Word: dornan
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...this clause cut 99 per cent of all reimbursements (250,000-300,000 annually prior to the cut-off); this year "medically necessary" has been replaced by probable death of the mother. Military women are similarly restricted under the Dornan Amendment; the Young Amendment funds no abortions at all for Peace Corps women. Employers may refuse to include abortion coverage in their company health plan under the Beard Amendment. Fifteen states have called for a constitutional convention to introduce the prohibition of all abortions: 19 more would fulfill the requisite number...
Conservative Republicans were outraged. Snapped G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock: "A tragic error." Declared California Congressman Robert Dornan: "They're breaking out the vodka and caviar in Moscow." Republican House Leader John Rhodes of Arizona accused Carter of giving the House "a rather gratuitous slap in the face" by not announcing his decision prior to its vote on the B-1 funds. Only 48 hours before Carter dropped his bombshell, the House had beaten back, by a vote of 243 to 178, an amendment to delete from the defense budget $1.5 billion for production of five...
Robert K. Dornan, U.S. Representative 27th District, Calif. Washington...
...Americans who live in the zone continue to lobby hard in Congress to maintain the status quo. Last week nine Congressmen flew to Panama to talk to the Zonians. Two Representatives -Iowa Democrat Neal Smith and California Republican Robert Dornan -publicly expressed doubts that the Panamanians sincerely want a treaty...
...enterprise, University Centers for Rational Alternatives, which got started after the Columbia University student disorders of 1968 and is now gaining new support in the wake of Kent and Jackson State. It does not aim for a mass membership. But, says Washington's Catholic University Politics Professor James Dornan, "It's amazing what a few can accomplish-as the leftists have certainly proved...