Orrin Hatch

Across our state, gas prices continue to inch up to record levels. The same is happening in states across our country. And while I and others have taken steps to try to lessen the burden for Utahns at the pump, unfortunately we're being fought every step of the way by one of the most anti-American energy administrations in our history. 

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In its May 17 editorial "Tax Big Oil," the Tribune's editorial board makes the fallacious argument that hiking taxes on American energy companies -- as the Obama administration and Senate Democrats are proposing -- will result in the revenue being used to pay down the federal deficit. If anyone buys that argument, I have some ocean-front property in the Sahara Desert to sell them. 

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Tomorrow Senator Hatch is hosting a forum in Salt Lake City with Governor Herbert on the issue of our national energy policy. In particular, they're going to examine the impact of the cap-and-tax -- also known as "cap-and-trade" -- energy policy that Democrats in Washington are pursuing. 

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During a Senate Finance Committee hearing yesterday, Senator Hatch grilled economists on the impact of the Democrats' cap-and-tax scheme. 

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Senator Hatch was on Don Imus' radio show yesterday, where he discussed President Obama's budget, cap-and-tax plan and the Employee "No" Choice Act. 

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