the real facts about orrin hatch's conservative record

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The facts aboutSenator Orrin Hatchsconservative record

Where does Orrin Hatchreally stand on the issues?

Who is FreedomWorks?

Why dont they wantUtah to lead the SenateFinance Committee?

Why do they hateMitt Romney &Orrin Hatch?

FreedomsWorksTop 10 Lies Revealed

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Revealing FreedomWorks top ten lies aboutSenator Orrin Hatch:

It doesnt matter if Orrin Hatch or Olympia Snowe isChair of the Senate Finance Committee becausethey vote the same.

Senator Hatch supported the bailout of GeneralMotors and Chrysler.

Senator Hatch supported the bailouts of FannieMae and Freddie Mac.

Senator Hatch supported reauthorizing theTARP bailout.

Senator Hatch created the Department of Education.

Senator Hatch has a liberal voting record onjudicial nominations.

Senator Hatch does not want to balancethe budget.

Senator Hatch supported a government takeoverof the health care system.

Senator Hatch always votes to raise thedebt ceiling.

Senator Hatch doesnt support a banon earmarks.

FreedomWorks Exposed. A vote-by-vote rebuttal of FreedomWorkslies, deceptions, omissions, guile and hypocrisy.

Who is FreedomWorks? Why dont they want Utah to lead theSenate Finance Committee? Why do they hate Mitt Romney andOrrin Hatch?

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Revealing FreedomWorks top ten lies about Senator Orrin Hatch:

It doesnt matter if Orrin Hatch orOlympia Snowe is Chair of theSenate Finance Committeebecause they vote the same.

FreedomWorks goes through some mathematical gymnastics in order to arguethat the Senate Finance Committee wont be any less conservative if Senator

Snowe is chairman instead of Senator Hatch. However, closer examination of

these three diagrams, which show how often Senators Orrin Hatch, Mike Leeand Olympia Snowe have voted the same as liberal Democrat Senator Harry

Reid, sheds light on their bald-faced lie.

Source: www.opencongress.org

Orrin Hatch has voted with Harry Reid less than 40% of the time during hisservice in Congress, most of the overlap coming from bipartisan procedural

votes. Mike Lee, in just his first year, also has a vote overlap record with Harry

Reid below 40%. However, Olympia Snowe hasvoted with Harry Reid 62% of the time during her

career. In fact, she was the only Republican in theSenate Finance Committee to vote for Obamacare.

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) beingcongratulated by Senate Finance

Committee Chairman Max Baucus

(D-MT) after voting for Obamacare.(October 12, 2009 - Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America)

Senator Hatch supportedthe bailout of General Motorsand Chrysler.

FreedomWorks falsely claims that Senator Hatch suppor

the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. ere was only one vote in th

Senate on legislation to authorize the auto bailout, and Senator Hatch votefilibuster that legislation.

Source: Senate vote #215 (12/11/2008)

Senator Hatch supported

the bailouts of Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac.

FreedomWorks falsely claims that Senator Hatch vote

bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008. e legislation that authori

the bailout was the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008. ough the majorof Senate Republicans voted to pass this legislation, Senator Hatch was on

just 13 senators who voted against final passage of the bill.


Senator Hatch supportedreauthorizing the TARP bailout.

FreedomWorks is falsely claiming Senator Hatchsupported reauthorizing the Troubled Asset Relief Progr

(TARP). Senator Hatch spoke against reauthorization on the floor of the S

ate. However, it is noted in the Congressional record he voted present asof the time-honored Senate tradition of giving live pair, which is when o

senator on one side of an issue is hospitalized and another senator on the oside of the issue is chosen to be a live pair and simply vote present. i

Senate tradition ensures that in America, hospitalization doesnt determine

islation. Furthermore, Senator Hatchs live pair vote had no bearing on the

ure of the vote to prohibit the reauthorization of TARP because the measufailed by ten votes.


