Hatch Opening Statement at Finance Hearing on U.S. Trade Agenda
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Finance Committee hearing on the administration’s trade agenda: Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing, during which we will discuss our nation’s trade policy agenda. Thank you, Ambassador Lighthizer, for being here today. You were last before this […]
GOP to USTR: Maintain Key NAFTA Provision
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Member David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) led 99 of their Republican colleagues in a letter yesterday calling on U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Robert Lighthizer to maintain the investor-state […]
Hatch, Finance Committee Republicans Praise CMS on Medicare Advantage, Encourage Transparency and Outreach
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today led a group of senators in a letter to Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma praising the recent expansion of Medicare Advantage (MA) supplemental benefits, which complements the recent enactment of the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic […]
Hatch Opening Statement at HHS Nominations Hearing
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) delivered the following opening statement at a Finance Committee hearing considering the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominations of John Bartrum to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and Lynn Johnson to be an Assistant Secretary for Family Support: Today […]
Hatch Outlines Pro-Jobs, Pro-America Trade Strategy at BRT
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today outlined a three-part, pro-growth trade strategy that would put American leadership on center stage and focus on job creation at home. Hatch, who delivered the keynote address at an event co-hosted by the Business Roundtable (BRT) and Farmers for Free Trade, said the United States must […]
Hatch to Address Business Roundtable, Farmers for Free Trade Event on Trade and American Competitiveness
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will give remarks on the importance of American competitiveness at a Business Roundtable and Farmers for Free Trade event tomorrow, Tuesday, March 20 at 9 a.m. Who: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) What: Business Roundtable-Farmers for Free Trade Event 300 New Jersey Avenue NW, Suite […]
Bipartisan, Bicameral Leaders Urge CMS to Further Improve Medicaid Data System
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan leaders of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS), an upgraded data system that holds great potential to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of Medicaid data. The […]
Hatch Announces Finance Committee Hearing on Administration’s 2018 Trade Policy Agenda
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, March 22 on President Trump’s 2018 Trade Policy Agenda. The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building. “After the biggest tax rewrite in more than three decades, it is essential that the president’s trade […]
Hatch Opening Statement at Joint Select Committee on Pensions Organizing Meeting
WASHINGTON – Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pensions Plans Co-Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at the committee’s organizing meeting: This is the first formal meeting of the Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans. Before we get into the meat of this area, we […]
Senators Welcome Agreement to Address Tax Inequity for Agricultural Businesses
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today joined U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) in issuing the following joint statement regarding an agreement to provide fair tax treatment for all agricultural businesses: “The new, pro-growth tax law was designed to lift hard-working, middle-class families […]