Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah's longest-serving Senator, dies at 88

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The center, which seeks to be a place to train future political leaders, has also held public policy events on topics close to the senator, such as religious freedom.
55% : His legislative recordHatch served as the chairman of three major Senate committees -- Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, then Judiciary, where he played a major role in framing the Supreme Court and finally, Finance, a perch that allowed him to combat the Affordable Care Act and push through a major tax overhaul during his last term in office.
54% : The program, one of the largest expansion of America's social safety net since the launch of Medicaid, was designed to give states money to provide health insurance for children whose families made too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to buy their own insurance.
53% : "From rewriting our tax code to helping just hardworking Americans get through life to reshaping our courts to uphold the vision of our founders to protecting the religious freedom of all Americans, his achievements are too numerous to count.
49% : He was the main sponsor of a bill protecting a religion's right to build a church facility on private property and later he championed a bill that instituted strict scrutiny of federal laws that may violate religious freedoms.
41% : It was later expanded as part of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which Hatch vehemently opposed.
39% : A conservative man, he had a reputation for negotiating deals on major legislation, often involving health care and taxes, and for championing religious liberties, with an eye toward his Latter-day Saint faith, which he wore on his sleeve.

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