Congress Passes Bill to Stop Mentally Ill From Getting Guns
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Prompted by the Virginia Tech University shootings, Congress yesterday approved legislation that would help states more quickly and accurately identify potential firearms buyers with mental health problems that disqualify them from gun ownership under federal law.
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Congress on Wednesday passed a long-stalled bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings that would more easily flag prospective gun buyers who have documented mental health problems. The measure also would help states with the cost.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 28 -- The Virginia General Assembly continued to move forward Monday to overhaul how the state cares for people with mental illness, promising to fix a system whose flaws were exposed last year after the shootings at Virginia Tech.
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Legislation to protect U.S. soldiers from predatory life insurance and mutual fund sales on military bases was approved overwhelmingly on Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The U.S. Congress on Saturday passed a bill to improve U.S. preparedness for bioterrorism or other health crises, in part by accelerating development of new vaccines and drugs.
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Senior Democrats have reached agreement with the National Rifle Association on what could be the first federal gun-control legislation since 1994, a measure to significantly strengthen the national system that checks the backgrounds of gun buyers.
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Mexico's lower house of Congress passed a bill Tuesday that provides up to 40 years in prison for people convicted of financing terrorist groups.
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Congress passed legislation Thursday that sets aside &#36;82 million over the next three years for programs to help prevent youth suicide.
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State lawmakers pass a bill that allows judges to order treatment, joining 24 other states with similar legislation. By Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News.
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The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved new legislation drafted after the mid-April shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University that tightens background checks for potential gun owners.
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SPRINGFIELD - Hoping to curtail the illegal production of methamphetamine, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday signed into law a measure restricting the sale of certain over-the-counter medications that can be used to make the drug.
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The US House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday designed to tighten gun ownership, nearly two months after a disturbed student went on the deadliest ever US school shooting rampage.
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Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly after last year's massacre at Virginia Tech to make it harder for anyone with a history of mental illness to buy guns, fortifying what were already some of the nation's toughest weapons laws.
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The bill is expected to give federal drug regulators significantly more money and power to ensure the safety of the nationâs drug supply.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 24--After the mass murder in April of 32 people at Virginia Tech University and the disclosure that the gunman suffered from mental illness, Faisal Ahmed wanted to provide Mid-Missourians access to information about mental health.
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The US Congress approves the first major gun control bill since 1994, a  response to April's Virginia Tech shootings.
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The US House of Representatives passed a controversial bill setting out the rules for the detention, treatment and military prosecution of &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects, virtually assuring it will become law.