President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate, and longest serving Republican Senator, and Senior Senator from the state of Utah, Orrin Hatch, gave the keynote address to the Washington County Republican Party Lincoln Day Breakfast at the Saint George Dixie Convention Center, and some four hundred attendees.   The Senator, looking tall, fit, and cheerful, was introduced by Courtney Brinkerhoff, his director for Southern Utah. The talk was sort of a state of the Senate report, wherein he began with the Bears Ears and Grand Escalante Staircase Monument status, to wit Federal control over thousands of square miles of Washington county was scaled down. Concerning tax reform, he noted the doubling of the child tax credit, and how some two million plus employees have already been told of thousand dollar bonuses, and higher wages, because of the tax reform passed by the Senate in November and signed by President Trump in December.   The tax act came from the Finance Committee which the Senator Chairs. Jobs are up, take home pay is up, unemployment is down. Senator Hatch mentioned the passing of Justice Scalia, and the approval of Justice Neil McGill Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and that President Trump had shown the list of nominees from which the selection would be based, with complements to the Federalist Society.   As a seven term Senator, he promised to make this last year a busy one, a Sprint to the Finish, describing himself as a ‘tuff old bird’.  He received standing ovations before and after his words.  The President Pro Tempore stands Third in success to the Presidency after the Vice President and Speaker of the House.   He was a firm supporter for the election of President Trump. Senator Hatch served in the LDS “Great Lakes States Mission” Wikipedia.

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