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Schedule for Monday, September 8, 2014 The Senate stands adjourned under the provisions of H.Con.Res.112 until 2:00pm on Monday, September 8,... August 8, 2014

Schedule for Friday, August 8, 2014 The Senate stands adjourned until 9:15am on Friday, August 8, 2014 for a pro forma... August 5, 2014

Wrap Up for Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Roll Call Votes No roll call votes were conducted during Tuesdays session of the Senate.... August 5, 2014

Wrap Up for Friday, August 1, 2014 Roll Call Votes No roll call votes were conducted during Fridays session of the Senate.... August 1, 2014

Schedule for Tuesday, August 5, 2014 The Senate stands in recess until 11:00am on Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Following any Leader... August 1, 2014

Senator Sessions objects to S.2673, Boxer U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership bill Senator Boxer asked unanimous consent the Senate take up and pass Calendar #492, S.2673, a... August 1, 2014

Schedule for Friday, August 1, 2014 The Senate stands adjourned until 11:00am on Friday, August 1, 2014. Following any Leader... August 1, 2014

Senate passes Iron Dome defense funding legislationReid moved to proceed to S.J.Res. 19, the Constitutional amendment on campaign finance. The Senate passed J.R.Res.76, as amended with th e Reid-McConnell-Mikulski amendment making emergency supplemental appropriations... August 1, 2014

Wrap Up for Thursday, July 31, 2014 Roll Call Votes Sessions motion to table Reid amendment #3751 (date change); Not Agreed To:... July 31, 2014

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In the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, race riots convulsed the country. Chicago, Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Louisville endured the worst of it.

Almost 50 years hence, you can still see where the damage was done.

Louisvilles West Side, which was an integrated community, is now monochromatic.

Some parts of Chicagos West Side, where the rioting was the worst, are still not developed. Vacant blocks dot the neighborhoods, where businesses once stood.

Washington D.C. is only just now developing fully areas that were beset by the worst of riots.

The 1968 race riots helped to precipitate white flight from many of the major cities, and it helped to recast the politics of the country.

Richard Nixon promised to restore law and order in the campaign to replace Lyndon Johnson.

He campaigned with hard-hats, made an appeal to white ethnics and competed with George Wallace for the Bubba vote.

Law and order has proven to be a winning theme for both political parties.

Ronald Reagan signed the comprehensive crime control Act of 1984, which brought back the death penalty and toughened up prison sentences.

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Playing politics with Ferguson: Will it work for Democrats in midterms?

Occupy Democrats Reports: Sen Bernie Sanders There #39;IS a Class War and the Wrong Class is Winning

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Democrats are desperate!
Jesse T. Smith of Alabama said that Republicans are worse than ISIS!!! Can you believe this idiot?!?!

By: Steve Smythe

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WASHINGTON The Democratic governor of Colorado is soft on a convicted killer and the Democrats' hopeful in Maine would dole out millions in tax dollars to immigrants in the country illegally, the Republican Governors Association tells voters in ads that started running Tuesday.

The emotionally charged spots are just the latest examples of unflinching ads from the GOP governors' political arm, which is run by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The highly critical ads come as polls show both Colorado and Maine to be tight races and the latest finance reports show the Republicans' committee with more than $70 million saved to help GOP candidates.

The ads are against Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a first-term Democrat who is in a tight race against former Rep. Bob Beauprez, and Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud, who is challenging deeply unpopular first-term Gov. Paul LePage in Maine.

The RGA was already advertising in those races and the new ads will take the place of earlier ones. In Colorado, that means $700,000 in Denver and Colorado Springs will be spent on the ad; in Maine, it's a $500,000 buy in Portland.

In Colorado, the 30-second ad cites Hickenlooper's suggestion that he might scrap the death sentence of a multiple murderer on death row if he loses his re-election campaign. Hickenlooper already has given the inmate Nathan Dunlap a temporary reprieve from execution as long as Hickenlooper is governor.

Dunlap was convicted of killing four employees inside an Aurora, Colorado, Chuck E. Cheese after the children's restaurant closed. In the decades since the 1993 killings, advocates have pointed to failures of Dunlap's trial lawyers and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder developments that raised concerns for Hickenlooper.

In an interview with CNN, Hickenlooper suggested he could make that reprieve permanent if he loses in November.

"There are obviously remedies that the governor can do, you know," Hickenlooper told CNN for a documentary. "I could give it a full clemency between Election Day and the end of the year."

One of the victims' fathers, Bob Crowell, called Hickenlooper a "coward" for the move. The RGA used that assessment in its ads.

The governor's office said Hickenlooper was dealing in hypotheticals and was discussing legal options that are available to him. His campaign called the ads unfair and driven by politics, not justice.

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Democrats running for governor in Colorado, Maine targeted in harsh GOP ads