Orrin Hatch

I was one of the principal sponsors, as was Senator Kennedy, of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I also worked closely with Senator Biden--it was the Biden-Hatch Bill--on another law that the Supreme Court has found to be beyond Federal power.

We wrote the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We brought together almost everybody in Congress on that bill.

I first would like to acknowledge and thank Senator Leahy for his service as Chairman of this Committee over the past 16 months.

Section 16 of H.R. 3394 would ensure that the authorized funding in the bill for research purposes does not support individuals in violation of U.S. immigration laws. The intent of this section is to prevent any funding, directly or…

I ask for simple courtesy from the other side. Give us an up-or-down vote on Dennis Shedd. Everybody who is on the Judiciary Committee knows this man, and I think most others in the Senate know this man and know what a good person he is…

I understand that this provision is intended to allow the administration to assess current treatment, prevention, education and research programs. The conference report directs the President to conduct the study. The President's logical…

Mr. President, every Member of this body, and every citizen in this country, knows that the most critical issue facing our Nation today is the task of securing our homeland and protecting our country from further terrorist attacks. The…

I think we ought to have this on the markup tomorrow.

This bill will go a long way toward helping us to try and at least do what we can initially to try and stop what is going on.

What we should do is mark it up tomorrow, get it immediately reported to the floor, and get it out before this week is over.

I want to thank you and the distinguished Senator from Texas, Senator Hutchison, for your work in this area.

I take it they are spending $600 billion or more--almost double what we spend--and not getting nearly the delivery of the drug as in the system we would give to the seniors. It seems to me it is pretty tough to be for the $600 billion…

Yet in this $370 billion program that we have devised, all of those in yellow are covered?

Is the Senator saying that they claim for $600 billion, even in a bill that is sunsetted so they can keep the cost that low, that all of those drugs indicated on your chart in red letters "not covered" are drugs they do not cover?

I can see why some seniors would want a trillion-dollar program--no question about it--as long as they think it is free. But it isn't going to be free. Neither is their program going to be free. We have to face some realities around here…

It has everything to do with the Social Security Act, which none of us on the floor, except for Senator Kennedy, I guess, had anything to do with. Now, it is nice to moan and grown about these figures, but he is wrong.

If the car is necessary for daily use, if it is necessary for their job or if it is necessary for a medical purpose----

First of all, let's take the car benefit of $4,500. If it is necessary for medicine or for daily use or for their job, they could own a Rolls Royce according to our bill. But the fact of the matter is, no car would be taken from them. Now…

But we take care of low-income senior citizens. We have 100 percent of subsidy for those under 135 percent of poverty or less. For those up to 150 percent, that subsidy ranges from 100 percent down to 75 percent. And everybody above 150…

It is my understanding that such test procedures do exist and could provide an alternative way to measure maximum available power.

Our purpose in authorizing an ``equivalent test'' is not to push manufacturers to one particular hybrid design by virtue of our prescribing the standard 10 second pulse power test. Rather, we want to provide flexibility in the methodology…

This modification expresses the sense of the whole Senate to do what both Senator Dodd and I are so concerned about. It shows that all 100 Senators agree with Senators Ensign, Burns, Thomas and me that full funding of this act must be…

I also request that my colleagues support the inclusion of provisions to establish an animal terrorism incident clearinghouse.

As everyone here knows, I do not like to engage in the typical statistics judo that seems to be intrinsic to this issue. But I do want everyone to understand that, despite the progress that was just mentioned, we really have a lot more…