Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, May 11, 1995                   TAG: 9505110116
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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IN CONGRESS

WASHINGTON - President Clinton sent Congress a bill Wednesday to reinstate a federal school-zone gun ban declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Clinton had announced his intention last week to recast the law to enable it to pass constitutional tests.

The court threw out the 1990 law on a 5-4 decision, ruling that Congress could not impose a gun ban at local schools unless it did so to regulate interstate commerce.

At Clinton's request, Attorney General Janet Reno added to the old law a requirement that prosecutors prove a gun found in or within 1,000 feet of any school has moved in interstate commerce.

- Associated Press

Panel douses arts

WASHINGTON - Conservative House Republicans bent on abolishing federal subsidies to the arts won a symbolic victory Wednesday as a House panel voted to phase out the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Senate is expected to keep both agencies alive and sufficiently funded. The subcommittee's goal was to put the issue before a conference committee and seek some cuts in arts allocations, a campaign issue.

- Associated Press