Washington • With Sen. Orrin Hatch’s pending retirement, friends and supporters are ramping up efforts to raise money for a center in his name to house his decades of papers, train new leaders and offer a forum for policy discussions.
Companies that lobby the Senate are legally required to disclose their donations, but some don’t. In fact, an analysis of Senate records shows less than a half million in donations have been publicly disclosed by companies and lobbyists pushing congressional action. That’s not even a tenth of the money the foundation has raised.
As chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, Hatch oversees a broad range of key policy issues from health care to the tax code and Wall Street, among others.