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Senator Bob Bennett tells Fox News the Democrats are using "accounting tricks" to hide the true cost of the healthcare bill.
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Congress
Bob Bennett
Fox News
Washington, D.C
Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Orrin Hatch takes issue with the $2.5 trillion health bill being advanced by the Senate's Democratic leadership.
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Other
Washington, D.C
Senator Orrin Hatch discusses the Senate healthcare bill with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren.
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White House
Fox News
Van Jones
Washington, D.C
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and other green groups have filed a petition "to halt the proposed Coal Hollow coal strip mine, which would sit just west of Bryce Canyon National Park. They argue that plans for the strip mine fail to adequately account for the ...
Other
The Utah Association of Counties has posted its approved position statements for the 2010 legislative session. To view them, click here .
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Sen. Orrin Hatch says that unlike the House version of health care reform bill, the Senate bill "could require American taxpayers to fund elective abortions and force health care professionals who oppose abortion to perform the procedure." Says Hatch: "The Reid language authorizes abortion ...
Congress
Washington, D.C
Bart Stupak
Health care
Harry Reid
Sen. Orrin Hatch notes that at a time when states are reeling from a deficit of $200-plus billion, the Senate health care bill, "which is nothing more than a 2,100-page takeover by Washington of our health care system, calls for the biggest Medicaid expansion ever -- 133 ...
Other
Medicaid
Washington, D.C
Health care
Sen. Bob Bennett slams Saturday night's cloture vote to move forward on the Senate's $2.5 trillion health bill. Says Bennett: "Tonight's vote was a tough hit for every American that wants our health care system fixed. After months of receiving strong opposition to a government takeover of ...
Congress
Health care
Bob Bennett
Washington, D.C
What's going on with Congressman Rob Bishop?
He used to be Utah's invisible Congressman, rarely sending out news releases and rarely getting his name in the papers. In the Deseret News column which we co-write, Frank Pignanelli and I used to regularly poke fun at Bishop for being so quiet and ...
Congress
Rob Bishop
Thursday was Day Two of new mayor’s training here at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. I’m back here this week with Mayor-Elect John Curtis from Provo and 18 other mayors-elect from various large cities throughout the U.S. John and I were commenting today that the more we talk to other elected ...
Congress
Senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett are not fans of the healthcare bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (
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Congress
Bob Bennett
Harry Reid
Republican National Committee
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way". Mark Twain
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1969: The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.
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"Speaking of 'Don't ask, don't tell,' Congressman Barney Frank said yesterday that the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy will be repealed next year. It's going to be replaced by the policy, 'Yeah, we knew.'" Jimmy Fallon
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Congress
Barney Frank
Imagine the situation in New York’s 23rd Congressional District repeated in a statewide race in Utah. That’s a very real possibility facing incumbent Senator Bob Bennett in his bid for a fourth term in Senate. Not only are conservatives inside the state building opposition to him, ...
Congress
Bob Bennett
Republican National Committee
Some of Utah's politicians jumped back into the media limelight in a big way this past week.
Representative Jason Chaffetz lit up the mediaverse after he spoke with the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com about former Miss California Carrie Prejean .
Senator Orrin Hatch got a ton of media ...
Congress
Jason Chaffetz
Jim Matheson
Rob Bishop
Peter DeFazio
Bob Bennett
The consensus view of forecasting economists at mid-year 2009 was that the global economy, at that time in its first overall recession since just after WWII, would not likely emerge from recession until perhaps 2010’s second quarter. Like most forecasts, that view was wrong. The global ...
World
Economic Meltdown
Japan
A new holiday tradition begins this weekend at The Gateway with the Old World Christmas Market. Check out our listings for more events, including the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, the Big Horn Sheep Festival in Moab, and much more.
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Senator Orrin Hatch has a one-word suggestion for Americans if Congress passes health care reform. “Rebel.”
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Congress
Harry Reid
Washington, D.C
Rep. Jason Chaffetz talks healthcare and celebrates Halloween in his latest Freshman Year video for CNN.
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