Tag Archives: Orrin Hatch

Underselling the Sequester Cuts

Posted on March 5, 2013

An ad from a fiscally conservative group makes a true but misleading claim that the sequester only amounts to “a 3 percent cut in federal spending.” A majority of federal spending is exempt from the sequester cuts, so the parts that are not will be cut much more deeply than …
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Freedom Path

Posted on April 19, 2012 , Updated on July 26, 2012

A conservative group with ties to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and former Nevada Sen. John Ensign.
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Blurring the Record in Utah

Posted on April 12, 2012

A group supporting Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch claims in a TV ad that a Republican challenger “voted to allow state employees to double dip, collecting a pension and a pay check.” That’s a gross exaggeration. Hatch’s opponent, former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, actually authored a bill in the state Senate …
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Tea Party’s Targets

Posted on March 14, 2012

Tea party-aligned FreedomWorks for America has launched campaigns against several Republicans whom it deems too moderate, including Senate veterans Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar. But some of the group’s claims miss the mark. A TV ad targeting Hatch …
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