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With the Brady Bill soon to be law, the next major gun-control battle is likely to be over the rules for licensing gun dealers, which Schumer's bill would tighten. In August, President Clinton called for a review of these lax federal procedures, which currently provide a one-year dealer's license for a $10 fee -- going to $200 under the Brady Bill -- to anyone over 21 who has a fixed address and no criminal record. That entitles the holder to order an unlimited number of guns from wholesalers. Today there are more than 287,000 federally licensed dealers...
...someone else's expense. However, despite the legislative long balls hit over the past season, Capitol Hill's 535 members were unable to master one essential stroke: reforming the rules for their own behavior. True, both the House and Senate gave the appearance of movement on laws designed to tighten campaign financing and lobbying regulations. But both bodies moved so late and in such contradictory directions that any reconciliation they are able to fashion next year would still not apply to 1994 elections...
With pressure rising to do something about immigration, Clinton felt he had to get out and lead -- if for no other reason than to head off draconian legislative proposals already in the works. The President put forward measures last July to tighten screening of potential immigrants abroad, speed deportations of phony asylum seekers and add 600 officers to the border patrol. "We will not," he declared, "surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice...
...from the other divisions. For the future, one possibility is a multichannel MTV with a nonmusic news station. Whether that ever reaches TV screens, the world's vidkids are already taking on a shared sensibility about the world that is likely to intensify the generation gap at home and tighten the bonds of the global village in the future...
...require customers to sign a statement that they understand that mutual funds are not insured, thereby lending the force of law to federal guidelines already on the books. Representative Edward Markey, who chairs the finance panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is preparing a bill to tighten standards on mutual-fund management and advertising. "Mutual funds are a lot like the Philadelphia Phillies," Markey says. "Great organization, great starting pitching, superb hitting, but they need to address a few shortcomings in order to be perfect...