Message from Senator Orrin Hatch

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Fellow Utahn —

This week, the recently passed, unconstitutional health care law was back in the news and I was once again leading efforts to highlight its problems.

On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed that ObamaCare will cost $115 billion more than Democrats told us — pushing the total cost over $1 trillion. I discussed the fiscal insanity of the health care law on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren and on the Fred Thompson Radio Show this week.

I also joined Governor Herbert in writing an op-ed in the Deseret News on the importance of protecting and defending federalism.

This week’s update also features my op-ed in the St. George Spectrum on the importance of ensuring we take care of Utahns harmed by our government’s nuclear testing, and an editorial from the Ogden Standard-Examiner highlighting benefits of a bill I am co-sponsoring that will help bring much needed transparency to the congressional earmark process.

Sincerely,

Senator Hatch

P.S. Have you seen the video I showed at the Republican convention yet? If you haven’t, please take a few minutes to catch up on what I have been up to.

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Senator Hatch’s Op-Eds

• Federalism Must Not Be Abandoned
  Senator Orrin Hatch and Governor Gary Herbert, Deseret News, May 13, 2010
• Base Expansion On Science
  St. George Spectrum, May 11, 2010

TV & Radio Interviews And Clips

• Senator Hatch Talks With Fox News About Why Goodwin Liu Is Unfit For The Federal Judiciary
  Fox News, May 13, 2010
• Senator Hatch On The Fred Thompson Radio Show
  May 13, 2010
• What I’ve Been Doing Lately

In The News

• Bill Boosts Earmarks Transparency
  Ogden Standard-Examiner, May 16, 2010
• Hatch: Liu, Kagan And ‘Progressive Liberals’
  National Review Online, May 13, 2010
• Hoodwinked By Health Care? CBO Estimate Of Cost $115B More Than Original White House Estimate
  Fox News, May 12, 2010

Selected Tweets – @OrrinHatch in 140 characters or less

• I commend @NFIB, and those states, including Utah, for challenging this unconstitutional Washington mandate: http://bit.ly/caLLIp #hcr
• Federalism is not optional. It is a constitutional imperative and a fundamental limitation on government power.
• Wrote an op-ed with @GovernorHerbert on the importance of protecting and defending federalism: http://bit.ly/cnn8Gk #utpol
• Discussed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan with @FredThompson today: http://bit.ly/aq43ei #SCOTUS
• Introduced two amends to the deeply-flawed financial regulatory bill to prevent its cost from being passed on to you: http://bit.ly/9rDbab
• The real spending hasn’t even started yet, and ObamaCare already costs $115 billion more than promised: http://bit.ly/9jIQHK #hcr
• Wrote an op-ed about my commitment to ensuring we take care of Utahns harmed by our government’s nuclear testing:http://bit.ly/agrqRN

Follow Senator Hatch on Twitter at twitter.com/OrrinHatch.