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...THAT DISTINCTION may not have occurred to the 10 Senators who voted for the Senate's latest anti-abortion initiative. Just over two weeks ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved 10 to 7 a proposed constitutional amendment--sponsored by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)-that would allow states to draft their own anti-abortion laws. The vote, marking the first time a full Congressional committee has supported anti-abortion codes, makes Senate debate on abortion more likely than ever...
Abortion, an even more emotional is sue, will be the focus this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote on a constitutional amendment proposed by Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. The amendment, if passed by two-thirds of both houses and three-fourths of the states, would allow any state, or Congress, to outlaw abortion. Many conservatives prefer a more radical statute, sponsored by Helms, which declares that human life, as protected under Constitution, begins with conception. any Helms' bill abortion does would not be attempt murder. to the Constitution, it needs only a majority...
When Raymond J. Donovan was confirmed as Secretary of Labor by the Senate last February, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch called his nomination "one of the most rigorously scrutinized in our country's history." Perhaps so, but the information given to Hatch's Labor and Human Resources Committee by the FBI and the Justice Department is turning out to be curiously incomplete. Indeed, the Justice Department last week opened a new investigation into old charges that Donovan was present when officers of the New Jersey construction company that he partly owned allegedly paid a bribe to a union leader...
...Senator Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, commenting on Government regulations that prescribe the thickness of hamburger condiments: "I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup...
...type of televised presidential appeal that worked so well on the economic package. Instead, the Administration opted for one-on-one personal appeals to wavering Senators. The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early October helped unsettle many of the sale opponents, and prompted immediate support from Republicans Orrin Hatch of Utah and Alan Simpson of Wyoming...