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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Bush is a traitor:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/845727/posts?page=72#72
Bush is in bed with terrorists:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/845727/posts?page=72#72
Bush is a U.N. Man
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/861516/posts?page=14#14
Bush is a liberal:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/824939/posts?page=13#13
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899493/posts?page=49#49
Bush is a fake president and like Clinton:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/824910/posts?page=15#15
Bush is liberal Republican advancing a commie rat agenda:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/810176/posts?page=162#162
anti-Constitution
anti-family
gun grabber:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899493/posts?page=48#48
I'm surprised at you; I thought you limited yourself to snotty remarks, not out and out lies.
Actually this debate goes wayback. People have been calling Todd on his cut and paste jobs. When Todd gets in a jam, Ol Freddy comes onto the thread and starts throwing around the misonygistic insults. It goes down hill from there.
Like I have said before this goes wayback and from what I have seen and read, it is Todd and Fred who have created the bad blood.
Why don't we just let everybody SEE the actual thread for themselves and they can decide exactly what you meant.
And let's be sure they all know that your original title, which was edited by the AM, said "--->>>>> (We learn a sad truth here)<<<<<-------------"
I hope they don't miss #72~
One more time for all the dolts out there: I do NOT need somebody ELSE to tell me WHAT TO THINK like you do.
Um.......yeah. I've seen a lot of that substance demonstrated here tonight.
Well, it's good that most well-read people know that you're a dipstick.
Fred, you know I have ALWAYS been registered to vote. I explained it to your personally.
Now, I have to wonder why, when you have been given the truth, you continue to perpetuate that lie?
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