CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: President Clinton holds a White House meeting today, hoping to move stalled gun-control legislation through Congress. CNN White House correspondent Kelly Wallace has a preview. Kelly, it sounds like a big challenge.</s>KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right, Carol. Just about a week ago, President Clinton met in the Oval Office with the key congressional leaders charged with trying to work out a compromise on a gun-control bill. And today, the president will renew his call for those leaders, members of a so-called "conference committee," to get together to hash out differences between House and Senate bills passed about eight months ago. Joining the president at today's White House event, about 25 members of Congress, including Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California, who, later today, will introduce a motion on the House floor, in effect calling for a meeting of the conference committee by a certain date. Now, this motion is non-binding, meaning it doesn't require Congress to do anything, but if it is passed, it would express the will of the House that there should be a meeting of the conference committee. Now, the National Rifle Association is sending out fliers to lawmakers urging them not to support the Lofgren motion, saying there is no reason to force a deadline for a meeting or a deadline to resolve this issue. The big sticking point continues to be whether there should be a waiting period and how long it should be to carry out background checks for purchases at gun shows. Kelly Wallace, CNN, reporting live at the White House.
President Clinton to Renew Call for Gun-Control Legislation