Orrin Hatch

I want to thank Chairman Harkin and Senator Enzi for scheduling today's hearing on the controversial nomination of Mr. Craig Becker to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board.

And I want to commend the President of the United States for picking him. It was a great choice.

I urge that you make a favorable consideration of this nomination as quickly as you can.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman and Senator Boxer.

Chicago-style backroom buy-offs, at the expense of the American taxpayers.

Chicago-style, back room buyouts at the expense of the American taxpayers.

Look, I don't think it's the right thing to allow people to negatively short sell, especially when they do it to a company and knock its stock way down deliberately.

I'm very concerned about this abusive short selling approach.

Regulation SHO--do you think Regulation SHO has really worked that well?

I think short selling may be valuable. I don't think that negative short selling that's abusive is valuable. I think it's destructive.

Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for your energetic leadership in this area. I want to thank the three of you for the work that you do.

I hope you really--and Lanny, I hope you guys in the Justice Department will really look at this too, because I know too many companies that I think have been abused because of negative short selling.

I would not exactly characterize these prosecutions as 'successes.'

I believe that number is probably closer to 50 than it is the 195 that has been bandied about.

Having an adequate domestic capacity for developing pandemic vaccines is a matter of national security.

The statistic in my own opening statement, that still sort of stunned me when I kept on reading it over and over again--the fact that a person with H1N1 going to work, according to the CDC, could contaminate or affect 10 percent of that…

We exempt, of course, a lot of small businesses, because obviously--and I agree with Senator Enzi in that point.

These situations demand far more creative thinking than we've been able to provide.

We need to get smartened up and realize it's here, and begin to deal with it in a comprehensive fashion.

I think it is wonderful to want to have the world to all live in accordance with the globalization approach towards this, but my experience in the 33 years I have been here is that, if we commit to it, we will live up to it, but a lot of…

I personally believe China may very well show up at Copenhagen and say, well, we are for all of this, but it is not going to make any difference in what they do.

If the United States implements cap and trade unilaterally...we would, indeed, make ourselves considerably less competitive.

We are certainly concerned about it, which is why...we do have some concern.

What bothers me a lot is that, when I was chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, now called the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, I used to go over to Geneva to the ILO, the International Labor Organization.

Is it possible to construct a cap-and-trade program that reduces carbon emissions, that is not felt by the poor?