Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatchis an American politician who is the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, serving since January 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 March 1934
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I believe this modification is warranted so as to inform the Congress and the public of any involvement by the State Department and the Cuban government in the raid,
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But we must realize, as we have in the past, that simply asking a question does not mean a judicial nominee should answer it.
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If they're not justified, I guess there won't be.
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If they want to vote against him, you know darn well they're captives of these ... very liberal outside groups ... and they're demanding they vote against him even though they don't have one good reason to, ... I really don't believe that's the case but if that happens, then you can see why we're in such a partisan gridlock here in Washington, because the Democrats can't even support someone this good.
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I don't know anybody at the top of the system, ... who really wants to see the president hurt in this matter.
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Politics must not undermine the principles and standards we apply to every judicial nomination.
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I was surprised they did it amidst their merger because ... there are a lot of questions about the merger to begin with, ... We've raised some of them in our hearing. And we may have to have more hearings, I don't know.
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Senators can ask any questions they want, but these justice nominees really don't have to answer them,
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Senator Reid is a good friend of mine, ... but he has shown that he doesn't have Utah's best interests in mind.
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She's going to have to answer a lot of questions about her judicial philosophy, and I believe that she will be able to do that,
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She ought to get the burden off her back, ... Meet the Press.
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Mr. Libby has served his country for a long time and deserves his day in court. The burden lies on Mr. Fitzgerald to prove his case, not on Mr. Libby to prove his innocence.
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No, no. I think we have to proceed with the hearings, but we'll have to see. We'll have to see what the president decides to do here,
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I have become convinced that, for conscientious and reasonable defenders of the Second Amendment, it is not enough to simply oppose the gun-control communities' legislative agenda which safeguards the right to keep and bear arms,