Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatchis an American politician who is the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, serving since January 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 March 1934
bet bill hearings ought
You bet these hearings ought to go forward. I think Bill Rehnquist would be the first to say they ought to go forward,
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Two or three weeks ago, there was a real question whether the House would actually impeach the president,
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At the end of the day, it is law-abiding, bill-paying citizens who pay for the bankruptcy of others, regardless of whether the debts involved were taken on by con men or those whose situations simply got out of hand.
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To see this happen this way, it's just been almost beyond the pale. I know he shoulders an awful lot of this burden. I've seen him do it and I just have an awful lot of respect for him.
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We all know that the intelligence with regard to these matters was flawed. We found that out since that it was flawed,
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We have a different attitude about this and we believe literally that they should be treated with respect and not be demeaned and we don't have a litmus test on abortion, so there's a real difference, ... have had to go through some pretty scorching stuff.
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She ought to get the burden off her back, ... Meet the Press.
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Mr. Libby has served his country for a long time and deserves his day in court. The burden lies on Mr. Fitzgerald to prove his case, not on Mr. Libby to prove his innocence.
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Politics must not undermine the principles and standards we apply to every judicial nomination.
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I was surprised they did it amidst their merger because ... there are a lot of questions about the merger to begin with, ... We've raised some of them in our hearing. And we may have to have more hearings, I don't know.
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Senators can ask any questions they want, but these justice nominees really don't have to answer them,
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Senator Reid is a good friend of mine, ... but he has shown that he doesn't have Utah's best interests in mind.
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She's going to have to answer a lot of questions about her judicial philosophy, and I believe that she will be able to do that,
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No, no. I think we have to proceed with the hearings, but we'll have to see. We'll have to see what the president decides to do here,