Orrin Hatch

I want to compliment the two leaders for their leadership in helping to bring about this agreement. I hope everybody will support the leadership amendment. Not everybody is pleased. That is what compromises are all about. But I have to…

If leaders would withhold for a second, I think that the settlement on child care is utterly reasonable, something that can bring us together. I commend both leaders for trying to bring this about. It is my understanding that the Hatch…

It is not. Neither will the Senator's amendment be, but it still is an entitlement program, and we need to stop doing entitlements. Let me make my point.

If you look at the way it is written, it certainly does. Frankly, that is one of the reasons--only one of the reasons--I think the amendment is inadvisable, even though I have to acknowledge I appreciate what the distinguished Senator is…

the Senator from Illinois knows how much I appreciate her efforts and how much she tries to do good here on the floor. Certainly, what she is talking about here is something that is very alluring and very tempting, if you do not care where…

If I go to page 40, amending section requirements and limitations and put this in between lines 16 and 17, the Senator provides for an entitlement. It seems to me the Senator provides for a means whereby people can bring litigation if they…

As I read it, it does; it is the failure of the State to provide work-related activity. The amendment reads: The limitation described in paragraph (1) shall not apply to a family receiving assistance under this part if the State fails to…

One of the worst perceptions about the capital gains debate is that only the rich are going to benefit from a capital gains rate reduction. My friend from Massachusetts implied that and implied that those of us who are for a capital gains…

I do not think it is a Republican approach. It is a pro-American approach. Right now, I do not know of anybody who does not agree that Medicare is in serious financial condition and faces bankruptcy early in the next century. As of next…

also, according to the Senate Budget Committee, Federal benefits spending is going to grow by 6.4 percent. The difference between Congress' plan and the President's--1 percent-- is well less than the difference between projected spending…

Congress finds that-- (1) nearly 500,000 children are in foster care in the United States; (2) tens of thousands of children in foster care are waiting for adoption; (3) 2 years and 8 months is the median length of time that children wait…

I want to bring special attention to a cooperative satellite development program between the U.S. Air Force Academy and Weber State University located in Ogden, UT. Both institutions, I hasten to emphasize, Mr. President, specialize in…

What 343 requires is that when there is a major rule, if there is going to be litigation, it has to be the whole rule. It cannot be nit-picked to death as has been suggested under the language there. And every major rule is litigated now…

let me take a minute to state I am going to make an announcement here, in the next half hour or so, about what the Judiciary Committee is going to do about the Tennessee debacle. So I just want to put people on notice that the Judiciary…

Mr. President, ours is a Nation of laws. We are a Nation that guarantees liberty and justice to all people. Our Nation is only as strong as our commitment to justice is strong. When the public's faith in the arm of Government responsible…

let me spend a few minutes addressing the merits of S. 343 and the Glenn amendment. Let me say that, in our opinion, the Glenn amendment is reg lite. It is a somewhat weaker version of S. 291, which was the compromise bill, and for that…

I can acknowledge that. But let me just make two points. That does not mean they are wrong. That does not mean they did not happen. Just because OSHA has a different point of view or EPA has a different point of the view--which naturally…

We respectfully disagree. We think they are true, and they come from real, down-home, real-life Americans.

They are required by law. Since there were almost 70,000 pages last year of regulations, I suspect you would have to say that 80 percent of those were required by law. What about the other 20 percent? You see the other 20 percent is what…

Some of the statutes we pass are goofy. And let me agree with my colleague from Ohio, whom I happen to care a great deal for, even if he is defensive here today, that not only are some of the statutes goofy but we in the Congress, we do…

the Hutchison amendment that is currently pending, which restores a modified version of section 709 to the Judiciary Committee version of S. 343, is intended to deal with the problem that is appearing with more frequency of agencies…

At the appropriate place, insert the following: SEC. . RENEWAL OF PERMITS FOR GRAZING ON NATIONAL FOREST LANDS. Notwithstanding any other law, at the request of an applicant for renewal of a permit that has expired before, on, or after the…

Could I also ask the minority, since we have been accepting amendments over here and I understand there is really no logical or real objection to the Snowe bottled water amendment, I think we ought to get that accepted and move it through.

it appears that we cannot get the Hutchison amendment completed and negotiated in a way that is satisfactory to both sides. It is my understanding that the distinguished Senator from Texas is prepared to go to a vote on the amendment. I…

I appreciate my colleague doing that because I strongly support, as I think most every Senator will, the Dole amendment. I agree with Senator Dole; it is time to put these myths to bed and these conjured-up illustrations that some of the…