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Senator Hatch created theDepartment of Education.

e legislation that established the Department of Education

was the Department of Education Organization Act of 1979. Senator Hatchvoted against final passage of this

legislation and against the establishment

of the Department of Education byPresident Carter.


Senator Hatch has a liberal votingrecord on judicial nominations.

FreedomWorks claims that Senator Hatchs record on

judicial nominations is less than conservative. Yet, even Sena-tor Hatchs strongest critics would argue that such a claim has no basis in real-

ity. During the infamous debate over the nomination of Judge Robert Bork tothe Supreme Court, Senator Hatch was universally con-

sidered to be Judge Borks fiercest advocate in the Senate 1.

Senator Hatch was also the most outspoken senator indefense of Justice Clarence omas during his con-

tentious confirmation hearings with Anita Hill2. WhenSenate Democrats were going to unprecedented lengths

to filibuster President George W. Bushs conservative

judicial nominees, Senator Hatch led the fight to getthem confirmed3. Furthermore, Senator Hatch spoke

strongly against liberal judicial nominees like SonyaSotomayor4 and Elana Kagan5.

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Senator Hatch does not want tobalance the budget.

Hearing FreedomWorks talk, wed think that Senator H

is a recent convert to the effort of getting our nations fiscal house in orderAgain, nothing can be further from the truth. roughout his tenure, Sen

Hatch has been the Senates most outspoken and consistent advocate

in favor of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. He has bthe lead sponsor or a co-sponsor of the Balanced Budget Amendment 24

Once, he passed it with a two-thirds vote in the Senate only to have SpeakTip ONeill kill it in the House. Another time, when Republicans had the

in the House to pass it, Senator Hatch was only one vote short of passing

the Senate. It failed only after big labor unions twisted the arm of a keyDemocrat senator just moments before the vote on the Senate floor.

Sources:1 http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/11/us/hatch-assails-aba-over-vote-on-bork.html2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JBYBhpXZAs3 http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/hatch200501120729.asp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuw-LPHC35E5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzdTpRQH2zc

Judges. Judges. Judges.

A third of the US government

is the judiciary, and the man

who has done more for

getting the right people on

the federal bench? Orrin

Hatch from the great state of Utah.

Laura IngrahamConservative Talk Radio Host

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If every member of the

Senate were like Orrin Hatch,

wed be arguing over how to

deal with a federal surplus,

and thats why I like to think

of Orrin as Mr. BalancedBudget.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoIvcQzIuD4&feature=youtube_gdata_player


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And this is only the Top 10

Senator Hatch supported agovernment takeover of thehealth care system.

In referencing legislation introduced during the debate over theClinton Health Care Plan which would have created a socialistic, single-payer

health care system FreedomWorks completely mischaracterizes SenatorHatchs position. At that time, Senator Hatch co-sponsored several Republican

alternatives so that Democrats wouldnt be able to claim the Republicans did

not have a plan. e strategy worked, and Hillarycare was defeated. eRepublican legislation with an individual mandate was promptly abandoned

and never came up for debate or for a vote. Socialist health care was defeated

for the moment thanks to the strategy employed by Republicans.

Only after Obamacare was introduced was the idea of an individual mandateseriously debated in the Senate. Senator Hatch was the first member of

Congress to publicly question the constitutionality of the mandate1. He voted

against it in the Senate Finance Committee2.He voted against it on the floor of the Senate3.

And most recently, he sponsored bills torepeal Obamacare4.

Sources:1 http://cnsnews.com/node/564472 Senate Finance Committee (10/12/2009)3 Senate vote #396 (12/24/2009)4 Hatchs American Liberty Restoration Act (S.19) andAmerican Job Protection Act (S.20) in 2011.

