angers Wall Street Dems torn between Wall Street cash, labor Graphics Wall Street contributions U.S stanley vattenflaska .-Korea import/export projections A comparison of PAC donations Donations overview Donations by sectorThe two biggest lobbying contracts in the first six months of this year both came from Wall Street: the $3.7 million stanley flask hire of Ogilvy Government Relations by the Blackstone Group and a $2.6 million payout by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. In total, private equity firms spent $6.5 million on lobbying between January and July, which is $1.6 mi |
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