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...long time: it's safer to be a moving target. So it is that President Bush can win points with gun-control groups by sticking to his campaign promise to sign an extension on the assault-weapons ban when it expires next year, while House majority leader Tom DeLay can make the gun lobby happy by suggesting, as he did last week, that no such bill will ever reach Bush's desk. And Democrats can fuss and fume over how Bush and the Republicans are trying to have it both ways--while quietly breathing a sigh of relief at being...
...started two weeks ago, when House majority whip Tom DeLay came home to Texas to stir up trouble. DeLay saw a chance to boost the Republican majority in Congress by redrawing the congressional districts to give the Texas Republicans a 22-to-10 advantage. The Republicans drew some funny lines, like the ones dividing Austin into four districts, one of them connecting the capital to the border of Mexico 300 miles away. Though redistricting is usually done only after a Census, DeLay had a pretty good rationale for wanting one, since Republi-cans beat the daylights out of the Dems...
...rally and showed up at their jobs at 9. Though they were met with some boos from the gallery and a lot of female Republicans dressed in fighting G.O.P. red, the wayward Democrats did get some hugs from their colleagues across the aisle. While Tom DeLay may be disappointed that his power grab seems to have failed, he has got to be happy that he forced Democrats to bunk two to a room at an Oklahoma Holiday Inn. --Reported by Hilary Hylton/Ardmore
...right after finals when many students will have already departed for the summer. The University should work with the city to move the hearing to the fall so that the Council can present a balanced case. The University should still confront the city about its misguided decision, advocate to delay the city’s hearing and help broker a compromise so students can continue to party freely after...
Catalano said a delay in calling might endanger other residents of the House, prevent HUPD from getting complete information from witnesses or allow a suspect to continue in a developing pattern of crime...