Word: orrin
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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...
Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate committee, is pressing on with hearings into a possible conspiracy by the White House and FBI to conceal what might have been damaging information about Donovan. TIME has learned that the original discussions between Reagan's transition team and the FBI about the Donovan appointment were conducted on higher levels than had previously been admitted. In early December of 1980 FBI Director William Webster conferred with Edwin Meese, Reagan's transition chief, about Donovan...
...first is that contrary to what Sen. Orrin Hatch (R. -Utah) and his conservative colleagues will insist, the Hinckley verdict is not an expansion of the rights of the accused. It is novel only because the insanity defense has never worked in such a widely publicized case. The verdict, however, only reaffirms the prior knowledge free will foundation of American law. John Hinckley's inevitable consignment to a mental home does not eliminate the distinction between legal treatment of the "loons" and the "goons." Only several weeks ago, convicted assassin Sirhan B. Sirham, the murderer of Robert F. Kennedy...