Hatch Calls on President to Work with Congress, Find Bipartisan Solutions to Address Entitlement Crisis
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today urged President Obama to work with Congress to find bipartisan solutions to reform the nation’s entitlement programs to put the nation on a sound fiscal course. In a letter Hatch gave to the President today during a meeting with Senate Republicans, Hatch outlined five bipartisan […]
Senate Democrats’ Budget Fails to Deliver on Entitlement Reform
WASHINGTON – While America’s three entitlement programs – Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – are set to cost $24 trillion and reach just over 12 percent of the size of America’s economy over the next ten years, Senate Democrats’ budget includes only a net $56 billion in Medicare and Medicaid savings – while doing nothing […]
Finance Leaders Convene Committee to Kick Start Tax Reform Conversation
Washington –Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today detailed plans for the committee to begin developing a proposal to reform America’s tax code. In a bipartisan meeting of committee members, Senators Baucus and Hatch laid out a series of discussion topics that will form the foundation for comprehensive tax […]
Hatch Announces Amendments to Block Obama Administration from Waiving Welfare Work Requirements
WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today filed two amendments to the stop-gap government funding bill, H.R. 933. The first amendment blocks federal funds from being used to grant work requirement waivers to those on the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. “Instead of bypassing Congress, the […]
Hatch Says Growing Cost of Health Law’s Premium Subsidies Should Be Part of Budget Debate
WASHINGTON – With the Senate set to consider its first budget blueprint in four years, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) says that Senate Democrats are “cherry picking” a few tax expenditures as a means of trying to raise taxes on the American people, while ignoring the growing price tag of the premium subsidies – tax […]
Fact Sheet: Democrats Say They Want to Get Rid of So-Called Tax Loopholes for Rich, But Middle Class Benefit Most
WASHINGTON – The need for comprehensive tax reform cannot be overstated. America’s bloated tax code has become an albatross around the neck of economic growth and opportunity for our job creators and families alike. But listening to Washington Democrats, you’d think the only so-called loopholes in the tax code are for yachts, corporate jets and […]
Hatch Says Tax Reconciliation Instructions in Budget would ‘Poison the Well’ for Bipartisan Tax Reform
WASHINGTON – With Senate Democrats expected to unveil their first budget blueprint in nearly four years this week, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said including reconciliation instructions to the Finance Committee to raise taxes through a so-called overhaul of the tax code would “poison the well” for bipartisan tax reform. “Make no […]
Hatch on Obama Administration’s Trade Agenda
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after the Obama Administration released its Trade Policy Agenda for 2013: “I’m an eternal optimist and that’s certainly true for what I hope the White House is willing to do in pursuit of the trade agenda it […]
In Letter to CMS, Hatch, Upton, Camp Demand Answers on Cuts to Medicare Advantage Program
WASHINGTON – In a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) outlined their concerns with how cuts of more than $300 […]
Hatch Blasts Senate Democrats’ Tax Hike Strategy, Calls for Real Spending Cuts to Replace Sequester
WASHINGTON –Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) blasted Senate Democrats’ legislation (S. 388) to replace the President’s sequester with more tax hikes on the American people and called for a vote on his Motion to Commit which would direct the Finance Committee to replace the tax increases in the legislation with a […]