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http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=1999&rollnumber=234 Final Vote Results for Roll Call 234 FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 234 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)       H R 2122     RECORDED VOTE     18-JUN-1999   12:02 AM       AUTHOR(S): Dingell of Michigan Amendment       QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment AYESNOESPRESNV REPUBLICAN17347 3 DEMOCRATIC45163 3 INDEPENDENT 1   TOTALS218211 6 --- AYES    218 --- AderholtGossPease ArcherGrahamPeterson (PA) ArmeyGrangerPetri BachusGreen (TX)Phelps BakerGreen (WI)Pickering BallengerGutknechtPickett BarciaHall (TX)Pitts BarrHansenPombo Barrett (NE)HastertPortman BartlettHastings (WA)Radanovich BartonHayesRahall BassHayworthReyes BiggertHefleyReynolds BilirakisHergerRiley BishopHill (IN)Rodriguez BlileyHill (MT)Rogers BluntHillearyRohrabacher BoehnerHilliardRoyce BonillaHobsonRyan (WI) BoswellHoekstraRyun (KS) BoucherHoldenSandlin BoydHostettlerSanford Brady (TX)HulshofSaxton BryantHunterSchaffer BurrHutchinsonSensenbrenner BurtonIsaksonSessions BuyerIstookShadegg CallahanJenkinsSherwood CalvertJohnShimkus CampJohnson, SamShows CanadyJones (NC)Shuster CannonKanjorskiSimpson ChabotKasichSisisky ChamblissKingstonSkeen ChenowethKnollenbergSkelton ClementKolbeSmith (MI) CobleLaHoodSmith (TX) ...

WASHINGTON--Handing a victory to the gun lobby, the House early today voted to substantially water down proposed new regulations on the gun shows, where hundreds of thousands of Americans shop for firearms. The House proposal, approved on a vote of 218 to 211, requires background checks for all gun show purchasers, including those who buy firearms from unlicensed dealers. Currently, such transactions do not require background checks, which are designed to prevent felons from buying guns. But the measure also would allow significantly less time, 24 hours, for the screenings than law enforcement officials say is needed to keep ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The first of five Marines to be court-martialed for refusing to take the anthrax vaccine was convicted by a military judge of disobeying a lawful order. Lance Cpl. Jared Schwartz, 20, of Henderson, Ky., was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in the brig and given a bad conduct discharge. He plans to appeal. ``This case is bigger than just myself,'' Schwartz said in a statement he read in court at the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. ``I stand here today representing every member of the service who wishes to challenge the anthrax vaccine ...

For information and discussion only. Not for commercial use. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - U.S. warplanes bombed an Iraqi radar facility today after being fired upon by Iraqi forces in the northern no-fly zone, the U.S. military announced. U.S. Air Force F-16s and F-15s bombed the radar site, east of the city of Mosul, about 250 miles north of Baghdad, the Germany-based U.S. European Command said in a statement released on the Internet. All planes, based in southern Turkey, left the area safely and damage to the Iraqi sites was being assessed, the statement said. After the 1991 Gulf War, ...

Posted at 02:54 a.m. PDT; Thursday, June 17, 1999 Inside Politics (good information here on where and when Gore will be available for freeping.) "State's votes matter to Gore by Seattle Times staff When Al Gore arrives in Seattle tomorrow, it will mark his eighth visit here since he and President Clinton won re-election in 1996. This time, he's here to announce that he's running for president. OK, so before coming here, Gore will have made this same announcement in Tennessee, Iowa, New Hampshire, New York and California. But clearly he thinks Washington is important to his election bid, ...

Democratic Party operatives, worried by Texas Gov. George W. Bush's smooth start and high standing in the polls, are hoping that GOP rivals "will slash up Bush for them -- that millionaire Steve Forbes will buy tons of attack ads to trash Bush, just as Forbes trashed, and burned, Bob Dole in 1996," writes the New York Post's Deborah Orin. "A key date to watch: June 30, when the next fund-raising reports are due. Rumor says Bush will report raising a record $20 million and may top Gore. Republican rivals may feel it's now or never to go after ...

The Chinese government has rejected the claims by the United States that the bombing of their embassy in Yugoslavia was a mistake. Do you believe the bombing was just an accident? Vote

Clinton Outraged At 'Dead Of Night' Gun Vote By Steve Holland COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - President Clinton Friday damned the House of Representatives' passage of watered-down gun control legislation a ``great victory'' for the National Rifle Association lobby and a defeat for the American people. The Republican-controlled House voted 218-211 early Friday in Washington for a plan to require only 24 hours for background checks of buyers at gun shows. Forty-five Democrats and 47 Republicans crossed party lines in their votes. Clinton had backed a plan to require three days for background checks, which the Senate had approved 51-50 in ...

