Lowell Weicker, CT governor and U.S. senator, dies at 92

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : On the first charge, Weicker insisted he was deserted by the party whose ideological and geographical center moved away from the fiscal conservatism and social progressivism of northeast Republicans.
54% : Weicker left elective office in January 1995 as Connecticut's 85th governor, capstone to a career dominated by two decades in Washington, where he emerged as a fierce defender of abortion rights, the separation of church and state, and funding for social services, oceanic exploration, and AIDS research.
47% : But as a freshman congressman elected in 1968, Weicker supported prayer in public schools and an assault on judicial independence -- a call for the House of Representatives to impeach William O. Douglas, the liberal justice
31% : Beginning in 1982, he led the successful opposition to Reagan's push for a constitutional amendment allowing organized prayer in public schools, a threat in Weicker's eyes to the separation of church and state.

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