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On the recordDecember 10, 2018
When I first arrived in the United States Senate on January 3, 2001, one of the people I went and met with was Orrin Hatch.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper reflects on his early days in the Senate and meeting Orrin Hatch.

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