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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...
...operate is," Brown said, "I tell the White House what I need and they get things done." When asked later by Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) why Brown didn't push to get Chertoff on the phone that night, he answered frankly , "it would have been a waste of time." Bennett said he was stunned by that "staggering" response, saying, it "indicates a dysfunctional department far greater than we have seen...
Senator Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, contends that “weakening the legal status of marriage” by allowing same-sex couples to marry leads to “many serious social problems” including the “disintegration of family.” Hatch’s homophobic statements link homosexuality to ominous societal deviance without evidence or elaboration...
...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...
...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...