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Update: Senate rejects concealed weapons

The Senate rejected a bid by the gun lobby to expand gun rights by letting people carry concealed weapons across state lines. The Senate voted 58-39, rejecting the “Thune amendment”, proposed by John Thune, a South Dakota Republican

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Update: Senate rejects concealed weapons

BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham SC-R to vote to confirm Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court

AP Published: July 22, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor breaking with his party’s conservative leaders. The South Carolinian had hinted during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings that he might back President Barack Obama’s first high court nominee

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BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham SC-R to vote to confirm Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court