The Nation - News from March 21, 1986
House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) postponed debate until April 9 on rival measures to change the 1968 Gun Control Act. Debate was to have started Thursday and continued today, to be immediately followed by final votes. Chris Matthews, O’Neill’s press spokesman, said the decision was made because “there was too much of a load on the calendar this week.”
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