Orrin Hatch
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"Orrin Grant Hatch" is an American politician who is the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, serving since January 2015. A member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party, he serves as the Seniority in the United States Senate/senior United States Senate/United States Senator for Utah. In office since 1977, Hatch is the most-senior Republican Senator.

Hatch has served as either the chairman or ranking minority member of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary/Senate Judiciary Committee from 1993 to 2005. He previously served as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions/Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee from 1981 to 1987 and currently serves as Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance/Senate Finance Committee as well as serving on the Board of Directors for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

After the Republicans won control of the Senate during the 2014 midterms, Hatch became President pro tempore of the United States Senate/President pro tempore on January 6, 2015 after the 114th United States Congress was sworn in.

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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

If we can find some way to do this without destroying their [people illegally downloading music] machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that. If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines.

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

He said he would have to veto the bill. He feels like he would have to honor that commitment.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

And it's not fair to even raise executive sessions after we've had two private meetings.

We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.

This ad grossly distorts the record of John Roberts from start to finish. It has only one goal: to associate John Roberts with violent extremists.

Michael Moore is free to denounce every manifestation of American foreign policy; is he not? And we are upholding his right to do so, as ridiculous and inane and asinine as his comments are.