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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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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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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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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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 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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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.