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...explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It's unconstitutional, and the first time anybody challenges it, it's going to be thrown out." The handful of opponents Wednesday found a rare conservative ally in Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, who criticized the cheap political theatrics at play: "It's kind of a game, to see who can be the most against pornography and obscenity," Hatch said. "It's a political exercise, and I'm against...
...justify amending the Bill of Rights. Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel today that tampering with the Constitution over the issue was unwise "in the absence of any meaningful evidence that the flag is in danger of losing its symbolic value." But Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said a 1989 Supreme Court decision knocking down state anti-desecration laws "has given us no choice. If we believe the flag is important enough to protect from physical desecration, an amendment is necessary." The House Republican leadership has promised to bring the legislation -- which has some...
Several members of Congress have taken notice. In late April Senator Jesse Helms wrote to Attorney General Janet Reno asking for an investigation into whether Lacey 's team is keeping the Mob out of the Teamsters. Aides from Senator Orrin Hatch's Judiciary Committee are gathering documents and considering hearings. if such an examination indicates Carey is clean, it would finally put to rest the speculation that he is a federal informant along the lines of the late Teamsters leader Jackie Presser...
...Senate when I say that we stand with all the people of Oklahoma, committed to doing all that is needed to protect America from the terrorist threat," Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said in a speech on the Senate floor. Democrats backed him. Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said he and Dole would introduce a bill that combines tougher penalties for terrorist acts in the United States with thepresident's proposals. Clinton said he would create an FBI-run center fordomestic counterterrorism. He also requested far more authority for federal agents to wiretap, trace phone calls, examine phone...
...court she rose at 5:30 a.m. daily to fix breakfast and drive the older child to school; the younger came with her to Senate day care, where she had lunch with him and logged him out many days well before the 6 p.m. closing time. Her boss, Senator Orrin Hatch, testified that when the Senate was in recess, about half the year, he supported her going home early. A psychiatrist, chosen and seen by both parties, found that Greene, who had insisted that there be an au pair in the house even when he was unemployed for more than...