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...control a House Republican aide called "too complicated for Kafka." To let the issue cool, House G.O.P. leaders have put off debate until the middle of June in the hopes that lobbying by the N.R.A. and the passage of time will make it easier to enact less stringent legislation. Speaker Dennis Hastert has expressed a willingness to tighten gun laws: increasing the purchase age from 18 to 21 and requiring background checks for all sales at gun shows. But Democrats fear majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay will work to declaw any final legislation. So Democrats have...
...bill would close a major loophole which had allowed juveniles to buy the weapons used in the Littleton shooting. Unfortunately, the G.O.P. measure was not as stringent as the one proposed a day earlier by the Democrats. But it was better than nothing coming from a party which had previously done little more than pay lip service to gun control. The measure is now tied up in the House, where Speaker Dennis J. Hastert (R-III.) has delayed a vote. Hopefully, House Republican efforts to water-down the bill will fail when Hastert allows it to come to a vote...
After the fiasco in the Senate, House Republicans are fully aware that they need to pass a full-fledged measure on gun control, reports TIME Congressional correspondent Jay Carney. At the same time they do not want to unduly antagonize those in core constituencies who object to stringent gun curbs. "Many Congress-watchers believe House leaders are trying to concede while saving face," says Carney, "Republicans do not want to appear as if they are being railroaded by Democrats." The risk is that they may give their opponents still more ammunition. "The vote to put off the measure gives Democrats...
...these tactics have achieved results in many places--for instance, the University of Wisconsin's president approved what some call the most stringent sweat-shop controls in the country after a 97-hour student...
...trial, and thereby "turn himself from smut peddler to First Amendment statesman," says Stein. But Flynt may not get his chance. "The prosecutors in this case were smart," says Stein. "They sent underage kids to buy the porn." And the laws on protecting youngsters are especially stringent -- and difficult to overturn on appeal. Flynt may therefore never get to attack the local standards issue. But if he doesn?t, the challenge is likely to come from somewhere else -- and in this age of cyberspace, sooner rather than later...