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What's truly troubling, however, is the chummy meeting in the Senate dining room that took place three weeks before Starr was chosen. On July 14 David Sentelle, who heads the three-judge panel that fired Robert Fiske and retained Starr, had lunch with Senator Lauch Faircloth, the North Carolina...
The Senate followed North Carolina conservative Sen. Jesse Helms's lead with a 63-36 vote to cut off federal funds to any school district that teaches acceptance of homosexuality as a lifestyle. The proposal, by Helms and another Republican, New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith, popped up in the middle...
The representative's recent votes on amendments related to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act have aligned him with the venerable right-wing senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and prompted the Christian Coalition to call Kennedy a "profile in courage."
Kennedy voted for a Helms-backed amendment which denies Department of Education funds to public schools which prevent voluntary prayer in the schools.
Kennedy said the Helms amendment to the act wasperfectly in-line with the Constitution and thuswas acceptable.