NATION : Journalists Rebuke Jack Anderson
WASHINGTON — Congressional journalists today reprimanded newspaper columnist Jack Anderson for carrying a handgun into the Capitol in violation of security rules.
Anderson pulled the handgun and a bullet from his pocket during an interview with Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas on May 24. Anderson told Dole he wanted to show the ease with which plastic guns can be brought into government buildings. The weapon was a plastic gun containing metal parts in the barrel, spring and firing mechanism.
Dole and Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell of Maine had asked the committee, as the body which grants credentials to press covering Congress, to act on the Anderson issue. Committee Chairman Jeff Birnbaum of the Wall Street Journal said the five-member panel adopted rules so that any future violation of security rules by any member of the press would result in suspension of congressional press credentials.
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