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Many conservative Republican Senators added their endorsement. Utah's Orrin Hatch called it "a fine choice." Reagan's close friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, was enthusiastic, and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said he was "delighted by the nomination." But South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was a bit more restrained. "I intend to support her," he said, "unless something comes...
...other side of the Hill, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee also cut about $11 billion from social spending. But even this Republican-dominated committee could not swallow the idea of block grants. Though Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah strongly favored Reagan's approach, Republican Moderates Robert Stafford of Vermont and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut wanted to protect important categorical grants for health and education. The President talked with Hatch and Stafford by telephone from Camp David on Sunday to see if an accommodation could be reached. The following night, Hatch, Weicker, Stafford, Budget Director David Stockman, Health...
...going to have to grapple with a goon amid whirling airplane propellers-and then, bloodied and bushed, roar off on a spectacular chase. The great difference between Raiders and its humble progenitors is that one doesn't have to wait a week to find out where the escape hatch is hidden...
Another opponent of the law, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, would like to change the act so that the Justice Department could forbid a proposed local law only if it can prove there is an intent to discriminate. As the current law was written, the department had to show only that a change would have a discriminatory effect, whether intended or not. Argues Hatch: "I do not believe a community ought to be labeled a civil rights violator unless there is some wrongful motivation on its part...
...Hatch's approach is in line with a key decision by the Supreme Court, which last year upheld the Mobile, Ala., system of a citywide election for commissioners. The court ruled that opponents of the plan had not proved that it was "a purposeful device to further racial discrimination." The Kennedy-Mathias-Rodino bill would allow the Justice Department and courts to continue to consider a law's impact...