Editing Thomas Eagleton (section)

==Senate career==
In the Senate, Eagleton was active in matters dealing with foreign relations, intelligence, defense, education, health care, and the environment. He was instrumental to the Senate's passage of the [[Clean Air Act (United States)|Clean Air Act]] and the [[Clean Water Act]], and sponsored [[Cooper–Church Amendment|the amendment]] that halted the bombing in Cambodia and effectively ended American involvement in the [[Vietnam War]].

Notably, Eagleton was one of only three senators to oppose the nomination of [[Gerald Ford]] as vice president in 1973. The other two senators were [[William Hathaway]] of Maine and [[Gaylord Nelson]] of Wisconsin.

Eagleton was involved in the unsuccessful attempt to pass the [[Human Life Amendment]], a series of proposals to amend the [[United States Constitution]] with the effect of overturning the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] 1973 decision ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', which ruled that abortion bans were unconstitutional. The version of the Human Life Amendment in which Eagleton was most involved, the Hatch-Eagleton Human Life Federalism Amendment, was the only one to receive a formal vote in the Senate.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.humanlifeaction.org/issues/human-life-amendment/ | title=Human Life Amendment }}</ref>