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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: Southflanknorthpawsis
Baghdad Bob, is that you?
601
posted on
05/14/2003 10:45:37 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Kil-lin' is my bid-ness, lay dees. And bid-ness is goooood.)
To: nunya bidness
You're not falling for the howling pity excuse, are you?
She's quite the manipulator. You, of all people, should watch and learn.
To: xbar
You'll have to ask Fred. He knows why I was marked inactive on the voting rolls.
And he keeps bringing it up.
And I sure as hell don't want people on here thinking I let my voter registration lapse on purpose. I've voted every year since -- well, I won't say......LOL.
603
posted on
05/14/2003 10:47:21 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(The Trojan Horse was a "gift," wasn't it?)
To: deport
Fast food traitor!
To: Howlin; All
I should have made the subject line to all. You're right.
605
posted on
05/14/2003 10:48:00 PM PDT
by
nunya bidness
(It's not an assault weapon, it's a Homeland Defense Rifle.)
To: Fred Mertz
Now Baghdad Bob is claiming it was pure luck, all those fat jokes, and Bob's never even met TLB! LOL. Anybody can click on a homepage, Bob.
606
posted on
05/14/2003 10:48:07 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Kil-lin' is my bid-ness, lay dees. And bid-ness is goooood.)
To: xbar
That's a good question.
To: TLBSHOW
Ah.... but come
May 1, 2004 You'll be behind him 100%.... making sure he is re-elected. You said so....
Will you have a pizza and Fox News?
608
posted on
05/14/2003 10:48:27 PM PDT
by
deport
To: Howlin
It's true you and Fred have met. Is he really a nice person as he said you are? All bs aside!
609
posted on
05/14/2003 10:48:34 PM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(the gift is to see the truth)
To: xdem
Well said and worth a BTTT.
610
posted on
05/14/2003 10:50:02 PM PDT
by
ApesForEvolution
("The only way evil triumphs is if good men do nothing" E. Burke)
To: TLBSHOW
Todd, you and I are NOT friends in any way, shape, or form.
I do NOT like you at all.
And I'll be damned if I'll discuss Fred with you.
611
posted on
05/14/2003 10:50:14 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(The Trojan Horse was a "gift," wasn't it?)
To: Fred Mertz
Bringing up someone's loss to make points in an online debate is reprehensible.
612
posted on
05/14/2003 10:50:15 PM PDT
by
nunya bidness
(It's not an assault weapon, it's a Homeland Defense Rifle.)
To: Sir Gawain
Gosh, that was so clever it almost made me forget that you dissed your own friend by assuming the picture was too close to reality.
Give it up, dude. You blew it and you can't delete here.
But since you brought it up, did you know your friend has an alias known by many freepers? He's also known as Tagbad Todd.
To: TLBSHOW
Fred's seems like a good guy from when I met him.
614
posted on
05/14/2003 10:51:06 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("It's the same ole story, same ole song and dance, my friend")
To: nunya bidness
STANDING OVATION, nunya!!!!!!!!!!!
615
posted on
05/14/2003 10:51:07 PM PDT
by
justshe
To: Howlin
I'll tell you here and now, you are a self-pitying person. I think your meds won't help, I seriously think you need professional counseling. I wish you the best.
To: Howlin
Tell me how you really feel...LOL
617
posted on
05/14/2003 10:52:09 PM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(the gift is to see the truth)
To: Sir Gawain
Now Baghdad Bob is claiming it was pure luck, all those fat jokes, and Bob's never even met TLB! LOL. Anybody can click on a homepage, Bob. Good grief, idiot. Do you love to pour salt in the wound or what? Are you so stupid that you don't even realize how unkind this is to your friend?
To: Dan from Michigan
Fred's seems like a good guy from when I met him
Thanks I gathered that already. Its howlin I am worried about?
619
posted on
05/14/2003 10:53:27 PM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(the gift is to see the truth)
To: justshe
I have seen Fred bring up this 'registration' issue multiple times....and I have seen Howlin explain it multiple times..... So have I and it's totally uncalled for
620
posted on
05/14/2003 10:53:42 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!)
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