Orrin Hatch

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The press is eulogizing former Senator Orrin Hatch for his civility and bipartisan deal-making with Democrat Ted Kennedy. He certainly was a gracious man ...

Born in Pittsburgh in modest circumstances before moving to Utah, Hatch was among the conservatives who rose to power to correct the Democratic failures of the 1960s and ’70s. They are leaving us now, year by year, but their work restored the country’s military strength and economic vigor. The speech was largely written by Robert Altman, a BCCI lawyer, and the bank got off easy. Hatch chaired the Finance Committee in the final term of his 42-year tenure, and he helped to shepherd the 2017 tax reform into law. Hatch’s worst moment was a 1990 Senate floor speech defending a Justice Department settlement with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International on money-laundering charges. On the Judiciary Committee, Senator Hatch subjected the claims to proper scrutiny. The press is eulogizing former Senator Orrin Hatch for his civility and bipartisan deal-making with Democrat Ted Kennedy. He certainly was a gracious man who represented a more civil era in politics.

Former Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest serving senator in Utah history, has died at age 88. Hatch served as a senator from 1977 to 2019.

“Sen. Orrin Hatch was a titan for Utah and our country. “Sen. Orrin Hatch was a titan for Utah and our country. In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle. “A man of wisdom, kindness, character, and compassion, Orrin G. Hatch was everything a United States Senator should be," Anderson said. Sen. Hatch played an indispensable role in passing some of the most significant bipartisan achievements in recent history and was a passionate defender of religious liberty. "Senator Hatch touched the hearts of countless individuals, and I know I speak for all of them when I say he will be dearly missed.”

The Hatch Foundation announced the passing of Orrin G. Hatch, 88, the longest-serving senator in Utah history. He passed away in Salt Lake City, Utah.

"Senator Hatch was a gentleman, statesman and a proud son of Pennsylvania," Toomey said. "So sad to hear of the death of Orrin Hatch," former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said in a tweet Saturday night. He also briefly ran for president in 1999. Hatch served 42 years in the Senate, from 1977 to 2019, including some time as the president pro tempore of the chamber, a ceremonial leadership position typically reserved for senior members. Prayers for his family today." Shortly after that, on Jan. 2, 2018, Hatch announced he would retire from the Senate instead of seeking reelection. He retired on Jan. 3, 2019. He was born near Pittsburgh, earned a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh and cheered for the city's sports teams. "His ability to reach across the aisle defined his career and his character. He was known for working across the aisle, and the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., was one of his closest friends. "At the time of his retirement, Senator Hatch held the distinction of having passed more legislation into law than any other Senator then alive," said a statement Saturday from the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation. "Through his relentless work ethic, Hatch earned a reputation as one of the most effective and bipartisan lawmakers of all time." Former U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history and the longest-serving senator from Utah, died Saturday. He was 88.

SALT LAKE CITY — Orrin G. Hatch, who became the longest-serving Republican senator in history as he represented Utah for more than four decades, ...

Both Bennett and Hatch voted in favor of a 2008 bank bailout that rankled those on the far right. Hatch was used to playing tough — he learned to box as a child in Pittsburgh to fend off the attacks of older, larger students. One issue Hatch returned to over the course of his career was limiting or outlawing abortion, a position that put him at the center of one of the nation’s most controversial issues. Hatch came to the Senate after a 1976 election win and went onto become the longest-serving senator in Utah history, winning a seventh term in 2012. He withdrew from the race after only winning 1 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and then endorsed George W. Bush. He married Elaine Hanson in 1957 and graduated from Brigham Young University in 1959. He became a strong opponent of President Barack Obama’s 2009 health care law after pulling out of early bipartisan talks on the legislation. He launched the Hatch Foundation as he retired in 2019 and was replaced by Republican Mitt Romney. Through Trump encouraged Hatch to run again, the longtime senator would have faced a tough primary battle and had promised to retire. For Hatch, the music-download issue was a personal one. “In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle. In return, Trump helped Hatch deliver on a key issue for Republicans in Utah by agreeing to drastically downsize two national monuments that had been declared by past presidents.

(CNN) Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah died at 88 on Saturday, according to a press release from his foundation. "A man of wisdom, kindness, ...

