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...Orrin Hatch complained that the format of the debate was too rigid. Candidates were allotted one minute to answer an initial question posed by the moderators, Karen Brown, news director for New Hampshire's only network affiliate, WMUR; and Brit Hume, an anchor for the Fox News Channel. Another 45 seconds were allotted to respond to a follow-up question. Candidates were not allowed to respond to each other directly...
...Hatch charged that "these debates have been stilted and boring. Next time let's leave the entourage behind. It would be like Lincoln and Douglas and we'd really have a debate here...
...keep the money coming in, the company doubled its lobbying outlay starting in 1996 to more than $4 million in 1998. Among its other paid advocates: former Senator Dennis DeConcini; former Watergate assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste; and Thomas Parry, former chief of staff for Senator Orrin Hatch, who heads the Judiciary Committee that considers such requests. Hatch has used Schering-Plough's Gulfstream IV jet five times this year for his presidential campaign, reimbursing the company at first-class-airfare rates, as permitted...
...Oscar Wilde quip: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." That was not the case Sunday eveging in Tempe, Ariz., when four Republican presidential candidates met in a televised forum, ostensibly to discuss the issues facing the nation. In fact, Alan Keyes, Orrin Hatch, Steve Forbes and John McCain never really got moving on any substantive exchanges, as they were far too busy huffing and puffing over the conspicuous absence of front-runner George W. Bush. "We're here answering questions," Forbes griped. Where was Bush...
...that Bush missed much. Even when their kvetching over W.'s absence subsided, the other candidates weren't lighting any new fires: Keyes went on about America's lost moral compass and Hatch had very little newsworthy to say. On the other hand, in George's absence, a newly aggressive Forbes homed in on Bush's policies. "In nearly all of his answers," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, "Steve Forbes took Bush to task on specific policy issues. Forbes has hinted at his disagreements with Bush, but last night was a direct and frontal assault from Forbes...