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      <excerpt>...Go figure. Under Stephenson's bill state lawmakers would grade the performance of Utah's U.S. senators. Even if it passes, Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett don't have much to worry about because it will take at least a&#160; generation for state lawmakers to gro</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>So Scott Brown, the newly elected Republican senator from Massachusetts, once posed nude for Playgirl . That's OK with me, but if Brown were a Democrat, think of the outrage we would hear from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham,</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...they're serious. Even better is that both Democrats and Republicans are voicing support. Last week, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican from Utah, released a plan that gives tax cuts to employers who hire people who have been unemployed </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...both parties see employment as the most pressing matter for voters. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah are advocating a tax credit for businesses that hire new workers. It would refund the employer&#8217;s 6.2 perce</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Politico reports. Republicans are reportedly opposed to using returned bank bailout funds for the bill, which Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch estimated would cost $80 billion. The centerpiece of the bill is likely to be a tax credit for small and medium-siz</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...at a news conference in Bethpage Monday.Under the &quot;Hire Now Tax Cut,&quot; legislation, which Schumer is sponsoring with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), businesses would avoid paying their share of the Social Security tax, which amounts to 6.2 percent of their em</excerpt>
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