Orrin Hatch

We welcome Senator Hatch's proposal to create the position of Chief IP Negotiator at USTR.

I want to ensure that these laws remain effective tools in our international trade arsenal.

Again, our bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority bill achieves this, addressing currency practices, digital piracy, digital trade, cross-border data flows, cyber-theft of trade secrets, localization barriers, non-scientific sanitary and…

We should not tolerate similar practices going forward.

I also want effective trade enforcement at the border.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank both of you for your leadership in this area. You two are the best Senators I've served with, and this is a very important committee.

I still remember both of us breaking down and crying as we walked off the floor on the Americans with Disabilities Act and saw all of those people in wheelchairs and on crutches and so forth who were just thrilled that we were able to get…

Today's hearing has a narrow, but very important focus: the role of education incentives in our tax code.

I have been really interested in this debate. Let's just be honest about it. The Senate is being run in a shoddy fashion. I don't care which side you are on. I have only been here 38 years, and I have never seen a bigger mess than we have…

The world lost an amazing man last week. William Mack Watkins was a wonderful husband, father, brother, grandfather and friend. After a lengthy battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, PSP, Mack passed away peacefully on Thursday, June…

I rise to speak on a matter of great importance that seems to have slipped through the cracks of the public's consciousness. However, with the growing furor over the recent scandal at the Veterans' Administration, I expect more and more…

I note for the record that I support Mr. Fischer for this position, but there is a legitimate objection by a Senator on our side that I had to advance. I hope we can resolve these problems, but I appreciate the distinguished majority…

I rise today to speak about our Nation's first freedom--religious liberty. Last week a court in Sudan sentenced a woman to death for converting from Islam to Christianity and gave her just days to recant. Sadly, this sort of tragic…

I want to take a few moments this afternoon to correct the record on something very important. In his opening remarks this morning, the distinguished Senate majority leader made a number of claims and accusations relating to the tax…

I rise to discuss a critical issue facing this body and this country. The occasion for my remarks happens to be the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the Department of Health and Human Services. As a senior member of the HELP…

I hope that investigators, prosecutors, and judges will better understand the unique nature of the crime and the way it harms these young victims especially.

You are a good man who has the ability and the capacity to be able to do what needs to be done in this area.

I am sure you are following the current debate about sentencing reform, especially the push to lower sentences for drug offenders.

I am grateful for this opportunity today to pay tribute to a truly extraordinary woman--Sherry Adkins. Sadly, Sherry passed away on May 13, 2014. I had the wonderful opportunity of working with Sherry for 37 years. She first came to work…

I thank my dear friend from New York. I consider him one of the better Senators in the Senate and a dear friend and a person I have always been able to work with. He is tough--there is no question about that--but so am I, although nobody…

Now, your first and foremost responsibility as an appointed official is to be accountable to Congress and the American people.

We ought to be going about this in a way that treats everybody fairly under the law.

I have, again, two straightforward questions to you: (1) do I have your public commitment today that you will respond to our inquiries in no more than 30 days?

One of the most sacred responsibilities that we as public servants have is to safeguard the hard-earned taxpayer dollars that American families entrust to us.

To date, the administration has made at least 22 unilateral changes to Obamacare without consulting any of us up here in Congress.