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H.R. 9290 (1977)H.R. 13385 (1978)H.R. 2534 (1979)H.R. 5369 (1979)H.R. 7471 (1980)H.J. Res. 569 (1980)H.J. Res 308 (1983)H.R. 5300 (1986)H.R. 2360 (1987)

H.R. 3190 (1987)H.R. 5835 (1990)H.R. 2264 (1993)H.R. 3221 (2008)H.R.1 (2009)H.R. 4314 (2009)H.J. Res. 45 (2010)

Senator Hatch doesnt supporta ban on earmarks.

e way FreedomWorks paints the picture, wed neveknow that Senator Hatch has voted on multiple occasions to ban earmark

and was the first senator to withdraw his few earmark requests in 2010 -even before the across-the-board ban was finally imposed.

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Senate vote #255 (11/30/2010)

Senate vote #60 (3/18/2010)

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/attn-gop-porkers-hatch-had-his-earmark-requestripped-from-spending-bill.php (12/15/2010)

Senator Hatch always votes to raisthe debt ceiling.

FreedomWorks only talks about Orrin Hatch rai

the debt ceiling. ey wont say it, but the truth is Senator Hatch has against raising the debt ceiling 16 times in his career. He voted against rai

the debt limit under Presidents Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clint

George W. Bush, and Obama. Hypocrcally, FreedomWorks own Chairman, f

mer Rep. Dick Armey (TX), was in favObamas proposal to raise the debt ceili

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First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,holding a copy of the Clinton Health Care Plan,

kicks off a three-state sales campaign during a visitto Johns Hopkins University, Oct. 28, 1993.

http://www.freedomworks.org/news/armey-we-hathe-debt-ceiling (12/15/2010)


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FreedomWorks: Reckless Deceit

FreedomWorks: Exposed

DECEPTION FreedomWorks has distributeda document that leads readers to believe that

slightly more than one-half of one percent

thats 1/200th of Senator Hatchs votes define

his Senate service, but it goes well beyond just

taking a small vote sample. FreedomWorks has

shown that they will spew outright lies in their

frantic attempt to defeat Orrin Hatch, a

champion of the conservative cause.

HYPOCRISYFreedomWorks attacks SenatorHatch for casting many of the same votes their

own Chairman Dick Armey cast. On yet even

more of these votes, Senator Hatch sided with

some of their favorite conservative Republicans

like Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn, Paul Ryan and

Michele Bachmann, as well as conservative

legends like Ronald Reagan and Barry

Goldwater.

POWER HUNGRYWhen FreedomWorksdesperate attempt at deceiving Utah voters

and smearing Orrin Hatch is given a second

look, they are easily exposed as a power-

hungry, out-of-state special interest group that

will launch outlandish attacks on a fellow

conservative just so they can choose Utahs

elected officials for us. FreedomWorks thinks

they know best; they dont.

RECKLESS At best, FreedomWorks isaccidentally advancing Obamas liberal

agenda. At worst, their frenzied attempt to

defeat Orrin Hatch is a deliberate attack on

Utahs conservative values. If theyre succes

in their lust for power, they will have paved

way for the only Republican who voted for

Obamacare, rather than a lifelong fiscal

conservative from Utah, to become Chair oSenate Finance Committee.

2007 Key Votes

Roll Call 42:

Hatch voted for Big Labors job-killing minimumwage hike.

is bill included tax breaks for small businesses impactedby the increase in minimum wage and would have negatedthe negative impact of the increase and helped businesses inthe process. Senator Hatch voted to filibuster a proposed

clean minimum wage increase (an increase without tbreaks). Almost all other Republican senators includconservatives like Jim Bunning, John Cornyn, and Jeffsions - joined him in supporting this bill with the tax sions included.

Roll Call 105:

Hatch voted to increase taxes in order toreauthorize and expand SCHIP.

Roll Call 307:

Hatch voted to expand the federal governmrole in health care through reauthorizing SCH

Unlike Obamacare, SCHIP was originally narrowly tato assist a certain segment of the population and provchoice and flexibility to participating states. Put simplSCHIP was designed to keep workers in the workforcgiving working families that didnt quite qualify for M

caid an alternative program so they didnt quit workingo on more expensive government programs in a despattempt to insure their children. In Senator Hatchs vithats a conservative goal. However, when President Otook office, he and congressional Democrats expandeSCHIP to cover too many people and increased federtrol over the program. Senator Hatch was among the moutspoken critics of these changes and voted against rthorizing SCHIP in 2009.

