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·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers   Friday, May 02, 2008   This week, anti-gun U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) registration legislation that would invade the privacy rights of law-abiding gun owners.Cosponsored by like-minded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Charles Schumer (D-NY), S. 2935 would, among other things, require the FBI to retain records of cleared firearm transactions for at least 180 days.  Current law requires...

Will Congress pass it? Will America buy it? The immigration battle in our country has just begun that's for sure. But another battle getting less attention is the battle to make America's most powerful institutions more diverse. In many ways the immigration deal and the record breaking Census Bureau figures also released yesterday that say that America has become more diverse, with minorities topping 100 million for the first time in 2006, go hand in hand. So as Congress struggles with immigration reform, the population of the United States is growing increasingly darker. Our lawmakers and society at large need...

Will the arrests of three illegal immigrants in an alleged plot to attack Fort Dix, N.J. hurt the effort in Congress to pass a major immigration bill? Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said Thursday it would actually help the case for the legislation. “It makes it more compelling. I would rather know who is here in America to pursue the American dream versus who is here to destroy it,” he said, in a conference call with reporters. An immigration reform that requires all current illegal immigrants to register with the government and go through background checks “creates for...

Vice President Cheney will be the main attraction at a fundraiser in Newark tonight for Republican U-S Senate hopeful Tom Kean (kayn) Junior. Kean expects to raise about 200-thousand dollars at the event. Some 200 guests are to pay one-thousand dollars each to hear Cheney. And those responsible for bringing in ten-thousand dollars in donations can get their picture taken with the vice president. Cheney's visit comes as the son of two-term governor is scrambling for money to compete against the Democratic incumbent, Robert Menendez. Menendez has more than four (m) million dollars compared to more than 860-thousand for Kean....

If the election for United States Senator was held today, whom would you support Robert Mendenez, the Democrat or Tom Kean, Jr., the Republican? Tom Kean Jr. 33% Robert Menendez 28% Undecided 39%

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Republican State Sen. Tom Kean Jr. has an 11-point lead over Democratic Rep. Robert Menendez in this year's battle for the U.S. Senate seat, according to a poll released Monday. Asked whom they would vote for if the election were held today, Kean received 36 percent to Menendez's 25 percent, while a whopping 37 percent said they did not know who they would support, said Peter Woolley, director of Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind Poll. "Not only is it early in the election cycle, but neither of these candidates has ever mounted a statewide race," Woolley said....

Robert Menendez Links Kay Licausi's Gold Mine?Former Aide to Congressman Robert Menendez Gets hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. The Feud Between Jersey City Mayor Glenn Cunningham and Congressman Robert Menendez Learn More About Congressman Robert Menendez Hudson County Politics Message Board Main Menu

Governor-elect Corzine’s appointment of Congressman Robert Menendez to fill the remaining year of his U.S. Senate term was no surprise. Corzine had been signaling the Menendez appointment since he jumped into the governor’s race a year ago. In all the press reports about the life and career of Bob Menendez, he is always identified as the son of Cuban immigrants. The implication is that Menendez’s parents fled Castro-ruled Cuba. In yesterday’s Record columnist Mike Kelly writes, “As the son of Cuban –American parents, who fled the brutal hand of Fidel Castro…” stating in no uncertain terms that Menendez’s parents arrived...

In 1998.....Kay Elizabeth LiCausi, a 26-year-old graduate of Rutgers....started a job as scheduler.......for Representative Robert Menendez (D-NJ).....who was soon to become the highest-ranking Hispanic member of Congress. She quickly gained his trust, and less than three years later was promoted to director of his NJ headquarters. But in 2002..... Ms. LiCausi left his staff. Since then.......She has amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts as consultant, lobbyist and fund-raiser. Some of the work was orchestrated by Mr. Menendez, who steered more than $200,000 worth of political consulting and fund-raising contracts her way. Several of her clients are businesses and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats accused President Bush and his fellow Republicans in Congress on Saturday of failing to do enough to prevent London-type bombing strikes on the nation's mass-transit system. They argued that while the government has dug deep into its financial pockets to bolster airline security since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, relatively little has been done to better protect trains and buses. "In the past four years, the federal government has spent about $9 per flying passenger, but only 1 cent per transit passenger," Rep. Robert Menendez (news, bio, voting record) of New Jersey...

Bonilla’s ‘Dream’ fails to meet goal By Dan Morgan The Washington Post WASHINGTON -- When Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-Texas, took charge of an independent political fund called American Dream PAC in 1999, he made clear that its mission was ”to give significant, direct financial assistance to first-rate minority GOP candidates.” Since then, only $48,750, or 8.9 percent, of the $547,000 the southwest Texas congressman has raised for his political action committee has gone to minority office-seekers while more than $100,000 has been routed to Republican Party organizations or causes, including a GOP redistricting effort in Texas, a legal defense fund...

Democrats, looking to capitalize on President Bush's decision to oppose the University of Michigan's affirmation action program, began a campaign Friday to make civil rights and equal education opportunities a major 2004 election issue. "Civil rights has always been the great unfinished business of America," Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy told a Capitol Hill Democratic forum. Democrats have been criticizing the GOP on civil rights issues since December, when Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi started an uproar with remarks praising the pro-segregation 1948 presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond. Then the Bush administration argued to the Supreme Court on Thursday against...

NEWARK, May 8 Ñ A businessman and Democratic fund-raiser was charged today with extorting payoffs from gambling operations in West New York while claiming to represent a high-level official, believed by many to be Mayor Albio Sires, now speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. The businessman, Rene Abreu, 40, is a mortgage broker and real estate developer active in North Jersey politics who has raised money for Mr. Sires, for Senator Robert G. Torricelli and for Representative Robert Menendez. Mr. Abreu and his wife, Lourdes Adan-Abreu were named with nine employees and associates in the indictment. Mr. Sires, who is...