Orrin Hatch

If we are to discuss the issues of fairness, using facts as you propose, what would be your preferred metric to measure fairness and equality?

Treasury, unfortunately, seems to think that the Senate's questions come with an option to blow past deadlines and respond, if at all, whenever it chooses.

As my friends on the other side of the aisle are repeatedly discovering, there just is not enough revenue available from taxing the so-called rich to pay for the size of government that the President desires.

I requested specific information from Treasury concerning available cash, taxpayer cash, held at Treasury.

This failure to respond to the Senate is neither fruitful nor acceptable.

The ITC provides a vital tool for U.S. companies that face unfair competition from foreign imports.

Now, I am concerned that it sounds like the administration's definition of a loophole may be different from how the term is generally understood.

Intellectual property is an increasingly important part of our U.S. economy.

These tax increases are ones for the record book, and Congress should have already prevented them from occurring.

I want to thank you all for coming this morning. It means a great deal that we could have your expertise in this area.

It is a tough job you have. So I am the last to try to find major fault with it.

I would give the IRS a failing grade, and I suspect that the nearly 40 percent of taxpayers whose calls go unanswered would probably agree.

This impulse to increase taxes at all costs risks a recession.

Unless Congress acts appropriately come January 1, 2013, Americans will be hit with the largest tax increase in history.

Government should be able to do a better job of that.

While there is certainly much to point to in terms of enforcement results over the past year, I am somewhat curious about what tangible and quantifiable results CMS has seen from the money and tools specifically given to them.

Fraud and waste in these programs hurt the American taxpayer no less than if someone lifted their wallets.

Waste and fraud in the Medicare system is not a minor issue.

Taxpayers have reason to be angry about the levels of waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.

American citizens are sick and tired of stories about government's failure to act as a faithful steward of taxpayer dollars.

I would like to thank Senators Harkin and Enzi for convening today's hearing on such an important issue affecting millions of American patients and caregivers.

This report was authorized by bipartisan legislation entitled the National Pain Care Policy Act which I co-authored.

I think we do need to modify our tax system. I do not think there is any question about it.

I just want you to know that you have inherited a very difficult job in one of the toughest times in history.

Well, I think we are over-taxed now. I do not want to raise revenues.