Hatch was the chairman emeritus of the Hatch Foundation, which focuses on civic engagement and political discourse and is home to his legislative records. He was a statesman that represented the best our country has to offer. From tax and trade to religious liberty and healthcare, few legislators have had a greater impact on American life than Orrin Hatch," Sandgren said. In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle." He was always so kind and generous with his time and wisdom. "My heart is heavy because it aches for the times when we actually lived up to our reputation as the world's greatest deliberative body.

Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, was known for working across party lines.

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Orrin Hatch, the longtime Republican senator from Utah, died Saturday in Salt Lake City at the age of 88, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation announced.

“We must restore the culture of comity, compromise, and mutual respect that used to exist here. He was always so kind and generous with his time and wisdom,” Cox, a Republican, wrote. “Senator Orrin G. Hatch personified the American Dream,” Matt Sandgren, executive director of the Hatch Foundation, said in a statement. Hatch was also the longest-serving U.S. senator in Utah history. He moved to Utah in 1969. He had no serious challenger after that. In his farewell speech on Dec. 12, 2018, Hatch bemoaned the lack of regular order and said “the Senate, as an institution, is in crisis or at least may be in crisis.” Hatch was a member and former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the ceremony Trump called Hatch “a true American statesman” and said “his achievements are too numerous to count.” He noted Hatch’s long service in the Senate and also the passage of a major tax reform bill. Hatch graduated from Brigham Young University in 1959 with a bachelor's in history, and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962. Abby and I are so grateful for the opportunities we had to spend time with this incredible public servant. Raised in what he’s called “a ramshackle house” during the Great Depression, Hatch went on to serve as chairman of three different Senate committees and put his stamp on major pieces of legislation across the policy spectrum.

Orrin Hatch, who served Utah for more than four decades in Congress, died Saturday evening in Salt Lake City. He was 88. Hatch, whose death was confirmed by ...

“A man of wisdom, kindness, character, and compassion, Orrin G. Hatch was everything a United States Senator should be,” added A. Scott Anderson, chairman of the Hatch Foundation. “In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle. “Senator Orrin G. Hatch personified the American Dream,” Matt Sandgren, executive director of the Hatch Foundation, said in a public statement. Utah mourns with the Hatch family.” Today, more than ever, we would do well to follow his example. He was always so kind and generous with his time and wisdom. No cause of death was given.

A Utah Republican, he overcame poverty to become a powerful force in Washington, helping to build a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

“I was convinced that someone needed to stand against these trends,” he said in his memoir. In the early 1970s, he was the band manager for a Mormon-themed folk group, “Free Agency.” He also wrote books on politics and religion, and articles for periodicals and newspapers, including The Times. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history at BYU in 1959, he studied law at the University of Pittsburgh on a full scholarship and received his juris doctor in 1962. Wade, he concluded that America was headed in the wrong direction. He was the longest-serving Republican and the sixth longest-serving senator in the history of the Senate, a singular achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact that, aside from a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, it was the only office he had ever sought. He joined a Pittsburgh law firm, but in 1969 moved to Salt Lake City to open his own practice. Orrin Grant Hatch was born in Homestead Park, Pa., near Pittsburgh, on March 22, 1934, the sixth of nine children of Jesse and Helen (Kamm) Hatch. His parents were Mormons who had moved from Utah in the 1920s to find work. His idea of a good joke, on himself, was a video that caught him trying to remove glasses he was not wearing during a contentious Senate hearing. But in the Senate, as in his early life, he was a fighter. Mr. Romney was easily elected in 2018 and succeeded Mr. Hatch when he stepped down. “That was a dumb thing to say,” he acknowledged. He went to school in bib overalls, lost siblings in infancy and in World War II, and grew up in a crowded, ramshackle house without indoor plumbing.

Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, died at 88.

He became an ally of Trump. He also formed friendships across the aisle, particularly with the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. He launched the Hatch Foundation as he retired in 2019 and was replaced by Mitt Romney.

The conservative senator from Utah was one of the most influential lawmakers of his era.

