Orrin Hatch

In the end, these tariffs are not a tax on foreign steel and aluminum producers, but rather a tax on American citizens and businesses.

I just want to congratulate you and welcome you to the Committee. These are tough jobs, and you are very qualified, and I intend to support you.

The CHRONIC Care Act, another bipartisan legislative product out of this committee, was also signed into law recently.

Before I begin, I want to express, on behalf of the committee, the sadness we all feel in light of yesterday's events in Florida.

Thank you for raising this crucial issue and bringing attention to an important proposal in the President's budget to lower drug costs for American seniors.

One-point-four trillion dollars cut from Medicaid, millions of Americans locked out of the program.

Millions of women would lose the right to see the doctor they trust, the doctor of their choosing.

The administration is giving a green light to junk insurance policies that revive the worst insurance abuses of the past.

What the Trump budget offers is chaos in the private insurance market and the elimination of key consumer protections.

The Trump agenda of health-care discrimination is back.

Again, I want to thank everyone on this committee who worked on this bill, most notably our ranking member, Senator Wyden.

I want to once again commend my colleagues on both sides who joined in this effort and who share in this success.

Senator Ted Kennedy and I created the CHIP program more than 2 decades ago.

Last month, as a result of countless hours of work by this committee, Congress passed and the President signed a 6-year CHIP extension.

Before I begin, I want to express on behalf of the committee the sadness we all feel in light of yesterday's events in Florida.

I want to thank you for the opportunity to appear here today. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce Joe Simons as nominee for Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

Let there be no mistake: this is an excellent package, and it deserves bipartisan support.

Joe Simons is just the man this moment requires.

A free enterprise economy will reach its full potential only so long as institutions like the FTC keep our markets free, fair, and competitive.

The United States is the economic marvel of the world.

And, by and large, we are seeing great things from tax reform.

Now, some of my colleagues may tune me out for the next several minutes, as they've already heard me talk effusively about the success of the new tax reform law.

We are grateful to have Mr. David Kautter, the acting IRS commissioner here today to talk specifically about the President's proposed budget for the IRS.

I think that is a mistake.

We need to be doing more to address affordable housing, not cutting valuable programs.