Orrin Hatch: “I first would like to acknowledge and thank Senator Leahy for his service as Chairman of this Committee over the past 16…”

Having a confirmed Commissioner and sustained leadership will benefit the Social Security Administration.

I believe he actually is likely to be better than many are saying, even on this panel, on things like voting rights.

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

I intend to focus this morning on the investigation that was self-initiated by the Department of Commerce under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to determine whether imports of automobiles and automotive parts threaten to…