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We need your help : the other Washington


It’s up to all of us to ensure the safety of Washington State’s children.

We must reduce gun violence and protect our shared future, even though legislators in both Olympia and Washington, D.C., have ignored the outcry for sensible gun safety reforms.

The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility needs your help.

Without legislative action, enacting commonsense reform like requiring criminal background checks on all gun purchases will take a successful ballot initiative. To get on the ballot means gathering thousands of signatures.

The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility is working to do just that, and they need your help.

Click here to request your own official petition form, and help us get one name closer to our goal of 250,000 petition signatures by the end of September.

As a registered Washington voter, you can provide the first signature on your petition (and there’s room for four friends to sign too).

With our ambitious goal of 250,000 signatures by the end of this month, we need your support to help protect Washington’s children from the threat of gun violence. But, unfortunately, state regulations do not allow you to simply download an online petition.

All it takes is clicking here to request your petition form — and we’ll mail it to you right away!

We’ve just printed hundreds of new petition forms, and it’s time to put them to good use.

And I would very much appreciate seeing your signature alongside mine, and those of hundreds of thousands of our fellow Washington voters.

Thank you for helping to make Washington State a national leader in responsible gun ownership.

Sincerely,

Dow Constantine King County Executive

~~ the Senate ~~ Convenes at 2pm ET ~~ the House


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The Senate will convene at 2:00pm ET Monday, September 9, 2013.

At 5:00pm, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider the following items:

–          Executive Calendar #184 Valerie E. Caproni – to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York and

–          Executive Calendar #185 Vernon S. Broderick – to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

There will be up to 30 minutes of debate on the nomination equally divided and controlled in the usual form.  Upon the use or yielding back of time (at approximately 5:30pm), the Senate will proceed to vote on confirmation of the nominations.  Only roll call vote is expected Monday evening; one of the nominations is expected to be confirmed by voice vote

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Last Floor Action: 9/6
12:06:45 P.M. – The Speaker announced
that the House do now adjourn pursuant to section 4(b) of H. Res. 322.

The next
meeting is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on September 9, 2013.

The Senate ~~ Pro forma Action ~~ The House


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The Senate will convene at 12:00 noon on Friday, September 6,

for the purpose of allowing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to file the reported joint resolution to authorize the limited and specified use of the United States Armed Forces against Syria.

Sep 5, ’13 12:35 PM
Author Categories Floor Updates

Pursuant to the authority provided by section 2 of S.Con.Res.22, the Majority Leader will convene the Senate at 12:00 noon on Friday, September 6, for the purpose of allowing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to file the reported joint resolution to authorize the limited and specified use of the United States Armed Forces against Syria. This will be a very short session with no other business conducted. This action will allow for a motion to proceed to the joint resolution to be in order on Monday.

Following Friday’s session, the Senate will convene at 2:00pm on Monday, September 9. Senator Reid intends to move to proceed to the joint resolution on Syria soon after we convene on Monday.

At 5:00pm, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider the following nominations, with 30 minutes for debate equally divided and controlled between Senators Leahy and Grassley, or their designees:

–       Valerie E. Caproni, of New York, to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York; and

–       Vernon S. Broderick, of New York, to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

 

Upon the use or yielding back of time (approximately 5:30pm), the Senate will proceed to vote in relation to the above nominations. We expect one of the nominations to be considered by voice vote.

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Last Floor Action:
12:06:45 P.M. – The Speaker announced
that the House do now adjourn pursuant to section 4(b) of H. Res. 322. The next
meeting is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on September 9, 2013.