Article: Latter-day liberal: the senior senator from Utah is not all he's hatched up to be - but he could yet become a conservative hero. (Orrin Hatch)

Orrin Grant Hatch, the senior senator from Utah, has compiled a 92 per cent rating from the American Conservative Union during his twenty years in office. He came to prominence by successfully filibustering Hubert Humphrey's last major legislation (a union power grab). In 1983, his interrogation of Sen. Paul Tsongas exposed the Equal Rights Amendment as a blank check for the Left's law-school. In 1991, he helped turn back the lynch mob pursuing Clarence Thomas. Last year his legislative maneuvering saved the bill banning partial-birth abortion from its own near-death experience in the Senate. C-SPAN junkies these last few weeks have gotten used to seeing him fight tirelessly ...

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