LONG-TIMERS ON THE LINE, June 26, 2012, I: ORRIN HATCH

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SENATOR ORRIN G. HATCH (R-UTAH)

Published in the December 1, 1980

Issue of BUSINESS WEEK (p. 47)

Caption for the photograph: "Senate Labor [Committee]'s Hatch will move quickly for a two-tier minimum wage, opposed by unions." From the article: "He [Orrin Hatch] calls himself a conservative but also an 'eclectic who is willing to do things right no matter what it costs him.'" Orrin Hatch was then in his first term as Senator.

Now, more than three decades later, Senator Hatch is asking for just one more term (six more years). He is being tea-partied in the Utah Republican primary (see here), but the primary-election-eve betting seems to be that he, unlike his Indiana Republican Senate colleague, Richard Lugar, will survive. Tune in tomorrow.