Orrin Hatch

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Orrin Grant Hatch (* 22. March 1934 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician of the Republican Party , of the State of Utah from 1977 to 2019 in the United States Senate represented. From January 2015 he was President of the Senate pro tempore .

Family, education and work

Orrin Hatch is the son of Helen Kamm and Jesse Hatch. The first member of his family to go to college, Hatch attended Brigham Young University , where he received his bachelor's degree in history . He then studied law at the Law School of the University of Pittsburgh , where he received the degree of Juris Doctor in 1962 . After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer for 14 years, first in Pittsburgh and then in Utah.

Hatch is married to Elaine Hansen; they have six children together. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .

politics

Hatch has represented the state of Utah in the United States Senate since January 1977. In his first candidacy for a public mandate, he had defeated the Democrat Frank Moss in the 1976 Senate election , who had held the mandate for three terms (18 years), which Hatch criticized in the election campaign as too long. Hatch was re-elected as Senator in the following Senate elections, in 1982 against the then Mayor of Salt Lake City , Ted Wilson , and most recently in 2012, when his tenure was almost 36 years. He is the longest serving senator in Utah history.

In December 2017, US President Trump encouraged Hatch to run for the US Senate again, according to political observers, to prevent Mitt Romney from becoming Hatch's successor in the US Senate. On January 2, 2018, Hatch announced that it would not seek re- election in the 2018 Senate election. Romney, who took over Hatch's expiring mandate on January 3, 2019, was elected to succeed him.

In the Republican primary in 2000, Hatch ran for the presidency of the United States, but was defeated by then-governor of Texas , George W. Bush .

Positions and Criticism

From 1994 Orrin Hatch advocated that the producers of dietary supplements only had to meet minimal requirements. He initiated a law that allows claims of health effects from such agents without being reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration . He was supported in the election campaign by the industry, of which his son Scott Hatch is a lobbyist, and remained a defender of the industry even after criticism of deaths among users of such agents.

Since 2010 Hatch supports an initiative that Internet service providers and search engines Internet filter to protect against copyright infringement should prescribe.

Together with Tom Marino, Hatch is an important supporter of the pharmaceutical industry . For example, despite the opioid epidemic in the United States of America in spring 2016 , he enforced a law that made it almost impossible for the DEA to prevent suspicious deliveries of large quantities of prescription narcotics.

Awards

In November 2018, President Trump announced that he would be awarding Hatch the Presidential Medal of Freedom .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trump messes up Mitt Romney's tour. In: FAZ.net , December 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to retire at end of term after 40 years in Senate. In: ABC News , January 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ Eric Lipton, "Support Is Mutual for Senator and Utah Industry." In: The New York Times , June 20, 2011
  4. ↑ Timothy Egan: "Stupid Pills". In: The New York Times , February 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ Florian Rötzer : US Senators call for web blocks to protect intellectual property. In: Telepolis , September 21, 2010.
  6. ^ Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein: The drug industry's triumph over the DEA. In: The Washington Post , October 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Trump says 7 will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In: CNBC. November 10, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hatch, Orrin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hatch, Orrin G; Hatch, Orrin Grant (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania