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The Library of Congress > THOMAS Home > Congressional Record EXECUTIVE SESSION -- (Senate - August 04, 2009) [Page: S8745] GPO's PDF The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah is recognized. Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I enjoyed my colleague's remarks. I don't agree with him, but he is certainly a great colleague and we appreciate him. Mr. President, I rise today to explain why I cannot support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. I do so with regret because the prospect of a woman of Puerto Rican heritage serving on the...

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) spokesman Dr. Jerry Vlasak openly endorsed murdering other doctors at an animal-rights convention, we expected some skeptics to give Vlasak the benefit of the doubt. Not any more. A stunning piece of audio surfaced ... Listen to Jerry Vlasak at the "Animal Rights 2003" convention as a PCRM representative. We forgave Doubting Thomases for wondering if our notes were accurate, or if we were perhaps making the whole thing up, even after U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) closed a Judiciary Committee hearing by reading, out loud, a letter from the Center for Consumer Freedom...

<p>Two years after the Sept. 11 attacks, no memorial service, cable-news talkfest or university seminar seemed to have been complete without someone emerging from the woodwork to wonder darkly why the CIA ever financed Usama bin Laden "in the first place."</p>

E-Blast Nov. 18, 2002By Laura Ingraham When most people think about the "American Dream," family, hard work, God, love of country come to mind. But if "immigrant rights" groups and their supporters in Washington have their way, the dream will also include law-breaking. With Republicans poised to take control of both house of Congress in January, a legislative quandary awaits them -- a bill called the "Dream Act," the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. Introduced by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch earlier this year, it would make it easier for states to offer in-state tuition rates at...