Moss was active on consumer and health issues and was well regarded in Washington. But Mr. Hatch hammered him as out of touch with the increasingly Republican state. The speech was largely written by Robert Altman, a BCCI lawyer and official who was later indicted but ultimately acquitted of fraud charges stemming from the scandal. In Iowa, he drew 1 percent of the vote in the state’s GOP caucuses. His one electoral defeat came in 2000, when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination. When he decided to challenge the state’s three-term Democratic U.S. senator, Frank Moss, almost no one but Mr. Hatch thought he had a chance. As a boy, he was scrawny and was pushed around by a schoolyard bully. We’re all better off,” Mr. Hatch told CNN in remarks that Mr. Hatch later said he regretted. When court filings in late 2018 implicated Trump in an effort during his campaign to buy the silence of two women who claimed they had sexual encounters with him years earlier, Mr. Hatch dismissed the revelation as unimportant. One factor in Mr. Hatch’s transition from ideologue to pragmatist was the 1980 election, which shifted Senate control to the GOP and gave him the chairmanship of the Labor and Human Resources Committee — and with it responsibility for health-related legislation. When he retired in 2019, at the end of his seventh term, he chaired the powerful tax-writing Finance Committee and by virtue of his seniority was Senate president pro tempore. He was one of nine senators to oppose a 2011 budget deal struck to avoid a government shutdown, claiming the measure did not cut spending enough. To the surprise of both, they found common ground in their efforts to improve health care and social services.

Former Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch died Saturday in Salt Lake City according to an announcement from his foundation. He was 88 years old.

He worked as a trial lawyer and moved to Utah in 1969 before defeating three-term Democratic Senator Frank Moss in 1976. He took office in 1977 and served until his retirement in 2019. Former Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson was Hatch’s Democratic challenger in 1982. Hatch was a Utah Senator for nearly 42 years. The cause of death was not specified. He was 88 years old.

Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history who was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88.

He received a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962 and was a partner in the law firm of Thomson, Rhodes and Grigsby in that city until 1969. Later, he was a partner in the Salt Lake City firm of Hatch & Plumb. Hatch was used to playing tough — he learned to box as a child in Pittsburgh to fend off the attacks of older, larger students. Both Bennett and Hatch voted in favor of a 2008 bank bailout that rankled those on the far right. One issue Hatch returned to over the course of his career was limiting or outlawing abortion, a position that put him at the center of one of the nation’s most controversial issues. Hatch came to the Senate after a 1976 election win and went onto become the longest-serving senator in Utah history, winning a seventh term in 2012. He withdrew from the race after only winning 1 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and then endorsed George W. Bush. “He entered the Senate as a young principled conservative in the 1970s when the modern conservative movement was in its infancy. “In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle. He became a strong opponent of President Barack Obama’s 2009 health care law after pulling out of early bipartisan talks on the legislation. Through Trump had encouraged him to run again, the longtime senator would have faced a tough primary battle and had promised to retire. In return, Trump helped Hatch deliver on a key issue for Republicans in Utah with a contentious move to drastically downsize two national monuments that had been declared by past presidents.

Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, was known for working across party lines.

Hatch was used to playing tough — he learned to box as a child in Pittsburgh to fend off the attacks of older, larger students. Both Bennett and Hatch voted in favor of a 2008 bank bailout that rankled those on the far right. Orrin Grant Hatch was born in 1934 in Pittsburgh. He married Elaine Hanson in 1957 and graduated from Brigham Young University in 1959. He withdrew from the race after only winning 1 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and then endorsed George W. Bush. Hatch came to the Senate after a 1976 election win and went onto become the longest-serving senator in Utah history, winning a seventh term in 2012. "He exemplified a generation of lawmakers brought up on the principles of comity and compromise, and he embodied those principles better than anyone," said Hatch Foundation chairman A. Scott Anderson in a statement. For Hatch, the issue of illegally downloaded music was a personal one. One issue Hatch returned to over the course of his career was limiting or outlawing abortion, a position that put him at the center of one of the nation's most controversial issues for decades. "In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle. He launched the Hatch Foundation as he retired in 2019 and was replaced by Republican Mitt Romney. In return, Trump helped Hatch deliver a key issue for Republicans in Utah by agreeing to drastically downsize two national monuments that had been declared by past presidents. Through Trump encouraged Hatch to run again, the longtime senator, who would have faced a tough primary battle and had promised not to run again.