Orrin Hatch

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  Senators agree to high-tech visa expansion

  By David Espo, Erica Werner  |  May 21, 2013

  Officials say leading senators trying to resolve a key issue on immigration legislation have agreed to a compromise covering expansion of a high-tech visa program.

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  Justice investigating IRS targeting of tea party

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 15, 2013

  The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the IRS just as another probe concludes that lax management enabled agents to improperly target tea party groups.

• Fundraising from HHS secretary draws scrutiny

  By Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press  |  May 13, 2013

  A fundraising push by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is drawing criticism from a key Senate Republican who questions whether she has a conflict of interest.

• Health reform in our time

  By Denis Storey  |  May 1, 2013

  1993—U.S. Sen. John Chafee, R-Rhode Island, introduces the “Health Equity and Access Reform Act,” which includes a mandate, complete a non-compliance “penalty.” Supporters include Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Republican Kit Bond from Missouri.

• 1. Health reform in our time

  By Denis Storey  |  April 30, 2013

  A timeline of health reform, the moments, turning points and events that defined the debate, 1993-present.

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  Budget battle: 3 plans on the table, what now?

  By Nancy Benac  |  April 25, 2013

  First the Republican-led House approved a federal budget that's heavy on spending cuts. Then the Democratic-controlled Senate approved one that leans more toward tax increases. Then at last, President Barack Obama put out his own budget plan, two months late, coming down someplace in between.

• Senate approval seen for Obama health care nominee

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  April 9, 2013

  Republican lawmakers are heaping praise on a former nurse picked by President Barack Obama to run Medicare and Medicaid, and also oversee his health care law.

• Senate Dems vote to repeal part of health care law

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  March 22, 2013

  It isn't every day that more than half the Democrats in the U.S. Senate vote to repeal part of President Barack Obama's health care law.

• House passes GOP budget plan vowing deep cuts

  By Andrew Taylor  |  March 22, 2013

  Moving on two fronts, the Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to keep the government running for the next six months while pushing through a tea-party flavored budget for next year that would shrink the government by another $4.6 trillion over the next decade.

• Small businesses, insurers fight back against health insurance tax

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  March 19, 2013

  Small business groups are fighting back against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s health insurance tax and throwing their support at new legislation that would repeal it, arguing that the tax will kill a lot of private sector jobs.