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Subject: Re: Clinton Hints at Gun
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From: cbur...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher J Burian)
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r...@athena.mit.edu (0000-Admin(0000)) writes:

]In article <feustelCGrJn0....@netcom.com> feus...@netcom.com (David Feustel)
writes:
]>I just heard on the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHOur that Rolling Stone will be
]>publishing an interview with President Clinton in which Clinton
]>hints that if the Brady Bill doesn't reduce crime that he would
]>consider banning guns.

]So when does he plan to dismiss Congress?  The President can't pass laws
]by himself.

Under national emergency, the President can issue any Executive Order he
likes, which becomes law without the consent of Congress.  Congress may
not even review his actions under E.O. for six months.

We've been under perpetual national emergencies since 1935.

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