2009 Key Votes

Roll Call 148:

Hatch voted to allow taxpayer dollars to be takento bail out auto manufacturers.

is was not even a vote on the auto bailout. Senator Hatchopposed the auto bailout from the very beginning, votingagainst it in December 2008.

2008 Key Votes

Roll Call 10:

Hatch voted for this stimulus bill, which expandedthe welfare state, increased FHA loan limits, andencouraged more risky loans from Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac.

Unlike the Obama stimulus in 2009, this bill consistedmostly of tax cuts for individuals and families. e tax reliefin the bill amounted to $134 billion over five years. Becauseof the significant tax cuts involved, the vast majority of Re-publicans in both the House and Senate supported it, in-cluding tea party luminaries like Michele Bachmann andPaul Ryan.

Roll Call 186:

Hatch voted to bail out the mortgage industry,Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, nationalizing muchof the mortgage industry, raising the ceiling onrisky loans, and instituting another $4 billionhousing subsidy program.

is claim is false. Senator Hatch voted against final passageof the mortgage bailout.

We need to be working

with Orrin Hatch instead of

shooing him out of a tea

party movement.

Former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK)

Last election, we supported Mike Lee

for Senate because it was time for Utah

to make a change in Washington. This

election, we support Orrin Hatchbecause its time for Utah to lead the

change in Washington.

Norm Bangerter & Jim Hansen


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Roll Call 425:

Hatch voted for a flawed energy bill thatcontained ethanol subsidies and marked anothervictory for special interests and proponents ofhigher taxes and mandates in our energy policy.

FreedomWorks is flat wrong. Senator Hatch was one of thefew senators of either party who voted against final passageof the Democratic energy bill, joining Senators TomCoburn and Jim DeMint. FreedomWorks citation is in ref-erence to a preliminary vote on the bill. is flawed energybill was expected to move with overwhelming support. Yet,

prior to this preliminary vote, Senator Hatch was able toconvince the Democratic managers of the bill to make somemuch-needed changes, including the elimination of taxes onoffshore oil drilling. In return, he agreed to vote for the pre-liminary bill in hopes that additional improvements wouldbe made, including the elimination of the ethanol mandate,renewable electricity standards, and the expansion of Davis-Bacon. When those changes did not come, Senator Hatchvoted against the bill.

2006 Key Votes Roll Call 13:

Hatch voted with the special interest triallawyers to create a new system for resolvingclaims of injury caused by asbestos exposure.

FreedomWorks characterization of this vote -- on anamendment to the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution(FAIR Act) of 2006 is simply incorrect. is was a bill in-tended to increase fairness in the system used to resolve theasbestos litigation crisis brought on by frivolous claims andunpredictable jury awards. e special interest trial lawyersactually opposed this legislation because they stood to loselarge sums of money in attorneys fees if it passed.

Roll Call 81:

Hatch voted against including federal entities inthe definition of earmarks.

is particular amendment would have effectively madeevery item of federal discretionary spending an earmark.is would have made the appropriations process entirelyunmanageable and undermined the effort to expose trulywasteful earmarks. In 2007, when the Senate was finally ableto pass real earmark reform, Senator Hatch voted in favor ofthe amendment that expanded the definition of earmarks toinclude federal entities but that was more directed at actual

earmarks -- funds for specific entities, localities, congres-sional districts, etc. -- rather than discretionary spendingin general.