ROME, June 18 (UPI) - The Italian Parliament, looking for ways to speed up justice in the courts, has declared offenses such as bouncing a check, fighting a duel and stealing farm animals are no longer crimes. The Rome daily, Il Messaggero, reports (Friday) the action by the Parliament (Thursday) even includes removal from the category of crime the use of insults to describe public officials. not for commercial use

COLOGNE, Germany, June 18 (UPI) - President Clinton said Japan's slowly improving economy is "very good news...it's good for the world." Before a private meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, Clinton told reporters, he said, "I am thrilled at their economic progress in the last quarter and I hope they will be able to keep going. " The two leaders met prior to the weekend's G-7 economic summit in Cologne, Germany. not for commercial use

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Is a "good" Journalist today Required to Report Bill Clinton is a GOOD leader? "Many burial sites have been found," the fresh faced young spokesman with a British accent for one of the military groups said at the press conference. "But, bear in mind, there has been a war going on here." And, so we have people like Christiane Amanpour announcing what has taken place as an ethnic Albanian returns to the remains of his home, finding, he says, that 26 of his cousins have been killed and the home destroyed. ...

They're both out of the box, with no surprises. Not a bad week. Both men set out to establish clearly who they were not. Establishing who they are comes later. There's plenty of time. George W. Bush -- ol' "Dubya" to his Texas friends -- looked at ease with himself, friendly and flirtatious, even, in a harmless way. Albert Gore -- ol' "Al" to his Washington friends and "young Albert" to Tennessee old-timers -- looked at ease, sort of; friendly and eager to please. Very lifelike, you might say. "Dubya" wanted to reassure the party pros who are staking ...

(CNS) – As of Tuesday, June 22, 1999, the average American will have earned enough money for the year to pay their individual share of the cost of government plus the cost of its bureaucratic regulations, according to the government watchdog group Americans for Tax Reform. In the past three years, the federal government alone has invented nearly 13,000 rules and regulations, the costs of which are incurred by American taxpayers. "The U.S. General Accounting Office has reported that between April 1, 1996 and March 31, 1999, the federal government issued more than 12,925 new regulatory rules. Of these, 188 ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on last Sunday's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLYBe sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

YU CUN, China (AP) - Up stone steps from the river bank, down a flagstone path through a village with no roads is the one-room shop President Clinton visited on his China trip last year. Eleven color photos of Clinton's tour hang on the walls, near a wooden abacus Clinton tried out. Next door at the house of the shop owner's brother, another photo of Clinton with villagers hangs on a wooden wall decorated with a poster of revolutionary Mao Tse-tung. Any leftover enthusiasm for Clinton's visit one year ago is a bit startling in China after a month ...

Is it just me, or is it hypocritical to help others around the world, but refuse to help at home? Canada is doing its part militarily, financially and politically to make a better life for the people of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. We have spent $500 million on the military operation and the tab to rebuild the province will be in the billions before it's through. We did this for several reasons: We are part of NATO and lived up to our promises, but we also answered to a higher imperative because we are a humane, moral people. ...

This is about the 10,000 refugees who were beamed up in the middle of the night in Macedonia, I believe in early April. And the 10,000 who were discovered to have been tortured and killed just a day ago. If you have links to these articles they would be appreciated. I am assuming you all know about these events.

The House Thursday night narrowly passed a measure regulating sales of weapons at gun shows — written by a rebellious faction of Democrats — that could doom a larger gun control bill set to be voted on Friday. The House voted 218-211 to support a measure sponsored by the most senior Democrat in the House, Rep. John D. Dingell of Michigan. Forty-five Democrats joined 173 Republicans in the vote. The mildest of three gun-show proposals before the House, the approved measure limits to 24 hours the maximum amount of time gun buyers must wait for background checks. The strictest ...

China doesn't accept US explanation THE US explanation of the US-led NATO attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade is "unconvincing," and therefore the Chinese Government and people cannot accept the conclusion that the "bombing was a mistake." The remarks were made in Beijing yesterday by Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan during his meeting with US envoy, Undersecretary of State Thomas R. Pickering. On June 16 in Beijing, Pickering presented to the Chinese Government a US Government report on the results of its investigation into the US-led NATO's attack on the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ...

DEVIC, Yugoslavia, June 18 (AFP) - Separatist Kosovo guerrillas inflicted "psychological violence" on nine nuns and a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church they held captive in a convent here for two days, the convent's Mother Superior told AFP Friday. Mother Anastasia, the head of the 15th-century Devic convent 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, said 30 fighters from the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) seized the convent on Sunday, before French troops moved into the area. Church authorities alerted the French military controlling the northern zone, who sent advance troops to the site on Wednesday ...