Lawmakers Turn Down Columbine Panel
Committee Votes 7 - 2 Against Legislative Panel
POSTED: 10:43 a.m. MST March 7, 2002
UPDATED: 6:00 p.m. MST March 7, 2002
DENVER -- State lawmaker turned down a legislative panel to investigate the Columbine High
School massacre Thursday.
The House Judiciary Committee voted against the proposal 7 - 2.
The school is in Republican Representative Don Lee's district.
The Littleton representative would have chaired the commission.
Lee said the investigation would have cost taxpayers about $100,000.
Among other things, he wanted the panel to look into claims police
accidentally shot a student as he ran from the teenage gunmen.
Twelve students, a teacher and the gunmen died in the April 1999
shootings.
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