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...Savonarola could not impose morality in the church-dominated Old World, why do the modern Savonarolas-Reagan, Helms, Hatch and Falwell-think they can do it in a society where church and state are separate...
...antiabortion forces hurt their own cause by bickering over which approach to take. Some favored a constitutional amendment, sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, that would give states and the Federal Government authority to outlaw abortion. The Hatch Amendment, if passed, would directly overturn a 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing the constitutional right to an abortion, but it would require approval by two-thirds of both chambers and three-fourths of the states. Others favored the more radical approach, proposed by Helms, of simply passing a law stating that "life," as protected by the Constitution, begins at conception...
Baker nevertheless began lining up his troops. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who was on the campaign trail with Reagan at the time, and Paul Laxalt of Nevada were hurriedly flown back to Washington on an Air Force jet. Interior Secretary James Watt was dispatched to Oregon to handle a speaking engagement for Malcolm Wallop so that the Wyoming Senator could return to the capital. Reagan called nearly 20 Senators...
...favorable Senate vote had been forged mainly by Utah's conservative Republican Orrin Hatch, Majority Leader Howard Baker and South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond. But an unexpected last-minute hitch developed when Colorado Republican William Armstrong proposed a requirement that the legal ceiling on the national debt could be lifted only by a three-fifths majority in each chamber of Congress. The requirement was tacked on to the amendment, thanks to the mischievous support of many Democrats. They viewed the Armstrong addition as yet another clearly frivolous requirement that should not be embedded in the Constitution. But they found...
...year, which exceeds the total of all federal spending 25 years ago. These numbers, they insist, prove that Congress and the White House cannot resist the pressures from special interests to squander the taxpayers' money unless a prohibition is written into the Constitution. Says Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, the amendment's chief sponsor...