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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whether the Justice Department is serving the American people as it should.
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We're starting out $36 million behind but we don't need as much as the front-runner,
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We're getting complaints from all over the place, from people just like you, who are suffering from treatment similar to the way your company has been treated (by Microsoft),
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We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.
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The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?
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Where they make phone calls and whether the president raises money or not is one thing. The way they've done it seems to be unethical, illegal, (and) in poor taste, ... Were foreign influences trying to influence the election?
We are going to have to do things differently,
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We held some 24 hearings on this issue, and not one time have they been able to document an abuse,
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The fact is, ... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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Plans were offered to them (state and local governments), and they did not implement them,
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Regenerative medicine is pro-life and pro-family. It enhances, it does not diminish human life. ... If encouraged to flourish, it can improve the life of millions of Americans and could lead to new scientific frontiers not now in sight. So I urge my colleagues in the Senate and the American public to support this bill that opposes human cloning but promotes regenerative medicine using nuclear transplantation.