Bayh, Birch

Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana proposes a hill that would prohibit the manufacture and sale of nonsporting handguns. It passes in the Senate but dies in the House. A similar bill will be passed by the Senate in 1974. 

Birch Bayh, Democratic senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. With Republican senator Robert Dole, he cosponsored the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 or the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act, which gave universities and small businesses ownership of patents resulting from projects funded by the federal government. The major drug companies benefited as well They can license new drugs from the universities and small businesses that discovered them. 

For years, the NRA, with about a million members, has effectively stopped every restrictive gun law dummies like Ted Kennedy and Birch Bayh have tried to put through Congress. And the NRA s mailings aren t monitored. 

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