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AYOTTE from page one Ayotte said she also co-sponsored two bipartisan bills to improve the mental health system by encouraging early intervention and broadening access to treatment while ensuring that mental health records reach the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). A former New Hampshire Attorney General, Ayotte stressed enforcing current law rather than enacting new laws. In particular, she said that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has failed to prosecute firearm offenses, noting that in 2010 only 62 of more than 49,000 attempts by felons and fugitives to purchase guns were referred for prosecution and only 13 individuals were convicted. From 2007 to 2011, Ayotte said, just 13 percent of all federal firearms offenses were prosecuted. In a presentation lasting more than half the hour allotted for the meeting, Ayotte addressed sequestration, the national debt, federal budget and health care as as well as proposed taxes on Internet sales and medical devices. In the time remaining she answered questions that New Hampshire State Senator and former Congressman Jeb Bradley of Wolfeboro selected from a batch submitted beforehand. None of the questions bore on gun control. However, under the guise of a question on mental health Peter Harmon raised the issue, saying “the elephant in the room here is gun control.” In reply, Ayotte turned the question back to improving the mental health system and enforcing the current laws. When Harmon pressed her Bradley intervened. “Okay, okay,” he said, meaning enough, enough.
“It’s not okay,” Harmon shot back. “She voted no.” “She answered your question, sir,” Bradley said, then, drawing from his cards, recognized a man with a question about the raid in Bengazi, the issue on which Ayotte has dogged the Obama Administration to fully explain the failure to secure the consulate and the lives of four Americans, including the ambassador to Libya . The man began by thanking Ayotte for her vote against universal background checks, prompting a round of thunderous applause. After Bradley closed the meeting, Connecticut resident Erica Lafferty, the daughter of Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School who was shot to death on December 14, rose from her seat to confront Ayotte. Earlier in the day, at a similar meeting in Warren, Lafferty asked Ayotte why she thought the burden on gun dealers of expanding background checks was greater than the burden of her mother being “gunned down in the halls of her elementary school.” In Tilton, Bradley firmly parried Lafferty’s approach. Afterwards Lafferty said that she met with Ayotte’s staff before the vote and with the senator after her vote and drove from her home yesterday to confront her again. “She clearly and publicly betrayed my mom,” she said. “I’ll be here until she, all of them or at least enough of them, do the right thing. It’s a run-around,” she continued. “I’m not going away. They’re going to be sick of me.” Lafferty said her next stop is Houston, Texas, where the 142nd convention of the National Rifle Association opens on Friday.
PILL from page 2 on whether it planned to appeal Korman’s decision, and the White House had no immediate comment. The women’s group that sued over the age limits said Tuesday’s action is not enough, and it will continue the court fight if necessary. Lowering the age limit “may reduce delays for some young women but it does nothing to address the significant barriers that far too many women of all ages will still find if they arrive at the drugstore without identification,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The FDA said the Plan B One-Step will be packaged with a product code that prompts the cashier to verify a customer’s age. Anyone who can’t provide such proof as a driver’s license, birth certificate or passport wouldn’t be allowed to complete the purchase. In most states, driver’s licenses, the most common form of identification, are issued at age 16. “These are daunting and sometimes insurmount-
able hoops women are forced to jump through in timesensitive circumstances, and we will continue our battle in court to remove these arbitrary restrictions on emergency contraception for all women,” Northup said. Other contraceptive contraception advocates called the move promising. “This decision is a step in the right direction for increased access to a product that is a safe and effective method of preventing unintended pregnancies,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. “It’s also a decision that moves us closer to these critical availability decisions being based on science, not politics.” Social conservatives had opposed any efforts to loosen restrictions on sale of the morning-after pill, arguing that it was important for parents and medical professionals to be involved in such decisions involving young girls. The group Concerned Women for America charged that health officials were putting politics and so-called progsee next page
from preceding page has spoken with members of the convention, both Republicans and Democrats, but insisted “there have been no private or secret meetings.” She said there have been no Republican causcuses since December, when she invited Republican members to meet at the Laconia Public Library. “No decisions have been taken in private,” she vowed. Explaining her decision to cancel the meeting,
Worsman repeated that the county administration failed to provide the convention with the information it requested in sufficient time to prepare themselves to consider the request for a supplemental appropriation. She said that members had a right to seek information and to expect the administration to provide it so they could make informed, responsible decisions. Worsman has not yet rescheduled the meeting.
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