Word: orrin
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...been a star of the domestic AIDS lobby, and Scott Hatch, a former Tom DeLay aide who ran the National Republican Campaign Committee. DATA employees churned out policy papers, while Hatch, Sheridan and Shriver organized intimate, bipartisan dinner parties (sample guest list: Senators Jesse Helms, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch; former World Bank president Jim Wolfensohn; Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers) to cement relationships and encourage the sense that at least on one issue, everyone could break bread. Spouses were invited, and to spice things up, Bono might ask a friend from another sphere, like Jordan's Queen Noor...
...that a lot of members like," says a G.O.P. Senate aide whose boss wants Lott to run again. Many Senators fondly recall Lott's strategic vision when he was majority leader, and several conservatives have dismissed concerns that his comments from 2002 would hold him back, with Utah's Orrin Hatch saying "That's in the past." Moderates also like Lott. Maine's Olympia Snowe, one of his closest Senate friends, says she hopes Lott will run again. "He wants to make his state whole," says Snowe. And if he returns as a leader, his reputation may be refurbished...
Republicans present, including Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who has served on the committee for 29 years, lauded Roberts’ qualifications and his performance during the hearings...
John Roberts spent most of the first day of his Senate confirmation hearing doing what he does best-being a perfect student. He listened dutifully as Senator Orrin Hatch instructed him on drawing the line against probing questions from Democrats. He nodded with understanding at the dramatic flourishes of Sen. Joseph Biden, who told him that as a Supreme Court justice he might rule on whether microchips could be implanted in people to track them. And when Senator Dianne Feinstein launched an impassioned defense of abortion rights, Roberts focused intently on her even as people were entering and exiting...
...pick. Last month 43 Senate Democrats signed a letter calling on Bush to consult with them before choosing a nominee. Democrats like to recall that in 1993, when their party controlled the Senate and Bill Clinton was preparing to fill a vacancy on the court, he called Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get his views on who might make a suitable choice. Hatch urged Clinton to forgo one of his options, former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, who Hatch thought would prove too hard to get confirmed. Instead Hatch promoted two others: Ruth...