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...energy bill preserves it. Although the credit is due to expire at the end of 2007, until then it's worth $5 billion to $10 billion. And there's always the possibility that Congress will extend it. On four different occasions friendly lawmakers have intervened to rescue itlawmakers like Orrin Hatch, the Republican Senator from Utah, where Headwaters is based. A longtime champion of the credit, Hatch told colleagues in 1998, "This is a very important tax credit for alternative fuels. It is an issue of fairness, not one of corporate welfare...
...Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, recently sponsored a constitutional amendment to open the presidency to those who have been U.S. citizens for at least 20 years and residents for at least 14 years. The House’s version of the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., calls for a candidate to have been a naturalized citizen for at least 35 years. Both proposals deserve praise for removing an antiquated and discriminatory requirement that was designed to protect a vulnerable new country—not the stable global power America is today...
...them. These librarians are protesting the PATRIOT Act, a consortium of legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, which has enlarged the federal government’s powers in the fight against terrorism. The powers granted by the PATRIOT Act are set to expire in 2005. But if Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, gets his way, protesting librarians may have much shredding ahead of them...
...incoming chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Charles Grassley, has been critical of Rehnquist. But fellow Republican member Orrin Hatch, for whom she once worked, has asked Grassley to be kept "up to speed" on the inquiry. Grassley has only increased the pressure, complaining to her White House sponsors that they need to take the matter seriously, sources say. Translation: Find her another job. --By Michael Weisskopf and Viveca Novak
...Administration's other judicial nominees--including a possible Supreme Court pick at the end of the court's term. The White House plans to resubmit the nominations of Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen, two conservative judges blocked this year by Democrats. The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch, is preparing to hold votes on three nominees whose chances the Democrats might have scuttled in the past. The only real weapon available for Senate Democrats is the filibuster, a tool rarely applied in such circumstances. But party leaders such as Reid will try to "draw the line...