Orrin Hatch News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Thursday that a system of nonprofit cooperatives could pass as a "public option," or government-run health care, depending on how they are set up.

Utah's construction economy will get a huge boost -- likely rivaling the effect of the downtown City Creek Center project -- when ground is broken on a new National Security Agency Data Center at Camp Williams next year, according to construction sector officials.

T. Boone Pickens helped finance the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign, which played a key role in sinking Massachusetts Sen.

Orrin Hatch's beloved Utah Utes went 13-0 last year yet were shut out of college football's national championship.

Oilman T. Boone Pickens has been calling loudly over the past year for more vehicles fueled by natural gas.

Lindsey Graham said, 'If she does poorly at the hearing and comes across as someone who seems as an activist, is not qualified for the job, that could hurt her.

As it is he is worthless. Can't he see what is happening and what the mood is in the country? Idiot.

The U.S. government released new rules on Monday governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells, loosening some ethical requirements that scientists said could have cost them a decade of work.

Senator Orrin Hatch former conservative from Utah is an embarrassment to proponents of limited government.

Hoping to protect its top-secret operations by decentralizing its massive computer hubs, the National Security Agency will build a one million square foot data center at Utah's Camp Williams.

University of Utah President Michael Young is expected to report a robbery to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday - of his university's shot at a national football championship last season.

A Puerto Rican civil rights organization advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor campaigned against seating conservative Robert Bork on the high court in the late 1980s, according to new documents that shed light on the group that's become a key focus of Republicans questioning Sotomayor's fitness to be a justice.

GOP senators challenged the U.S. attorney general for supporting hate crimes legislation during a congressional hearing Thursday on the bill.

The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding college football's Bowl Championship Series.

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling today overturning the decision on Ricci v. DeStefano -- a case with workplace-diversity implications by a panel that included Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- left-leaning Sotomayor supporters were preparing for the blowback.

Almost quicker than a fire engine rushes to its next call, special-interest groups and politicians weighed in on the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that New Haven, Conn., violated white firefighters' rights in a promotional exam.

Lawmakers working to overhaul the U.S. health-care system face a pressure-filled July after leaving town this week without resolving the biggest questions dividing Democrats and Republicans.

On June 24, Sen. Orrin Hatch and federal lawmakers from the western United States celebrated the launch of the Senate Western Caucus by introducing the Clean, Affordable, and Reliable Energy Act.

Utah's newest congressman, Jason Chaffetz, test drove an armored vehicle in Iraq, played pingpong with airmen in Afghanistan, toured the prison at Guantanamo Bay and met with the chancellor of Germany.

Finding new sources of revenue is a top priority for the happy-go-spendy Congress.