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Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is a Republican United States Senator from Utah, serving since 1977. Hatch is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he serves on the subcommittees on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure and Taxation and IRS Oversight. Hatch is also on the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the ranking Republican, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, as well as the Joint Committee on Taxation. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Until 2004, he chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (where he famously asked Clarence Thomas during his Senate Supreme Court confirmation, "did you ever say in words or substance something like, 'There is a pubic hair in my Coke?'" ), and previously chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Hatch has endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the 2008 presidential election.
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