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Orrin Hatch: This nominee who was called outside the mainstream-- outside the mainstream--gets about three-fourths of the vote in…

On the recordNovember 12, 2003
This nominee who was called outside the mainstream-- outside the mainstream--gets about three-fourths of the vote in that bastion of conservatism--California--and the other side suggests she is somehow unacceptably conservative? That is absurd on its face, I argue to my friend.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Defending a judicial nominee during Senate floor debate.

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