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...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...
...Republican-controlled Senate, the debate was for real as Majority Leader Howard Baker called up not one but two proposed amendments-the draft supported by the White House and another offered by Utah Republican Orrin Hatch-for floor action. Baker wrestled last week to blend them into a consensus proposal that would have some chance of winning the two-thirds majority needed for passage. Any amendment would also require a two-thirds vote in the House, where it has been bottled up in committee, and approval by 38 state legislatures...
Said Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah: "The House bill goes way beyond present U.S. law. I think it does not solve the problems of apartheid, but creates more problems...
August 4. Orrin Star...
With gaudy antiabortion posters set up in the normally staid Senate chamber, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and his conservative allies pressed for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) that guarantees women a constitutional right to abortion. "The country is on a slippery slope to infanticide," warned Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. "Even dogs have more protection than the unborn," said Hatch. But after two days of speeches in a largely empty Senate chamber, the ten-word Hatch amendment fell 18 votes short of the required two-thirds majority last...