Hatch voted against cutting the infamous Bridgeto Nowhere in Alaska, which was the leadingsymbol of government waste and profligatespending in the 109th Congress.

is vote would not have saved any taxpayer funds, as theamendment would have simply shifted the funds for theBridge to Nowhere and used them for another earmark.Furthermore, when it came time to vote on final passage forthe bill that contained the Bridge to Nowhere earmark,the Senate voted to pass it by a vote of 93-1. Fiscal conserva-tives that also supported final passage of the bill includedJim DeMint, Tom Coburn, John Kyl, and Rick Santorum.

Roll Call 286:

Hatch voted against responsibly reducing non-de-fense discretionary spending.

is was just a preliminary vote on a bill Senator Hatch sup-ported. e bill included over $100 billion in spending cuts including savings to entitlement programs like Medicareand Medicaid - and was supported by every conservative Re-publican in the Senate. Conservative Senators Tom Coburn,Jim DeMint, Rick Santorum, and Jon Kyl also supportedthe final bill.

2004 Key Votes

Roll Call 65:

Hatch voted for more superfluous governmentspending and mandates on states.

is was a preliminary vote on the Republican effort (H.R.4) to improve and reauthorize the welfare reforms enactedby the Republican Congress in the 1990s. ese reforms areuniversally considered to be among the most significantconservative reforms ever enacted. H.R. 4 was unanimouslysupported by Senate Republicans and by all but two HouseRepublicans. Virtually all the Democrats in both chambersopposed the bill.

Roll Call 77:

Hatch voted against permanently halting taxeson electric commerce imposed by the InternetTax Freedom Act.

FreedomWorks description of this vote is so dishonest thatits laughable. is was a vote in favor of the Internet TaxNondiscrimination Act, which explicitly banned taxationon the Internet in the United States. Its not really clear, butit appears as though FreedomWorks believes Senator Hatchshould have voted against this bill because the tax banwasnt permanent. Indeed, had Hatch voted against thisbill, FreedomWorks undoubtedly would have said he votedin favor of Internet taxation, something he would not do.


Hatch voted to keep unnecessary and expensivemilitary bases open.

is vote was to ensure that Hill Air Force Base whichemploys 26,000 Utahns and is worth roughly $5 billion a

year to Utahs economy remained open. Had the basebeen closed, the economic impact for Utah would havebeen devastating. In any event, Hill Air Force Base is notunnecessary. It is a strategically placed in-land air base andplays a crucial role in themilitary defense of ourcountry on multiple fronts.

Roll Call 409:

Hatch voted to increase federal control overstate and local elections.

is was a vote in favor of an amendment to provide tfunding authorized by the Help America Vote Act, whno way increased federal control over state and local etions. Instead, the law provides assistance to state andgovernments in conducting federal elections. FreedomWorks is free to disagree with the Help America Votebut they may want to ask their own Chairman, DickArmey, why he voted for it in t he House, along with P

Ryan, Mike Pence and Jim DeMint. Senators voting favor of the law included: Don Nickels, Rick Santoruand Jon Kyl.


Hatch voted to increase the tobacco tax.

Again, FreedomWorks is not telling the whole story. Stor Hatch did vote to table the bill amendment in theenced roll call vote; however, he also voted four timesfilibuster and kill the entire bill, including its tax incre

1997 Key Votes H.R. 2015:

Hatch voted to increase the debt limit by $4billion and create the State Childrens HealthInsurance Program (SCHIP), the largest expaof taxpayer funded health insurance coveragchildren in the U.S. since Medicaid.

Conveniently, FreedomWorks leaves out the title of th

legislation the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. is bcreate SCHIP, and it raised the debt ceiling, but it alsrepresented the first balanced federal budget in over 4years. SCHIP provided the glue necessary to get Demto support this bill that, by all accounts, was a major cvative victory. If FreedomWorks has questions about they may want to ask their own Chairman, Dick Armvoted in favor of it, along with stalwart conservatives lDon Nickles, Jon Kyl, and Rick Santorum.



