Orrin Hatch: “It is very, very important to have Secretary Lew here and to have this hearing on President Obama's Fiscal Year 2015…”

The Finance Committee has worked with the Treasury Department to ensure proper responsiveness to committee inquiries. We are continuing to review these matters to determine what further oversight is required.

Those backlogs at the Social Security Administration are unacceptable to many, if not most, of us here in the Senate.

It is disappointing the ranking member feels a need to question a statement that I made during the hearing.

I say, 'damn right.'