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...KENNEDY The last liberal was able to enlist Republican Orrin Hatch for his child-health plan, only to be tripped up by his own President, Balanced-Budget Bill...
...bitterly partisan Washington, Senate Republicans can make a name by morphing into one-man roadblocks. Alabama's Richard Shelby clocked 15 minutes of fame by stopping CIA nominee Anthony Lake, who eventually withdrew. Orrin Hatch, head of the judiciary committee, last week abruptly postponed hearings for Eric Holder to be Deputy Attorney General because Holder's office once asked the IRS to delay a probe of D.C. police officers. Fifty-seven other presidential nominations are awaiting congressional approval...
...about 10 percent. The GOP's top brass joined in the fray, siding with the White House and twisting enough arms to defeat the amendment by a slim 216 - 214 margin. After the House passed the bill, Trent Lott managed to block the cigarette tax proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Edward Kennedy, warning that he would pull the budget-balancing pact off the Senate floor if the changes were approved. "The President is not about to see all that hard work go down the drain, " White House spokesman Mike McCurry told reporters. Thanks to Lott and Gingrich...
When Utah Senator ORRIN HATCH is bored by committee hearings, he scribbles out the song in his heart. The Republican is a prolific lyricist, and the proof is on his new CD with composer Janice Kapp Perry, My God Is Love. "I'm in a lot of miserable battles in the Senate," Hatch says. "Music lifts me out of that." His melody making led to a duet with Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. "We played our song Freedom's Light in the middle of negotiations on the child-health bill," says Hatch. "And Kennedy joined in. You know, he loves...
...currently 39 million children under 10 in the U.S., more than at any time since the 1950s) suggests that violent crime will only go up without action now. The issue now goes to the Senate, where the Judiciary Committee is preparing to work on a bill by Chairman Orrin Hatch that also envisions more adult trials of juvenile offenders...