Orrin Hatch

I wish to rise and join my colleagues in supporting the Smith amendment to the fiscal year 1998 foreign operations bill that would cut assistance to the Government of the Russian Federation if it enacts the onerous bill passed by the Duma…

I rise today on behalf of Mr. Joel Klein, who has been nominated for the position of Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Mr. Klein was reported out of the Judiciary Committee unanimously on…

The only hope we have to rehabilitate these prisoners is to get them to work. The only work they do is Federal Prison Industries work. Basically, they can only sell their products to a Federal procurement program, and they have to be…

I feel constrained to oppose the Levin amendment provision that is filed on this bill before the Senate, as it is a matter that is properly within the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee which has not had an opportunity to consider it…

for some time now the Judiciary Committee has been working on issues dealing with copyright protection on the Internet and the copyright rights of performers and sound recordings. The Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act that…

why do we need 8 billion on top of the 16 billion already appropriated? We learned earlier that the House Commerce block grant may be scored as reaching only 860,000 uninsured children. I understand that this is a complicated matter…

The original Hatch-Kennedy bill proposed a $20 billion health insurance program for children, plus it contributed $10 billion for deficit reduction. It was a 5-year authorization. Both of the sponsors assumed--and I believe properly…

I rise to support Senator Kohl's amendment. This amendment would provide tax credits to encourage businesses and other institutions to provide child care for their employees. This proposal, which is similar to one that I included in my…

this morning we started the first of a series of hearings in the Judiciary Committee on the tobacco global settlement. I have to say that the funding for this $8 billion, as well as a number of other provisions that will be in the tax…

late last week the Senate Finance Committee completed work on one of the most significant and important pieces of legislation considered in the U.S. Congress in recent memory. By a vote of 18 to 2, the Committee approved its portion of the…

on June 16, 1997, I introduced legislation, S. 914, proposing to revise the present system in which the Medicare Program pays for services provided by skilled nursing facilities [SNF's]. This legislation builds on my work in the Finance…

last year, I stated on the Senate floor that ``our country stands at a crossroads on the path it travels in relations among the different races and ethnic groups that make up the American people. Down one path is the way of mutual…

Mr. President on behalf of myself and Senators Baucus, Mack, and D'Amato, I rise today to introduce the Real Estate Investment Trust Tax Simplification Act of 1997. This legislation would simplify and reform the tax law concerning Real…

I rise, along with Senator Bennett, to introduce the Dutch John Privatization Act. Dutch John, a city in Daggett County, UT, was established in 1958 by the Bureau of Reclamation to provide a community for the construction and operation of…

30 years ago a singular, unexpected and startling event reshaped the world. I am referring to the conclusion of the Six-Day War of 1967, when the young Jewish state was faced with the amassed forces of the Arab world, bent on its…

I rise today to join in honoring a legend, a legend not just in the Senate but also throughout the United States of America. I have been privileged to serve with Senator Thurmond for 21 of the last nearly 42 years that he has represented…

during the debate on ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, I said that I expected that both the President and the Congress must be wholly dedicated to implement this treaty in a way that advances U.S. national security interests…

I am pleased today to once again introduce the Omnibus Property Rights Act. Many Members of the Senate have as a paramount concern the protection of individual rights protected by our Constitution. One particular right--the right to own…

Under our bill--which as Senator Nickles pointed out earlier is not even the subject of our amendment today--participating States would use Federal grants to help working parents with incomes too high for Medicaid buy private health…

I normally would not get this argumentative, but, to be honest with you, I have heard some of the worst arguments against this bill that I have ever heard in any Senate proceeding. This morning I read a New York Times article, ``Citing…

May I ask my colleague another question? Is it not correct that all we are saying here is that we would like to have a vote, win or lose, on our amendment today? If we win, that makes it easier for us to go through the process. Naturally…

I think it is time for people to wake up and say, hey, look, this is an idea whose time has come. We must take care of these kids who cannot take care of themselves. The problem in this body, and the problem with the Federal Government, is…

I think that the Democratic leader has made a very compelling case. The amendment we are offering does not break the budget agreement. He summarized three points basically. No. 1, our amendment, just like the Domenici amendment, embodies…

72 percent of all adults responded that they favor this proposal and only 24 percent were opposed; 67 percent of all men approved of this proposal and 76 percent of all women were in favor. The results were remarkably consistent throughout…

Let me just end it this way. I think the President and the people in the White House have caved here, people who we had every reason to believe would be supportive of kids' health. Let me say, the Washington Post framed the issue in its…