http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/ A collection of the latest records posted to United States Senator Orrin Hatch. http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/ en_US www.gslsolutions.com Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 GMT Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 GMT http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=e0ec9810-82a6-48ba-baeb-6e378b3fbde8 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a current member and former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, released the following statement today after voting against the nomination of Thomas Perez to be the next Secretary of Labor: Releases Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=b86caad1-3863-43ca-9aa8-1e28964cd64f U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today applauded President Obama’s nomination of Utah Court of Appeals Presiding Judge Carolyn B. McHugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. Hatch and Lee encouraged the President to nominate McHugh to serve on the 10th Circuit, where, if confirmed by the Senate, she would replace Judge Michael Murphy who took senior status on 12/31/12. Releases Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=d266ac6e-33a2-4553-a24d-79d08135374d Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today, called on Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) Russell George to conduct a full investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) possible role in the disclosure of nine conservative groups’ confidential applications for tax-exempt status, six of which, appeared on the web site of the journalist group ProPublica. The improper disclosure of such confidential information is a criminal offense under federal law. Releases Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=8f23bd69-a570-4c8b-916e-4ef7cbe67e16 After every Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) earlier today requesting an investigation into the release of confidential taxpayer information to the news organization ProPublica, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor outlining the urgent need for this investigation and addressing the importance of the bipartisan Finance Committee investigation into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting conservative groups. Releases Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=a4fe8020-5209-4636-b61d-85a0c52ed9fe U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement this evening after President Obama held a news conference on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups: Releases Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=887197e0-ea9a-4e48-be41-f5b78bde0e02 Senators Write, "We demand that your Administration comply with all requests related to Congressional inquiries without any delay, including making available all IRS employees involved in designing and implementing these prohibited political screenings, so that the public has a full accounting of these actions." Releases Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=6aa56340-df6f-40e5-b340-175a1fb59c1c Following press reports indicating Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited funds from health care executives to assist with the implementation of the President’s health law, Senate Finance Committee Republicans are demanding answers. In a letter spearheaded by Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the Senators asked for a top bottom review of the Department’s decision to move forward with the initiative, which has raised a variety of legal questions under federal regulations, which prohibits the augmentation of congressional appropriations. Releases Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=af00ef5a-97f9-4271-ac02-221e9adec996 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, said today at a Capitol Hill news conference that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of conservative groups who applied for tax exempt status, known as 501 (c)(4) organizations, and its failure to tell Congress constitutes, “either the greatest cases of incompetence that I’ve ever seen or it was the IRS willfully not telling Congress the truth.” Releases Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=96598439-2f0b-4c5a-933b-89c823099646 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today wrote to Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) requesting a Finance committee hearing and bipartisan investigation into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting conservative groups for greater scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status. Below is the letter Hatch sent to Baucus today: Releases Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=1f2ffead-c8e5-449c-96d2-17acc97ffda7 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) apologized for targeting conservative groups: Releases Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=21fda5d5-3162-4f74-972d-ecf4b13ab31b U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), current member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today voted for several amendments designed to strengthen border security efforts through S.744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. Releases Thu, 09 May 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=f2ecce4f-0a1e-4b81-984d-384582ba525c U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), current member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered the following statement on the opening day of the Judiciary Committee’s markup of S.744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act: Releases Thu, 09 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=49026ad3-de73-4d2c-84ca-381c8b4c98ea U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), current member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and current Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today filed 24 amendments to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S. 744), including, but not limited to, amendments to strengthen law enforcement components of the bill, improve the high-skilled worker provisions to make it more market-based, strengthen the ability to collect back taxes of newly legalized individuals, and ensure that health insurance subsidies available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are only available five years after an individual gains legal status. Releases Tue, 07 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=3bc0c3a4-bbb1-49d7-ae8c-b7f2b4e7a7d8 Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the “Making Medicaid Work” blueprint to modernize the Medicaid program. The in-depth report, which is based on extensive feedback from states and input from providers and patients, highlights the program’s troubling fiscal reality and discusses tools to equip states to implement patient-centered reforms and impose fiscal discipline in the program. Releases Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=d4c36e98-38d0-4993-b6b0-60bf2e484a81 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is calling on President Obama to take “direct action and involvement” to resolve a 600,000 claims backlog at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), signing onto a letter with a bipartisan group of 66 Senate Colleagues urging the President to “find a solution that ensures no veterans are stuck in the VA backlog.” Of the 600,000 claims nationwide caught in the backlog, more than 17,000 are from veterans in Utah. In the last four years, the number of claims pending for over a year has grown by over 2000 percent, despite a 40 percent increase in the VA's budget. Releases Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/op-eds?ContentRecord_id=2f787d1a-66f8-4f5f-8bff-e149f9ac11d4 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced last week that it was furloughing 47,000 employees as a result of the sequester, automatic spending cuts amounting to less than two-and-a-half percent of our annual $3.5 trillion budget. What did the FAA fail to mention? That these furloughs were unnecessary by any measure, and just part of a cruel game being played by the Obama Administration to try and maximize the effects of the sequester in yet another effort to raise taxes. Op-eds Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=851f62aa-614d-454c-a94e-e68fef96b305 Concerned with its impact on small businesses and consumers, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today introduced an amendment to S. 743, the Marketplace Fairness Act, that includes seven different components to strengthen and improve the underlying bill, including provisions that would sunset the legislation after five years, expand the exemption for small sellers, and strike the preemption provision. Releases Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=7ded50ff-a111-460e-a767-faa5cd4b80c5 Today, five members of the Senate Finance Committee, led by Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), released a detailed analysis outlining a comprehensive overview of the policy and legislative recommendations received from 146 stakeholders in the health care community on ways to improve federal efforts to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Joining Hatch and Baucus on the report are Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Tom Carper (D-Del.). Releases Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=89cf49d0-40ed-4cb8-a5ee-668d695e4d29 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today pressed the Obama Administration to use the flexibility it has to prevent unnecessary furloughs as a result of President Obama’s sequester. Hatch called for the Obama Administration to take these steps after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced yesterday that it would unnecessarily furlough 47,000 FAA employees across the country, creating needless airport delays, despite the fact that FAA Administrator Michael Huerta testified last week before Congress that the agency has flexibility under current law to transfer up to two percent of funding from other agency accounts to prevent these furloughs. Releases Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:00:01 EST http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=9ccb18f6-617a-439b-8c9c-785477de5245 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) announced that he would not seek re-election: Releases Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:00:01 EST