Political Quotes

“today I wish to pay tribute to my colleague Senator Orrin Hatch and his more than 40 years of public service. Only five U.S. Senators have served longer than Senator Hatch, and he is one of the few who have served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, an honor given to the longest serving Member of the majority party. Some may not know this, but Orrin Hatch was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended the University of Pittsburgh Law School and practiced law in the city before moving to Utah years before his election to the Senate. Senator Hatch has too many legislative accomplishments to list, but I will focus on one that is so important to our family, the Children's Health Insurance Program. Nelson Mandela once said, ``There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.'' The Children's Health Insurance program, known by the acronym CHIP, is a prime example of when our Nation took an important step forward to care for our children. Senator Hatch worked with our former colleague Senator Ted Kennedy and others to ensure that children from low-income families who were not eligible for Medicaid had access to healthcare. CHIP holds a special place in my heart as well because my father, Governor Robert P. Casey, signed into law one of the first children's health insurance programs in the Nation in 1992.…”