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Hatch can use the state firearm to slay the budget dragon

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 11:25pm

Hatch can use the state firearm to slay the budget dragon

Fighting pork at last? Sen. Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he is taking his name off $1.2 billion in earmark requests in the 2011 federal budget, and I hope that's a good thing.

Fighting earmarks is all the rage. Before we shower Sen. Hatch with praise for saving the republic from fiscal disaster, a couple of thoughts.

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Utah delegation advises NASA

Scott Schwebke, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 11:08pm

Utah's congressional delegation on Thursday urged NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to comply with federal payload requirements for a heavy-lift space system they contend can only be met by solid rocket motors like those built by Alliant Techsystems (ATK) near Promontory.

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Lee, Granato meet in final Utah U.S. Senate debate, spar over federal budget, Social Security

Brock Vergakis, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 7:20pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Health care, government spending and birthright citizenship dominated the final U.S. Senate debate between Utah Republican Mike Lee and Democrat Sam Granato.

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GOPers for Dem Granato? Bennett's son is one

Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Riccardi

Last updated Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 8:37pm

PROVO -- Jim Bennett hadn't meant to cross party lines when he went on Facebook a few days after his father, longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Robert F. Bennett, lost the GOP primary in May.

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GOP lawmaker: VIP loans given to Senate staff

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 9:34am

WASHINGTON — A Republican lawmaker says documents show the former Countrywide Financial Corp. may have targeted Senate employees for sweetheart mortgage deals.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett gets a flight lesson from Joe Parish, from Lockheed Martin, for the F-35 LIghtning II cockpit demonstrator during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Title-III funded fiber placement machine at ATK's Freeport facility in Clearfield on Thursday.

ATK to help F-35s soar / Clearfield facility to make 'skin' for aircraft

Dan Weist, Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Friday, July 9, 2010 - 10:10am

CLEARFIELD -- Alliant Techsystems unveiled on Thursday the new, expensive machinery it will use to help build the F-35 joint strike fighter airplane.

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Bennett: 'Wonderful ride' will end without a 2010 write-in campaign

Kevin Freking The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 10:02pm

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bob Bennett said on Thursday he will not run as a write-in candidate in this year's race for the U.S. Senate seat in Utah.

He told reporters that polls suggest he would be the strongest candidate in the general election, but he feared that running would further divide the Republican Party in his home state.

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Bennett won’t run as write-in candidate

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 3:41pm

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Bennett says he will not run as a write-in candidate in Utah’s Republican primary next month.

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U.S. Sen. Bennett to discuss his political future today

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 10:23pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Three-term U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett is scheduled to give a news conference Thursday in Washington to outline his political future after being defeated at the Republican state convention in Utah earlier this month.

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A write-in campaign? Despite some support, Bennett defers decision

Kevin Freking The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 10:47pm

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bob Bennett said Tuesday he's still considering running for a fourth term as a write-in candidate even as Republican leaders publicly discouraged him from doing so.

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OUR VIEW: Bennett bumped

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 12:06pm

It was an inglorious ending to Utah Sen. Bob Bennett's long political career. The 18-year incumbent was booted into lame-duck status by Utah Republican delegates who curl their lips in disgust at any GOP pol willing to risk bipartisanship with Democrats.

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(STEVE C. WILSON/The Associated Press) U.S. Senator Bob Bennett, R-Utah, becomes emotional while thanking his volunteers and family after being voted out of office by delegates at the 2010 Utah GOP Convention Saturday in Salt Lake City.

Senator Bennett loses as Bridgewater, Lee move to Utah GOP primary

Dan Weist Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, May 9, 2010 - 12:09am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Republicans booted embattled U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett out of office and chose businessman Tim Bridgewater and attorney Mike Lee to fight it out in a primary for the party's nomination and a spot on the November ballot.

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Bennett touts conservative record in final debate

Brock Vergakis The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 7, 2010 - 12:30pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- GOP U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett is touting his conservative credentials and his ability to shape legislation in Washington on the final day before the Republican state convention.

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In this photo taken April 21, 2010, U.S. Sen. Bennett talks during a town hall meeting for republican Senate candidates at the Student Union Building on the campus of the University of Utah. Some of Congress' staunchest conservatives voted two years ago to prop up the nation's banking industry. At the time, they saw a threat to American business. Now the emergency is their own political survival. In dozens of races around the country, challengers are hammering away at the bank bailout and deriding Republican lawmakers they claim spent billions to rescue Wall Street, not Main Street. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Griffin)

Utah delegates to consider anti-Bennett resolution

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 7:56am

SALT LAKE CITY — Delegates to the Utah Republican convention will consider a resolution criticizing a health care bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, who is in danger of not making it into a June GOP primary.

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Poll: US Sen. Bennett would fare better in primary

Brock Vergakis The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 6:34pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett would be the favorite to win a GOP primary if he can survive a challenge at the state convention and make it onto the ballot, according to a poll of likely Republican voters.

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