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December 20, 2012

Obama Vows to Push for Gun Control "Without Delay" 
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At the White House, President Obama formally announced Wednesday the
appointment of Joe Biden to head a new White House-led effort to reform
gun control policies, to be outlined in the annual State of the Union
address next month.

President Obama: "I asked the vice president to lead an effort that
includes members of my cabinet and outside organizations to come up with
a set of concrete proposals no later than January, proposals that I then
intend to push without delay. This is not some Washington commission.
This is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for
six months and publishing a report that gets read and then pushed aside.
This is a team that has a very specific task: to pull together real
reforms right now."

 

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