Honorable Orrin Hatch
United States Senator, Utah, Republican
Senator Hatch was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976. He was a practicing attorney from 1962 to 1976. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Finance and also serves on the following committees: Judiciary; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Special Committee on Aging; and the Joint Committee on Taxation. Senator Hatch made the following statement on June 29, 2012, after voting against S. 1813, the Moving Ahead for the 21st Century Act. With our debt closing in on $16 trillion, this bill spends too much money that we simply don’t have. While I certainly appreciate…