KUER 90.1
By: Erik Neumann
Orrin Hatch authored or co-sponsored over 700 bills — more than any other living lawmaker — making him one of the health care industry’s biggest champions. As prolific as he may have been, Hatch can’t claim sole credit for his influence over the industry as his most significant legislation came by working with Democrats, a bipartisanship that is almost unheard of in today’s fractious politics.
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“This is an area the country has made enormous progress on and it’s something we should all feel proud of, and Senator Hatch should too,” says Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.
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