You reduce your loss, reduce your cost, [that's] fair. But you don't sent it to a guy who has to drive 20 miles to send his kid to school.

[While Hatch blames the loss on last-minute opposition whipped up by President Bill Clinton, the White House differs.] What really cost Senator Hatch, ... was the leader and his party indicating that this was a deal-breaker and he would pull the budget resolution down if the Kennedy-Hatch amendment passed.

Whether it's against a giant or against a pip-squeak, a loss is a loss, and so there is no way around it. We let a giant off the hook.

It's a terrible blow to them. We're at a loss because we don't know anything about it. It was a total shock.

I was hoping that we would come back tomorrow morning without loss and looking to build from there and move on.

We know it's a tough region to win every year. We had a good talk after (Tuesday's loss), they know what's on the line and they want it bad.