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...cocked at next year's presidential race, Senate majority leader Robert Dole pledged last week to undo the assault-weapons ban by this summer. So far this year, three states (Virginia, Arkansas and Utah) have joined the four states that loosened restrictions on CCW (carrying concealed weapons) permits last year. Legislation is pending or awaiting gubernatorial signature in 16 states. In Texas last Wednesday the state senate passed a CCW liberalization measure by a vote of 23 to 7. And soon John Wesley Anderson's permit forms in Colorado may be outmoded: this week the Denver legislature plans to consider...
...series of votes, House members modified theGOP's welfare reform billto increase funding for child care and permit some ill and disabled immigrants to continue to receive welfare benefits. Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) said her amendment would add $150 million a year to the $1.94 billion for child care, but Democrats called it a drop in the bucket. Quoting former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), paraphrasing former Texas governor Ann Richards said: "You can put lipstick on a sow and call it Monique but it's still...
Members of the veterans group have said theywould permit homosexuals to march in the parade,if not for the manner in which the groups would belikely to express their message...
...swaggering in its self-confidence. In her autobiographical first book, No Disrespect, she declares, instructs and makes no excuses for where she has been and who she is. Beginning with her childhood in the projects, she sketches her life, keeping the "essence as true as human memory will permit...
...talking points binding no one, it was contentious enough to require four years of negotiation. London and Dublin each surrendered some bedrock from their historic stands. The Irish government will move to amend the articles in its constitution that claim jurisdiction over Ulster. Britain will rewrite its laws to permit Northern Ireland's voters to decide whether to remain with Britain or join the Republic of Ireland...