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The Senate Finance Committee this morning shot down an amendment, offered by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), that would have explicitly prohibited federal funds from subsidizing abortion coverage under plans purchased on a new insurance marketplace, dubbed the exchange, which would be created under the committee’s health reform bill.
The Hatch amendment would have allowed women to [...]

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday night approved an amendment providing tens of millions of dollars to fund abstinence education programs for teens.
The proposal, offered by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), would provide $50 million per year through 2014 exclusively for abstinence education programs. The measure would effectively reinstate the controversial Title V program, which offered [...]

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.
President Obama gave a speech today in support of health care reform at a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, in which he offered the autoworkers a novel argument for reform — as Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele might put it: “Mo’ money!” That’s an angle [...]

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.
Most of the health care headlines today center on the reactions to President Obama’s speech to Congress last night. Thirteen percent of American households tuned in, and among those who watched, support for Obama’s health care plan jumped 14 percent. Most congressional Democrats responded favorably, with [...]

After all the threats, tirades and political posturing surrounding the importance of winning a bipartisan health reform bill, it appears that the legislation being drafted by leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), is on its way to attracting no Republicans after all.
Or so says Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a [...]

The senior senator from Utah has put up a tribute song, written by him and sung by “the great Phil Springer,” at YouTube. The lyrics and video below the fold.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her role in the case of Ricci v. deStefano, this morning repeated the faulty analysis offered by conservative Republican groups right after that case was decided by the Supreme Court on a 5-4 margin in June.
“All nine of the justices disagreed with your handling [...]

From the Republican senator’s Twitter feed:

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination:  As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a very different position than on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Rather than simply follow precedent, as is the role of an appellate court judge, he said, “Judge [...]

Party strategists hope to harness voter anger at unemployment with anti-spending rhetoric.