[El Gato]

And of course, note too that House Speaker Tom DeLay has promised that the extension of the ban which ends in the Fall of next year just before the election will never cross his desk, so that Bush will never be faced with the opportunity of signing it's extension.

Delay is not the Speaker of the House. Dennis Hastert of Illinois is. Delay is Majority Leader. Two days after Rep Delay said that, Speaker Hastert said he hadn't made up his mind yet, adding that he hadn't yet talked to the President or others in the leadership. The Speaker, not the Leader, has the power to make such decisions.

That said, the danger is not in the House, it's in the Senate. There the renewal, either the current Senate version or something worse, is likely to get attached to some other, "must pass", legisation. That technique pretty much bipasses even the Speaker's ability to kill it procedurally. The Senate and its Judiciary Committee are much less favorable to the RKBA than the house.

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Delay is not the Speaker of the House. Dennis Hastert of Illinois is. Delay is Majority Leader.

Just so. Correction noted, and thanks. I know better, but either overlooked the error in repeating a possibly incorrect report, which bothers me, or I just glitched it myself while tired and distracted, which is certainly possible. But I'll try to backtrack and check.

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