Word: bans
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...ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Schumer is a bad word to NRA lobbyists: he was a fierce sponsor of the assault-weapons ban and the Brady Bill, which mandates a five-day waiting period before buying a handgun. He also sponsored a law making it illegal to obstruct access to abortion clinics, a popular move in the liberal Ninth. By no means camera shy, Schumer may be setting himself up to bid for New York's governorship...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I believe I am both on the right side morally, and in finding a solution to our nation's crime problem, by supporting the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban...
...cousin and cousin's wife--endorsed his opponent. (Barby explained that his brother had long supported the G.O.P.) Barby wants to strengthen education and the rural economy, but he faces a battle on one issue: in this gun-toting district, he supports the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban...
...education mirrors that of the man who created the Pell grant--in fact, he worked with Pell to raise the maximum grant to $4,500. From his seat on the House Judiciary Committee, Reed supported the Brady Bill and President Clinton's crime bill, which included the assault-weapons ban. He began this campaign as a prohibitive favorite, and kept the mantle into the home stretch...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Americans knew about [the bill to repeal the assault-weapons ban]...We did not have to read the N.R.A. questionnaire to know about this bill. Families like mine all across this country know all too well what damage weapons...