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1996 Key Votes H.R. 3136:

Hatch voted to increase the debt limit by$600 billion.

is is a false claim. ere was no vote in the Senate on thislegislation it passed by unanimous consent because no onein the Senate viewed it as controversial. is was the Con-tract with America Advancement Act of 1996. It includedmany elements of the Contract with America -- the center-piece of the 1994 Republican Revolution including thescaling back of business regulations and greater congressionaloversight on the regulatory process. In fact, FreedomWorks

own Chairman Dick Armey supported it, as did every singleRepublican senator.


Hatch voted against requiring the most able-bod-ied, non-elderly food stamp recipients to work for40 hours during every 4-week period.

is was a vote on an amendment to a welfare reform pro-posal that was ultimately vetoed by President Clinton. efollowing year, Senator Hatch was a leader in Congresss ef-forts to finally pass a welfare reform bill that President Clin-ton would sign. e latter bill actually included a strongerwork requirement than the one FreedomWorks listed here.

Roll Call 601:

Hatch voted against legislation that providedcongressional oversight of U.S. taxpayer dollarssent to murky and volatile regions such aswar-stricken Bosnia.

Prior to this vote, Senator Hatch strongly criticized PresidentClintons Bosnia policy on the Senate floor. He had alreadypublicly advocated alternatives to U.S. intervention intoBosnia. However, he ultimately believed that politics shouldnot be inserted into a conflict wherein American troops maybe put in harms way or defunded.


Hatch voted against an amendment proposed byNickles (R-OK), which would have prohibited theuse of funds to support U.S. armed forces underthe command of United Nations commanders.

Senator Hatch supported the goals of this amendment. Hewas even an original cosponsor. However, he was concernedthat playing political football with funding for troops alreadydeployed in the field would unnecessarily put lives of soldiersat risk.

Roll Call 389:

Hatch voted to kill this amendment introducedby Senator Stevens (R-Alaska) that would have re-duced the costly environmental and labor regula-tions imbedded in NAFTA.

Senator Hatch is one of Congresss most outspoken support-ers of free trade and was a strong proponent of the agree-ment. Passage of this amendment would have ultimatelykilled NAFTA in the Senate and handed Big Labor a victory

at the expense of the free trade movement, which is why thevast majority of those voting in favor of the Stevens Amend-ment were free t rade opponents. FreedomWorks' Chairman,Dick Armey, agreed with the final bill, even without thisamendment.


Hatch voted to override President Bushs vetoof a bill that expanded government encroach-ment in television by regulating the cabletelevision industry.

When the regulations of the 1992 law proved to be ineffec-tive, Senator Hatch supported the Telecommunications Actof 1996, which deregulated the cable industry.

1990 Key Votes

Roll Call 292:

Hatch voted for a tax-and-spend laden budget,which at the time amounted to the largest taxincrease in U.S. history.

Yet again, FreedomWorks is lying. Senator Hatch actuallyvoted against the final version of the 1990 budget agreementand has since decried the agreement as an example of whathappens when Republicans exchange tax increases for prom-ises of spending cuts.

Roll Call 307:

Hatch voted against prohibiting the NationalEndowment for the Arts from using tax payermoney for morally depraved purposes.

FreedomWorks leaves out half the story. As a strong advo-cate of free speech and the arts, Senator Hatch believed thatthe content restrictions in the Helms Amendment were toobroadly written. After voting against the amendment, Sena-tor Hatch, with the support of Utah organizations like theUtah Symphony and Ballet West, offered an amendment ofhis own requiring sanctions against NEA grantees that createart that is obscene.


I think Orrin Hatch wasthe original tea partier.

Sal Russo, Tea Party Express

Whats crucial going

forward is that we stop the

Presidents agenda and ta

back the United States

Senate. I feel that Orrin

Hatch would be a terrific

elder statesman to a lot of

these other young guys w

Im going to be pushing in

these other states.

Mark LeConservative Talk Radio H


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Who is FreedomWorks?

FreedomWorks is an out-of-state special interest group chaired by DickArmey, the former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representativesworking under Newt Gingrich and D.C. lobbyist. Now, FreedomWorksis using the same playbook against Senator Hatch that Newt Gingrich isusing against Mitt Romney - launching hypocritical attacks against theiropponents.

