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...Senator Strom Thurmond and some of your other Senate supporters want to reinstitute the death penalty in the federal criminal code. There has also been talk about either repealing or substantially altering the Voting Rights Act. What are your views on these two issues...
Only a day earlier, conservatives from both sides of the Senate floor helped strangle an effort to strengthen the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Led by Sens. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), the conservatives survived a cloture vote needed to end their filibuster, and left liberals sputtering that it may be years before an effective fair housing bill is approved...
Perhaps most significant to Harvard are the repeated threats, from both Reagan advisers and Hill conservatives, of a push to cut federal spending for education and repeal federal affirmative action programs. Neither issue came up during the lame duck gathering, but Hatch, Helms and Thurmond have made clear their intention to take Reagan up on his campaign promises to reform federal education policy...
...Reagan. "I happen to believe, however, that busing has been a failure." The measure, proposed as a rider to an appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, was a significant action by the lameduck Congress. Supported by such conservative Republicans as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who will become Judiciary Committee chairman in January, and Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the bill passed by a vote of 51 to 35. Says Helms: "The vast majority of people of all races are sick and tired of Government meddling in their schools...
...especially ironic that men like Thurmond, who label themselves champions of the letter of the Constitution, should choose to interfere with the operations of the Justice Department in pursuit of their goals. Telling the Justice Department what parts of the Constitution--as defined by the Supreme Court--it can and cannot enforce overrides Alexander Hamilton's notion of a delicate balance between the branches of our government, and threatens legislative tyranny...