PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 2, 2018 CONTACT: Katie Matheson | Alliance for a Better Utah katie@betterutah.org SENATORS MIKE LEE AND ORRIN HATCH MUST PROTECT THE RULE OF LAW Salt Lake City, UT – With the expected release of the House Intelligence Committee classified memo about the Russia investigation, Alliance for a Better Utah
Source: Salt Lake Tribune Sen. Orrin Hatch’s impotence is once again on full display. Congress has yet to fund one of his hallmark accomplishments – the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. Funding for the program ran out as of Sept. 30. In September, Utah health officials said they would need to end the CHIP program
Source: Deseret News, KSL Two dozen protesters gathered with songs, prayers, and menorahs on the first night of Hanukkah, urging Sen. Orrin Hatch and Congress to sustain a federal health insurance program for children in low-income families. “Hanukkah calls on us to be holy in our actions,” said Benjamin Luks-Morgan, an organizer with Jewish Action Utah
Source: Salt Lake Tribune The 20,000 chocolate chips were piled inside a foot-high plastic container, with a message for Utah’s senior senator scrawled on the outside in permanent marker: “One chocolate chip for every child waiting for Senator Hatch to do the right thing.” Each chip, explained Katie Matheson, with the group Alliance for a Better
News report finds Americans view Trump’s White House as the most corrupt government institution. State Sen. Shiozawa takes a Trump administration job. Payday loan stores on the decline. Happy Tuesday. Almost half of Americans believe that corruption is pervasive in the White House under President Trump, a sharp increase over last year, according to a
Source: Deseret News, KSL Alliance for a Better Utah supporters, asking that Sen. Orrin Hatch prioritize renewal of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, visited his Salt Lake office Monday equipped with a petition — and 20,000 chocolate chips to “sweeten the deal.” “We have 20,000 chocolate chips to remind him of all the Utah children waiting
This Op-ed, written by Better Utah Board Member Jeff Swift, originally appeared in the Deseret News. To read the original article, click here. In a Nov. 14 opinion piece in these pages, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch preached about the importance of the federal judiciary. He said the federal judiciary should be nonpartisan and full of qualified
Source: Deseret News Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the responsibility to write legislation. The Senate, traditionally, has done this with aplomb, earning the moniker “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” This is what the Founders hoped for — a group of imperfect people coming together to carefully hash out difficult questions.
Sources: Deseret News and KSL.com Utah Sen. Mike Lee is one of four Republicans who say they are “not ready” to vote in favor of the party’s health care reform legislation after it was unveiled in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. “Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune Kudos for transparency to U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and state Rep. Mike Noel, whose intentions for reducing the boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument are abundantly clear. During the 2017 legislative session, Noel drafted a resolution explicitly calling for a reduction to access coal found on the Kaiparowits Plateau. When
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