Columbia
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:05 PM
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S.1805 is dead in the Senate |
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Overwhelmingly voted down just now.
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:07 PM
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....to identify it by name rather than just by number.
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:09 PM
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2. Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act |
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Killed by poison-pill amendments.
So much for that.
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:10 PM
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I figured that anyone who hangs out down here would already know what it was.
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:13 PM
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4. CNN: NRA told pro-gun senators to vote no |
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Apparently, the NRA called up the pro-gun senators and said they should vote against the final bill because it contained the assault weapons ban and other amendments.
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:17 PM
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9. Good riddance to one of the worst bills in living memory |
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As the scummy thugs themselves said: " A single judgement by a rogue judge or jury could wipe out the entire firearms industry making our gun rights worthless." http://www.nraila.org/CurrentLegislation/Read.aspx?ID=984That's certainly the sound an honest industry makes.
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:22 PM
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10. Don't count your chickens before they hatch |
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HR 1036 is still alive.
:evilgrin:
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:28 PM
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I am the NRA, and I did indeed fax and call both of my senators this morning and urged them to support S.1805 but only in a "clean" form, meaning with no ammendments.
I don't know how my senators voted yet, but I'm glad to see that the bill was killed once polluted.
Stoker
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:43 PM
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14. Proof Once Again..... |
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...that the NRA says "Jump", and the brain-dead Republicans ask "How high?"
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NewJerseyDem
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:14 PM
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5. Now official-- it loses 8 to 90 (n/t) |
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:14 PM
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6. And the Assault Weapons Ban dies with it!!! |
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194 days and counting until it expires!!!
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:36 PM
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Both bills in the House and Senate are alive and well....
And it's going to be even tougher now to keep them bottled up in committee....
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:15 PM
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Did the Repubs innoculate themselves against criticism by putting poison pills in the bill...or, more likely vote with the Democrats just enough to get the poison pills in? When I worked in legislative service years ago the technique was called "having a vote in each pocket".
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:17 PM
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8. I think you hit it on the nose |
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Having a vote in each pocket indeed.
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Tue Mar-02-04 04:30 PM
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I'm just not that sure that it is possible to do that in the U.S. senate. I really don't think that most of these senators are going to vote a certain way because somebody told them to do it (Well, if they donated some money, maybe, but not anyone else). Particularly, senators like Richard Lugar, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are rarely very controllable by the leadership and I doubt they were this time. If this was the House of Representatives, it might be a different case.
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