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Article: Vote on Veto of Civil Rights Bill Stalled;Moral Majority Pressure, GOP Conservatives Delay Senate Action
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- March 18, 1988
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Conservative Republicans succeeded yesterday in stalling a Senate
vote to override President Reagan's veto of a major civil rights bill
after foes of the legislation, mobilized by the Moral Majority,
clogged Capitol Hill telephone lines with calls urging that the veto
be sustained.
Senate leaders reluctantly agreed to put off the vote until next
Tuesday after Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), a leading opponent of the
bill, balked at plans for an immediate vote and threatened to drag
out debate until next week in any case.
But the bill's proponents said they did not believe the
last-ditch stall, coupled with a barrage of phone calls that reached
80,000 in a single hour, would significantly ...