I thought the NPR interview would come back to haunt us. When will they learn to quit talking out of both sides of their mouth. To come out and say it would pass in the house but there is no sense in bringing it up cause the Senate defeated it is just plain stupid. It's time Hastert retired.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...public+on+status+of+assault-weapons+ban,+crit
Hastert misled public on status of assault-weapons ban, critics charge
By KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
08/05/2004
He said Senate
had rejected extension,
when it hadn't
WASHINGTON - Less than six weeks before the federal assault-weapons ban expires, some supporters of an extension charged House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday with misleading the country after he said the Senate had already defeated it.
The Senate voted 52-47 on March 2 in support of an amendment extending the ban. But the National Rifle Association then pressured Senate Republican leaders to kill the gunmaker-liability legislation that contained the amendment. The ban, passed in 1994, expires Sept. 13. President George W. Bush has said he would sign an extension.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ban's main sponsor, has been pressing House Republican leaders to hold a vote on an extension. But Hastert's press secretary, John Feehery, said Wednesday that a vote "doesn't look likely right now."
In an interview with National Public Radio broadcast Wednesday, Hastert, R-Ill., said the extension "might have a chance" to pass in the House, but "there's no promise we can get it out of the Senate because the Senate has defeated it already."
Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, issued a statement calling Hastert's remarks "highly misleading."
Feehery said Hastert was correct in saying the bill that contained the assault weapons extension was defeated in the Senate.
Feinstein wrote a letter to Hastert on Wednesday noting that the Senate "is on the record voting in favor of an extension."
In an interview, Feinstein said she seized on Hastert's comment that an extension might be able to pass the House to call on him to hold a vote.
"The fate of this bill clearly rests with Speaker Hastert and the president of the United States," she said. "It is doable, and I think everybody knows that."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...public+on+status+of+assault-weapons+ban,+crit
Hastert misled public on status of assault-weapons ban, critics charge
By KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
08/05/2004
He said Senate
had rejected extension,
when it hadn't
WASHINGTON - Less than six weeks before the federal assault-weapons ban expires, some supporters of an extension charged House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday with misleading the country after he said the Senate had already defeated it.
The Senate voted 52-47 on March 2 in support of an amendment extending the ban. But the National Rifle Association then pressured Senate Republican leaders to kill the gunmaker-liability legislation that contained the amendment. The ban, passed in 1994, expires Sept. 13. President George W. Bush has said he would sign an extension.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ban's main sponsor, has been pressing House Republican leaders to hold a vote on an extension. But Hastert's press secretary, John Feehery, said Wednesday that a vote "doesn't look likely right now."
In an interview with National Public Radio broadcast Wednesday, Hastert, R-Ill., said the extension "might have a chance" to pass in the House, but "there's no promise we can get it out of the Senate because the Senate has defeated it already."
Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, issued a statement calling Hastert's remarks "highly misleading."
Feehery said Hastert was correct in saying the bill that contained the assault weapons extension was defeated in the Senate.
Feinstein wrote a letter to Hastert on Wednesday noting that the Senate "is on the record voting in favor of an extension."
In an interview, Feinstein said she seized on Hastert's comment that an extension might be able to pass the House to call on him to hold a vote.
"The fate of this bill clearly rests with Speaker Hastert and the president of the United States," she said. "It is doable, and I think everybody knows that."
