Word: orrin
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...making the perfect the enemy of the good, as Kennedy liked to say. "I learned that really early on, when I first got to Washington, and Teddy would invite me over to the house, and I would go to dinner and there'd be [Utah Republican Senator] Orrin Hatch and [Virginia Republican Senator] John Warner, [Alaska Republican Senator] Ted Stevens and a couple of other guys," Kerry says. "And so hopefully people will go back to Washington with a renewed sense of focus of how we can get done what we need to get done and take the lesson...
...District Court of New York. With a minimum of political fuss, she became the first Hispanic federal judge in the state. Nominated to the Appeals Court by President Bill Clinton in the summer of 1997, she was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee - including its then chairman, Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. But Mississippi's Trent Lott, then the GOP leader, prevented the full Senate from taking up the nomination by using a "secret hold," a procedure that allows a Senator to prevent a motion from reaching the Senate floor for a vote...
...that she's been through the Senate confirmation process twice before - as George H.W. Bush's nominee to the Southern District Court of New York in 1992 and Bill Clinton's to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998. The White House official notes that Orrin Hatch - the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the chamber's most influential GOP voice on judicial nominations - voted for Sotomayor both times. (See TIME's photo-essay on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination...
...meeting the nominee as early as next week. "The sooner that he sends one up, the more likely it will be that that person is confirmed by the Senate before August, which is what they [the Obama Administration] want," Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who is also on the committee, said. The Senate has just over two months until the break, punctuated by weeks off for Independence and Memorial Days. Not a lot of time to fit in two rounds of personal visits, vetting, confirmation hearings and a floor vote - as is traditional with Supreme Court nominees...
With his left arm, Ted Kennedy leaned on a metal cane; with his right, he was braced by his old pal Orrin Hatch. The two Senators, the President and First Lady, and former President Bill Clinton had come to the SEED School in Southeast Washington, a working-class neighborhood that rarely gets a glimpse of a President, let alone two. The occasion: the signing of landmark national-service legislation that had been sponsored by the Republican Hatch, from Utah, and the ailing Democratic lion from Massachusetts...