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Hatch Slams 501(c)(4) Proposed Rules; Backs Bill To Delay Implementation

WASHINGTON – Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today joined U.S. Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) to announce the Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act, legislation to prevent the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from implementing a proposed rule that would significantly limit […]

Hatch Statement on Latest ObamaCare Delay

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement after the Obama Administration announced its latest ObamaCare employer mandate delay: “This latest delay of another key part of ObamaCare is further proof that this law is a disaster and needs to go.  The worst part […]

Senators Condemn IRS Decision on Employee Bonuses, Urge Reconsideration

WASHINGTON — Five members of the Senate Finance Committee today expressed strong disappointment at the IRS’s decision to award $62.5 million of employee bonuses, despite government-wide budget cuts, and asked for reconsideration of the decision and an explanation of current and future bonus plans. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Finance Committee; Chuck Grassley […]

Senators Demand Answers on Botched Obamacare Enrollment Appeals Process

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner seeking answers on how the agency will process appeals when Americans attempting to enroll in the ObamaCare exchanges through HealthCare.gov are denied coverage due to […]

Senate, House Leaders Introduce SGR Replacement Bill

WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. […]

Hatch: New CBO Report Demonstrates Impact of Job-Killing Health Law

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Budget and Economic Outlook found that the President’s health care law would eliminate 2.3 million American jobs in 2021 – 1.5 million more than the previous estimate of 800,000 jobs […]

Hatch Pushes for Senate Action on Bill to Help Boost Job-Creating Trade Pacts

WASHINGTON – In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined the need for Congress to act on job-creating Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation and called on Senate Democrats to work with Republicans to enact the measure into law. “That is why every president since FDR has sought […]

Hatch on IRS Reinstating Cancelled Employee Bonuses

WASHINGTON – 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) announced that it was reinstating bonuses from last year that it had cancelled: “Let me get this straight: the IRS is accused of targeting conservative groups, with many of its […]

Burr, Coburn, Hatch: Analysis Shows There Is A Better Way Than ObamaCare

WASHINGTON – Today, The Center for Health Economy released an economic analysis that found that the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act – a legislative plan put forward this week by Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Tom Coburn, M.D. (Okla.), and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) – reduces health care costs, lowers premiums, provides more Americans […]