Orin Hatch

Corporate Tax Holiday Would Shift Investment, Jobs Overseas: Report

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Jobless Rate, George W. Bush, 112th Congress, Corporate Tax Holiday, Foreign Investment, Corporate Taxes, Orin Hatch, Democrats, Charles Schumer, Republicans, Business News

In recent weeks, Congressional support has been forming around the idea of another "repatriation tax holiday," reports the Wall Street Journal. The wo...

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Dear Sen. Feinstein & Sen. Hatch, Let's Stop Sending Our Kids to Prison!

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth Promise Act, Gangs, Bobby Scott, Orin Hatch, Diane Feinstein, Russell Simmons, Youth Violence, Politics News
Russell Simmons

While the average incarceration rate in the United States is 7 times the international average, for blacks the average rate is over 22 times the international average. The Youth PROMISE Act aims to address that.

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Orrin Hatch Will Introduce Abortion Restrictions In Senate Health Bill

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Abortion Coverage, Orin Hatch Abortion, Orin Hatch, Hatch Abortion Amendment, Health Care Abortion, Senate Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Hatch Seante Health Bill, Hatch Abortion Provision, Senate Health Bill, Abortion Coverage, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told Politics Daily Tuesday that he plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate health care reform bill similar to the ame...

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Who Will Step Into Ted Kennedy's Shoes on Health Care

Sandy Maisel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Orin Hatch, Chuck Schumer, Olympia Snowe, Ted Kennedy Health Care, Politics News
Sandy Maisel

Some see Kennedy's legacy as the roaring liberal lion, ready to express moral outrage. And surely he was that. But his lasting legacy may well be as the respected legislator who could reach across the aisle.

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Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Freedom-Tower-Construction, Kabul-Mayor, Rome, Maccabees, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, President Obama, Kabul, Story of Chanukah, Menorah, Afghanistan Corruption, Story-of-Chanukah, Antiochus, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Chanukah, Greece, Dead-or-Alive, Freedom Tower, Judah Maccabee, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan-Counterinsurgency, Orin Hatch, Orin Hatch Chanukah Song, Somalia, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hannukah, One World Trade Center, World News
Aaron Zelinsky

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.

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Rooting for the Worst

Michael Roth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Demint, Economic Crisis, Orin Hatch, Republican Party, Health Care, Job Creation, Barack Obama, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Michael Roth

They want the president to fail. That's the drumbeat we've heard for months now. What makes opposition take the form of rooting for the worst outcome?

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Sam Stein

GOP Stressed Gonzales' Hispanic Roots In 2005

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Orin Hatch, Race Politics, Republicans Hispanics, Hatch Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales Sotomayor, Attorney General, Gop Hispanics, Sotomayor Race, Politics News

One of the more provocative critiques to come from conservatives concerning the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has been the charg...

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Five Current Republican Senators Voted For Sotomayor in '98

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orin Hatch, Gop, Susan Collins, Senate, Arlen Specter, Robert Bennett, President-Obama-Supreme-Court, Olympia Snowe, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Judd Gregg, Thad Cochran, Richard Lugar, Politics News

A bit of relevant history: Five Seven current Senate Republicans -- plus Arlen Specter -- voted for Sonia Sotomayor during her highly contested federa...

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Sam Stein

Hatch: Kagan And Sotomayor Would Present "Real Dilemma" To Oppose

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A top Republican Senator on the Judiciary committee suggested on Thursday that two of the people widely believed to be under consideration for a Supre...

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Sam Stein

Gibbs: No Supreme Court Decision This Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orin Hatch, Supreme Court Pick, Robert Gibbs, This Week Supreme Court, Obama Supreme Court, Gibbe Briefing, Orrin Hatch, Politics News

Batting down suggestions from longtime Republican Judiciary Committee member Orrin Hatch, Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday that the president would not ha...

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Sam Stein

GOP Begins Laying Out Campaign Against Obama's Court Pick

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orin Hatch, Barack Obama Court, Mitt Romney, Obama Supreme Court, Supreme Court Pick, Conservative Criticism, Richard Shelby, Politics News

The framework of the forthcoming battle over Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick began to materialize on Sunday, as a range of Republican officials sent...

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Sam Stein

Grassley, Kyl, Sessions Could Take Specter's Powerful Judiciary Committee Post

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orin Hatch, Jon Kyl, Chuck Grassley, Jeff Sessions, Grassley Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Kyl Judiciary, Sessions Judiciary, Hatc Abc This Week, Leahy Hatch, Hatch Judiciary, Politics News

One of the key, as yet undetermined factors in whether Barack Obama will get his Supreme Court pick seated is which Republican will take over as ranki...

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CNN's Wolf Blitzer Lapdogs While Senator Hatch Lies

Josh Silver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Reform, Orin Hatch, Journalism, Cnn, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
Josh Silver

Without fearless, vigilant questioning, spin masters like Hatch will turn Bush's financial crisis into Obama's financial crisis in a few months rather than a few years.

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A Vet's Message To The GOP on Veterans Day -- Shove It

Bob Geiger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veterans Day, GI Bill, Gop, Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander, Orin Hatch, Jim Webb, Jon Kyl, Politics News
Bob Geiger

I see Republicans turning up on Veterans Day with their flowery pronouncements of how much we Vets mean to them when they prove at every turn that they really don't give a damn about the troops.

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When It All Falls Down

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dominance, End Days, John McCain, Empowerment, Orin Hatch, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Great Depression, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

I recommend that all of you start thinking about being compassionate to those you know who are about to suffer from the death of a world view that McCain's loss represents.

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Ted Stevens Trial Witness List Features Kennedy, Powell And Leahy

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ted Stevens, Ted Kennedy, Colin Powell, Orin Hatch, Pat Leahy, Ted Stevens Trial, Senate Races, Politics News

WASHINGTON — As many as five senators and a former secretary of state may take the stand at the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens in coming w...

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Why Don't Women Politicians Sleep Around?

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Lisa Earle McLeod, Sex Scandal, Sex, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, Orin Hatch, Larry Craig, Healthy Living News
Lisa Earle McLeod

I know that women cheat -- statistics reveal that the number of married women having affairs is on the rise. But why aren't powerful, middle-aged political women ever caught in sex scandals?

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