[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17205]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                WILL THE PRESIDENT KEEP HIS COMMITMENTS?

  (Mr. PASCRELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, every single law enforcement organization, 
including the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Sheriffs 
Association, supports our efforts, or lack of them, our efforts to 
continue the ban on assault weapons. Their only purpose is to kill or 
maim. The President made a commitment in his campaign in 2000. He said 
it. I did not. He said he would continue that ban, and now he is gone 
back on it.
  Now, Mayor Bloomberg of New York said something very interesting 2 
weeks ago. You folks are going up there for your convention. They had 
11 homicides 2 weekends ago. He stood in a press conference and said, 
there are too many weapons on the street.
  I say to Mayor Bloomberg, call your President, remind him of the 
commitment he made in the 2000 campaign, the presidential campaign, and 
make sure he keeps those commitments. We do not need another Columbine. 
We do not need another spraying of people who are innocently lost day 
in and day out. What we need is keeping our commitment. Will the 
President?

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