For GOP, It’s Hatch Calling

• By Erin P. Billings
• Roll Call Staff
• April 1, 2008, Midnight

At 74 and after more than three decades in the Senate, Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) insists he doesn’t have his eye on any of his party’s coveted leadership positions. He isn’t looking to curry favor with Senators in his Conference. Nor is Hatch — while at times a bipartisan deal broker — looking to prove his party loyalties.