Orrin Hatch

I believe this tradition of bipartisanship on these issues can and will continue.

Now through voluntary best practices, we have seen progress in combating online piracy.

The lure of advertising revenue continues to fuel online piracy across the globe.

Here in the Senate, Senator Chris Coons and I introduced the Defend Trade Secrets Act.

I also appreciate your leadership in these areas.

If confirmed, we will need your support in pushing this critically important legislation forward next Congress.

Social Security has long been criticized for not formulating long-term plans.

We have to be smart enough to detect that, find it, and do something about it.

I hope to get a better sense from you what your plans are to eliminate the obvious instances of wasteful spending we have been seeing at SSA.

Just welcome and we are happy to have you testify here today.

Our job here is to make sure if you ever need a Social Security check when you are 65 or 70 or 75, it will be there, and our job is to make sure that if you ever need Medicare or you need health care, and you probably will, that it will be…

We are all scared to death of her. We do whatever she tells us to do, is all I can say.

I think we have a moral imperative to the least of these in our society to look out for their needs.

The DI trust fund exhaustion has been foreseen for 20 years.

I hope that today we will hear from you about your plans to address fraud and overpayments in the Social Security programs.

I honor you and expect a great deal from you as we go into the future.

I appreciate the comments of my distinguished colleague, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Today the Senate will vote on a short-term extension of funding for the highway trust fund. While it remains to be seen what shape that…

24 out of 39 countries eligible for AGOA benefits report utilization rates of 10 percent or less

I have to say I am extremely disappointed that India appears to be going back on the deal it agreed to in Bali.

I appreciate the work you do. You are certainly an intelligent man, and I have no doubt that you will be able to accomplish whatever you decide to do.

I encourage them to come back to the table and support the consensus that would bring so many development benefits to countries.

I introduced the renewal of Trade Promotion Authority, which specifically authorized ongoing trade negotiations.

But I am for AGOA. It is something that we ought to do, something we must do.

Without TPA, the administration lacks congressional authority to negotiate and conclude trade agreements.

Despite my various calls for action and the calls of other Senators on this committee, the administration's efforts have been anemic in this regard.