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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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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This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.
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They cannot, as they have been doing now for more than six weeks, keep filibuster hopes alive by suggestions and hints, and then claim their political hands are clean when senators on this side of the aisle respond.
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I will say to the senator from Massachusetts, that America mourns with you, and the U.S. Senate mourns with you, your family and the Bessette family as well,
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Some have said that nominees who do not spill their guts about whatever a senator wants to know are hiding something from the American people.
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Some have said I should join with Senator Reid in a West-wide movement against Yucca Mountain,
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I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.
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It would be a national catastrophe if they can only be given to the wealthy.
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is not a myth, it is a reality.
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These are all people who didn't have one ounce of judicial experience . . . yet rose to be great justices,
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encourages Y2K problem-solving, rather than encouraging a rush to the courthouse.
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Even for the Clinton Administration, the ends do not justify the means, ... As pleased as most of us are that Elian is reunited with his father ... our oversight responsibilities compel us to examine whether the conduct of the attorney general and the Department of Justice are in accord with federal law, effective law-enforcement procedures, and the Constitution.
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Rather than admit that they have indeed imposed such terms, and explain to us why we should not find them objectionable, Microsoft has consistently sought to avoid the existence and implications of the contracts,