Shields and Gigot on the 2000 presidential candidates. Shields and Gigot on gun control and election 2000. Shields and Gigot on the Democratic Party campaign finance investigation. Some analysis of the House vote and other matters political now by Shields and Gigot, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot. Mark, this was a unlikely coalition.
Gun control remains on the table.
They didn't want anything coming out of the House, Jim. They wanted to keep the issue alive. With no bill. With no bill, and the idea being at some point the Senate Democrats will try to put an appropriations bill, to send it over to the House, to force the House to deal with it again. All right, then Paul, explain the Republicans' opposition to it.