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Meanwhile Reagan fulfilled a pledge from his 1980 presidential campaign and announced his support for a Senate bill of dubious constitutionality. Sponsored by Conservative Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the controversial proposal would permanently deny all federal financing for abortions and require the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1973...
He had vowed to keep talking "until the cows come home," and for five days Jesse Helms, along with a small cadre of other conservatives, did just that. The goal of the Republican Senator from North Carolina: to stall a vote on extending the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But with...
It was the night of Nov. 21, and in one hour the Government would go out of business if the necessary appropriation bill was not passed. In the Senate cloakroom, Majority Leader Howard Baker was trying to put together enough votes for a continuing resolution that would keep programs funded...
BUSING. This is one issue on which the New Right can attract votes from legislators who would not side with it on any other matters. But again the question is how best to stop it? Jesse Helms has introduced a rider-to the bill authorizing funds for the Department of...
That Mayfield's, in Athens, Tenn., is the world's best ice cream. That the absolute best ice cream in the universe, without argument (although the partisans who urge these passionate and contradictory views are happy to argue all night), is stirred and cranked and lovingly scooped by...