Orrin Hatch: “I, as you know, have made some arguments here that this is a bill that everybody ought to be for. It is to right…”

“I, as you know, have made some arguments here that this is a bill that everybody ought to be for. It is to right injustices that were created by certain people at the White House which the President even acknowledges in the sense that he said he would support this legislation. He does support this legislation. He thinks an injustice was done, and he thinks that Billy Dale and the other former employees ought to be reimbursed their legal expenses. The President is behind this. This is not a partisan issue. But I just have been informed that the Democrats on the cloture vote tomorrow are going to vote against cloture on something this bipartisan. Not one of them is going to speak against it. I do not think anybody in this body can speak against this bill. But they are going to filibuster this bill because they cannot add the minimum wage to this bill, or they cannot add any number of other liberal wish lists to this bill. Talk about an unjust situation confounding an unjust situation. I cannot believe that my colleagues are going to do that on the other side. They ought to be the first to say, get this bill through and do it and right this wrong. When I was a Democrat we were concerned about people's feelings. We were concerned about compassion. We were concerned about injustice. We would move heaven and Earth to try to do something about it. But that is one reason I left the party. Politics is more important than anything else, I guess.…”