“All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” If nothing else, Senator Dole’s tax bill shows how lightly both Houses take the casual flouting of the Constitution’s substance.
At a Knights of Columbus convention in Hartford, President Reagan addressed American Catholics on the nuclear issue, speaking to them over the heads of their bishops, who are in the process of drafting a paper calling for a nuclear freeze and for no further deployment of nuclear weapons—both notions awkwardly timed in view of the heavy Soviet deployment during recent years. Reagan called for a reaffirmation of the morality of our deterrent. He also called for action on abortion, tuition tax credits, school prayer and pornography. On the nuclear issues, the President will receive much greater support from ordinary Catholics than from the bishops, many of whose staffs represent one of the remaining strongholds of McGovernism, or worse.
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