An angry President Barack Obama blasted the National Rifle Association (NRA) and senators who voted to defeat a bi-partisan bill to expand background checks for gun sales yesterday (April 17). A proposal to ban some semi-automatic weapons modeled after military assault weapons was also defeated. The votes were on a series of amendments to a […]
In his first State of the Union address since being re-elected, President Barack Obama again urged a deeply divided Congress to come together to help solve the nation’s fiscal problems and strengthen the middle class. “We have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confidence that the state of our […]
