Orrin Hatch

There is none. It is absolutely astounding. Here is a Federal district judge, trial court judge in the District of Columbia, who has absolutely no connection to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, telling appellate judges that they must…

If we can have judges, district court judges, trial court judges in the District of Columbia issue an order to appellate judges in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, then the structure and rationality of our Federal judicial system would…

I also want to note that I have filed three other bills today; in particular, the Curt Flood Act of 1997, which is the baseball antitrust bill that I believe now is coming to fruition, which is something that we have tried to do for a long…

The media has never objected. The point I was making is the media, when they knew about it, never objected--never objected at any time. And, in fact, one major representative of the media testified--

Although Representative Clinger had a right to ask for it, I am not sure they should have given it to him. But they did. But at least before they gave it to him, somebody leaked it to U.S. News & World Report. That somebody had to be…

What I said was that somebody from either the Justice Department or White House leaked it to the U.S. News & World Report before Chairman Clinger asked for this material.

The Justice Department was not subpoenaed for that document. If anybody was, it was the White House. Why would they have that document?

With respect to the corporate-owned life insurance provision in the conference agreement to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, I would like to clarify the definition of a fixed and variable rate of interest as…

I have been talking about them for a long time. I am disappointed we have not made more headway, but it certainly has not been for lack of effort on the part of our friend from Georgia. I want to say in all honesty, we have to fight this…

I think it is unprecedented. Talk about unprecedented. It is unprecedented for the White House to order the investigation, which is what happened here.

I think we agree that any increases in the minimum wage should be a factor in Medicaid reimbursements. I thank my colleague for this clarification.

That is correct. Evidence of plant construction, equipment, and the like are exactly the type of qualifying activities that the Judiciary bill contemplates.

We have never had a balanced budget amendment up where 80 percent of the Senators voted for this type of amendment. At the last minute to have an amendment like that literally creates a complete dislocation in the whole budget process. It…

It seems to me that is one reason why we need a balanced budget amendment. If there are Senators that will not do that now, then under the balanced budget amendment we are going to have to. We are going to have to raise taxes and reduce…

I thank my colleague. She makes the very good point that we should not just be an open pocket for people who get indicted. In this particular case, I think almost everybody admits we have to right this wrong. It is the appropriate thing to…

Sure you are, if you vote against cloture. Keep in mind, if we have cloture, any relevant amendment--this is amendable by any relevant amendment--if we get cloture, you can bring up any relevant amendment you want. Of course, the GATT…

What in the world does the Glaxo thing or the Zantac thing have to do with Billy Dale and getting compensation to Billy Dale? Tell me, what in the world does it have to do with this bill that everybody agrees ought to be passed, including…

To resolve that matter, 10-7. That is the appropriate way to debate this. If the Senator disagrees with that bill, the Senator can do so. I think it is telling here that we have a bill which passed the House 350 to 43 that the President…

Let us make it clear. If Maggie Williams, to use the distinguished Senator's illustration, is not indicted, she is entitled to attorney's fees reimbursement. If she is indicted, she is not. If she is indicted and she is tried in a court of…

I would still fight to my death to keep it alive, because it makes this the freest legislative body in the world and it is a great protection for the minority.

The Clinton administration, as my distinguished colleague just said, opposes the creation of an office for the enforcement of employer sanctions. The Congress should be about cutting the Federal bureaucracy, not adding to it. This bill…

I thank Senator Cohen very much for his work in this area, and specifically for his efforts to clarify the bill with respect to the treatment of alternative medical providers. I think that his changes have improved the bill greatly. I…

Thank you. My next concern relates to creation of the health care fraud and abuse data collection program. As you know, some people are concerned about the very establishment at the Federal level of this new program. I understand those…

I have concerns in four specific areas. First of all, would the Senator agree that the mere practice of unconventional or non-standard therapies would not fall within the definition of fraud?

I would just add, they will do it by the law, but realistically they can do it. I have also said that I will work with the distinguished Senator from Delaware to try to resolve these problems in a formal bill in the future, as we examine…