Bartholomew Roberts
Member
In an attempt to win a close re-election in South Dakota this year, Daschle signed on to the S.1805 amendment late to bolster his "pro-gun" creds with the voters
Besides voting for the AWB renewal and several other poison pills to the amendment that Daschle co-sponsored with Craig, Daschle also apparently shafted Craig on a previous deal concerning conferees according to the Washington Times:
"He said the lack of commitment from Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, to assign conferees and the fact that the House leadership has said it would not send a bill muddled with amendments to the president were his reasons."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040302-113415-1251r.htm
You see, as Senate Minority Leader, Daschle would have appointed all the Senate Democratic members to the conference committee. This is probably why NRA was so confident the bill could be cleaned up in conference - they thought they had commitments from 3 of the 4 people who would be assigning members.
Instead it seems that members of his own party applied heat to Daschle and he folded, declining to commit to certain members being on the conference committee. Lacking Daschle's commitment, Craig says he decided to pull the bill.
Daschle wanted credit for S.1805 to win over South Dakota gun owners. Let's make sure he gets ALL the credit he deserves on S.1805
Besides voting for the AWB renewal and several other poison pills to the amendment that Daschle co-sponsored with Craig, Daschle also apparently shafted Craig on a previous deal concerning conferees according to the Washington Times:
"He said the lack of commitment from Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, to assign conferees and the fact that the House leadership has said it would not send a bill muddled with amendments to the president were his reasons."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040302-113415-1251r.htm
You see, as Senate Minority Leader, Daschle would have appointed all the Senate Democratic members to the conference committee. This is probably why NRA was so confident the bill could be cleaned up in conference - they thought they had commitments from 3 of the 4 people who would be assigning members.
Instead it seems that members of his own party applied heat to Daschle and he folded, declining to commit to certain members being on the conference committee. Lacking Daschle's commitment, Craig says he decided to pull the bill.
Daschle wanted credit for S.1805 to win over South Dakota gun owners. Let's make sure he gets ALL the credit he deserves on S.1805
