Word: orrin
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Reagan also feels a new sense of urgency about translating these goals into reality. "He's got 3 1/2 more years to make his niche in history," observes Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, an ally and admirer. Others suspect there may be less time than that, perhaps only until the 1986 midterm elections, before the President's clout is vitiated by his lame-duck status. In any case, says one White House aide, "the advice we were given coming into the second term was 'Don't give in or they'll run all over you.' If we're not tough...
...creation science" alongside evolution in Arkansas and Louisiana classrooms have run into trouble with the courts, but effort to add an ideological tenor to public instruction continue. Last summer Congress approved a measure denying federal desegregation funding to school districts teaching "secular humanism." The bill, introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), does not define exactly what "secular humanism" is, but one opponent of the measure suggested it would apply to "attention given, in literature courses, to erotic themes; emphasis, in American history courses, on unequal distribution of wealth; the prevalence in schools of wealth atheistic philosophy' that...
...houses favored a bill, attached as a rider to the continuing resolution, that would have overturned a Supreme Court decision and ordered the Government to stop all financial aid to any institution that discriminates in any manner. The Senate voted 92 to 4 to break a filibuster by Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah against the bill. Hatch then threatened to offer 1,000-odd amendments and demand a vote on each. Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, a prime shaper of the civil rights bill, reluctantly moved to kill his own legislation and clear the decks for the continuing resolution. The Senate...
...June of this year Moon claimed before a Senate Subcommittee chaired by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) that secret Justice Department memos prove three tax law experts recommended the IRS drop its six-year audit of the Unification Church "because there was no criminal case there." Moon urged that Hatch ask the Justice Department to make public these documents, which he claims show that the tax lawyers were twice overruled by a "high-level political appointee with no political experience...
...Reagan revived the issue in this election year as a way to rally his conservative core constituency. Even though the Executive Branch has no official constitutional role in the amendment process, Reagan endorsed a version of the proposal that would have permitted spoken prayer in classrooms. When conservative Republican Orrin Hatch drew up an alternative proposal permitting only silent prayer, correctly arguing that it would have a better chance of passage, Reagan pressured him into backing down...