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Mon Aug 12 16:54:08 +0000 2019

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Sam Stein @samstein

It was tucked into the crime bill and, for a while, it wasn’t considered all that controversial. But the legislative process kept grinding on and on and gun groups latched on to it. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2019 Hibernated

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For starters. It really almost never happened. Clinton wasn’t closely following the idea until Dianne Feinstein pressed him on it at a Dem retreat. Caught off guard, he committed himself to it. Later, in private, he lashed out at his staffers for not keeping him abreast of it — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2019 Hibernated

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At various points, Dem lawmakers tried desperately to get it out. Tom Foley pleaded with Clinton. Vic Fazio asked that it be considered as a stand alone. Dingell and others demanded the now infamous ten-year sunset. But the most interested move was by Jack Brooks — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2019 Hibernated

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