Orrin Hatch

The Mormon Song: "The Tonight Show" Sings To Orrin Hatch (VIDEO)

Posted 12.15.2009 | Comedy

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With Utah Senator Orrin Hatch's rollicking "8 Days Of Hanukkah" tearing up the charts, Max Weinberg decided to return the favor and write a holiday so...

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What I've Learned About the Congressional Budget Office and Health Care

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Premiums, Orrin Hatch, Jay Rockefeller, Cbo, Tort Reform, Congressional Budget Office, Medical Malpractice, Politics News
Joanne Doroshow

The most powerful people in the health care debate right now can be found on the 4th floor of the Ford House Office Building, a nondescript WPA government structure once used by the FBI to store fingerprint records.

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"I Am A Rock": A Playlist for Senator Joe Lieberman

David Wild | Posted 12.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Swizz Beatz, Simon & Garfunkel, Chris Brown, Morrissey, Boston, Trick Pony, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Lil Wayne, Kelly Clarkson, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Senator Joe Lieberman, Gary Wright, Billy Joel, John Hiatt, Rihanna, The Who, Hadassah, Garth Brooks, Rocco DeLuca, Orrin Hatch, Joe Lieberman, Miranda Lambert, Jay Z, R.E.M., Jimmy Webb, Kings of Leon, Entertainment News
David Wild

Rather than complain about your deluded belief that failing to be elected vice president somehow makes you president or God, I'm here to help you with some totally boss tunes to remind you how to work and play better with others.

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Orrin Hatch's Hanukkah Song: 'Eight Days Of Hanukkah' (VIDEO)

Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holidays, Hanukkah, Hanukkah Songs, Orrin Hatch Song, Mormons, Orrin Hatch, Politician Artists, Orrin Hatch Hanukkah, Utah, Hatch Song, Politics News

Jews rejoyce. Orrin Hatch, the Republican Mormon senator from Utah, has written a Hanukkah song: "Eight Days of Hanukkah." As Hatch told the New Y...

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The Heart of the Health Care Debate on Abortion

Ellen Malcolm | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women, Ben Nelson, Womens Rights, Emilys List, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Reproductive Health, Orrin Hatch, Politics News
Ellen Malcolm

This historic health care plan designed to improve Americans' lives and make them healthier and safer could, for women facing an unintended or dangerous pregnancy, deny them access to the care they need.

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Jason Linkins

The Craziest Examples Of Congressional Theatrics (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slidepoll, House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Tom Latham, George Voinovich, Alan Grayson, Peter Roskam, John Shadegg, Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Senate, Video, Michele Bachmann, Orrin Hatch, Slideshow, Chuck Grassley, Politics News

Elyse Siegel contributed to this story Just over twenty years ago, the cable industry launched the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network -- better k...

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Health Care Provision Would Cover Christian Science Prayer Treatments

The Los Angeles Times | Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orrin Hatch Health Care, John Kerry, Orrin Hatch Christian Science Prayer Treatments, Orrin Hatch Health Care Provision, Orrin Hatch, John Kerry Health Care, Health Care Reform, Senate Health Bill, Health Care Legislation, Christian Science Prayer Treatments, Senate Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Health Care Overhaul, Politics News

Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill woul...

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President Obama Gives In to Pressure; Orders 40,000 Gay Troops to Afghanistan

Lee Stranahan | Posted 10.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Orrin Hatch, Gay Rights, Afganistan Troop Increase, Rahm Emanuel, Afghanistan, Barney Frank, Comedy News
Lee Stranahan

President Obama said the move was both a victory for human dignity and for pointless wars we can't possibly win.

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Sam Stein

McCain: Dems Will Pass Health Care, "Blue Dogs Bark But Never Bite"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Public Option, Mccain Hatch, Legislation Pass Congress, Health Care Votes, Orrin Hatch, Senate Legislation, Mccain Health Care, John McCain, Politics News

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted on Sunday that health care reform would pass, while a fellow Republican senator was more skeptical. Appearing o...

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Republican Senator Olympia Snowe Controversially Decides to Deprive Country of Poor Health Care

Ben Berkon | Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Maine Senator, Bridge, Mitch McConnell, Olympia Snowe, Health Care, Orrin Hatch, Republicans, Ben Berkon, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

In political news, Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, has publicly decided to sign the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill, controversially depriving the United States of its poor health care.

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Because Bipartisanship Is Dead Until 2011: A Defense of Senate Moderates

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Earl Warren, John Tower, Senate Republicans, 1964, Moderate Democrats, Joe Biden, Dscc, Bipartisan, 2011, Barack Obama, Thomas Kuchel, Economic Stimulus Package, 2010, Moderates, Bob Menendez, Joseph Alsop, 1965, Orrin Hatch, Bipartisanship, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Republicans, Barry Goldwater, Health Care, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

The GOP cannot even claim credit for bringing the bills to the middle of the road -- the Democrats are hogging all of it. And that is a good thing, despite what some may think.

