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Republicans in the House of Representatives who quickly pushed through a bill late last year to temporarily halt Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the United States want the Senate majority leader to bring up the measure for a vote soon after the upper body reconvenes Monday.
Brandon Cupp, owner of Cerberus Firearms on Jake Alexander Boulevard, said his wife Ashleigh pretty much runs the local gun show.
They used to hold the gun show in Lexington, but had to move the show to Salisbury because of a gun sale that happened in the parking lot of the show. One person bought a gun from an unlicensed seller and then got charged with possession of a stolen firearm when he went back home to Florida.
At their gun shows now, the deputies who help with security are told to watch the parking lot to help keep all gun sales inside the building.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama launched his unilateral attempt to crack down on illegal gun purchases on Tuesday, blaming the “constant excuses for inaction” from Congress as justification for his exercise of executive power.
But in an emotional address quoting the Bible, the Constitution and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Obama also tacitly acknowledged the limits on what he can do without Congress.
Significant change will come only when voters rise up to demand it from lawmakers, he said.
In a political world mired in fights over federal spending and squabbles over Syrian refugees, a North Carolina congressman found a way to make nearly 1,300 households happy:
By ensuring that the U.S. Postal Service affirms one small town’s identity.
With Paul Ryan as speaker, the U.S. House will be more productive in 2016 than previous years, according to Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8.
“Having Paul Ryan as House speaker has given me a lot of good feelings about next year,” Hudson said in an interview with the Salisbury Post. “My hope is that we can get back to regular order.”
ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County’s congressman on Wednesday sharply criticized Attorney General Roy Cooper in his bid to deny gun sales to individuals on a federal watch list.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-Concord, said the move could infringe on American citizens’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms when they have not been convicted or even formally accused of a crime.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Richard Hudson joined his fellow House members this week in overwhelmingly passing legislation to overhaul the federal visa waiver program.
The bill would bar those from Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Sudan, or those who have visited those countries in the last five years, from traveling to the United States without a visa. The bill was approved on a 407 to 19 vote.
The proposal comes in response to the recent attacks in Paris from ISIS operatives, and the shooting in California by a couple that expressed support for the terror group on social media.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson filed for re-election on Dec. 1 in hopes of winning a third term in Congress.
Hudson said that while he feels he has accomplished a a lot so far, he has several other issues he plans to tackle if the voters return him to Capitol Hill for another two years.
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Hudson said forging bipartisan partnerships have been a large factor in the second-term congressman’s early success.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Tensions continue to build over the future of a federal program to allow the resettlement of thousands of Syrian refugees.
Political experts said public opinion seems to be shifting toward a majority backing a suspension of the program.
“It is certainly starting to gain some traction as a bipartisan issue,” political expert Michael Bitzer said. “The concerns about terrorism cut across party lines.”