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Senate Gun Bill Conferees Appointed
Source: nealknox.com
Published: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:27:18 -0400 Author: Neal Knox
July 28 update -- The Senate this morning slapped down Sen. Bob
Smith’s (I- N.H.) plea to uphold the Second Amendment, ended his
filibuster on substituting the gun-provision-laden Senate
Juvenile Justice bill for the gun-free House version, and
appointed conferees who support the bill.
The vote to shut off debate passed 77-22; 25 had originally voted
against the bill, so gunowners lost ground. With the result of
the rest of Majority Leader Trent Lott’s motion to send the bill
to conference a foregone conclusion, Sen. Smith allowed it to
pass by unanimous consent.
The Senate conferees are Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Strom
Thurmond (R- S.C.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Patrick Leahy
(D-Vt.), and Edward Kennedy (D- Mass.). All of them voted for
final passage S. 254, the Senate bill, though some had voted the
NRA position on most of the gun provisions.
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) stood with Sen. Smith during a
hour-long discussion of the merits of the House and Senate bills,
but in a quirk of the Senate rules, the debate occurred after the
vote.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who advocated rapid acceptance
of the Senate bill “before the students of Columbine return to
school in August,” called for the conference committee to restore
her ban on imports of all over- 10-round magazines.
The House Parliamentarian had declared the Senate-approved
magazine ban affected customs revenue, and therefore in violation
of the Constitutional requirement that all revenue measures
originate in the House. The House had concurred and sent S. 254
back to the Senate for correction. That provision was left out of
today’s Senate substitute for the House bill.
However, there is no question that the magazine ban will be in
the Conference version for the same provision passed the House by
voice vote, and passed the Senate 59-39. Sen. Feinstein said both
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R- Ill.) and Judiciary Chairman Henry
Hyde (R-Ill.), who sponsored it in the House and will certainly
be among House conferees, had pledged their support.
While Speaker Hastert has proposed that other gun provisions
which passed both houses by wide margins also be included such
as the requirement to sell a trigger lock with every handgun, and
the bans on sales and possession of certains guns by juveniles.
The Speaker has also proposed that there be a compromise between
the House-approved Dingell gun show amendment, which would give
the FBI up to 24 hours for an “instant check” and the
Senate-passed Lautenberg amendment, which would allow up to three
business days.
President Clinton has huffed that if the present gun laws are
weakened, as he says the Dingell amendment would do, that he
would veto whatever comes out of conference.
Odds are, as I wrote back in May, the final bill won’t include
any gun show provision. The Democrats want to use background
checks at gun shows as a campaign club against Republicans
although most Republicans and NRA have endorsed such checks.
Sen. Smith made a passionate speech pleading with Senators to
uphold the Constitution, including the Second Amendment. It fell
on deaf ears.
He said he was disappointed by his supposedly conservative,
supposedly pro-gun colleagues. So was I, and so were their
gun-owning constituents.
Neal Knox is one of America's leading proponents concerning the
Second Amendment right, often called RKBA, (Right to Keep and
Bear Arms).
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