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Orrin Hatch: I am aware of those editorials. And I am also aware, and I want my colleagues to know, that there are more than 50…

On the recordFebruary 26, 2003
I am aware of those editorials. And I am also aware, and I want my colleagues to know, that there are more than 50 editorials throughout the country expressing the same matters. I hold in my hand this binder of editorials in favor of Miguel Estrada--just editorial after editorial after editorial, saying how unfair this process really is, how unfair my colleagues on the other side have been, how they have ignored principles of just plain common decency, how they are obstructing--obstructing, in an unfair way--of course, obstruction, I guess, is always unfair--but how they have been obstructing this nominee. Why? Because, as the editorial writers say, they do not have anything on him.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Defending Miguel Estrada's nomination during Senate floor debate.

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