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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch speaks to an audience at a town hall meeting at Weber State University in Ogden on Saturday.

Hatch to Utah: You need me on the finance committee

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 9:43pm

OGDEN — U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch took several opportunities at a town hall meeting Saturday to stump for his re-election.

The Republican Utah senator is running for a seventh term and intends to chair the Senate Finance Committee. He has made no secret of that intent during the past two months on his tour through the state, and he reiterated it at a town hall meeting at Weber State University.

“It’s the reason I’m running again,” he said to a crowd of at least 60 people. “(It’s) where all these problems are. Sixty percent of all spending goes through that committee.”

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Romney says he would veto DREAM Act

Kasie Hunt The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 6:37pm

SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday that he would veto legislation that would allow certain illegal residents to become American citizens.

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(CARLOS OSORIO/The Associated Press) In this Sept. 24, 2011, photo, Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the Republican Leadership Conference at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich. He calls his rivals “heartless” and defends moderate parts of his immigration record with ethnically charged language. But Perry’s strategy may endear the Texas governor to Hispanics even as it angers others the presidential candidate must woo to win.

Perry immigration strategy may help woo Hispanics

Kasie Hunt, Laura Wides-Munoz The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 9:20am

MIAMI — Rick Perry is calling his Republican rivals “heartless” and using ethnically charged language to defend moderate parts of his immigration record. That strategy may endear the Texas governor to Hispanics and their allies even as it angers others the presidential candidate must woo to win the nomination for president.

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