TIGTA: IRS Rehired Employees with Substantial Conduct Issues
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) which found that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rehired hundreds of employees with performance and conduct issues. The inspector general found that between January 2010 and September 2013, of the more than […]
Hatch Statement at Finance Hearing on President Obama’s 2016 Budget
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget: Today’s hearing is on President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year 2016. I want to thank Secretary Lew for appearing before us today. I’m not going to sugar-coat anything with […]
Burr, Hatch, Upton Unveil Obamacare Replacement Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) unveiled the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act—a legislative plan that repeals Obamacare and replaces it with common-sense, patient-focused reforms that reduce health care costs and increase access to affordable, high-quality care. In […]
Hatch Statement at Finance Hearing on President Obama’s HHS Budget
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Good morning. It’s a pleasure to welcome everyone to today’s hearing on the Fiscal Year 2016 budget for the […]
Hatch Statement at Finance Hearing on IRS Operations and The President’s Budget for FY 2016
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on the President’s FY 2016 budget request for the IRS: The committee welcomes Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, who comes before us today to discuss his agency’s budget and operations. We will also be discussing […]
Hatch on President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement in response to the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Budget that was submitted to Congress: “The President’s budget is a retread of the same top-down redistributive policies that have failed to lift hard-working American families and promote a strong and healthy economy. A […]
Hatch Calls for TPA Passage, Seeks Strong Outcomes on Trade Deals in Speech at American Enterprise Institute
In Speech Utah Senator Says, “With two of the most ambitious trade agreements in our nation’s history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, under active negotiation, the U.S. trade agenda is truly at the precipice of opportunity. The only question is whether the administration and both parties […]
Hatch, Finance Republicans Call Out Wasteful Spending at IRS
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), along with all Finance Committee Republicans, sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen questioning the IRS’s threats to delay operations and customer service due to budget cuts at the same time the agency fails to rein in wasteful and unnecessary spending. […]
Hatch, Alexander Announce Legislation to Repeal Employer Mandate
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) introduced the American Job Protection Act, S. 305, a bill to repeal Obamacare’s job-killing employer mandate. Under the President’s health law, businesses with 50 or more equivalent employees are required to offer […]
Hatch Questions IRS’s Announcement to Waive Certain Obamacare Tax Penalties
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen questioning the IRS’s announcement that the agency would waive certain tax penalties under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Under the PPACA’s subsidy program, subsidies are allocated to health insurers based on […]