Todd - in case you haven't noticed, I am a bot...
Posted on 05/14/2003 2:32:06 PM PDT by Godebert
By JIM ABRAMS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Bush should take the lead in overcoming resistance within his own party to extending an assault weapons ban due to expire next year, Democrats said Wednesday.
"If the bill dies we will lay it at the president's doorstep," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said a day after House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told reporters that the 1994 law banning the manufacture of 19 types of common military-style assault weapons would not be renewed.
Schumer said the gun bill would be an issue in the 2004 election, a development that could pose problems for Democrats who represent districts with strong gun rights sentiment. The assault ban vote was also a campaign topic in 1994, the year Republicans recaptured the House after spending 40 years in the minority.
Bush, taking a position at odds with the National Rifle Association, has voiced support for extending the ban, and White House spokesman Ari Fleischer on Wednesday said that support would carry weight in Congress.
"This is a matter that the House has to work out, of course, by listening to the will of its members, but the president's position is clear on it," Fleischer said. "When the president states his position like that, it helps get the message to the Congress."
Fleischer would not say whether Bush would pressure DeLay to bring such a bill up for a vote. DeLay, R-Texas, on Tuesday indicated that there would be no effort to renew the current law before it expires on Sept. 13, 2004. "The votes in the House are not there to reauthorize it," he said.
"The real question is will the president weigh in and ask the leaders to schedule a vote," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., who as a senior adviser to President Clinton played a key role in guiding the 1994 legislation through Congress.
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I can't stop laughing.
I see the mental illness is contagious or maybe the three of you actually are housed in the same ward.
Why? You just said:
I'd be real worried about what you say about me if more than five people at FR believed a word you say.
Never mind the fact that taking arguments across threads is a no-no.
The context of what? Of you being willing to post anything deterimental to George W. Bush because you live a lonely life and all you want to do is draw attention to yourself?
That's a pretty good context.
ROFLOL !!!!!! I think you have a new tagline, Howlin.
The pizza eater......
Conventional wisdom says otherwise. The gun-control agenda is what lost Gore and many other gun-grabbing politicians their government paycheck.
Todd - in case you haven't noticed, I am a bot...
Thanks for the bedtime laugh howlin.
Making fun of someone's weight is not beneath you. Why stop now?
Pizza and Fox News.
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