CONGRESS REINTRODUCES BRADY GUN-CONTROL BILL

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, February 23, 1993                   TAG: 9302230137
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
CONGRESS REINTRODUCES BRADY GUN-CONTROL BILL
Congressional advocates of legislation to require a waiting period for handgun purchases dusted off and reintroduced the measure Monday, guardedly optimistic that President Clinton's support will overcome obstacles that doomed the bill for the last six years.
The bill, named for former White House press secretary James Brady, who was seriously wounded in an attack on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was approved by both houses of Congress last year but died in the Senate in a partisan crossfire over anti-crime legislation to which it had been attached.
President Bush had said he would sign the bill only as part of broader anti-crime legislation. But Clinton supported the measure without qualification during his campaign and listed the Brady measure among his legislative goals in his State of the Union message last week, saying, "If you pass the Brady bill, I'll sure sign it."

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB