Orrin Hatch

I hope that we all will be willing to come to the table on serious structural reforms to our entitlement programs.

The President's budget fails to address the fundamental challenge of health care entitlement spending in any significant way.

Would you be open to work with us on bipartisan ideas to improve patient care and of course save money in the Medicaid program?

According to the National Governors Association, 'Medicaid represents the single-largest portion of total State spending.'

Would adding a similar, additional layer of security for all taxpayers be an effective way to prevent tax fraud related to identity theft?

I agree with your statement. Before I begin, I just want to say that my prayers go out to the city of Boston, especially for the families of those who lost their lives and have been very seriously hurt and injured.

I would like to be on his bill with him.

I think the criminal penalties ought to be higher than that.

I think it ought to be pretty stiff, myself.

The subject of this year's hearing is the rapidly growing crime of tax fraud by identity theft. This is a serious matter and deserves our careful attention.

We recently celebrated the completion of the construction of the Project on April 5th with a ribbon cutting conducted by Senator Orrin Hatch.

I think Republicans have had a tough job from time to time too.

Claiming that this budget is an act of courage on entitlements is exactly that: it is just a claim. It is not reality.

Now is the time to do it, not 4 years from now.

I think we could solve Social Security just by getting together and resolving the problems and making some tweaks that mean Social Security will be there for our kids and our grandkids, and in Elaine's and my case, even great-grandkids.

I hear every day that the Social Security disability program is going to be bankrupt in 2016.

The budget proposes to curtail spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid by only $413 billion over 10 years.

The President's budget takes only baby steps towards reforming our unsustainable entitlement programs.

Despite many claims to the contrary, this budget contains no substantive changes to Social Security.

I am very concerned about the continued tendency we have of just kicking the can down the road and not really facing these problems like we should face them.

Like I say, there is no way of balancing the budget ever under the President's program.

It does not appear to me that this budget does much as far as addressing the runaway, out-of-control, unsustainable entitlement spending.

The Gross National Debt would be $25.4 trillion in 2023, or 96 percent of our GDP at that time.

The President's budget never balances: not this fiscal year, not in 10 years, not ever.

Unless we find some way of resolving some of these conflicts really, fully, structurally, and not just here and there, we are not going to get things under control.