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...Public Option: The Senate Financial Committee send Dems packing twice with their government insurance plans. Next time Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is running a fever, Obama won’t be there with a thermometer...
...Even the Republicans Obama hailed by name were not moved. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, who famously worked across the aisle with Ted Kennedy to create the State Children's Health Insurance Program, remained a solid no. "I like the President a lot, and I'd like to help, but it's pretty hard to under these circumstances," Hatch said, citing a litany of problems he has with the bill. No one from the White House has approached Hatch in months, nor have the bipartisan negotiators, even though he used to be one of those negotiators before he dropped...
...bipartisanship always served his liberal values and fulfilled his mission of helping those most in need. In the 1990s, he twice worked closely with Republican senators to pass major health care reforms, first with Nancy Kassenbaum to ensure the portability of health care for workers changing jobs, then with Orrin Hatch to pass the groundbreaking State Children’s Health Insurance Program...
...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...
...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...