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PA Bill Number: HB335

Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.

Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...

Last Action: Removed from table

Last Action Date: May 1, 2024

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Trump touts his 'beautiful' wall :: 08/20/2015

Donald Trump took part in a New Hampshire political tradition Wednesday, holding a town hall on the same night one of his top rivals was holding court with voters in a nearby town.

Trump, speaking with voters in Derry, N.H., at around the same time former Florida governor Jeb Bush held a town hall in Merrimack, told one voter who asked about his “hubris” that “it takes guts to run for president.”

In a lengthy answer that also touched on the centerpiece of his campaign — his plan to end illegal immigration — the billionaire real estate developer said he would “build the greatest wall that you’ve ever seen.”

And rest assured, it won’t be an eye sore, Trump assured the crowd. “If they call it the Trump Wall, it has to be beautiful,” he said. He also touched on gun rights, saying, “I’m a big Second Amendment person…. Big.”

Another member of the audience expressed concern that his website only had one detailed policy position, his immigration plan. Could he offer any other specific proposals?

“We’re going to do a lot of policy positions,” he said, but added that it was important to have “flexibility.”

He later signed an audience member’s copy of The Art of the Deal, suggesting that President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry read it “quickly.”

Meanwhile, Bush at his voter forum —  Trump joked attendees at that event were “sleeping now” — called Trump “the current front-runner” and said “he’s done a pretty amazing job to get to that point.” Bush added, though, that “Mr. Trump doesn’t have a proven conservative record.”

“He was for a single-payer system for health care until very recently — not a very conservative point of view,” Bush said. He also criticized the cost of Trump’s immigration proposal.

In the RealClearPolitics rolling average of New Hampshire GOP polls, Trump holds the top spot, ahead of Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Earlier at a news conference that served as an opening act, Trump opened his attack on Bush and slammed Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee who lost to President Obama.

“I don’t see how he’s electable,” Trump said of Bush. Trump, as he has previously, called Bush’s comment that Iraqis want to know the United States has “skin in the game” in the fight against the Islamic State “one of the dumber things I’ve heard ever in politics.”

As for Romney, “he failed, he choked,” Trump said, likening him to a golfer who missed a putt on the 18th green.

And in case you had any misunderstanding about Trump’s intentions, he sought to put that to rest.

“I’m not going anywhere.”

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/20/trump-touts-his-beautiful-wall/32038095/