Dick Armey voted to raise the Debt Limit in 1996, 1997, and again in 2002 to the tuneof $1.5 trillion.

Dick Armey earned $750,000 per year lobbying for banks, green-energy producers andcompanies trying to shape the stimulus package that FreedomWorks now says they oppose.(Armey Had Irons in Many Dueling Fires, e Dallas Morning News, 10/29/09.)

Dick Armeys lobbying work also helped corporations and organizations get money fromthe stimulus/bailout packages. (Armey Had Irons in Many Dueling Fires, e DallasMorning News, 10/29/09.)

Why doesnt FreedomWorks want Utah tolead the Senate Finance Committee?

The executive management team for Freedom-Works has never clearly stated why they prefer thevalues of a moderate senator from the state ofMaine to lead the Senate Finance Committeeinstead of Utahs fiscal conservative values, butthey are belligerently determined nonetheless.They have even gone against the wishes of SteveForbes and C. Boyden Gray, two of theirFoundation Board Members who have publiclyendorsed Senator Orrin Hatch.

When Orrin Hatch first came to the Senate, hecourageously battled anti-growth, anti-businesslegislation being vigorously pushed by BigLabor...His pro-growth, pro-entrepreneurialefforts continue to this day.

I think Orrin Hatch was the original tea partier.

He has been talking about our issues from thebeginning. Orrin is a Reagan conservative as far asIm concerned, and thats as good as it gets.

Dick Armey (left) withNewt Gingrich

1984 Key Votes

H.AMDT.798:

Hatch voted against striking funds fromthe NEA.

is is false on two counts: 1) H. Amdt. 798 was a Houseamendment, so Senator Hatch could not have voted for it;2) e amendment had nothing to do with the National En-dowment of the Arts; it would have stripped funding fromthe National Endowment of Democracies.

1982 Key Votes

H.R.4961:

Hatch voted for what was the largest taxincrease in history at that time.

Context is needed here. Senator Hatch has a long and distin-guished record of supporting lower taxes in order to keep theU.S. economy moving. is legislation was a deficit reduc-tion bill negotiated by President Ronald Reagan and Con-gress in order to continue fighting the Cold War. is was aReagan effort that was partly responsible for the fall of theSoviet Union, and Senator Hatch supported President Rea-gan.

1981 Key Votes

Roll Call 336:

Hatch voted against cutting 5 percent ofobligational spending from the Department of In-terior Appropriations bill.

is was a vote that split the Republican caucus down themiddle. Twenty-five Republican senators voted with SenatorHatch, including the renowned fiscal conservative BarryGoldwater, who FreedomWorks cites in other votes wherethey criticize Orrin Hatch.


Hatch voted against easing roadblocks andregulations for trucking firms.

is vote was on an amendment to the Motor Carrier Act, alandmark bill that was responsible for massive deregulationof the trucking industry, scaling back price controls andentry barriers for trucking companies. Senator Hatch

strongly supported the Motor Carrier Act, which was a boonto the trucking industry. Hatch voted against this amend-ment but in favor of the broad deregulation contained in theoverall bill.

1977 Key Votes Hatch voted to impose nanny

state regulations on automanufacturers, leading to an increase in the costof cars.

is was a procedural vote on a non-binding resolution ex-pressing the Senates disapproval of a Department of Trans-portation decision to begin requiring the installation ofairbags in new cars. It didnt impose anything.

Steve ForbesSal Russo, Tea Party Express



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Im not sure if Clarence

Thomas would be on the bench

today but for [Orrin Hatch]. I dont

think guys like John Roberts and

Sam Alito would be there either.

What [hes] done for the Supreme

Court, which is impacting this

country literally now for genera-

tions and decades, is why Ive

endorsed [him] for [his] race in

the Senate.

Sean HannityConservative Talk Radio Host

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