Although the 50-49 vote was on a nonbinding "sense of the Senate, " which seldom take up this much of the Senate's time or attention, this one was passionately fought against the backdrop of the huge Mother's Day march for gun control.
It is the second Mother's Day Julie Fletcher has spent without her son and she said had been dreading the day.
"This is the best Mother's Day I could ever have, " said Nancy Ruiz, Gina's mother.
The event, marking Mother's Day in the US, involved about 50 children making gift bags for their mothers and Prince Harry arrived as a surprise guest.
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Landy's firm, which counts Mother's Day as the third biggest gifting holiday after Christmas and Father's Day, aims to create memories that suit all manner of tastes and lifestyles ranging from gourmet food and wine tastings to skydiving.
"I think shoppers' hearts are in the same place for Mother's Day and Father's Day, " Krugman says.
Both the need and desire to celebrate our matrons make Mother's Day the third-largest spending holiday of the year, behind the winter holidays and Valentine's Day.
Decades later, Nickmann still wasn't much of a cook, but they deviated from the usual hotel brunch on Mother's Day 1991, and had a cookout at Nickmann's San Diego home with her mom, her step-dad and one of her brothers.
Jim Nayder, the host of The Annoying Music Show, brings just the wrong tone to Mother's Day.
The shooting, during a festive Mother's Day parade, renewed concerns about crime in the city.
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The couple's baby boy was delivered by cesarean section from his dead mother's womb but died the next day, police said.
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"We respect the court but we had hoped for a different outcome, " Kercher's mother told me the day Knox was set free.
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Mother's Day 2011 was the last one iReporter Jannet Walsh was able to celebrate with her mother, Margaret, who had a stroke in 2008.
In the note, which reads more like a kind Mother's Day letter, Matthew thanked his "mama" for making him the man he has become and said he couldn't ask for a better mother.
Mr. NAYDER: Woodrow Wilson was the president that officially declared that the second Sunday of May, Mother's Day.
He told the Los Angeles Times he attempted to see his mother on Mother's Day but she told him to stay away, on the orders of the sect's leaders.
They helped me understand the dilemma that many stepchildren face on Mother's Day.
Hitless in his previous nine at-bats, Duda ran around the bases in his pink spikes on Mother's Day as New York went up 1-0.
Mother's Day marks the halfway point of Lent, and one theory of its origin is that it was marked by visiting the region's "mother church" or cathedral.
On Monday, more than 40 callers came to the Mom2Mom headquarters -- a call center -- in Piscataway, New Jersey, to meet their counselors in at an event to allow peer partners to meet each other for the first time, in honor of Mother's Day.
Listen, Happy Mother's Day to your lovely wife, Laurie, who is the mother of your lovely daughter, Blair Jamie.
Unlike Mother's Day--the busiest Sunday on the phone network, when Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) experiences a 10% to 20% spike in call volume--Father's Day is like any other Sunday.
"I think it is pretty simple on Mother's Day to say that the government should help mums not millionaires, " she said.
Robson conceded that she broke down in tears one Mother's Day because Wade spent the entire day with Jackson instead of her.
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But the testimony of the boy's mother that was an unmitigated disaster for prosecutors, who by the end of her five-day turn on the stand began to object to their own witness's testimony.
In Los Angeles this week, officials moved up their annual Mother's Day buyback program due to the Sandy Hook shooting, netting more than 2, 000 weapons, including two rocket launchers.
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Speaking outside court, Hannah's mother Gaynor Murray said it was the "best day of her life".
First proposed in the U.S. in 1909 as a counterpart to Mother's Day, it was only officially recognized by Richard Nixon in 1972.
Complete with an internal clock, Amanda always knows the date and time--not to mention special holidays like Mother's Day, of course.
The Chilean was then booked after taking off his shirt to reveal a Mother's Day message.
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