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Democrats....Bush Key on Assault Weapons
Associated Press - Las Vegas Sun.com ^
| May 14, 2003
| Jim Abrams
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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; antigun; assaultweaponsban; awb; bang; banglist; billofrights; bush; constitution; gungrabbers; oathofoffice
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To: deport
What are you a liberal rat? They talk like that.
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:35:04 PM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(the gift is to see the truth)
To: Sir Gawain
Bwahahahaha......I just saw your tagline. Why didn't you just save yourself the effort and type "loser"
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.
To: Howlin
people need to see what a flaming hyprocrite you are.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.
303
posted on
05/14/2003 8:35:46 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Kil-lin' is my bid-ness, lay dees. And bid-ness is goooood.)
To: TLBSHOW
Put it in context you spinner you! 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.
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:35:47 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: deport
Yes. The date we all jump for joy when Todd starts helping the GOP win a landslide victory in 2004!
305
posted on
05/14/2003 8:36:32 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Sir Gawain
Uh-oh, you're on southernhippopotomus's hate list now. She'll track your every move.
At least she only called you a woman. I've been called much worse by her. She represents Bush well.
To: Sir Gawain
Make that six.
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:37:08 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
You, you.....you, spinner, you.
ROFLOL !!!!!! I think you have a new tagline, Howlin.
To: TLBSHOW
May 1, 2004..... The pizza eater......
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:37:13 PM PDT
by
deport
To: AlbionGirl
"Even if he signs it, I don't think it'll do him or his party any harm."Conventional wisdom says otherwise. The gun-control agenda is what lost Gore and many other gun-grabbing politicians their government paycheck.
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
I can't tell whether I'm moving up or down though; while ago, he was calling me a smear artist.
Of course, he's called others that, too. I kind of like being unique.
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:38:14 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: TLBSHOW
No don't worry the bots will never leave your side, heck they can't, you ping em every chance you get.Todd - in case you haven't noticed, I am a bot...
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:38:19 PM PDT
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TomServo
(Bring Back Illbay!!!)
To: Howlin
See, I never post lies or distort the truth... Thanks for the bedtime laugh howlin.
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
You let me down with that reply. That was lame.
314
posted on
05/14/2003 8:38:46 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Kil-lin' is my bid-ness, lay dees. And bid-ness is goooood.)
To: Fred Mertz
If I called you what you really are it would not be fit for this forum. But most people already know anyway. Word does travel.
To: Fred Mertz
Post one for me, Fred. Any lie you're ever seen me post.
316
posted on
05/14/2003 8:39:25 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: TomServo
I think Todd has "side" issues.
317
posted on
05/14/2003 8:39:54 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
Well.....hmmmmm Maybe you could be a spinning, smearing artist.
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
If I called you what you really are it would not be fit for this forum.Making fun of someone's weight is not beneath you. Why stop now?
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:41:35 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Kil-lin' is my bid-ness, lay dees. And bid-ness is goooood.)
To: TLBSHOW
May 1, 2004..... Pizza and Fox News.
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posted on
05/14/2003 8:41:38 PM PDT
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deport
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