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The Republican Approach to Abortion and Health Care -- Fair or Unfair?

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Orrin Hatch, Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee, Mike Enzi, Health Care Abortion, Politics News
Steven Waldman

In his "chairman's mark" on health care reform, Max Baucus had rejected the pure pro-choice position but still included provisions that pro-lifers viewed as supporting abortion.

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Hatch: I Sincerely Doubt Snowe Or Collins Will Support Health Care Reform

Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Orrin Hatch, Obama Health Care Speech, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, Republicans, President Obama, Politics News

What did conservative Republicans think of President Obama's health care speech last night? Not very much, apparently. Sen Orrin Hatch (R-UT)--who, yo...

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Cloture Passes On Cass Sunstein, 63-35

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Blanche Lincoln, Cloture, Robert Bennett, Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, Filibuster, Judd Gregg, Glen Beck, Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama, James Webb, Richard Lugar, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...

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Sam Stein

Hatch, Dodd: Vicki Kennedy Would Be "Great" Replacement For Husband (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orrin Hatch Senate Seat, Ted Kennedy Senate, Kennedy Senate Seat, Orrin Hatch, Ted Kennedy Replacement, Chris Dodd, Vicki Kennedy, Chris Dodd Vicki Kennedy, Vicki Kennedy Husband, Politics News

Two of Ted Kennedy's closest friends in the Senate said on Sunday that they thought his widow, Vicki, would make a great temporary replacement for him...

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Kennedy Memorial Service In Boston: VIDEO Highlights

Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, John McCain, Nick Littlefield, Ted Kennedy Memorial, Ted Kennedy Memorial Service, Orrin Hatch, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

The private memorial service for Ted Kennedy at the JFK library in Boston Friday night drew many luminaries from the political world such as Vice Pres...

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The Teddy Imperative: It is Not Just about Health Care

Bennet Kelley | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orrin Hatch, President Ken, Senator Edward Kennedy, Health Care, Ted Kennedy Dead, Civility, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

The Senate's Last Lion roars no more, but "the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

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Hatch's Kennedy Song: "Headed Home" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orrin Hatch Ted Kennedy Tribute, Hatch, Orrin Hatch, Orrin Hatch Tribute Song, Headed Home, Hatch Ted Kennedy Tribute, Politics News

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), has released a tribute song for his late friend Ted Kennedy. The conservative senator actually wrote the song last year, wh...

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The GOP Wants to Define Ted Kennedy's Funeral

John R. Bohrer | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Reynolds, Walter Mondale, John McCain, Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Dead, Ted Kennedy Dies, Health Care Reform, Orrin Hatch, Chris Dodd, Edward M. Kennedy, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Paul Wellstone, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

It's a shame that our political exchange has come to this, but the GOP is preparing to pigeonhole any reference to health care at Sen. Kennedy's upcoming funeral as playing politics.

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Ted Kennedy Reactions

Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Here are reactions to Ted Kennedy's death: President Obama: Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, S...

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Specter: GOP Health Care Claims "Simply Not True"

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Arlen Specter says critics of the Democrats' health care proposals are not representative of the public's view on the issue. The Pennsylvania De...

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Judiciary Committee: Sharp Minds -- and Empty Suits

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Al Franken, Sotomayor Confirmation, Jeff Sessions, Dianne Feinstein, Herb Kohl, Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Kyl, John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, Sheldon Whitehouse, Benjamin Cardin, Sonia Sotomayor, Orrin Hatch, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

These Senators spend their precious minutes before the cameras posturing, except for when they're pandering. Except for when they're plodding.

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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Activist?

Monica Youn | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Brennan Center, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Orrin Hatch, Judicial Activism, Second-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals, Sonia Sotomayor, Confirmation Hearings, Politics News
Monica Youn

In all the hullabaloo about so-called "judicial activism," wouldn't it be refreshing to hear some questions about "judicial passivism" as well?

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Sam Stein

Hatch Disapproves Of Anti-Sotomayor Ad From Group He Once Supported

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hatch Sotomayor, Committee for Justice Ad, Sotomayor Bill Ayers, Hatch Committee for Justice, Sotomayor Ad, Orrin Hatch, Politics News

Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R-Utah), is distancing himself from a conservative organization's ad tying Judge Sonia Sotomayor to former Weather Underground memb...

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GOP Senators: Sotomayor Firefighter Plaintiff Is Victim Of "Smear Campaign"

The New Haven Independent | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Haven Firefighters, Sotomayor Confirmation, Ricci Smear, People for the American Way, Race, Ricci v. Destefano, Americans With Disabilities Act, Frank Ricci, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Ricci, Supreme Court, Orrin Hatch, Senator John Cornyn, Politics News

As firefighter Frank Ricci arrived in the nation's capital for his moment in the spotlight, U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch came to the his defense against an a...

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