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 can tell you categorically they are not going to be the filter. I know who the filters are, ... They're in the White House and the Justice Department as they were in the Clinton administration.
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Two or three weeks ago, there was a real question whether the House would actually impeach the president,
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You've acted, I think, with the highest honor as White House counsel. I stand ready and willing to help you.
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And that is, ... we could file a motion to adjourn with the following language: that basically we ... acknowledge the impeachment vote of the House, we acknowledge, if this is true, that we do not have or even have a chance of having 67 votes for conviction, and we acknowledge that the impeachment vote in the House is the highest form of censure or condemnation for this president's despicable acts. And if you do that, that basically adjourns. It ends the battle.
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I'm sure the president realizes that some would say this is a 'Wag the Dog' situation. It's an appropriate foreign policy response to terrorism at an appropriate time having obtained appropriate evidence and knowledge to justify the action.
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in large part to somehow send a message to President Bush as he deliberates on how to fill the remaining vacancy on the Supreme Court.
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I'm not a real fan of commissions but I do think if you get the right people on it you might come up with some way to solve this really serious problem.
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I know what a great man he is. He is honest, competent, a brilliant person. I think it's a real tribute to George W. Bush to pick somebody of that kind of caliber.
They just want to get it off their hands, and that's always been the case,
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I want to set things straight, ... I know Judge Pickering. I've had extensive conversations with him. He is truly a righteous and decent man.
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It's not a bad thing to have somebody who might shake it up a little bit, ... I think it's important for the court to have someone like her on it, someone who has dealt with real-people problems.
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I'm gonna give it every chance, every shot I have, ... something that I think I have got to do in the best interest of our country, even though I'm a little late.
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I'm not going to second-guess my colleagues, but one of us has to stay neutral on this and hopefully give the administration enough ammunition to resolve this process,
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I know you, and I am familiar with your 30-year record in enforcing and upholding the law,