The NRA worked to defeat members of Congress who voted for the original ban.
The campaign against California's greenhouse gas law comes as business groups have invested heavily across the country in trying to defeat members of Congress who voted for a cap-and-trade bill that also mandated emission reductions; the bill passed the House but failed in the Senate in the face of strong opposition from lawmakers in industrial states.
David Keating, executive director of the Club for Growth, a Washington group that works to defeat members of Congress who resist deep tax cuts, said the disparity in benefits within the top 1percentt was evidence that the alternative minimum tax should be overhauled or abolished.
He sounds like he hasn't lost his competitive spirit when he talks of his hope to "raise an army of money and people" to defeat members of Congress who don't support his proposals.
Mr. Richardson, 61, is the third defeated member of the Democratic presidential field to join the nascent administration, after Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, selected for secretary of state.
— letter to Nancy Pelosi from "Defeated Members" "You know, sometimes in this business it's difficult to know when to move on".
In the House, many of the defeated members lost their seats after their districts were redrawn to favor Republicans, or at least make winning more difficult for Democrats.
As a result, defeated members of Congress are arriving to cast their last votes and clear out their offices while their triumphant opponents are attending orientation sessions and celebrations.
(Mr. Armey, as a retiring lame duck himself, hates the term "lame duck session" and prefers the old-fashioned "rump session". But that phrase has English historical overtones that imply illegitimacy. Whatever one may think of Congressional work habits, it is perfectly legal for defeated members to cast votes until the next batch of partisans is sworn in).
"Absolutely, it will certainly be directed towards electoral work, electing and defeating members based on their positions on gun safety," she said.
