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Sen. Hatch vows to halt welfare-to-work waivers for the states
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Monday vowed to prevent the Obama administration from allowing states to waive work requirements in the Temporary Assistant for Needy Families (TANF) law, even though his own state had requested the waiver. “Late last week, the Obama administration quietly released ‘guidance’ to the states informing…
Orrin Hatch in the fight of his career, courtesy of the Tea Party
Sen. Orrin Hatch: Will the tea party bring him down in Utah? Two years ago, a conservative US senator in conservative Utah – three-term incumbent Bob Bennett – got the boot at the Republican state nominating convention, losing to tea party favorite Mike Lee at a time when ever having…
Sen. Hatch: DOMA not motivated by ‘animus’ towards gays and lesbians
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and ten other Senate Republicans on Monday urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF), Hatch and his colleagues asserted that Congress’s enactment of DOMA was not motivated by “animus” towards gay and…
Orrin Hatch: Obama thinks he’s Jesus Christ
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is offended that President Barack Obama quoted scripture to make the case for a fairer tax policy. Speaking to a group of mostly-conservative politicians at the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, the president proved that conservatives do not have a monopoly on using religion to…
And “activist judge” is code for “thinks women are people”
Well, according to Orrin Hatch, that is. When asked about some of Obama’s comments about what he looks for in a judicial nominee, Hatch indicated that he and all other Republicans would treat anyone that Obama nominates like she was Andrea Dworkin rolled up into Karl Marx, and said: “Well,…
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