Orrin Hatch

I agree 100 percent with the distinguished Senator from Louisiana, who has coauthored the bill along with Senator Dole and others here. Section 625 of this bill, the decisional criteria section, makes clear that the cost-benefit assessment…

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I hope everybody on this floor will vote down these amendments that are being brought up here today because I think it is the only way we can make the change and get rid of these frivolous appeals, save taxpayers billions of dollars, and…

I think the real thing the Senator has been worried about is whether if pro-choice and right-to-life people are picketing and exercising their rights of free speech, and some incidental damage occurs--just to choose two organizations in…

I would like to resolve one of the issues that I think is resolvable, on the Smith amendment. What the Senator is concerned about is he wanted a floor on the amount of damage, so that incidental damage by citizens who are engaged in…

It is an amendment that really would allow wiretaps following the criminal. In other words, instead of having to follow the phone they follow the criminal who might use multiple phones. I personally have no objection to that and think it…

The Democrats have 20 amendments. Before Monday we had language on only seven of those amendments. We certainly do not know what the John Kerry amendment is.

My partner in the Judiciary Committee. We do not even know what some of the other amendments are because nobody has given us any language. But I think there might be a way of resolving this if we got rid of the gun fight and reserve that…

If I can just respond to the distinguished Senator from California, I would prefer ``intends and knows'' rather than ``intends or knows'' because I believe that can lead to some mischief in the criminal law. On the other hand, this was a…

What I find troubling, however, is the suggestion that habeas corpus should be dropped from the bill. The President--a Democrat, I might add--called for habeas corpus reform in his ``60 Minutes'' interview. His instincts were right. He…

I am wearing this ribbon in honor of the people who died, and their families who have survived, the Oklahoma City bombing. It has great significance to me because one of the survivor's daughters pinned it on me earlier this morning. I wear…

This amendment simply places a dollar floor on cases that can be brought in Federal court in acts of terrorism. This amendment will prevent Federal courts from having to try minor cases in Federal court. For example, we would not want a…

I have to say that there were 12 Federal law enforcement officers and personnel who were murdered in the Oklahoma City tragedy. I understand that memorial services for those Federal law enforcement personnel will be held next week. Out of…

I also want to pay specific tribute to our distinguished colleague from Arkansas, Senator Pryor. Not only has he been a great Senator here but he has been the leader on this particular issue for years and he deserves the credit for these…

The game that is being played is business as usual. We are running this country right into bankruptcy.

You would wait until the next day when you had 51. You can come up with hypotheticals in every situation, but that does not change reality. This body has increased the debt ceiling.

That is my interpretation. It would have meant that we would have had to have gotten that 51 votes to increase taxes, and we probably would have been faced with having to reduce the deficit more.

We would not have had that highest tax increase in history had this amendment been in effect.

Let me finish and I will be glad to. The other point--with the delegation given to me from our colleague--is that, from your standpoint, a simple majority was not allowed to win, and that this would make it even more difficult because you…

It would have, had they not walked. My point is the Senator is saying they might walk under this constitutional majority. They walked then under a regular majority vote.

But in both cases, had they not walked, you could have had a constitutional majority. I think these votes are going to be heightened votes, and nobody is going to miss them.

But the point is we have a constitutional majority in here for one reason, and it has been accepted by both Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate; and that is so that we would have tax-limiting effect. I think it is going…

We think that is not the way to go. We believe we have to pass the balanced budget amendment, get it out to the States, and I assure my colleague, Republicans and Democrats will get together and we will have to come up with that glidepath…

But under the Daschle amendment, what it would do is it would hold things up. This is the one time in history where we have a chance of passing a balanced budget amendment, sending it to the States, letting the States make the…

I respect the Senator and his Democratic colleagues for standing up and doing what they thought was right. We did not think it was right because we did not want to increase the taxes the way they did--or you did, the highest tax increase…