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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; Sam Farr</title>
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		<title>&gt;100 cosponsors for House background-check bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 100 House members from both sides of the aisle have signed on to co-sponsor a bill that would require background checks for all commercial gun sales. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, chairman of the House Democrats’ gun-violence task force, and Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., introduced H.R. 1565 on April 15, two days before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your state and Bay Area House-race roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All in all, it was a dismal night for Republicans in California House races. Of the 11 California House races deemed competitive by the renowned Cook Political Report, Democrats won seven outright and are on top in two too-close-to-call other races. Another way of slicing and dicing it: All of the three endangered Democratic incumbents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical marijuana trial evidence bill reintroduced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A California member of Congress re-introduced a bill yesterday to let federal criminal defendants use medical marijuana evidence at trial. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 ruling in the Oakland-based Gonzalez v. Raich case gave the federal government discretion to enforce its ban on marijuana even in states with laws allowing its medical use, and let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dems warn of House GOP budget&#8217;s impact on CA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Democratic Congressional Delegation Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, rallied her troops today for a conference call with at least eight members highlighting how House Republicans’ budget plan would impact California. “While we know reining in our deficit is necessary for economic prosperity, there is a responsible way to do it,” she said. Rep. John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers urge banks to allow aid for jobless</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Northern California members of Congress are pressuring mortgage servicers to work with a new federally funded program in California intended to help unemployed homeowners pay their mortgages and avoid foreclosure. The Keep Your Home California Unemployment Mortgage Assistance Program provides qualified unemployed homeowners up to $3,000 a month for up to six months to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers aim to update Bay Area refuges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont &#8212; with the support of Reps. George Miller, D-Martinez, and Sam Farr, D-Santa Cruz &#8212; yesterday introduced H.R. 6479, the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex Establishment Act, which would re-establish the Bay Area’s seven separate national wildlife refuges as a single wildlife complex so it can leverage more federal [...]]]></description>
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